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

[Shirish Pargaonkar]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
>

Hope this attachment sticks.

Regards,

Shirish