[Samba] winbind problem with existing linux user accounts. (Samba 2.2.3a)
Matthews, John
JMatthews at LIO.AACISD.com
Tue Feb 26 08:57:06 GMT 2002
Hello,
I'm experiencing a frustrating problem configuring winbind and Samba
2.2.3a on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server. I would appreciate ANY help and/or
advice. I have read the documentation which comes with the samba source,
but I'm still having problems. I can successfully see the Windows
Users/Groups through Linux, using "wbinfo -u", "wbinfo -g", "getent passwd",
and "getent group". I think my problem might be related to the pam.d/samba
file, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
Configuration: Red Hat Linux 7.2, Samba 2.2.3a with winbind. Primary
Domain Controller is a Windows 2000 machine.
Here's my problem:
A user "fred" logs into his Windows 2000 PC, and attempts to access
through Samba his /home/fred directory.
1. If "fred" is a normal linux user, and has an entry in
/etc/passwd AND winbind is loaded then I receive an error "The network name
cannot be found.". Samba seems able to determine that "fred" is a linux
user and shows the corresponding [homes] directory, I'm just not able to
access the home directory. I was thinking that this might be related to the
UID's being different between the linux account of "fred" and the windbind
account "domain+fred".
2. If "fred" does the same thing as above, but this time
winbind isn't loaded (I need to restart smb after killing the winbind
process) then everything works as I want. The problem is that now with
winbind not loaded, Windows Users who don't have a Linux account are unable
to access most of the Linux shares.
I'm hoping there's a way to fix this. Ideally I'd like to allow
everyone to access the Samba share on the linux server, if a user has a
linux account then in addition I'd like their linux home directory to be
displayed as well.
Thanks in advance for help,
John Matthews
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