As the title says, make it easy in the GUI to join an AD domain w/o having to restart services.  This is particularly useful if the domain controller is running within a VM on the unRAID host.  Easy CLI method uses net join -U Administrator, where Administrator is the admin user, but having to launch into a terminal session every time gets to be a bit of a drag.

 

As an extension to this, it would be great if unRAID automatically "rejoined" the domain after a restart after detection that the domain controller VM was up and ready.

 

Alternatively if none of this is easily possible, add an option to "refresh" the join status in the GUI after manually joining via CLI.

Not downplaying the value of the request, but you should be able to script a work around fairly easily.

User scripts, something like this, scheduled to run at array start.

#!/bin/bash
printf "%s" "waiting for domain controller ..."
# Change IP to the DC
while ! ping -c 1 -n -w 1 192.168.10.10 &> /dev/null
do
    printf "%c" "."
done
printf "\n%s\n"  "domain controller is back online"
# Change number of seconds to a sane number that will ensure the target service is ready
sleep 30
net join -U Administrator

 

25 minutes ago, JonathanM said:

Not downplaying the value of the request, but you should be able to script a work around fairly easily.

User scripts, something like this, scheduled to run at array start.

#!/bin/bash
printf "%s" "waiting for domain controller ..."
# Change IP to the DC
while ! ping -c 1 -n -w 1 192.168.10.10 &> /dev/null
do
    printf "%c" "."
done
printf "\n%s\n"  "domain controller is back online"
# Change number of seconds to a sane number that will ensure the target service is ready
sleep 30
net join -U Administrator

 

I thought the same and did try this -- but a password is required after entering the net join... command and I haven't been able to script a way to pass that securely.

12 minutes ago, shwa87 said:

I haven't been able to script a way to pass that securely.

https://www.howtogeek.com/734838/how-to-use-encrypted-passwords-in-bash-scripts/

openssl is in Unraid stock, sshpass needs to be added, I didn't do the legwork to find a package that I know will work in Unraid, but this might get you started.

https://slackware.pkgs.org/current/slackers/sshpass-1.09-x86_64-1cf.txz.html

On 9/5/2022 at 5:11 AM, shwa87 said:

I thought the same and did try this -- but a password is required after entering the net join... command and I haven't been able to script a way to pass that securely.

HI,

i think, you should not use "Domain Admin" to join to domain. Maybe you should have a look to delegate this task to a user. Does not solve the issue, to pass it securely :-(.
Did you find a working solution, running into the same issue.

br

Chris