[Samba] Failed to convert SID to a UID

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon May 29 16:02:00 UTC 2023



On 29/05/2023 16:29, Dale Renton via samba wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After upgrading a Samba domain member from 4.16.4 to 4.17.5 our shares
> stopped working. This is from Rocky Linux 8.7 to 8.8.   The AD domain
> controller server is running 4.16.2.  Only error message I see is :
> 
> check_account: Failed to convert SID S-1-5-21-..... to a UID
> (dom_user[DOMAIN\username]

Not bothered about the SID, but what was the RID ?
Also, does the username end with a '$' ?

> 
> 
> wbinfo --domain-users
>     returns a list of all the users
> 
> wbinfo --user-info username
>     returns
>       failed to call wbcGetpwnam: WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND
>       Could not get info for user username

Network problem ?

What else changed ?

Rowland




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