[Samba] File owner SID instead of name showing for one user

tms3 at tms3.com tms3 at tms3.com
Thu Jul 8 12:56:21 MDT 2010


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> Also make sure that SID returned by "wbinfo -n DOMAIN\name" matches 
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> name returned by    "wbinfo -s SID" command.

Yeah...but that's a real puzzler, isn't it?  Why the is the 
nsswitch/winbindd process getting a SID as a  value for uid?  I've 
seen it briefly when some process is lagging out.  But I can't ever 
recall such a state being "permanent"....Odd...something's nagging me 
about this, can't put my finger on it.
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> On 07/08/2010 01:45 PM, tms3 at tms3.com wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>>> I recently migrated all data and user accounts from our old Samba file
>>> server to a new (Samba 3.4.0 on Unbuntu 9.10) one. Everything is 
>>> working
>>> fine except that there is one user whose SID is showing in the "Owner"
>>> column of Windows Explorer instead of the user name.
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>>> It's not a big problem, but the user is uncomfortable with it and I'd
>>> like to know why it's happening and how to fix it.
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>> Check for duplicate UID's somewhere.
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>>> Any help would be much appreciated.
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>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Greg
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