[Samba] Upgrading Samba 3 to Samba 4 - Domain Controller unreachable

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Apr 1 20:53:46 UTC 2016


On 01/04/16 21:20, Luke Barone wrote:
> Anyone able to chime in? Suggestions on where to go?
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Luke Barone <lukebarone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I upgraded Samba 3 to 4 when doing a Debian Wheezy to Jessie upgrade over
>> the last couple of weeks. Most things worked, but now that staff are back,
>> we're seeing more and more issues.
>>
>> Computers are logging in using their cached credentials only. The
>> computers are not using updated password information from the server
>> anymore. The computers will not connect to the server via it's NetBIOS name
>> unless I add the entry under the hosts and lmhosts file on each workstation
>> (which is a pain...). My remote management won't work either for using the
>> server credentials, I need to use a local username and password.
>>
>> It's running Samba 4.1.17-debian, as a Windows NT Domain Controller, NOT
>> Active Directory.
>>
>> I have also edited the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so that:
>>
>> passwd:       files winbind
>> shadow:       files
>> group:        files winbind
>> hosts:          files wins
>>
>> instead of:
>> passwd:         compat
>> group:          compat
>> shadow:         compat
>> hosts:         files dns
>>
>>
>> ... based on advice around the getpwuid error that seems so famous.
>>
>> My goal is to get this up and running *properly* without needing to touch
>> every computer, and so that user changes (i.e. password changes, new users,
>> users getting deleted, etc) take effect immediately.
>>
>> If I need to post other config files, please let me know
>>

OK, lets start with the smb.conf, please post it.
I take it you haven't modified it after the upgrade.

Rowland



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