Logging in on the network I joined

[teuniswoest]

Dear linux users,

I finally succeeded in joining my windows network with my Linux Ubuntu pc.
But.. now I want to login on my network with one of the users in the Active Directory.
But at the loginscreen I only get an option to login with my local account.

Maybe i'm just to stupid to find the network login button?

In windows (which i'm used to) its obvious..
You can pick "Local computer" or "Network" login.
But here i cant seem to be able to find it...

Hope this question doesnt sound to stupid.

Thanx in advance,

Teun

[its_really_me]

Try to mount using the shell:

mount -t smbfs -o username=[username here] //[IP address or DNS name]/[share directory] /mnt/[where to mount it to]

for example (as root or sudo):
mount -t smbfs -o username=its_really_me //windows-server/public /mnt/networkdrive

Make sure the directory for the mount (i. e. /mnt/networkdrive) exists and the local user can read/write to it.

[coopstah13]

this is only useful for mounting windows samba shares, it doesn't have anything to do with network login

i should also add that smbfs is deprecated, and most distro's you should use cifs

[gumaheru]

Pretty much what you are asking for is to login using LDAP on Linux. Why would you want to do that? Are you trying to access a windows share? If you just want access to the share you should use a cifs client or a samba client. If you login with LDAP it isn't going to get you what you would get on a windows box. You can open exchange and just have your email pop up.

What besides trying to login are you trying to do?

[HROAdmin26]

But.. now I want to login on my network with one of the users in the Active Directory.
But at the loginscreen I only get an option to login with my local account.

I recommend reading the official Samba docs about Winbind and PAM.

Just like in Windows where DOMAIN\username is used to login to a certain domain, the same is done on Linux. The only difference is what you specified in your smb.conf as the "winbind separator." With the default "+" character, the username would be DOMAIN+username.