[Samba] getent passwd works but all wbinfo commands fail

Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 12:41:20 MDT 2014


On 09/24/14 14:35, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 24/09/14 18:30, rusking wrote:
>> hello.everyone.I am seeing a bizarre problem on one of my machines.  The
>> machine is running Samba 3.5.10-125 and is a member server in a Windows
>> Active Directory domain. getent passwd and getent group works just 
>> fine and
>> returns all users,and groups from the AD domain.  However, all wbinfo
>> commands (such as wbinfo -t or wbinfo -u) fail with the errors:
>> [root at testserver samba]# wbinfo -t
>> could not obtain winbind interface details!
>> could not obtain winbind domain name!
>> checking the trust secret for domain (null) via RPC calls failed
>> Could not check secret
>> [root at testserver samba]# wbinfo -u
>> Error looking up domain users
>> [root at testserver samba]# wbinfo -g
>> Error looking up domain groups
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
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> Hmm, interesting, this seems to be the opposite to what most people 
> complain about.
>
> But to try and help you, you are going to have to give us a lot more 
> info, smb.conf, OS, what AD server etc.
>
> Rowland
>

Are you sure winbind really is running?


Is your /etc/nsswitch.conf file configure to retrieve users from winbind 
?   Can you post nsswitch.conf  and maybe sssd.conf?


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