Login without Nethserver Domain Controller

[nikoz83 (Nicola)]

Hi!
i’ve 3 desktop pc and 1 laptop registered into Nethserver. When they are connected to LAN everything work correctly but for example if i take my laptop and go away from office i can’t access with my user credentials because windows 10 tells me that is not able to find the domain controller. Is there a solution to solve this problem?
Thank you!!

[robb (Rob Bosch)]

You have 2 options here:

• Log in using a local account. This has the backdraw that you have no access to the profile of your domain account (IE: folders where you store your documents, images etc…)
• Use cached Domain credentials: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/PAM_Offline_Authentication
  For SSSD (what NS is using) https://docs.pagure.org/SSSD.sssd/design_pages/cached_authentication.html
  @davidep @giacomo shouldn’t cached authentication be possible by default?

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

@robb

@davidep @giacomo shouldn’t cached authentication be possible by default?

I guess it depends on the workstation setup. When the laptop is away it decides what to do if the DC is not available.

@robb

• Log in using a local account
• Use (Windows?) cached Domain credentials

The third way is set up a VPN connection.

[nikoz83 (Nicola)]

Hi @davidep, sorry but it’s no possible with VPN because if i doesn’t have internet connection on my laptop i can’t open a VPN. My Laptop also doesn’t allow me to login to windows. @robb i think that cached domain credentials is a solution. I’ll try to configure.