[Samba] Winbind Username Lookups

Dege, Robert C. robert.dege at ngc.com
Thu Feb 2 20:37:16 GMT 2006


I am using winbind for username lookups (not login authentication).
However, I am getting an inconsistent list of user accounts depending on
what tool I use to query winbindd.

# wbinfo -u  -- I get a full listing of user accounts from the ADS
(~180k of accounts)

# getent passwd -- I get a much smaller list of accounts (~55k of
accounts)


Here are the steps I followed to integrate winbind into name lookup:

root# cp /usr/src/samba/source/nsswitch/libnss_winbind.so /usr/lib
root# ln -s /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so.1
root# ln -s /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so.2
root# ln -s /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so /usr/lib/nss_winbind.so.1
root# ln -s /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so /usr/lib/nss_winbind.so.2

Modify /etc/nsswitch.conf and update password and groups to:
passwd	files winbind
group		files winbind


Any assistance is appreciated.

-Rob


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