Failed to Join AD Domain

[Flox]

Hi @HB7,

First of all, I would like to present to you my apologies for not getting back to you earlier; it has been an extremely busy time for everyone and I unfortunately didn’t have time at all for the past few days. I’d like to bring a few elements of answers and discussions to the issue you raised, though.

@HB7

Confirmed, there is no authconfig file located in the /usr/sbin directory.

Thanks a lot for bringing our attention to this one. I believe this is a CentOS-ism that has slipped through and remained in our transition to our “Built on openSUSE”. authconfig is a remnant of how AD/LDAP integration was done in CentOS (our old base) but is not present in our new openSUSE base.

The AD/LDAP integration in Rockstor has actually been something on our list of things to revamp and I personally have been interested in getting to it for a little while; yet time has not been kind to me and I was not able to look at it just yet. Let me point you towards a very useful explanation by @phillxnet below:

Active Directory Integration failure

@computergeek125 Thanks for sharing your findings here. First: what @Flox said. I’d like just to note that with regard to: I’m afraid that those docs are a little dated. I haven’t worked much in that area myself so haven’t gotten around to ‘fixing’ them but the story is that for a time we switched whole sale to sssd and I was all in favour of using this newer system. But there was a backlash as many windows domain controller managed domains failed, so our sssd changes were essentially revert…

As you can see in posts linked above, we are planning on re-doing how AD/LDAP are integrated by switching to SSSD and thus greatly improve it. I’m afraid this is all I can bring at the moment, but I’m personally hoping to find some time to look into it. For those interesting in improving this aspect of Rockstor, the post by @phillxnet linked above is a great starting point for pointers and resources.

Hope this helps, nonetheless.