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

Zombie Ryushu zombie_ryushu at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 20 03:01:57 UTC 2022


On 6/19/22 22:57, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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  The docs are old and out of date, we don't use /tmp/.winbindd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
>
>
I have, I completely re-did everything, and removed all my extra stuff 
including my shares.

It's still the same problem, Bind DLZ or Samba Internal makes no difference,




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