# Script ADS join (yast samba-client)

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/script-ads-join-yast-samba-client/21917>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [January 2, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/script-ads-join-yast-samba-client/21917 "2012-01-02T11:26:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/script-ads-join-yast-samba-client/21917/1 "2012-01-02T11:26:01Z")

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Hi everyone,  
I’m trying to script the active directory domain join of my SLES 11 SP1  
servers as an AutoYaST postscript. My enviroment has multiple windows  
domains. In the prescript section of my AutoYaST profile the right  
domain is selected an passed to a postscript (-modified.xml-) that  
should do the domain join.

“-net ads join-” would work, but I want to do it fully YaST compatible  
and set the two options: “-Also Use SMB Information for Linux  
Authentication-” and “-Create Home Directory on Login-”.

## The option “-Create Home Directory on Login-” is less problematic because it’s only the addition of the line Code:

## session optional pam\_mkhomedir.so

to -/etc/pam.d/common-session-. But the option “-Also Use SMB  
Information for Linux Authentication-” makes changes in many files.

I’ve tried to do it with a AutoYaST XML (-yast ayast\_setup setup  
filename=./domainjoin.xml-) but an AutoYaST-Script as postscript isn’t  
supported by SUSE/Novell and does not work in this case.

Any ideas? How are you joining your SLES servers to windows domains?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Eloy

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**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/script-ads-join-yast-samba-client/21917/2 "2012-01-06T20:25:36Z")

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