[Samba] Debian patched 3.6.6 winbindd fails.

[Rowland penny]

On 21/04/16 16:18, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 20:51 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>> > ...
>> > [2016/04/20 20:31:30.288745,  0]   Could not fetch our SID - did we 
>> join?
>> > [2016/04/20 20:31:30.288774,  0]   unable to initialize domain list
>> >
>> > Of course the join is OK, and winbindd from 3.6.25 has no problem ...
>>
>> Is that using the same private dir?  Typically self-compiled binaries
>> have very different paths than system packages.
>
> I hope so!  You're right, but the smb.conf here sets them explicitly:
>
>   log file              = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>   private dir           = /usr/local/samba/private
>   smb passwd file       = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
>   lock directory        = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
>   state directory       = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
>   cache directory       = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
>   pid directory         = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
>   ncalrpc dir           = /usr/local/samba/var/ncalrpc
>
> And yes, I'm sure that this is the smb.conf that's being used. :)
>
> Before posting I investigated whether perhaps something like this was
> the problem, but if it is I haven't found it yet.
>
> Unless there are better ideas my game plan now is to apply all the
> Debian patches one-by-one, until either winbindd 3.6.6 works in this
> system after patching, or else it fails like the binary provided by
> Debian.  Of course it might fail NOT like the binary provided by
> Debian, but I'll cross that bridge if and when I come to it. :)
>

Ah, I understand why you are setting the directories in smb.conf, Samba 
might know where they are, but does the OS ?

Also, as you are compiling Samba, why not go the whole hog and use 4.4.2 ?

Rowland