[Samba] FreeBSD 7.2 domain member problem

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Michael Wood wrote:
> 2009/11/4 Ivo Karabojkov <ivo at kit-bg.com>:
> > I am trying to set a FreeBSD 7.2, Samba 3.3.8 as an AD domain
> > member server. I am not using LDAP, but idmap_rid. I have properly
> > configured nsswitch.conf.
> >
> > Joining to domain and wbinfo -u work OK, but when I try
> > pw show user -a
> > I get only user accounts of FreeBSD. So, I cannot set owners,
> > ACLs...
> >
> > My main source is Samba guide chapter 7:
> > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#id
> >2597100 All tests from Procedure 7.4 of the guide, except getent
> > (eq. to pw show user -a) work OK.
> >
> > It seems that FreeBSD does not use nsswitch. What should I do or
> > what I am missing?
>
> [...]
>
> I have no idea what the problem is, but FreeBSD does seem to use
> nsswitch:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nsswitch.conf&apropos=0&sekt
>ion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE&format=html

It does indeed use nsswitch.

I suggest testing with getent rather than pw. I believe pw only handles 
local users/groups (this is a bug ;)

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