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Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 16. Interdomain Trust Relationships</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="securing-samba.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part III. Advanced Configuration</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="msdfs.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="InterdomainTrusts"></a>Chapter 16. Interdomain Trust Relationships</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="othername">H.</span> <span class="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:jht@samba.org">jht@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Rafal</span> <span class="surname">Szczesniak</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:mimir@samba.org">mimir@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">April 3, 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933376">Features and Benefits</a></dt><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933404">Trust Relationship Background</a></dt><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933488">Native MS Windows NT4 Trusts Configuration</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933501">NT4 as the Trusting Domain (ie. creating the trusted account)</a></dt><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933586">NT4 as the Trusted Domain (ie. creating trusted account's password)</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933622">Configuring Samba NT-style Domain Trusts</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933649">Samba-3 as the Trusting Domain</a></dt><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933790">Samba-3 as the Trusted Domain</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933922">Common Errors</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="InterdomainTrusts.html#id2933937">Tell me about Trust Relationships using Samba</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p> +Samba-3 supports NT4 style domain trust relationships. This is feature that many sites +will want to use if they migrate to Samba-3 from and NT4 style domain and do NOT want to +adopt Active Directory or an LDAP based authentication back end. This section explains +some background information regarding trust relationships and how to create them. It is now +possible for Samba-3 to NT4 trust (and vice versa), as well as Samba3 to Samba3 trusts. +</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2933376"></a>Features and Benefits</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +Samba-3 can participate in Samba-to-Samba as well as in Samba-to-MS Windows NT4 style +trust relationships. This imparts to Samba similar scalability as is possible with +MS Windows NT4. +</p><p> +Given that Samba-3 has the capability to function with a scalable backend authentication +database such as LDAP, and given it's ability to run in Primary as well as Backup Domain control +modes, the administrator would be well advised to consider alternatives to the use of +Interdomain trusts simply because by the very nature of how this works it is fragile. +That was, after all, a key reason for the development and adoption of Microsoft Active Directory. +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2933404"></a>Trust Relationship Background</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +MS Windows NT3.x/4.0 type security domains employ a non-hierarchical security structure. +The limitations of this architecture as it affects the scalability of MS Windows networking +in large organisations is well known. Additionally, the flat-name space that results from +this design significantly impacts the delegation of administrative responsibilities in +large and diverse organisations. +</p><p> +Microsoft developed Active Directory Service (ADS), based on Kerberos and LDAP, as a means +of circumventing the limitations of the older technologies. Not every organisation is ready +or willing to embrace ADS. For small companies the older NT4 style domain security paradigm +is quite adequate, there thus remains an entrenched user base for whom there is no direct +desire to go through a disruptive change to adopt ADS. +</p><p> +Microsoft introduced with MS Windows NT the ability to allow differing security domains +to affect a mechanism so that users from one domain may be given access rights and privileges +in another domain. The language that describes this capability is couched in terms of +<span class="emphasis"><em>Trusts</em></span>. Specifically, one domain will <span class="emphasis"><em>trust</em></span> the users +from another domain. The domain from which users are available to another security domain is +said to be a trusted domain. The domain in which those users have assigned rights and privileges +is the trusting domain. With NT3.x/4.0 all trust relationships are always in one direction only, +thus if users in both domains are to have privileges and rights in each others' domain, then it is +necessary to establish two (2) relationships, one in each direction. +</p><p> +In an NT4 style MS security domain, all trusts are non-transitive. This means that if there +are three (3) domains (let's call them RED, WHITE, and BLUE) where RED and WHITE have a trust +relationship, and WHITE and BLUE have a trust relationship, then it holds that there is no +implied trust between the RED and BLUE domains. ie: Relationships are explicit and not +transitive. +</p><p> +New to MS Windows 2000 ADS security contexts is the fact that trust relationships are two-way +by default. Also, all inter-ADS domain trusts are transitive. In the case of the RED, WHITE and BLUE +domains above, with Windows 2000 and ADS the RED and BLUE domains CAN trust each other. This is +an inherent feature of ADS domains. Samba-3 implements MS Windows NT4 +style Interdomain trusts and interoperates with MS Windows 200x ADS +security domains in similar manner to MS Windows NT4 style domains. +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2933488"></a>Native MS Windows NT4 Trusts Configuration</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +There are two steps to creating an interdomain trust relationship. +</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2933501"></a>NT4 as the Trusting Domain (ie. creating the trusted account)</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +For MS Windows NT4, all domain trust relationships are configured using the +<span class="application">Domain User Manager</span>. To affect a two way trust relationship it is +necessary for each domain administrator to make available (for use by an external domain) it's +security resources. This is done from the Domain User Manager Policies entry on the menu bar. +From the <span class="guimenu">Policy</span> menu, select <span class="guimenuitem">Trust Relationships</span>, then +next to the lower box that is labelled <span class="guilabel">Permitted to Trust this Domain</span> are two +buttons, <span class="guibutton">Add</span> and <span class="guibutton">Remove</span>. The <span class="guibutton">Add</span> +button will open a panel in which needs to be entered the remote domain that will be able to assign +user rights to your domain. In addition it is necessary to enter a password +that is specific to this trust relationship. The password needs to be +typed twice (for standard confirmation). +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2933586"></a>NT4 as the Trusted Domain (ie. creating trusted account's password)</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +A