RH 7.0 and Winbind in an NT4.0 domain

[Stephen Collier]

I found the samba-appliance rpm didn't work on RH6.2. I recompiled from
scratch and it did! There may be a trouble with the RPM.

I can send you the compiled RPM if you want.

regards
Stephen Collier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun Cloherty [mailto:s.cloherty at gsbme.unsw.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 19:28
> To: samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
> Subject: RH 7.0 and Winbind in an NT4.0 domain
> 
> 
> Forgive me if this is not the appropriate list - please direct me to a
> more appropriate forum.
> 
> I have a number of client machines running Linux (RH7.0) 
> which I need to
> make available to existing users of our NT4.0 domain. Winbind 
> seem to be
> the ticket I am looking for, so I downloaded and installed the
> samba-appliance-0.5-1 rpm. I have been following the directions in the
> winbindd man page, but havn't managed to get it working.
> 
> I have made the suggested changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf, but 
> havn't yet
> tackled the PAM issues. There are existing accounts on the NT 
> server for
> these machines - they dual boot Win2k - which I have confirmed using
> samedit included in the samba-appliance rpm.
> 
> I have created a /etc/samba/smb.conf file based on the winbindd man
> page.
> 
> When I start the smbd and nmbd daemons (via 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start)
> I see this;
> 
> Starting SMB services: execvp: No such file or directory    [FAILED]
> 
> Starting NMB services: execvp: No such file or directory    [FAILED]
> 
> I don't think this is a Samba issue, since I can start the daemons by
> hand (smbd -D; nmbd -D) without any problem... but if anyone has any
> suggestions on how to fix it, please let me know.
> 
> I'm not sure how I am supposed to start the winbind daemon, but simply
> typing 'winbindd' at the prompt seems to do it... let me know if there
> is more to it than that.
> 
> Now, when I run 'getent passwd' as suggested in the man page, 
> I see only
> the users listed in the /etc/passwd file... no NT domain users. Am I
> correct in assuming that at this point, if all is well, I should be
> seeing a list of NT domain users in addition to the local unix users
> (from /etc/passwd)?  It is my understanding that simply listing the
> users via 'getent passwd' is a name service issue, so I expected it to
> work even though I have not dealt with the PAM configuration 
> yet.... am
> I wrong?  If so, which services under /etc/pam.d do I have to tweak to
> make 'getent passwd' to work?
> 
> An 'strace' of 'getent passwd' indicates that it reads
> /etc/nsswitch.conf (as expected), then reads the /etc/passwd file,
> echoing the entries to stdout, then goes looking for
> libnss_winbind.so.2, presumably to do the winbind  magic so as to list
> the NT domain users.  The winbindd man page said to put
> libnss_winbind.so.2 in /lib, yet no libnss_switch.so.2 came in the
> samba-appliance rpm, it installs /lib/libnss_winbind.so.  Simply
> renaming libnss_winbind.so to libnss_winbind.so.2 seems ok, in that an
> strace indicates that it finds the library, does its thing, but times
> out writing/reading from /tmp/.winbindd/pipe. I don't know how to
> proceed from here?
> 
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> 
> Shaun
>  --
> Shaun Cloherty
> Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> University of New South Wales
> 
> 
> 
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