[Samba] samba PDC/NIS client

[Gaiseric Vandal]

I don't think is this a samba issue.   Samba accounts need to have a 
corresponding unix account.   Shouldn't matter if they are in NIS or 
/etc/passwd.   If you have users in both it could get a problem.

Is "getent passwd" really showing the users from NIS?      How about 
"getent shadow" (assuming a linux machine and not solaris, and probably 
doesn't matter anyway.)   Do you have an /etc/nsswitch.conf entry for

     shadow:  files nis


Are you missing the : in the nsswitch.conf entries?

Are your user names all in lower case?  Are they all 8 characters or under.






On 03/08/12 22:46, Simon Matthews wrote:
> I have a server which is a samba PDC and has recently been converted to an
> NIS client. For historic reasons, many users login information is in the
> local machine's /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.
>
> samba is set up to use a tdbsam database.
>
> I got the first indication of problems when I tried to add a user using the
> smbpasswd -a command. I found that smbpasswd would not recognize the user
> unless either the username was in the /etc/passwd file, or I changed
> /etc/nsswitch.conf from
> passwd compat
> TO:
> passwd files nis
>
> However, if I make the latter change, the user cannot log into any Windows
> machines that are controlled by my PDC. To allow logins, all I have to do is
> ypcat passwd | grep<username>  >>  /etc/passwd
> After this, the user can log in.
>
> Is there any configuration of samba that will allow it to properly
> recognize user data from the NIS map and not require the user to be listed
> in the /etc/passwd file?
>
> Simon