[Samba] getent not returning users/groups

Greg Sloop <gregs@sloop.net> gregs at sloop.net
Fri Feb 25 15:47:15 UTC 2022


Yeah, I started to wonder if I'd failed to install the winbind-nss library.

Is the regular Ubuntu 20.04 package fine? (I don't need something special
with Louis's repo, right)
libnss-winbind, right?

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:39 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 17:02 -0800, Greg Sloop <gregs--- via samba
> wrote:
> > wbinfo -u
> > or
> > wbinfo -g
> > return users and groups from the AD (this is run from the member
> > server)
>
> This shows that AD is working.
>
> >
> > But getent group/passwd doesn't return any of the groups/users in AD.
> > More specific queries for a single user or group returns nothing -
> > but no
> > error either.
> >
>
> This shows that you have something configured incorrectly or that you
> haven't installed the winbind nss links. A bit more info would help,
> what distro, what packages have you installed, what is the DC and
> finally please post your smb.conf from the Unix domain member.
>
> Rowland
>
>
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