[Samba] ADS domain member: winbind fails [SOLVED]

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:28:02 +0100
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Am 2016-12-31 um 12:08 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> 
> > Samba should recreate the files required, what is the exact command
> > you are running to join the domain ?
> >
> > Who owns /var/lib/samba and what are the permissions set to ?
> 
> SOLVED -> what a journey ;-)
> 
> rebuilt several packages on the member server today, perl, mit-krb5, 
> samba etc
> 
> But what did the change was the clearing of /var/lib/samba, that
> seems to have been the issue since beginning.
> 
> I stopped smbd nmbd winbindd
> 
> # net ads leave -U Administrator
> 
> after successful leave I rm-ed /var/lib/samba (I only left the subdir 
> private there) then rejoined the ADS domain.
> 
> Now winbindd -i -d10 looks very different ;-)
> 
> "wbinfo -u" brings users now.

Next step, does 'getent passwd a_username' show anything ?

> 
> *phew*
> 
> Thanks all for the help so far, could have thought of doing so
> earlier (well, I did, but did it wrong ...)
> 
> I test things now.
> 
> Thanks again @ Rowland, Louis, etc

No problem

> 
> -
> 
> Maybe I come back with another issue later, we saw permission
> problems at editing GPOs. "sysvolreset" and "sysvolcheck" done OK
> already.
> 
> 

What problem are you having ?

Rowland