samba - Dec 2001 - Missing users (who otherwise work fine)

Greetings

We have a situation where we're trying to add a user to his local
Administrators group on a Win2K/SP2 box, and his account is not showing
up in the list of users in the domain (neither are some other accounts).

Interestingly, these users are not showing up in the file security
dialogs either.  This seems like a new development (problem).

The users are in the smbpasswd and NIS as they should be.

The user accounts work fine in terms of their use on the domain.
Logins and basic file operations seem to work without a problem.

We're running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE, Samba 2.2.2 as a PDC with USER
security, serving out to mostly Win2K/SP2 clients.

TIA,
-- 
  Dylan Carlson  [dcarlson@3path.com]
  212.248.1400 x119 office

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Dylan Carlson wrote:

Fixed my own problem... See below, thanks
> Greetings
> 
> We have a situation where we're trying to add a user to his local
> Administrators group on a Win2K/SP2 box, and his account is not showing
> up in the list of users in the domain (neither are some other accounts).
> 
> Interestingly, these users are not showing up in the file security
> dialogs either.  This seems like a new development (problem).
> 
> The users are in the smbpasswd and NIS as they should be.
> 
> The user accounts work fine in terms of their use on the domain.
> Logins and basic file operations seem to work without a problem.
We had some users who were in smbpasswd, but not in the NIS domain
anymore (obsolete user accounts) -- cleaning up the smbpasswd with
(smbpasswd -x) to match what we have in NIS seemed to immediately fix
the problem.

Cheers,
-- 
  Dylan Carlson  [dcarlson@3path.com]