[Samba] Authentication problems with winbind (I am so close)

[Andrew Bartlett]

Tony wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a Windows PDC and I am setting up a Redhat7.3 box with samba and
> winbind to have users who log onto the Redhat box get authenticated by
> the Windows PDC. Winbind seems to be installed correctly because I get
> all the correct information by using wbinfo and I can authenticate with
> no problem by logging into the console on the redhat box. (DOMAIN+user).
> But when I try to login on the RH box graphical login (GNOME) still
> using DOMAIN+user I get authentication failure. I am using PAM and the
> only modules I changed were the login and system-auth. I also changed
> the smb.conf file and added all the winbind stuff. Is there something I
> am missing or not setting up correctly? BTW, All the user accounts are
> on the Windows PDC.
> 
> Thanks in advance

Make sure you have killed off xdm/gdm.  It caches it's PAM info, and
won't update until you kill it.  (I found this out the hard way, but on
NIS stuff actually...).

Andrew Bartlett

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