[Samba] Winbind + NIS + winbind trusted domains

Plant, Dean dean.plant at roke.co.uk
Wed Dec 15 10:14:12 GMT 2004


Hello list,

I need to setup a samba file server with user access from a Windows AD
domain and a separate Solaris NIS domain. All of our users have an account
on the AD domain but only some of our users have a Unix account. I would
like Windows users that have a Unix account to have files written as per
their Unix uid and users that do not have an account to have a uid assigned
from winbind. 

I had thought of using winbind with

winbind trusted domains only = yes 

with the nsswitch.conf file listing 

passwd:     files winbind nis
shadow:     files winbind nis
group:      files winbind nis

which I thought would match known user names to NIS id's and unknown user
names to winbind uid's. This does not work as I expected as all users are
given winbind uid's

If I change nsswitch.conf to 

passwd:     files nis winbind
shadow:     files nis winbind
group:      files nis winbind

Users that have Unix accounts are given the NIS uid but users without a Unix
account are asked for a username/password when connecting to Samba.

Can anyone confirm that what I am trying to do is possible and if so any
idea's what I have missed.

I am testing with 3.0.9 on FC3

My smb.conf below

[global]

workgroup = AD
server string = Samba
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
cups options = raw
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
security = ads
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
name resolve order = wins bcast
wins server = 192.168.2.19
dns proxy = no
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
template shell = /bin/false
password server = *
realm = AD.MYDOMAIN.CO.UK
winbind trusted domains only = yes
winbind use default domain = no

Thanks in advance

Dean Plant

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