[Samba] getent doesn't works

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Nov 25 10:15:45 UTC 2020


On 25/11/2020 09:36, Piviul via samba wrote:
> Hi all, a PC was correctly joined to a domain but offline logon wasn't 
> working so then I have tried to get authentication and nss using SSSD 
> but I fail to correctly configure the logon. Then I read a message on 
> this list that says SSSD doesn't works on samba >= 4.8. Samba 
> installed is the 4.12 so I have followed this guide[¹] to reconfigure 
> again the PC using winbind instead of SSSD. All seems to works until 
> 8,2 Using Domain Accounts and Groups in Operating System. In other 
> words winbind can find users and groups but getent doesn't shows user 
> or group information. For example getent group "DOMINIOCSA\\Domain 
> Users" show nothing.
>
> Someone can help me to find a way to have getent query correctly AD 
> remote users and groups?
>
> I forgot to say that the PC is a debian bullseye.

You are using the winbind 'ad' backend, so have you given your users a 
uidNumber attribute containing a unique number inside the '10000-999999' 
range AND given them a gidNumber containing a valid group gidNumber ? 
Failing the latter, does Domain Users have a gidNumber attribute ?

Rowland






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