trust relationship will work only when the other (trusting) domain makes the appropriate connections +with the trusted domain. To consummate the trust relationship the administrator will launch the +Domain User Manager, from the menu select Policies, then select Trust Relationships, then click on the +<span class="guibutton">Add</span> button that is next to the box that is labelled +<span class="guilabel">Trusted Domains</span>. A panel will open in which must be entered the name of the remote +domain as well as the password assigned to that trust. +</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2933622"></a>Configuring Samba NT-style Domain Trusts</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +This description is meant to be a fairly short introduction about how to set up a Samba server so +that it could participate in interdomain trust relationships. Trust relationship support in Samba +is in its early stage, so lot of things don't work yet. +</p><p> +Each of the procedures described below is treated as they were performed with Windows NT4 Server on +one end. The remote end could just as well be another Samba-3 domain. It can be clearly seen, after +reading this document, that combining Samba-specific parts of what's written below leads to trust +between domains in purely Samba environment. +</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2933649"></a>Samba-3 as the Trusting Domain</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +In order to set the Samba PDC to be the trusted party of the relationship first you need +to create special account for the domain that will be the trusting party. To do that, +you can use the 'smbpasswd' utility. Creating the trusted domain account is very +similar to creating a trusted machine account. Suppose, your domain is +called SAMBA, and the remote domain is called RUMBA. The first step +will be to issue this command from your favourite shell: +</p><p> +</p><pre class="screen"> +<tt class="prompt">root# </tt> <b class="userinput"><tt>smbpasswd -a -i rumba</tt></b> + New SMB password: XXXXXXXX + Retype SMB password: XXXXXXXX + Added user rumba$ +</pre><p> + +where <tt class="option">-a</tt> means to add a new account into the +passdb database and <tt class="option">-i</tt> means: ''create this +account with the InterDomain trust flag'' +</p><p> +The account name will be 'rumba$' (the name of the remote domain) +</p><p> +After issuing this command you'll be asked to enter the password for +the account. You can use any password you want, but be aware that Windows NT will +not change this password until 7 days following account creation. +After the command returns successfully, you can look at the entry for the new account +(in the standard way depending on your configuration) and see that account's name is +really RUMBA$ and it has 'I' flag in the flags field. Now you're ready to confirm +the trust by establishing it from Windows NT Server. +</p><p> +Open <span class="application">User Manager for Domains</span> and from menu +<span class="guimenu">Policies</span> select <span class="guimenuitem">Trust Relationships...</span>. +Right beside <span class="guilabel">Trusted domains</span> list box press the +<span class="guimenu">Add...</span> button. You will be prompted for +the trusted domain name and the relationship password. Type in SAMBA, as this is +your domain name, and the password used at the time of account creation. +Press OK and, if everything went without incident, you will see +<tt class="computeroutput">Trusted domain relationship successfully +established</tt> message. +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2933790"></a>Samba-3 as the Trusted Domain</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +This time activities are somewhat reversed. Again, we'll assume that your domain +controlled by the Samba PDC is called SAMBA and NT-controlled domain is called RUMBA. +</p><p> +The very first thing requirement is to add an account for the SAMBA domain on RUMBA's PDC. +</p><p> +Launch the <span class="application">Domain User Manager</span>, then from the menu select +<span class="guimenu">Policies</span>, <span class="guimenuitem">Trust Relationships</span>. +Now, next to <span class="guilabel">Trusted Domains</span> box press the <span class="guibutton">Add</span> +button, and type in the name of the trusted domain (SAMBA) and password securing +the relationship. +</p><p> +The password can be arbitrarily chosen. It is easy to change the password +from the Samba server whenever you want. After confirming the password your account is +ready for use. Now it's Samba's turn. +</p><p> +Using your favourite shell while being logged in as root, issue this command: +</p><p> +<tt class="prompt">root# </tt><b class="userinput"><tt>net rpc trustdom establish rumba</tt></b> +</p><p> +You will be prompted for the password you just typed on your Windows NT4 Server box. +Do not worry if you see an error message that mentions a returned code of +<span class="errorname">NT_STATUS_NOLOGON_INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT</span>. It means the +password you gave is correct and the NT4 Server says the account is +ready for interdomain connection and not for ordinary +connection. After that, be patient it can take a while (especially +in large networks), you should see the <tt class="computeroutput">Success</tt> message. +Congratulations! Your trust relationship has just been established. +</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p> +Note that you have to run this command as root because you must have write access to +the <tt class="filename">secrets.tdb</tt> file. +</p></div></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2933922"></a>Common Errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +Interdomain trust relationships should NOT be attempted on networks that are unstable +or that suffer regular outages. Network stability and integrity are key concerns with +distributed trusted domains. +</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2933937"></a>Tell me about Trust Relationships using Samba</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> + Like many, I administer multiple LANs connected together using NT trust + relationships. This was implemented about 4 years ago. I now have the + occasion to consider performing this same task again, but this time, I + would like to implement it solely through samba - no Microsoft PDCs + anywhere. + </p><p> + I have read documentation on samba.org regarding NT-style trust + relationships and am now wondering, can I do what I want to? I already + have successfully implemented 2 samba servers, but they are not PDCs. + They merely act as file servers. I seem to remember, and it appears to + be true (according to samba.org) that trust relationships are a + challenge. + </p><p> + Please provide any helpful feedback that you may have. + </p><p> + These are almost complete in Samba 3.0 snapshots. The main catch + is getting winbindd to be able to allocate UID/GIDs for trusted + users/groups. See the updated Samba HOWTO collection for more + details. + </p></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="securing-samba.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="optional.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="msdfs.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 15. Securing Samba </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 17. Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba</td></tr></table></div></body></html> |