[Samba] getent passwd not returning users/groups

Mark Rutherford mark at lowcountrybilling.com
Tue Nov 1 15:30:36 MDT 2011


Shot in the dark.. is nscd running?
I have been bitten by that a few times.

On 11/1/2011 5:04 PM, James Chase wrote:
> I'm trying to get my CentOS 5.6 machine setup as a Active Directory 
> Domain Member with Windows 2008 level domain and samba 3.5. I haven't 
> tried this before.
>
> I can successfully join the domain and return users using 'wbinfo -u' 
> and groups with 'wbinfo -g' but when I try 'getent passwd' I only get 
> the local users. I'm not sure what element that indicates is failing 
> in the process. I'm not confident in my pam.d/ setup since different 
> guides show different methods of setting this up. The 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf file has been edited to include winbind as a source 
> for passwd/shadow/group.
>
> The only insightful error message I see in the samba logs is this 
> (repeated over and over in all the logs) but I haven't found the 
> solution. Is this the cause of my problems? How do I disable 
> spinlocks? I'm using a prebuilt package from sernet
>
> [2011/11/01 16:46:19.979981,  1] lib/util_tdb.c:385(tdb_log)
>   tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: spinlocks no longer supported
>
> Here is my samba configuration dumped from smbtest:
>
> [root at sambatest ~]# testparm
> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
> rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
> Processing section "[test]"
> Loaded services file OK.
> Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER
> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
>
> [global]
>         workgroup = SHAMOFFICE
>         realm = SHAMBHALA-OFFICE.LOCAL
>         interfaces = 127.0.0.1, eth0
>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>         security = ADS
>         printcap name = cups
>         idmap backend = ad
>         idmap uid = 10000-20000
>         idmap gid = 30000-40000
>         winbind enum users = Yes
>         winbind enum groups = Yes
>         winbind use default domain = Yes
>         idmap config SHAMOFFICE : schema_mode = rfc2307
>         idmap config SHAMOFFICE : range = 4000-5000
>         idmap config SHAMOFFICE : backend = ad
>         idmap config * : range = 2000-3000
>         idmap config * : backend = tdb
>
> [test]
>         comment = Directory for storing pictures by jims users
>         path = /local/test
>         read only = No
>         guest ok = Yes
>
>
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