[Samba] winbind question

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Oct 17 22:54:54 GMT 2002


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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 daniel.jarboe at custserv.com wrote:

> 2.2.6 installed from rpm's on rh 7.2 system.
> 
> every time a cron job runs I get this in my log.winbindd
> [2002/10/17 13:45:00, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_group.c:winbindd_getgroups(815)
>   user 'root' does not exist
> 
> the three important lines in my /etc/nsswitch.conf is:
> passwd:     files winbind nisplus
> shadow:     files nisplus
> group:      files winbind nisplus
> 
> I thought with the "files" first it hits /etc/passwd and shadow and 
> doesn't mess with winbind unless it can't find the entries there.
> Any idea what I'm missing?  What info would be more useful?  smbd and 
> nmbd are currently not running, just winbindd.

This is probably due to looking up secondary groups (i.e. the group:
line) not getpwnam() calls.




cheers, jerry
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