Re: [gentoo-user] Winbind...

[Stroller]

On 27 Jul 2007, at 09:12, Anders Trobäck wrote:
> ...
> I'm trying to set up winbind on a Gentoo box but I can't get it to
> work!
>
> I have joined the domain and I have added winbind
> to /etc/nsswitch.conf.  "wbinfo -u" and  "wbinfo -g" are working but
> "getent passwd" and "getent group" only list the local accounts and
> groups!
>
> I have not done anything with my PAM files yet but I think this
> step should work anyway!(?)

I have found `getent passwd` and `getent group` not to work entirely  
as expected.

EG:
$ getent group | grep -i dave
domain users:x: 
10000:administrator,support_399845a0,krbtgt,iusr_bodmin,iwam_bodmin,mobi 
le user tmpl,user tmpl,power user tmpl,administrator tmpl,sbs backup  
user,ned,usertemplate- 
lanesre,evelyn,tim,charlotte,dave,mandi,kim,vebra,deanne,alex,laura,anne 
,anne.h,gillian,maintenance,gail
$ getent passwd  | grep -i dave
$

This is on a mail server which has been running perfectly on the  
Windows domain for 18 months. Users are added on the Windows 2003  
server & can then get their mail from the mailserver running on the  
above Linux host. It seems necessary to restart Samba on the Linux  
box after adding a user on the Windows server, but I can assure you  
that Dave has been getting his mail quite happily ever since the  
system was set up.

My advice is to move on to the next step (PAM) & see what happens. I  
have always worked off the "Testing Things Out" section of Chapter 24  
of the Samba manual, "Winbind: Use of Domain Accounts" <http:// 
www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/winbind.html> and  
have always found following it to work perfectly, but winbind doesn't  
seem well-documented elsewhere or by 3rd parties.

Stroller.-- 
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