[Samba] FreeBSD and Winbind

[jhall at vandaliamo.net]

> On Thursday 08 February 2007 10:44, jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
>> To be more specific I think I have made a mistake copying the libraries
>> to
>> the proper location.  I was not able to find libnss_winbind.so in
>> /usr/samba/source/nsswitch.  Instead, I found nss_winbind.so.  Is this
>> the
>> correct file to copy?  And, where should these files be copied to on
>> FreeBSD?  From what I have read so far, I am guessing these should be
>> copied to /usr/lib.
>
> Why aren't you using the port? It should Just Work(tm).
>
> You can keep the nss shared object in /usr/local/lib because FreeBSD will
> mount the disks very early on.
>
>> My nsswitch has the following configuration
>> passwd: files winbind
>> group: files winbind
>> group_compat: nis
>> hosts: files dns
>> networks: files
>> passwd_compat: nis
>> shells: files
>
> Try removing the _compat entries.
> For LDAP I have this..
> group: files ldap
> hosts: files dns
> networks: files
> passwd: files ldap
> shells: files
>
> And getent works fine. You could try cranking up debugging in Winbindd too
> (not that I've ever used it)
>
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I removed the compat entires with the same result.  I am installing the
port now to see if that fixes my problem.  When I have some more time
tomorrow, I will use the debugging on winbind and see what I can find.

Thanks,


Jay