[Samba] Clients unable to get group policy...

[Ryan Ashley]

Sorry for the delay, I have been out of town. Your hunch was correct,
Rowland. Both getent and id only return local machine accounts, not
domain accounts. What have I overlooked which would cause this? I do
have winbind in my PAM configuration.

James, it has worked for a few years. It recently (in the last year)
started having workstations report being unable to access the gpt.ini
files. The information you requested is below. This has not been altered
by me, it was setup this way when Samba was installed.

[sysvol]
        path = /samba/var/locks/sysvol
        read only = No

On 05/20/2015 03:01 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 20/05/15 18:13, Ryan Ashley wrote:
>> I have been fighting a strange issue with Samba for over a year now, and
>> I am at my wits end. For some reason, clients are unable to get group
>> policy settings from the servers. It honestly appears to be the Windows
>> 7 systems just deciding they don't want to, but they're not terminators.
>> The systems can ping both Samba servers and can even map the sysvol
>> shares to a drive and navigate them. However, when using "gpupdate", it
>> errors every time claiming that it could not read gpt.ini from the
>> location. DNS is correct and verified. I can ping the server and the
>> address is correct. I can map the sysvol share and anything below it and
>> read all files both as a normal user and as a domain admin. The servers
>> can ping the workstations both by IP and hostname, heck even FQDN works.
>> I have disabled the firewall on the problem systems completely and still
>> no go. Oh and the servers can resolve domain users and groups. Using
>> wbinfo shows them all.
>
> Yes, but what about getent or id ?
>
> Rowland
>
>>
>> With that said, I can only think of two possibilities and I have no clue
>> how to check them. The first one is that when I map the sysvol share or
>> anything in it, I have no "Security" tab. It is like there are no
>> permissions on it. However, I have run "samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset"
>> and "samba-tool ntacl sysvolcheck" dozens of times and both report no
>> errors.
>>
>> The second one I just now thought about. The system in question today is
>> a fresh install of 7 Pro 64bit using the company volume license. Nothing
>> is installed. We install Windows, do updates, do drivers, and that is
>> it. The software is pushed via GPO and/or startup script on the domain.
>> Therefore, the system is clean. It had to be redone due to a virus. We
>> zeroed the disk using dd and a live CD, so this truly is a CLEAN
>> install.
>>
>> Now, the only thing that may be an issue with this system, is that I am
>> not sure the machine account was removed from the domain after unjoining
>> it before we took it to wipe and redo it. If the old machine account is
>> there, what should I do? Can I tell it to get fresh info from the
>> workstation in some way?
>>
>

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