FreeBSD Samba Share with FreeIPA/IDM Auth

I have covered FreeBSD with FreeIPA/IDM stuff many times before – and this time I did one step further. This guide will show you step by step how to setup FreeBSD based Samba server and serve shares with FreeIPA/IDM credentials. Many people do not reach reading to the end of the article so I will point that in the beginning that I am really grateful to Mariusz Zaborski (oshogbo) for his help – because without it – it just would not happen.

Last time I used Alma Linux 9.3 and many things seem to also change after I used the latest 9.4 version. First was different way of setting IP and gateway addresses and the second was different package names and other stuff related to yum(8) (or dnf(8) if you prefer – by some referred as Did Not Finished) package manager.

This article will try to address and contain all steps needed – including setting up the FreeIPA/IDM server and Poudriere setup. All of these systems will be Bhyve virtual machines. Below You will find Table of Contents for this article.

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