[Samba] winbind sometimes does not resolve sid to a name

[Michael Wood]

On 14 November 2010 01:16, Shirish Pargaonkar
<shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org> wrote:
>> Hi Shirish,
>>
>> Shirish Pargaonkar wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 01:21:30PM -0600, Shirish Pargaonkar wrote:
>>> >> Sometimes a group sid does not get resolved to its name.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is this a settings problem?  Looks like winbind deamon
>>> >> went dormant for a while and then woke up?
>>> >> I am using interface wbcLookupSid provided by the
>>> >> library libwbclient.so for resolving sids to names.
>>> >>
>>> >> These are the winbind related parameters in
>>> >> /etc/samba/smb.conf
>>> >
>>> > Not enough information for useful debugging. What
>>> > do the winbindd logs say ?
>>> >
>>>
>>> ps -eaf | grep winbind
>>> root     20085     1  0 14:03 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd -D
>>> root     20086 20085  0 14:03 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd -D
>>> root     20089 20085  0 14:03 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd -D
>>>
>>> Cleared /var/log/samba/winbindd.log just before issueing
>>> command getcifsacl which could not resolve the group SID
>>>
>>> winbindd.log attached.
>>
>> not really. :-)
>>
>> Cheers - Michael
>
> Michael, not sure what is implied.  The log is not sufficient?

No, the mailing list (sometimes) strips attachments.  There was no log
file attached to your e-mail when I received it.

> I see two error messages in the log.
>
> [2010/11/08 14:32:56,  5] winbindd/winbindd_async.c:lookupsid_recv2(138)
>  lookupsid (forest root) returned an error
> [2010/11/08 14:32:56,  5] winbindd/winbindd_sid.c:lookupsid_recv(61)
>  lookupsid returned an error

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>