[Samba] failed to call wbcGetpwnam/wbcGetgrnam/wbcGetpwsid WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:41:39 +0100
Alex Matthews via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Rowland - please, don't get in the way of others being constructive to
> solving this issue. I do not need to know your opinions.

I was being constructive. I will also reply to this and try to be
constructive.

> 
> Louis - thanks for your responses. I have just updated to 4.6.4 (4.6.5
> isn't in a repo yet) and run samba-tool testparm. Unfortunately, no
> issues. It also does not fix the underlying issue.
> 
> As for your other questions:
> 
> # getent passwd testuser
> <nothing>
> 
> # wbinfo --own-domain
> SMC
> 
> # wbinfo --all-domains
> BUILTIN
> SMC
> 
> 
> idmap setup is as I posted in my original post: https://pastebin.com
> /yWPtWrEF

You don't have any idmap configuration in that smb.conf.
 
> 
> I do not have an idmap.conf?

it is part of smb.conf

> 
> # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> passwd: compat winbind
> group: compat winbind
> <omitted other non-relevant lines>
> 
> PAM is not configured as I'm not doing any *nix authentication.

At last, there is your problem, you need PAM because you need Unix
authentication. If you set up PAM 'getent passwd testuser' will work.

Rowland