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

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Jun 20 03:10:10 UTC 2022


On Sun, 2022-06-19 at 23:01 -0400, Zombie Ryushu via samba wrote:
> 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  The docs are old and out of date, we don't use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.

A test environment means a new domain on a new host, where you can test
out what 'success' looks like. 

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

I wouldn't expect any of those to make a difference.

Andrew Bartlett
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