Join Member Debian Client In Samba Domain Controller

How to join a member of Debian clients into Samba Domain Controller.

Pre-Requirement
1. First of All check the date of client machine. Or install NTP client to match the correct date & time     between server & client.

2. Give a host name to client machine. Path is /etc/hostname

3. Check your resolv.conf file for  DNS entry. Path is /etc/resolv.conf egg:-

4. Check the connectivity between server and client machine.

5. You must have a account with admin access to join the client into domain.

6. Your Kerberos configuration must be configured according to your DC.
    To configure the Kerberos:-
    create a file in vim /etc/krb5.conf

edit file change realm name and kdc  server name according to your domain.
save the file and exit


7. Install samba (client) package

     apt-get install samba

       Defaults configuration file is under /etc/samba/
8. Rename your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to smb.conf.org

9. now create a new file smb.conf
    edit the file

      save the file and exit

10. Now we are ready to join the system into domain

    net ads join -U username
    provide the password for user.

System is join as a client of samba domain controller.
To check is system into domain or not. just see the krb5.keytab file in /etc/ or check the ID of any of domain user.

Samba service status

systemctl status smbd