[Samba] Member Server Setup Assistance

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 31 11:12:09 MST 2014


On 31/12/14 17:55, James wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
>     I did. Unfortunately something is still amiss. I do receive a 
> response from 'getent group domain users'(users:x:100).
>
> On 12/31/2014 12:26 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 31/12/14 17:23, James wrote:
>>> Rowland,
>>>
>>>     I set a user with a uid and domain users group with a gid but 
>>> I'm still unable to view them using 'id'. I do notice a few strange 
>>> observations. If I go to another user to attempt to assign a uid. I 
>>> get the default value of 10000. I would expect 2001 given I set the 
>>> first user with uid 2000. Groups however appear to increment.
>>>
>>> On 12/31/2014 10:52 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 31/12/14 15:42, James wrote:
>>>>> Hello Stefan,
>>>>>
>>>>>     I learned the hard way about .local. I understand going forward.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have an issue with the member server. Following along with 
>>>>> the wiki I get stuck at 'Testing the Winbind user/group mapping'. 
>>>>> Wbinfo works as expected but not
>>>>>
>>>>> #*id DomainUser*
>>>>>
>>>>> #*getent passwd*
>>>>>
>>>>> #*getent group*
>>>>>
>>>>> #*chown DomainUser:DomainGroup file*
>>>>>
>>>>> #*chgrp DomainGroup file*
>>>>>
>>>>> etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I receive 'id: sambauser: No such user'. It will only retrieve 
>>>>> local machine users. Let me preface by saying this is a Ubuntu 
>>>>> 12.04 server with Samba 4.1.14.  Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/31/2014 10:00 AM, Stefan Kania wrote:
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>>>>>> Hello James,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 31.12.2014 um 15:48 schrieb James:> Hello,
>>>>>>> I'm following along with the wiki(Setup a Samba AD Member Server)
>>>>>>> and I have a question after reading the 'Set up a basic smb.conf'
>>>>>>> section.
>>>>>> Please show us your smb.conf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Do I need to extend the schema in order for my member server to
>>>>>>> successfully join and service file shares?
>>>>>> No, you dont have to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do I need to configure a
>>>>>>> krb5.conf file? Thanks.
>>>>>> If your DC is a samba4 DC just copy krb5.conf to your new 
>>>>>> memberserver
>>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - -- Stefan Kania
>>>>>> Landweg 13
>>>>>> 25693 St. Michaelisdonn
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you followed the wiki, you will be using the 'ad' backend. For 
>>>> this to work, you need to add 'uidNumber' attributes to your users 
>>>> and a 'gidNumber' attribute to at least the Domain Users group. the 
>>>> numbers that you add must be between the range you set in your 
>>>> smb.conf, again if you followed the wiki, this will be between 
>>>> 500-40000.
>>>>
>>>> Rowland
>>>
>>
>> You have restarted samba, haven't you ?
>> You may have to wait a short time, or clear the cache with 'net cache 
>> flush'
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>
OK, can you post the 'passwd' & 'group' lines from /etc/nsswitch

Do you get anything from 'getent passwd <a domain user>'

Rowland



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