[Samba] Multithreaded SAMBA/Winbind

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:21:34PM -0400, Chuck Noga - CAN wrote:
> We have a configuration and audit application called Tripwire Enterprise
> (7.5) that is running on a Red Enterprise Linux 5.2 server.  On this
> server, we are using winbind (samba version 3.0.33) for authentication
> (against Windows AD).  When we try to run a configuration check on users
> and permissions we get an error that there is a problematic frame :  C
> [libnss_winbind.so.2+0x129f]  .    I talked to the software vendor
> (Tripwire) and they are saying that the winbind must be multithreaded
> for this to run.   My question to you..  Is there a samba release more
> current than the version we are on (3.0.33  most currently supported Red
> Hat version) that we can upgrade to to give us multithreading
> functionality ?   or is there a suggested workaround for this ?

Is it really a requirement that winbind must be
multi-threaded, or is it rather that libnss_winbind must be
thread-safe?

Volker
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