[Samba] Multithreaded SAMBA/Winbind

[Chuck Noga - CAN]

Not 100 percent sure.   Is there a way to determine whether our current
libnss_winbind is thread-safe ?  If not, is there a way to make it .   


Thanks for the reply.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:12 AM
To: Chuck Noga - CAN
Cc: samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Multithreaded SAMBA/Winbind

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