[Samba] string_to_sid: SI is not in a valid format

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:44:26 -0500
Matt Savin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On AD domain member in both versions of samba 4.6.11 and 4.7.3 I'm
> getting a lot of following messages:
> 
> [2017/12/28 15:54:03.838907,  3]
> ../libcli/security/dom_sid.c:210(dom_sid_parse_endp)
>   string_to_sid: SID msavin is not in a valid format
> 
> msavin is my user name:
> 
> # wbinfo -n msavin
> S-1-5-21-508332004-1178028025-157424832-1273 SID_USER (1)
> # wbinfo  --lookup-sids S-1-5-21-508332004-1178028025-157424832-1273
> S-1-5-21-508332004-1178028025-157424832-1273 -> <none>\mattiasz 1
> 
> From smb.conf:
> 
>    winbind use default domain = true
>    winbind offline logon = false
>    disable netbios = yes
>    winbind trusted domains only = no
>    allow trusted domains = no
> 
> Any reason?
> 

Please post the rest of the [global] part of your smb.conf

What is the DC ?

Rowland