Keith Edmunds
2008-May-27 17:03 UTC
[Samba] Incorrect/incomplete group information when authenticating against AD
Summary: a Samba server authenticating against AD can only retrieve some, not all, groups that users belong to. I have a Linux server "oldsys" (all version info given below) making files available via Samba and authenticating against Windows AD. This works without problems. We want to migrate the data, and thus the Samba configuration, to a new server "newsys". This has been done, with the smb.conf file being copied from oldsys to newsys. I have joined newsys to the AD tree. "wbinfo -t", "wbinfo -u" and "wbinfo -g" give the expected results. The group information for a given user is incomplete on newsys. Here's the output from each system for one user: oldsys # id Tiger uid=10353(tiger) gid=10001(Domain Users) groups=10001(Domain Users),10008(Domain Admins),10004(Services),10012(Compbio),10016(Admin),10020(Techserv), 10023(Inkjet),10024(Sysadmin),10063(IFRpan),10048(qcall) newsys # id Tiger uid=10004(tiger) gid=10000(domain users) groups=10000(domain users) Not only is the newsys group list much shorter, but also the "Domain Users" group is a different gid and the user has a different uid. There is no user "Tiger" in the passwd database on either Linux server, so the response is apparently coming from the AD tree. One other anomaly: a "getent passwd" on the old system lists all the /etc/passwd entries as well as the AD users; the same command on the new system lists only the /etc/passwd users. An "egrep '(^passwd|^group|^shadow)' /etc/nsswitch.conf" produces the same results on each system: passwd: files winbind shadow: files group: files winbind I'm at a loss to understand why the group information (and the "getent passwd" list) are different on the two systems, and I'd welcome any pointers. Versions: oldsys # smbd -V Version 3.0.21a oldsys # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) newsys # smbd -V Version 3.0.24 newsys # cat /etc/debian_version 4.0 Thanks for any ideas, Keith
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