[Samba] User is invalid on this system

[Thomas Mueller]

Am Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:51:55 -0900 schrieb Kevin Elliott:

> Hello all.
> 
> We are running Samba 3.6.6 on a Debian 6.0.6 server. We made the upgrade
> from 3.6.5 to 3.6.5 about a week ago and ever since we have lost the
> ability to map Samba shares from our Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7
> clients:
> 
> 
> Here's an example from my workstation (logging verbosity set at 10):
> 
...
> auth/user_krb5.c:162(get_user_from_kerberos_info)
>   Username CBJ_NT+kevin_elliott is invalid on this system
...
> 
> 
> However, I can successfully return login information with winbind:
> 
> # wbinfo -i kevin_elliott
> kevin_elliott:*:24949:10513::/home/CBJ_NT/kevin_elliott:/bin/false
> 
> 'getent passwd' will only return the local users from /etc/passwd.
> 
....
> 
> Any ideas? Anyone else see this?

maybe the "winbind" in /etc/nsswitch.conf got lost? 

is "getent -s winbind passwd $username" returning something?

is winbindd running ("ps -C winbindd -f")?

any log messages in /var/log/samba/log.winbindd ?

- Thomas