[Samba] Samba's winbindd is running but seems non-functional.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2022-06-19 at 20:30 -0400, Zombie Ryushu via samba wrote:
> /tmp/.winbindd/pipe
> 
>     The UNIX pipe over which clients communicate with the |winbindd|
>     program. For security reasons, the winbind client will only attempt
>     to connect to the winbindd daemon if both the |/tmp/.winbindd|
>     directory and |/tmp/.winbindd/pipe| file are owned by root.

> 
> I noticed that I do not have the /tmp/.winbindd/pipe file. What controls 
> it's creation? I do have the
> $LOCKDIR/winbindd_privileged/pipe

I spent far more than was warranted to fix this properly for Samba
4.17.  The docs are old and out of date, we don't use /tmp/.winbindd
any more. 

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/2586

Note that if you are running Samba as an AD DC, winbindd is started
internally by Samba, and should not be started by the system as well.  

Perhaps again work to ensure your system is as simple as possible.

But also please just stop, then really stop and finally think about
what might be different about your system compared to all the others
that do 'just work' with Samba.

Remove complexity.  Perhaps set up a test environment that you can
compare with - so you don't keep jumping at shadows - where you can see
it does just work despite various errors in the docs. 

Finally, reopening old bugs isn't a good move to keep us helping you,
so don't do that.  If this thread (or worse, a mail stream) explodes
like your many previous discussions then the Samba Team will not
hesitate to put your posts under moderation. 

Andrew Bartlett


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