[Samba] Argh!!!! Winbind Stability!

[Paul Gienger]

Are you running nscd on your winbind host?  If so, try turning it off if 
you are and see if things improve.

OT:  Did you intentionally send to both samba at lists.samba.org and 
samba at samba.org???

Josh Skains wrote:

>Ok... This is annoying. Winbind doesn't seem to be 100% stable. I am using 3.0.4 and Winbind is attached to a Windows 2003 server. I am cheating, using RPC rather than ADS.
>
>So here is the issue. Generally everything works. I do a wbinfo -u and all comes back. I do a getent passwd and a good list comes back as well.
>
>The problem is sometimes with individual users, I do a "getent passwd jskains" and it will come back blank. But then I do it again and it comes back with a good entry. Why???????????? This is so fustrating because other services are effected by this. For example, If I change permissions on a file with "chown jskains file" sometimes it will say "invalid user" and then sometimes it will work fine.
>
>Also the same with SSHD. Sometimes I try to log in via SSH and it will tell me I have an invalid password. Other times it jumps in with no problem whatsoever.
>
>Help!
>
>smb.conf:
>
>[global]
>        # LDAP Configuration
>        idmap backend = ldap:ldap://master.eng.deltad.com
>        ldap suffix = dc=softeng,dc=com
>        ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap
>        ldap admin dn = cn=Manager,dc=softeng,dc=com
>        logfile = 2
>        workgroup = ENG
>        security = DOMAIN
>        password server = dc1.eng.deltad.com
>        map to guest = Bad User
>        wins server = 192.168.8.2
>        ldap ssl = no
>        winbind enum users = yes
>        winbind enum groups = yes
>        idmap uid = 10000-20000
>        idmap gid = 10000-20000
>        template homedir = /mhome/%U
>        template shell = /bin/bash
>        winbind use default domain = Yes
>        printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator
>        use sendfile = Yes
>        cups options = raw
>
># Exports
>[homes]
>        comment = Home Directori[rcs]
>        path = /export/rcs
>        comment = RCS Controlled Sourcecode and Releases
>        writeable = yes
>
>[software]
>        path = /export/software
>        writable = yes
>        comment = General Software
>        delete readonly = yes
>        create mode = 775
>        wide links = no
>        directory mode = 775
>
>[backups]
>        comment = Backup Directory
>        path = /export/backups
>        read only = No
>
>[common]
>        path = /export/common
>        comment = Common Configuration Files
>        writeable = yes
>
>[docs]
>        path = /export/docs
>        writable = yes
>        comment = Documentation for Software Engineeringes
>        read only = No
>        browseable = No
>  
>

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