To winbind or not to winbind.

[William Jojo]

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:32:07 -0700
>From: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>  
>Subject: Re: To winbind or not to winbind.  
>To: William Jojo <w.jojo at hvcc.edu>
>Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
>
>On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:51:28PM -0400, William Jojo wrote:
>> 
>> The subject pretty much says it all. I know that I need winbindd when running Samba in ADS mode as a DMS to AD, otherwise nothing works right.
>> 
>> I was playing in Ubuntu 8.04.2 which has 3.0.28a (trying to stay pure on this box) default winbindd on. Well, when I try to set ACLs on a file (ext3, ea support on, acls and extended_xattr) with winbind on I get no error when I apply the change, but the Windows XP side shows no change but the Samba log shows:
>> 
>> [2009/03/11 18:39:22, 0] smbd/posix_acls.c:create_canon_ace_lists(1438)
>>   create_canon_ace_lists: unable to map SID S-1-5-21-XXXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX-1412 to uid or gid.
>
>That shouldn't happen of course :-).
>
>> Then I turn winbindd off and everything is perfect - no problems, acl is applied and the refresh on the Windows side concurs with the Ubuntu side.
>
>Sounds like a bug to me. Maybe one we've fixed :-). Running
>winbindd should not cause errors like the one you report.
>


Ugh. I fat-fingered "winbnid" in /etc/nsswitch.conf

All better here - winbindd is running and the problem is solved. My bad. Not a bug! 

<hangs head in shame>


Cheers,
Bill