Winbind help

Geoff Silver geoff at uslinux.net
Wed Dec 5 08:47:17 GMT 2001


Hi.  I'm not subscribed to the list, so if you can help, please e-mail me
or CC me in the response.

I've been using Samba for quite a while, and just set up a 2.2.2 server
with winbind support.  Console logins and SMB access work fine, wbinfo -t
reports "Secret is good", and wbinfo -r domain+ntuser shows the right
group number.  In fact, the UID/GIDs are translated properly when I do an
'ls' on the filesystem.

However, getent passwd or getent group only displays the local files - it
does not seem to import any NT information.  Likewise, wbinfo -u and
wbinfo -g both fail with "Error looking up domain users/groups".
/etc/nsswitch.conf has the required "passwd: files winbind" and "group:
files winbind", and the system otherwise works fine, but its near
impossible to figure out what groups are available/in use without looking
at the NT server (and since our domain is more than 8 characters, Linux
reports file ownership like:

-rwxrwx---   5 root    OURDOMAI   4096  Dec  4 10:10 myfile.txt

'ls -ln' shows things to be numerically correct, but why does wbinfo -u or
-g and getent fail to work properly.  Thanks for any help you can provide





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