SAMBA log question

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Feb 20 14:52:50 GMT 2007


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Michael Easterly wrote:
> Every morning logwatch shows the below result from the SAMBA log.
> 
>  
> 
> nsswitch/winbindd_group.c:winbindd_getgroups(1032)  user 
> 'root' does not exist : 486 Time(s)
> 
> I've been working with Red Hat Technical Support on this 
> to no avail. Can someone please tell me what this means?
> 
> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise 4 update 4, kernel version
> 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp

It simply means that winbindd has been asked for the list of groups
that the user root belongs to and there is no such user named root
in the domain you are joined to.





cheers, jerry
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