Samba 2.0.7 PDC not updating user list

[Greg Dickie]

In the old TNG version I have seen these symptoms in the case were a user was
removed from the system password file. In this case you do not see a complete
list but you see a truncated list, it stops at the user who no longer exists.
Could that be your problem? If so the simply remove any non-existant UNIX users
from smbpasswd. I have no idea if it is the same in 207.

Greg

On 31-Jul-00 MATLAB Control Models wrote:
> No, the users have accounts (unix and samba) made with "adduser .. user" and 
> "smbpasswd -a user", they can log in to the domain, but they are not added to
> the user list seen from the NT clients. 
> 
> This list is seen in 
> a)User Manager for domains before you try and edit an entry and get Dr Watson
> b)Copy a profile from System applet in Control Panel, and set who can use the
> profile
> c)Add permissions for a domain user to access a windows share
> d)Make local groups cosisting of domain users.
> 
> All of these work, and show me the old list of users, not including those I 
> have recently added, although they can log into the domain, browse thier home
> directory etc.
> 
> I need d to work at a minimum, but b would also be nice. The other 2 are not 
> necessary but I think they all use the same list.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't send you pieces of my smbpasswd and passwd files, or
> even 
> smb.conf, but I can assure you that this is the ONLY problem I am having,
> which 
> makes it very irritating. I want to join my samba printer to the domain so I 
> don't have to allow guest printing, butI can only do that once all the users 
> can access shares they had access to before. This means I need to add them to
> a 
> local group or a share acl.
> 
> Thanks for the replies so far. I guess I am one of the few doing this kind of
> stuff with 2.0.7, but I was led to believe that 2.0.7 could do this, and on
> my 
> test domain everything worked that I needed.
> 
> Buchan
> 
>> Date:          Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:03:47 +1000
>> From:          David Bannon <D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au>
>> Subject:       Re: Samba 2.0.7 PDC not updating user list
>> To:            matlab at control.co.za, Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
>>                <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> 
>> At 12:27 AM 01/08/2000 +0200, MATLAB Control Models wrote:
>> >Ah, but 2.0.7 has made a list. Thus there must be some way to update it.
>> >
>> >I have no need for user manager for domains to work on the samba box, just
>> to 
>> >be able to authenticate users on the client workstations. This is working
>> fine 
>> >except that the list does not update. 
>> >
>> >Where is the list stored ? How can it be updated. Can I force samba to
>> update 
>> >the list.
>> >
>> 
>> Hmm... What we have here is a failure to communicate !
>> 
>> When you say that samba is not updating its passwd list what are you doing
>> and what is samba not doing ?
>> 
>> Have you created the origional smbpasswd (data) file ? You should be using
>> the program smbpasswd to add a user to the smbpasswd file. There should
>> already be an entry in /etc/passwd for that user. For example under linux
>> as root :
>> 
>> > adduser -n -s /bin/false -g users joeblow
>> > smbpasswd -a joeblow
>> 
>> Joe Blow will then be prompted to enter a password. You should be able to
>> see the entry in smbpasswd by :
>> > tail /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
>> 
>> All of the above command produce reasonable error messages and 'User
>> manager for Domains' is not involved at any stage. More info on
>> http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba
>> 
>> David
>> 
>>  
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