[Samba] Samba3 File Server + Winbind -- AD Authentication Flaky/Inconsistent/Unreliable

[Michael Ray]

Nico- 

Sorry, should've realized more information was warranted. 
Fortunately though, we managed to figure it out using a couple of different guides. 
Amongst other things, I was missing a few key lines in the samba.conf file (specifically 'idmap config * : range' and 'template shell'). 


I'll try to be more diligent for future posts. 

Thanks 
Mike Ray 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel at gmail.com> 
To: "Michael Ray" <mray at xes-inc.com> 
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:24:26 PM 
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba3 File Server + Winbind -- AD Authentication Flaky/Inconsistent/Unreliable 

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Michael Ray <mray at xes-inc.com> wrote: 
> Hey all, 

> This is a link to pastebin that shows my configuration files for krb5, nsswitch and smb as they were saved the morning after I got this working. 
> 
> I do not know what could have gone wrong, but it has. I will be trying to go through my documented procedure on Monday with a clean VM and then trying it with various random internet procedures if that fails. 
> 
> Any ideas / clues as to what blew up would be appreciated, as well as links to guides that people have used successfully. 

You've not mentioned the OS you're running for the server, the 
particular release of Samba 3 and Samba 4 you're working with, nor 
precisely what you see in the logs. Please post those to get a better 
idea if it might be a known, and already fixed problem.