[Samba] getent group not working

Jonathan Buzzard jonathan at buzzard.me.uk
Wed Aug 8 07:45:42 MDT 2012


On 08/08/12 13:36, Rowland Penny wrote:

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>
> More info, with 'winbind use default domain = yes' in smb.conf on the
> client, 'getent group linuxusers' returns the info. Remove 'winbind use
> default domain = yes' from smb.conf and restart nmbd,smbd & winbind,
> 'getent group linuxusers' now returns nothing, put the line back &
> restart the daemons and the info comes back.
>
> Why does one line in smb.conf make such a big difference?
>

Remove it and do a 'getent group HOME\\linuxusers' and see if that 
works. Should explain why you need the user default domain in there.

JAB.

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