[Samba] winbindd fails to start

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:45:34 -0400
"James B. Byrne via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> The situation is this:  I run our samba_server 4.13 DC in a
> FreeBSd-13.2 jail running on a 13.2 host.  I have transferred a copy
> of that jail to a different host running FreeBSd-14.1 and
> reconfigured the network addresses assigned to the jail to avoid
> clashing with the existing, and running, samba DC.
> 
> On the target host I have upgraded the transferred jail to
> FreeBSd-14.1 and upgraded the packages thereon.  This required moving
> to Samba-4.19. Samba_server is running on the upgraded jail and I
> have resolved all of the errors I discovered in the logs save one:
> winbindd will not start.
> 

Sorry but I would never upgrade is that way, it appears to full of
possible pitfalls.

I do not use Freebsd (I tried it but decided it wasn't for myself) and I
have never used jails (which I understand are something like using
docker), so the only comment I have there is, are the jails privileged ?

I would have created a new jail on Freebsd 14, installed Samba in that
and joined that as a DC to the existing DC, then transferred the FSMO
roles and finally demoted the old DC. Repeat for any other new DCs
you may require (minus the FSMO roles and demote).

Rowland