[Samba] getent passwd not returning users/groups

[Eddy Sturg]

Does nsswitch.conf have winbind listed?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:09 AM, James Chase <james at chasecomputers.net>wrote:

> I tried a second install of CentOS with X, thinking perhaps the GUI setup
> might do something that I was missing in terms of getting samba connected
> to active directory. However I still can't get this to work (now wbinfo
> doesn't seem to work either) in CentOS. I also tried Fedora 14.
>
> Then I tried a Ubuntu 11 install and followed their instructions from the
> wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/**community/**ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto>
>
> And it worked! I tried to apply the same settings to CentOS setup but I
> still get no output from 'getent passwd'.
>
> Ubuntu is running version 3.5.11 while CentoS is 3.5.4. Think my best bet
> is building from source and trying 3.5.11 or 3.5.12 on CentOS? Are there
> any critical flags that need to be set during the configuration to make
> sure samba will work with active directory/winbind?
>
> James
>
>
>  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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