[Samba] Failed to convert SID to a UID

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Apr 14 13:07:25 UTC 2022


On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 14:52 +0200, van Vloten Kees via samba wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I see messages in the logs on my smbserver like:
> 
> smbd[15370]: [2022/04/14 14:32:56.556685,  0]
> ../../source3/auth/auth_util.c:1928(check_account)
> smbd[15370]:   check_account: Failed to convert SID
> S-1-5-21-3042323961-424325435-1432587418-1234 to a UID
> (dom_user[SAMDOM\computer01$])
> 
> I am using rfc2307 idmapping and computer accounts were never
> assigned a
> uidNumber and a gidNumber (simply because I never figured they would
> need
> one). Surely that is causing the error message.

It isn't so much an error message as a note.

Your 'user' is actually a computer 'computer01$'.

> 
> The question is: is this a problem that disrupts something in the
> communition between windows 10 and the fileserver or can I ignore the
> message?

This will not disrupt anything and you can ignore the messages.

Rowland





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