[Samba] Re: Winbind User Login Troubles

Drew Daugherty daugherty at mail.aem.umn.edu
Thu Apr 14 18:45:17 GMT 2005


Thank you Volker that did it.  I can stop pulling my hair out now :-)

-drew

Volker Dose wrote:
> Dear Drew,
> 
> 
> Drew Daugherty wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am running Samba version 3.0.9-1.3E.2 on a server that is joined to a
>>windows server 2003 domain using ADS security.  The samba server hosts a
>>share called 'files'.  I am having problems mounting this share using a
>>new account I set up.  getent passwd shows the information for the new
>>account as does wbinfo -u.   Mounting the share with the new users
>>account using the net use command from xp or using smbclient from the
>>samba server works now and then but it is not consistent.  When it fails
>>I see large numbers of log entries appear in winbindd.log that state the
>>user does not exist. I can mount the share with my personal domain
>>account no problem.  I just switched my samba server security from
>>domain to ads and added the enum users and groups entries in smb.conf
>>and that is when these problems cropped up.  Thanks in advance for your
>>help.
> 
> 
> I am not sure, but this seems to me like a similar problem I had the last
> days. I set up a samba 3.0.13 member-Server in a w2k3s-Actice Directory
> domain and everything seemed to work fine:
> 
> wbinfo -t said, the secret is good,
> wbinfo -u and -g gave me the list of user and groups
> getent passwd or group gave me also teh lists
> 
> But wbinfo -n <group> dig not work as expected and wbinfo -r <USERNAME>,
> which should give me the list of Windows-Groups the user belongs to, gave
> me most of the time (but not everytime - I was really screwed up) an error.
> 
> After debugging and reading postings in mailinglists, I tried the following
> option in smb.conf:
>         
>         client schannel = no
> 
> and everything worked like a charme.
> 
> I would also advise you to look at the last announcement from the
> samba-group, posted at tuesday this week:
> 
> Release Announcements
> =====================
> 
> Common bugs fixed in 3.0.14 include:
> 
> ~  o Compatibility issues between Winbind and Windows 2003 SP1
>      domain controllers (*2k3sp1*). 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Volker Dose
> 
> 
> 
> 


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