After a lot of experimentation, I got my samba server, with "security = ads" but no winbind and no "net ads join" command, to authenticate an AD user using kerberos.
What nailed it was to use setspn on the windows side to add cifs/<hostname> to the computer account, like this (for a "bionic-sssd" computer account): setspn -S cifs/bionic-sssd bionic-sssd After that, this worked: testuser1@lowtech.internal@bionic-sssd:~$ smbclient //bionic-sssd/myshare -k WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated Try "help" to get a list of possible commands. smb: \> dir . D 0 Wed Apr 18 20:29:20 2018 .. D 0 Wed Apr 18 20:50:25 2018 hello.txt N 13 Wed Apr 18 20:29:20 2018 7950756 blocks of size 1024. 6300604 blocks available smb: \> testuser1@lowtech.internal@bionic-sssd:~$ klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_45001119_1zpGGU Default principal: testuser1@LOWTECH.INTERNAL Valid starting Expires Service principal 04/18/18 20:51:05 04/19/18 06:51:05 krbtgt/LOWTECH.INTERNAL@LOWTECH.INTERNAL renew until 04/19/18 20:51:05 04/18/18 20:51:49 04/19/18 06:51:05 cifs/bionic-sssd@LOWTECH.INTERNAL testuser1@lowtech.internal@bionic-sssd:~$ id uid=45001119(testuser1@lowtech.internal) gid=45000513(domain users@lowtech.internal) groups=45000513(domain users@lowtech.internal) testuser1@lowtech.internal@bionic-sssd:~$ grep testuser /etc/passwd testuser1@lowtech.internal@bionic-sssd:~$ My smb.conf has: [global] workgroup = LOWTECH realm = LOWTECH.INTERNAL kerberos method = system keytab server role = member server security = ads ... Ah, and I didn't have to use the updated packages from my ppa, because I set "kerberos method = system keytab", so it wasn't trying "secrets" which is where the crash happens. At some point I also installed libwbclient-sssd, during the experimentation. I can't say if it was essential now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1761737 Title: [bionic] samba PANIC, INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/1761737/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs