I have set up TrueNAS Scale and authentik in my homelab. On TrueNAS I have a few different SMB shares accessible by different users. In authentik I currently manage auth for a couple different web-apps through its proxy provider.
Now I would like to be able to offer my users the possibility to use the same account data on those web-apps and for their SMB shares (for simplicitys sake). At the same time, I don’t want to manually sync these pieces of data accross those two systems. How can I achieve this?
I see that AD and/or LDAP might be solutions. Now what I also see, is that AD seems to require having another Windows machine running (which I don’t like, because of the IMO unnecessary overhead) and LDAP in smb might be getting deprecated or something along those lines (according to some posts here on the forum), but most importantly seems to be a hassle to set up (at least I didn’t find a guide for someone new to all those fancy protocols, trying to integrate authentik and TrueNAS Scale).
If anyone has some advice that would be much appreciated.
How could I use this? I have smb shares running on my TrueNAS system, but I have all my authentication stuff on the authentik system which does not use smb. This does not sound like it could help me here.
Do you know some specific documentation which could help me better understand what I need to do according to you? Because I don’t want to use TrueNAS and its install of samba to be a source of truth for authentik, actually I would like quite the opposite: authentik should manage all the user data on its own and if I want to use a smb share truenas should verify the credentials against authentik.
