[Samba] Winbind Issues

[Thomas Reed]

sysrm wrote:

>Hi all, 
>
>Been having issues trying to get winbind working properly.
>
>Basically I need windows Domain controller features such as forcing bad
>password attempts and group policy etc and use samba as the FileStore.
>
>I can kinit nps, I can join the samba machine to the AD (shows up on the
>windows box too)
>
>But when I run wbinfo -u I get ;
>[root at dev1 bin]# ./wbinfo -u
>Error looking up domain users
>
>Also 
>
>[root at dev1 bin]# ./wbinfo -t
>checking the trust secret via RPC calls failed
>error code was NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR (0xc00000e5)
>Could not check secret
>
>Ive tried latest versions, starting over etc, reading so many google and
>howto documents and still nothing.
>
>What should I be checking for or looking to modify?
>
>Ive changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf so that the passwd: shadow: etc has
>winbind.
>
>Any help gratefully received.
>
>Ross
>
>  
>
Not to sound too obvious, but are you sure winbindd is running?  I had a 
similar issue after i followed the steps you outlined and recieved the 
error you indicated.  The init script for samba wasn't starting winbind 
for me.

Thomas