[Samba] default backend = rid not showing full group information for users

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sat May 2 19:49:44 UTC 2020


On 02/05/2020 20:36, Jelle de Jong via samba wrote:
> On 2020-05-02 20:42, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> On 02/05/2020 19:28, Jelle de Jong via samba wrote:
>>> root at s4ad01:~# samba-tool user show jdoe 
>>
>> There is no apparent reason why the groups do not work with chgrp, 
>> the only reason I can think of is that the group was created and when 
>> you tried to 'chgrp' the file, winbind read from its cache and it 
>> wasn't in the cache. Try running 'net cache flush' and then try 
>> 'chgrp' again.
>
> What should the "winbind expand groups" option be set to for a working 
> setup? If I remove "winbind expand groups" there are no group members 
> shown at all with the "getent group" command.

That is because  the default 'winbind expand groups = 0' means that 
winbind doesn't query for groups, try with '2' instead.

Rowland





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