[Samba] Corruption of winbind cache after converting NT4 to AD domain

Patrick Goetz pgoetz at math.utexas.edu
Sat Feb 12 13:41:56 UTC 2022



On 2/12/22 07:40, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 06:45 -0600, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>
>>
>> Are *local* users mtj and pgoetz going to be able to access this
>> directory?  I *think* nsswitch will do the right thing here and look
>> for
>> the group in AD when it can't find it locally, but this is the sort
>> of
>> complication that might come up.
> 
> It is actually winbind that does this, but only when nsswitch asks it
> to.
> 

So that means it will work as long as your /etc/nsswitch.conf file is 
set up correctly, which is required for an AD-bound machine anyway.




> Rowland
> 
> 
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