[Samba] wbinfo -A trouble

Benjamin Herbert herbert at isis.visi.com
Mon Nov 25 20:21:01 GMT 2002


I just figured out that the error given below is not actually an error.
It must be some sort of informational message.  Anyway the command
works fine even though I get the message below.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:00:02AM -0600, Benjamin Herbert wrote:
> 
> 
> I started smbd nmbd then ran the command 'wbinfo -A DOMAIN+adm%passwd'
> which gave this error:
> 
> 	could not obtain winbind separator!
> 
> As you can see the second error was fixed but I still get the winbind
> separator error.  Winbind crashed when I tried to start it after running
> the command above.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:08:22AM -0500, jmcdsmb at maine.rr.com wrote:
> > "Collins, Kevin" wrote:
> > 
> > > > 5) Before starting smbd, nmbd winbindd I run 'wbinfo -A admin%password
> > > >       -here is the error I get:
> > >
> > > I think this is your problem:  I believe smbd, nmbd and winbindd all
> > > need to be running for this work.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > Nope, this should be run before winbindd.  Some wbinfo calls require
> > winbindd to be running, but this sets the userid that winbindd will use to
> > connect to the DC.
> > 
> > I think the problem is that you need to have 'wbinfo -A
> > DOMAIN+admin%password', that is, add in the domain and winbind separator on
> > the wbinfo command.
> > 
> > Jim McDonough
> > Samba Team
> > 
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