[Samba] wbinfo problem

Pablo Pablo at CompuGenic.com
Tue Aug 9 17:10:03 GMT 2005


Tom Diehl wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am trying to setup a samba pdc using the "making users happy" example from
>Samba-by-Example. Everything seems to check out fine except that I cannot get
>wbinfo -u to work. When I do wbinfo -g I get a list of the groups. If I do 
>wbinfo -u I get the following:
>
>(pocono pts4) # wbinfo -u
>Error looking up domain users
>(pocono pts4) #
>
>I tried turning up the logging for samba but wbinfo does not seem to generate
>any entries.
>
>All of the other tests I have tried work. I can even use smbclient to login
>and poke around.
>
>I am using samba-3.0.14a on Red Hat EL4 running on an em64t system. 
>
>In addition I am having the same problem on the bdc. That box is identical to
>the pdc.
>
>Can someone tell me how to troubleshoot this problem?
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
>  
>
Did you set the user credentials that wbinfo should connect as?
Try the following (taken directly from 
http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html):

root# wbinfo --set-auth-user=root%'bigsecret'

Hope that helps.

Pablo



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