[Samba] winbind or netsamlogon_cache.tdb issue

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Oct 25 15:25:52 GMT 2005


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Lionel Déruaz wrote:

| The problem that i am facing, is that for some users, the check
| to see if the user is in the group is working fine,
| but for some other users, it returns me an error (but
| the user is in the group !)I am using for this check the
| wbinfo_group.pl file. What i have noticed is that
| if i start winbind without cache, everything seems
| to be ok. Also, if i delete the netsamlogon_cache.tdb
| file and restart winbind, everything seems to be ok.
|
...
|> In technical terms, the cache is a copy of the NET_USER_INFO_3
|> structure in the samlogin() reply (used for NTLM authenication).
|> You're not the first one to be bitten by this.  It was more
|> useful in Samba 2.2.x installations.  We'll definitely fix
|> this somehow before the next stable release.
|
| Is this fixed in the 3.0.20b release ?

No. But the netsamlogon_cache file has been removed in
3.0.21pre1 altogether.





cheers, jerry
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