[Samba] getent not listing domain accounts

[Henry McLaughlin]

On 31 January 2016 at 08:32, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:

> On 30/01/16 21:01, Henry McLaughlin wrote:
>
>> On 30 January 2016 at 23:16, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks Rowland (once again)
>>
>> with the usermapping in the smb.conf file and it's associated  file there
>> are still no domain accounts returned from getent (user or group)
>>
>
> The root usermapping has nothing to do with getent, but you need it on
> domain member to change file & directory ACLs from a windows machine.
>
>
>> Regarding UIDs & GIDs I understood the advantage of using RID what that
>> there were no UIDs or GIDs required as they are calculated on the run
>> based
>> upon SID. Accordingly do I still need to add them as I am using RID ?
>>
>
> No, I was in rush to go somewhere and missed the word 'rid', sorry :-)
> But getent still won't show anything for the users you posted i.e.
> Administrator, krbtgt and guest, they come under the heading of builtin
> users and will be mapped to numbers from the range '2000-9999' and as such
> will not be shown by getent.
>
> Try adding a new domain user, this user should get a RID of 1000 or above,
> the idmap_rid backend should calculate the users UID from 'ID = RID -
> BASE_RID + LOW_RANGE_ID', so if his RID is 1000, this becomes:
>
> ID = 1000 - 0 + 10000
> ID = 11000
> This is what 'getent passwd domainuser' should return, there is however
> another gotcha, the later versions (I forget at which version it started
> from) of Samba do not return any domain users if you just run 'getent
> passwd', you must ask for the user by name i.e. 'getent passwd domainuser'
>
> Rowland
>
>
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Still no success:

root at aphrodite:~# wbinfo -u
henry
administrator
krbtgt
guest
root at aphrodite:~# getent passwd henry
root at aphrodite:~# id henry
id: henry: no such user
root at aphrodite:~#