Have you tried a similar scenario, but with winbind getting the kerberos tickets (rather than kinit)? Since winbind can handle automatic ticket refresh https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto#Automatic_Kerberos_Ticket_Refresh On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:49 PM Andy Beal <andybeal623@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I recently deployed an SMB share for my team and am trying to access > it from Linux clients joined to the same AD (using cifs-utils). When > mapping the file share, I first run "kinit <user@domain>" to receive a > Kerberos certificate on my client, and then map the share using > "sec=krb5" in the mount command. > > This all works flawlessly, but 10 hours later (the lifetime of the > Kerberos ticket) the mapped share stops working. Note that I don't see > the same behavior when mounting the same share from a Windows client > (e.g., there's no need to re-login after 10 hours). > > Is there anything that needs to be set up in the Linux CIFS clients to > prevent the tickets from expiring, or to cause them to periodically > renew themselves (similar to what Windows clients might be doing to > work around this issue)? > > Thanks! > > Andy -- Thanks, Steve