RH Fedora 11: I want to join a windows domain

**electrondevil** · 10-01-2009

Hello All,
Finally I managed to have an approval from my company's IT Microsofters idiots to install Linux on my desktop.
I installed, and I found out that I can not surf the internet, install or upgrade any software, of course because I can not join the Domain.

Whenever I try to open a web page through Firefox, I have an error page with the address (bluecoat) in the address bar.

Of course I don't have administrative privileges on the windows domain, I am a normal user. and I would like to join the domain with the same privileges.

Can anyone help me please?

**coopstah13** · 10-01-2009

You need to have an administrator join you to the domain. There are plenty of tutorials for joining a windows domain on linux using samba. As a side note, it is unlikely that you need to be on the domain for internet access. Are you sure you don't just need a proxy configuration to browse outside of the network?

**electrondevil** · 10-01-2009

Actually I can not ask them to let me join the Domain, as they will prevent me because they are scared of linux because no one knows anything about it (Microsofters idiots). the same machine can access the domain from windows, can I just configur the linux to join the same domain with the same information (transparesnt to the server)??

It's not a proxy issue I guess, as I don't have a proxy setting on windows.
BUT:
my firefox on windows asks me everytime to enter my domain user/pass for something called bluecoat, but firefox on linux doesn't ask about them.

**coopstah13** · 10-01-2009

No, you can't do that, you need admin access to the domain server in order to join a machine to the domain. I've never heard of bluecoat, but after some initial googling you may be out of luck, since it does require the logged in user to be authenticated against the AD.

**zer0hmz** · 10-02-2009

Bluecoat is an internet filter. They are likely using it in "transparent proxy" mode (hence no proxy settings to configure). The prompting comes from Bluecoat not able to authenticate you.

The way it works with the Windows boxes is through IE your credentials are passed via NTLM transparently. The same can be accomplished with Firefox by editing the

Code:

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

setting in the about:config. But you have to have credentials to pass (on the domain). If the prompt is nagging you a lot, then it means they have a low timeout setting on the Bluecoat for keeping credentials before re-authenticating.

Hope that clears up some of the Bluecoat stuff. I happen to administer one at work

**electrondevil** · 10-02-2009

thanks a lot for yor info.
What should I enter in the:
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
??
I have credentials to pass.
I just want to surf the internet and allow linux to install and update softwares.
I don't care about accessing shared folders and such stuff, is it possble without joining the domain? (as I don't have domain administration credentials)?

**zer0hmz** · 10-03-2009

Originally Posted by electrondevil

thanks a lot for yor info.
What should I enter in the:
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
??
I have credentials to pass.
I just want to surf the internet and allow linux to install and update softwares.
I don't care about accessing shared folders and such stuff, is it possble without joining the domain? (as I don't have domain administration credentials)?

you would put the hostname of the bluecoat (it may just be 'bluecoat' since the Bluecoat documentation & support just say to call it 'bluecoat.<your domain>.com'

What that will do is send your logged in credentials to the Bluecoat device transparently. However, keep in mind, if your Linux box isn't on the domain, you'll have nothing to pass and you'll get the annoying prompt

**electrondevil** · 10-05-2009

Hello,
I checked my windows firefox, (saved passwords) to know exactly what is the URL for the bluecoat it was just
http
://
bluecoat
and I tried also bluecoat.<domain>.com
I also can not access internet. I don't mind having the annoying prompt actually I want it to pop up to find a place to put my domain credentials to access internet.

**coopstah13** · 10-05-2009

you will have to find out what the name of the bluecoat machine is or its IP address, I'm sure the admins will be able to tell you that, or you can boot up in windows to find it.

**electrondevil** · 10-05-2009

OK, I have got the IP, what to do with it?

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