[Samba] Configuring Samba as a file server to use AD authentication

[Kyle Manel]

That did the trick, thank-you!

-----Original Message-----
From: Rowland Penny [mailto:rpenny at samba.org] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:22 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Cc: Kyle Manel <Kyle.Manel at inbaytech.com>
Subject: Re: [Samba] Configuring Samba as a file server to use AD authentication

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:03:57 +0000
Kyle Manel via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Fair point on Ubuntu.  Though, there is no value added by mentioning 
> that as I am already seeking help here. :-) What I was searching for 
> was 'how to start winbindd' which doesn't provide any valuable 
> excerpts beyond that.
> 
> Upon rebooting the machine winbindd is not operating all the same 
> however, so I am puzzled why this is an issue for me.
> 
> 

OK, quick google turns this up:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1564043

The first thing I would try, run the winbind binary directly typing 'winbindd' in a terminal, if this works and you should be able to check this with 'ps aux | grep winbind'

If it does start, you then have to make systemd start it!

Rowland