[Samba] idmap uid range missing or invalid

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:49 PM, MargoAndTodd <margoandtodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:40 PM, MargoAndTodd <margoandtodd at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> What causes this error in /var/log/messages when
>>> on XP-Pro client boots up?
>>>
>>> winbindd[4041]:   idmap uid range missing or invalid
>>> winbindd[4041]:   idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
>>> winbindd[4041]: [2009/04/02 19:38:22, 0]
>>> nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(820)
>>> rn1 winbindd[4041]:   ERROR: Initialization failed for
>>> alloc backend, deferred!
>>>
>> And did you check  what it told you? I mean your setting for the idmap
>> uid range.
>>
>> John
>
> Hi John,
>
>  You probably did.  I have severe burn out at the moment: I
> have been fighting with my Fed taxes for two days now.
> Are you the one that told me to go read
> http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html?
>
>  Anyway, in smb.conf
>      idmap uid
>      idmap gid
>
> From "man smb.conf"
>      Default: idmap gid =
>      Default: idmap uid =
>

You need to provide a range like in this doc:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html#id2598913

John