Fwd: [Samba] idmap uid range missing or invalid
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 02:44:51 GMT 2009
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:40 PM, MargoAndTodd <margoandtodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What causes this error in /var/log/messages when
> on XP-Pro client boots up?
>
> winbindd[4041]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
> winbindd[4041]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
> winbindd[4041]: [2009/04/02 19:38:22, 0]
> nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(820)
> rn1 winbindd[4041]: ERROR: Initialization failed for
> alloc backend, deferred!
>
And did you check what it told you? I mean your setting for the idmap
uid range.
John
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