Samba 2.999+3.0.alpha21-3 User Dissapears

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Tue Jan 14 22:50:00 GMT 2003


uhmm I'm interested in this one.

but I have not understood what happened, exactly.

launch pdbedit with -d 5 option so that you get debugging on stdout and
maybe use tee to store a log of your operations plus logs.

thanks,
Simo.

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 23:38, Irving Carrion wrote:
> Sorry, tdb backend.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jelmer Vernooij [mailto:jelmer at vernstok.dyndns.org] On Behalf Of
> Jelmer Vernooij
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:59 PM
> To: Irving Carrion
> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Samba 2.999+3.0.alpha21-3 User Dissapears
> 
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:27:50PM -0500, Irving Carrion wrote about
> 'RE: Samba  2.999+3.0.alpha21-3 User Dissapears':
> > Here what's even more puzzling.  If I run:
> 
> > pdbedit -lv username
> 
> > The user appears.... wow, great!
> 
> > But if I do:
> 
> > pdbedit -lv > allusers.txt and then vi allusers.txt I don't see the
> user
> > in that list.  
> 
> > Any hints anyone?
> 
> What backend are you using? (This sounds like a bug in your backend)
> 
> Jelmer
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IRVING
> 
> > Hello All!
> 
> > After users began complaining about not being able to access some
> > network resources, I noticed that some of the users are missing in
> samba
> > using command:
> 
> > pdbedit -lv 
> 
> > Soooo, I retry and create that user again using command:
> 
> > smbpasswd -a hisusername
> 
> > This does not add the user.  So instead I use command:
> 
> > pdbedit -a -u hisusername
> 
> > and this also does not work.
> 
> > So I look in /var/log/samba and look at smbd.log.  Nothing there tells
> > me anything special under debug = 3 except that this user isn't
> mapped.
> 
> > I don't know how these users got removed and why.  I've also tried:
> 
> > smbpasswd -e hisusername
> 
> > to enable but this produces no positive results.
> 
> > I don't know what is left to try as I'm all out of ideas.
> 
> > Any help much appreciated!
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