[Samba] Unable to join domain

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 19:00 -0400, Rob Campbell wrote:
> > on fedora, I think it is samba-winbind-clients
> This was already installed.
> 
> > at one time 'authselect select winbind' would do this, but times
> change. 
> authselect select winbind
> [error] [/etc/authselect/system-auth] has unexpected content!
> [error] [/etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf] has unexpected content!
> [error] Unexpected changes to the configuration were detected.
> [error] Refusing to activate profile unless those changes are removed
> or overwrite is requested.
> 
> Some unexpected changes to the configuration were detected.
> Use --force parameter if you want to overwrite these changes.
> 
> authselect select winbind --force
> [error] [/etc/authselect/system-auth] has unexpected content!
> [error] [/etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf] has unexpected content!
> Backup stored at /var/lib/authselect/backups/2021-10-13-22-52-
> 26.HHhaHu
> Profile "winbind" was selected.
> The following nsswitch maps are overwritten by the profile:
> - passwd
> - group
> 
> Make sure that winbind service is configured and enabled. See winbind
> documentation for more information.
> 
> I made backups but I was told to be sure passwd and group was there
> and had the value of files winbind
> 
> I'm not running winbind service, I'm running the binary and I'm
> guessing that's causing problems.
> 
> > Because he wants to use fedora and was trying to use that distro
> for a DC.
> I am using Debian as my DC and Fedora is just a joining member that
> I'm trying to use as a fileserver

Put /etc/nsswitch back to standard and then run the command again.

What distro you use is up to you, but quite a few of the people who
help on here use Debian (myself included), so you would get better help
if you also used Debian.

Rowland