Samba4 nmbd/smbd/winbindd

[Rowland Penny]

On 26/08/12 23:28, Ricky Nance wrote:
>
> Winbindd is the winbind daemon and libnss_winbind is the client so for 
> samba 3 to be able to read your user accounts, you will need to have 
> those symlinked .  Otherwise nsswitch doesn't know where to read from. 
> Sorry for the brevity but I am ony mobile right now.
>
> Ricky
>

What you are saying may be true, but it does not help with the problem 
that I have,
After compiling Samba 4, I do not have the getent command anywhere.

Rowland

> On Aug 26, 2012 4:42 PM, "Rowland Penny" <repenny at f2s.com 
> <mailto:repenny at f2s.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 26/08/12 21:40, steve wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26/08/12 22:07, Ricky Nance wrote:
> >>  As for your getent issue how
> >>>
> >>> is your nsswitch.conf file setup, for winbind or ldap? If setup 
> for ldap
> >>> you will need the libnss_ldap files (nss-ldap package), however if 
> you are
> >>> trying to use winbind you will need to link the files from
> >>> /usr/local/samba/lib (I think, I don't a terminal handy right at the
> >>> moment)... libnss_winbind.so should be linked to where your system 
> libs are
> >>> located (for example ln -sf /usr/local/samba/lib/libnss_winbind.so
> >>> /lib/libnss_winbind.so and  ln -sf 
> /usr/local/samba/lib/libnss_winbind.so
> >>> /lib/libnss_winbind.so.2, again I don't have a terminal handy to 
> confirm
> >>> those paths, so you may need to add or change something there). 
> Good luck
> >>> and keep us posted.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi
> >> I just found this on the Samba 4 winbind wiki:
> >> sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/libnss_winbind.so.2 /lib
> >> sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/security/pam_winbind.so /lib/security
> >> sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so /lib/security/
> >>
> >> You also need to set the PAM settings to able to log in. Don't know 
> if there is a tool in Centos for that; something like pam-auth-update 
> in Ubuntu or pam-config --add --winbind
> >>
> >> Be careful: have a pam.d backup and a few root terminals open 
> before adjusting the PAM settings.
> >>
> >> What a way to spend a Sunday eh:)
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >> Steve
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks Steve, but none of this helps, I just do not have the getent 
> command. Also if you ever drift to the redhat side, authconfig-tui is 
> the replacement for pam-auth-update.
> >
> >
> > Rowland
> >
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