[Samba] Winbind problem

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Chris wrote:

| Since we are dealing with ADS, I thought it would be
| safe to refer to things  in ads nomanclature.  Aparently
| not the case with the password server.  The
| error output was likewise misleading:
|
|  [2004/07/15 11:55:43, 1]
nsswitch/winbindd_ads.c:ads_cached_connection(81)
|  ads_connect for domain NEWDOMAIN failed: No such file or directory
|
| I was looking all around both machines' filesystems,
| LDAP and ADS for a file  or directory that was missing.  Turns
| out that had nothing to do with it.
|
| The problem was this line in my smb.conf:
| password server = stan.newdomain.int
|
| It should have been
| password server = STAN
|
| i.e. in netbios nomanclature -- not ADS(DNS) nomanclature.
|
| I am amazed that no one caught that, but there it is!
| So much grief for such  a stupid gaff.
|
| I thank those who took the time to read my post, and
| hope that this will help  someone in the future.

Chris,

This should have worked.  Either netbios names, fwdn's, or
ip addresses are supported values in the pasword server
field in the Samba 3.0.x series.

Does stan.newdomain.int resolve to an IP address and
does that machine have netbios enabled ?


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