[Samba] winbind on alpine linux

[Philippe Clérié]

Thanks. Moving on!

:-)

Philippe


The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>


On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 8:32 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-05-26 at 08:10 -0400, Philippe Clérié via samba wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to set up a domain member file server on a Alpine Linux
> > host. I
> > just found out that Alpine does not use the Name Service Switch
> > because
> > *musl* does not. A bit of searching suggested that it could be made
> > to work
> > by adding a minimal *nsswitch.conf*:
> >
> > passwd: files winbind
> > group: files winbind
> >
> > *wbinfo* will work with or without that file, but not *getent*. I
> > would
> > have thought that the package *samba-libnss-winbind* provides the
> > necessary
> > glue but apparently not.
> >
> > So would it be correct to assume that it's a lost cause? Or is there
> > another mechanism that would fill the purpose? Or did I simply
> > miss something (that in retrospect is obvious)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Philippe
>
> Never used Alpine Linux, but a quick internet search shows that the
> best way to use Samba with Alpine Linux is to not use Samba with Alpine
> Linux.
>
> It appears that the suggested way is to use something called 'musl-
> nscd', which appears to mimic 'nscd' and you cannot use 'nscd' with
> winbind, their caches clash.
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
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