samba - Oct 2001 - Winbind working, but...

Hello

I have had winbind working without any problem for several weeks, but I
have a couple of problems with mail delivery and an error when a user
logs in the linux box using ssh, telnet or a simple "su -l
domain\\username"

I am running it in a RedHat linux 7.1 and 7.0. I modified the
nsswitch.conf and /etc/system-auth files to make it work. I have tried
with samba-2.2.2 and CVS SAMBA_2_2

Every time a user logs into the box using telnet ..., I receive the
following error:

Last login: Tue Oct 23 16:41:59 2001 from 10.0.0.38
[: too many arguments
[DOMAIN\username@linuxbox username]$

I modified the PROMPT_COMMAND line in /etc/bashrc from

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:
${PWD}\007"'

to 

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;";echo -n
"${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:
${PWD}"; echo -ne "\007"'

to fix a problem with the prompt.

I have look everywhere for the error "[: too many arguments" without
any
luck.

The other problem I am having is with the mail, I have tried everything
I can imagine to send an email to a user with an account of type
"DOMAIN\username", and to receive this email using pine, mail or even
pop3.

If I use a pop3 client to get the mail from the box, I can log in, but
it did not find any mail sent to me. I copied a mail file from another
user to my account and chown it appropiatly.
(cp /var/spool/mail/user1 /var/spool/mail/DOMAIN\\username). I have
tried with only one "\" and without it.

I Changed the "winbind separator" to "+" and tried send a
mail to
DOMAIN+username, and it continue saying "DOMAIN+username... User
unknown".

Is anybody having the same problems?

Is anybody receiving/sending mail from/to a user in the samba box with
an account controlled by winbind?

Thanks

Rogelio J. Baucells

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Rogelio J. Baucells wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have had winbind working without any problem for several weeks, but I
> have a couple of problems with mail delivery and an error when a user
> logs in the linux box using ssh, telnet or a simple "su -l
> domain\\username"
As far as I can tell this all boils down to the selection of the
"best"
winbind separator character.
'\' has special meaning every where, BUT it is the windows default.
'+' has special meaning to sendmail.

If you are 100% certain that '.' or '_' are not ever going to be
in your
usernames then try one of them.

Yours Tony.

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