[Samba] wbinfo -u and -g work, wbinfo -s works only for some users

[Jason Gerfen]

Here is a document and perl script I developed to resolve UID to SID 
mappings in Samba Active Directory authentication.

http://zerointeger.tumblr.com/post/589762841/samba-and-active-directory

Let me know if that helps any.

On 07/26/10 07:01, Danilo Godec wrote:
> Got a problem after upgrading Samba from 3.0 to 3.5 - have a bunch of
> users and groups in LDAP and things work for the most part.
>
> However, when people try to change permissions from within Windows, some
> usernames or groupnames are shown properly, but other are not - they see
> the SID.
>
> Following up I noticed, that I can get a list of all users with 'wbinfo
> -u' and that I can get a SID for every user with 'wbinfo -n $USER'.
>
> However, for about 70% of all SIDs listed a 'reverse lookup' with 'wbinf
> -s $SID' doesn't work:
>
>    
>> S-1-5-21-239950015-4237961228-1280988766-3060 Could not lookup sid
>> S-1-5-21-239950015-4237961228-1280988766-3060
>>      
> It works for some and it turns out that this relates to what usernames
> are visible in Windows...
>
> I checked my LDAP and compared some of the users that work to some of
> those that don't, but there are no apparent differences.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>    Regards, Danilo
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