Having problems getting Samba 4.1.12 to work on CentOS 7 ...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/14 19:59, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks, there seems to be something I am missing.
>>
>> I have the following entries in the smb.conf:
>>
>>          security = ads
>>          idmap backend = idmap_rid:RJSDOM=10000-100000000
>>          idmap uid = 10000-100000000
>>          idmap gid = 10000-100000000
>>          template shell = /bin/bash
>>          winbind use default domain = Yes
>>          winbind enum users = No
>>          winbind enum groups = No
>>          winbind nested groups = Yes
>>
>> I have managed to join the domain as well.
>>
>> I have changed /etc/nsswitch.conf so that it says:
>>
>> passwd:     files winbind
>> shadow:     files winbind
>> group:      files winbind
>>
>> and I have winbindd and smbd running and wbinfo -u prints out the
>> users I expect. However, getent passwd does not show me any Windows
>> users.
>>
>> So, something is wrong. Does anyone have any clues?\
>>
>> They changed so much in RHEL 7 (grumble grumble)
>>
> Yep and samba has changed as well, idmap uid & gid are both depreciated :-)
>
> You should be using something like this:
>
> idmap config *:backend = tdb
> idmap config *:range = 70001-80000
> idmap config SAMDOM:backend = ad
> idmap config SAMDOM:schema_mode = rfc2307
> idmap config SAMDOM:range = 500-40000
>
> Perhaps a quick scan of 'man smb.conf' would help ;-)

OK, I was waylaid by one of the old howtos out there. The Wiki is a
better source of info, it seems.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)