[Samba] Winbind Craziness

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:25:04 +0000 (UTC)
ray klassen via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

>  so I had some time to follow this bunny trailand found that even
> though all the other servers had no problems this one continued
> to.Every so often a new computer couldn't connect and then it would
> be all better after a net leave/net join. Net join would not work
> without -S <MyDC> in the command lineWhat I found out was that most
> net rpc commands such as net rpc testjoin would also fail without -S
> <MyDC> in the command linewhereas they would work find for any other
> box. I also noticed that a tdbtool dump of secrets.tdb was pretty
> nearly empty whereas other servers had lots of info.The difference
> was in the smb.conf line "name resolve order" 
> 
> earlier I had taken the advice (the more fool me, I guess) of the man
> page with recommends 
> 
> "name resolve order = wins bcast" in a AD environment.
> when I changed it back to 
> 
> "name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast"
> 

I think you should look at your dns ;-)

I doubt whether you have a lmhosts file on the Samba server, so if you
remove that, the line becomes 'wins host bcast' and the only
difference between that and what you had, is 'host'.

Rowland