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

Gregory A. Cain greg at gregorycain.net
Mon Jul 12 09:43:09 MDT 2010


Hi,

1. Yes, ls -l shows the correct info.
2. Yes, only in Windows Explorer
3. Samba domain.

I did some additional digging over the weekend and discovered that there 
are two other users whose SID's are showing instead of their names.

Thanks again for any insight.



On 7/8/2010 1:50 PM, tms3 at tms3.com wrote:
>
>>
>> On 07/08/2010 03:10 PM, Gregory A. Cain wrote:
>>>
>>> Exactly. I checked 4 or 5 other users - no problems. Also did a
>>> spot-check of files belonging to other users in Windows Explorer. It
>>> appears this is the only user with the problem.
>>>
>>> I checked for duplicate UID's and found none. Using ls -l on the
>>> server returns the correct user name and UID for the files.
>
> OK, Greg, let me get this straight:
>
> 1. From a server terminal ls -l shows correct info.
>
> 2. Only in Windows exploderer the SID instead of name?
>
> 3. I forget...Samba domain or samba joined to AD domain?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/8/2010 12:01 PM, tms3 at tms3.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> wbinfo -s (user sid) returns "Could not lookup sid (user sid)"
>>>>
>>>> But all other SID lookups are good (well at least a test smattering of
>>>> them)?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>> What does "pdbedit -Lv theuser" show? It should show the user's SID.
>>
>>
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