[Samba] machine accounts question

mathias dufresne infractory at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 09:40:37 UTC 2015


Hi,

I can be wrong but for me UID and GID are UNIX concepts. If your
workstations are Windows systems, those UID/GID are not necessary.

This does not address your issue but it could help to understand things and
to avoid searching in the wrong direction...

Cheers,

mathias

2015-10-12 20:41 GMT+02:00 mourik jan c heupink <heupink at merit.unu.edu>:

> Some extra info from the samba side of things:
>
> During the psexec as machine user, samba logs the following:
>
> [2015/10/12 20:38:45.552716,  1]
>> ../source3/auth/token_util.c:777(create_token_from_sid)
>>   getpwuid(1276) failed
>> [2015/10/12 20:38:45.552786,  1]
>> ../source3/auth/auth_generic.c:119(auth3_generate_session_info_pac)
>>   Failed to map kerberos pac to server info (NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER)
>>
>
> 1276 being the uidNumber I manually added to the machine account, to see
> if that solved my issue. (which it didn't)
>
> And, just for completeness, the machine account does exist, as can be seen
> in samba log entries like this:
>
> [2015/10/12 20:29:45.724724,  2]
>> ../source3/auth/auth.c:278(auth_check_ntlm_password)
>>   check_ntlm_password:  authentication for user [INSTR05$] -> [INSTR05$]
>> -> [INSTR05$] succeeded
>> [2015/10/12 20:29:45.725599,  1]
>> ../source3/auth/token_util.c:777(create_token_from_sid)
>>   getpwuid(1276) failed
>>
>
> Ideas? Am i looking in the right direction?
>
>
>
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