[Samba] Samba3 By Example - Suggested Update (Correction?) And Two Winbind Defects

[rruegner]

Hi,
have you info if this bug will be fixed in the suse 9.2 which will 
arriving in a few weeks?
I am very wondering about that this patch is not disribute by suse
themselfes ( the novell case? ), if this is not getting fixed i will 
stop using suse cause in my oppinion they broke dns
Regards
Schlomo Schapiro schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> probably your problem was caused by SuSE's .local problem. They patched 
> their glibc to do a multicast DNS lookup (AKA Apple ZeroConf) for all 
> .local domains. A fix is supposed to come soon ( I pushed them to make one 
> :-), but if you have support try to ask for it directly. Unfortunateley I 
> am not allowed to distribute this patch myself.
> 
> Using IP Addresses only of course also serves as a workaround, but with 
> DNS-rooted domains this is a pain in the ass.
> 
> Regards,
> Schlomo
> 
> PS: Look for previous traffic on this list regarding SuSE 9.1
> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, L. Mark Stone wrote:
> 
> 
>>We were trying to build a SuSE 9.1 box in a lab as a Domain Member server in a 
>>Windows Active Directory domain where the AD server was running Windows 2000 
>>Server.
>>
>>We found that the instructions in Chapter 9.3.3 were, at least in our case, 
>>incomplete.
>>
>>The AD server was managing a private domain, so following the Windows 
>>Configure My Server wizard the domain was setup as "smelug.local".
>>
>>When we attempted to have the Linux box (running SuSE 9.1 (fully patched) with 
>>the Samba 3.0.7 rpm packages from the SuSE ftp site) join the domain, we got 
>>an error indicating the Linux box could not find the Kerberos server.
>>
>>After Googling, we saw that others experiencing this problem had as the root 
>>cause either a DNS configuration problem or a misconfigured realm in 
>>krb5.conf.
>>
>>We checked DNS on the W2K server and on the Linux box, added entries in the 
>>Linux and Windows hosts files, and then watched the packets go back and forth 
>>with Ethereal between the Windows 2K AD server and the SuSE box, but we still 
>>got the error. The two boxes were clearly exchanging packets, so we felt 
>>pretty good that we didn't have any DNS configuration errors.
>>
>>Next, we undid all of the above changes, and simply edited the krb5.conf file 
>>to include the realm information and the IP:port info for the AD server. The 
>>join was successful now.
>>
>>May I therefore suggest that configuring the krb5.conf file be added to 
>>Chapter 9.3.3 in S3BE?
>>
>>Separately, we found two winbind errors during testing:
>>
>>First, we found that winbind does not shut down cleanly during a reboot (we 
>>used the SuSE runlevel editor in YaST to have smb, nmb and winbind startup 
>>automagically during boot up). Winbind leaves /var/run/samba/winbindd.pid in 
>>place, which we must remove manually before we can start winbind. 
>>
>>Second, even after starting/stopping/restarting winbind manually, wbinfo -u 
>>(and -g) do not work at first. We found we needed to run "net ads info" 
>>first, and then wbinfo -whatever would work just fine.
>>
>>Please let me know if you would like me to file bugzilla reports on these 
>>errors, or if you would like more detail. We are not programmers so we don't 
>>know how to narrow this down further.
>>
>>With best regards,
>>Mark
>>
>>P.S. The lab machines are VMware 4.5.2 guests, running on a SuSE Linux 8.2 
>>host. We can make the virtual machine files available to you if you would 
>>like to run these machines locally for testing (assuming you have VMware and 
>>a Windows 2000 Server license).
>>
>>
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