[Samba] Winbind/nsswitch issue on Solaris 9 (Sparc)

Roylance, Stephen D. SROYLANCE at PARTNERS.ORG
Mon Apr 14 17:24:08 GMT 2003


> From: Paul Coray [mailto:paul.coray at unibas.ch]
> # telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> 
> SunOS 5.9
> 
> login: coray
> Supported configurations for passwd management are as follows:
>      passwd: files
>      passwd: files ldap
>      passwd: files nis
>      passwd: files nisplus
>      passwd: compat
>      passwd: compat AND
>      passwd_compat: ldap OR
>      passwd_compat: nisplus
> Please check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file
> Password:
> Connection to localhost closed by foreign host.
> 
> Why does nsswitch know nothing about winbind?? Anybody installed Winbind
> successfully on Solaris 9?

There is a known problem, resolved by patch 113476-05, that causes this problem.
I ran into it and that patch fixed it.

> Paul Coray

-Steve Roylance


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