samba - Feb 2002 - winbind problem with existing linux user accounts. (Samba 2.2.3a)

Hello,

	I'm experiencing a frustrating problem configuring winbind and Samba
2.2.3a on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server.  I would appreciate ANY help and/or
advice.  I have read the documentation which comes with the samba source,
but I'm still having problems. I can successfully see the Windows
Users/Groups through Linux, using "wbinfo -u", "wbinfo -g",
"getent passwd",
and "getent group".  I think my problem might be related to the
pam.d/samba
file, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

	Configuration: Red Hat Linux 7.2, Samba 2.2.3a with winbind. Primary
Domain Controller is a Windows 2000 machine.
	Here's my problem:

	A user "fred" logs into his Windows 2000 PC, and attempts to access
through Samba his /home/fred directory.
		1. If "fred" is a normal linux user, and has an entry in
/etc/passwd AND winbind is loaded then I receive an error  "The network
name
cannot be found.".  Samba seems able to determine that "fred" is
a linux
user and shows the corresponding [homes] directory, I'm just not able to
access the home directory.  I was thinking that this might be related to the
UID's being different between the linux account of "fred" and the
windbind
account "domain+fred". 
		2. If "fred" does the same thing as above, but this time
winbind isn't loaded (I need to restart smb after killing the winbind
process) then everything works as I want.  The problem is that now with
winbind not loaded, Windows Users who don't have a Linux account are unable
to access most of the Linux shares.  

	I'm hoping there's a way to fix this.  Ideally I'd like to allow
everyone to access the Samba share on the linux server, if a user has a
linux account then in addition I'd like their linux home directory to be
displayed as well.  

	Thanks in advance for help,
	John Matthews

Mathews:

In your smb.conf you have to put somewhere whats uids winbind can take off.
[global]
winbind uid = 10000-20000
winbind gid = 10000-20000
this maps each ad or pdc account to a valid unix id.
this means that the user "fred" you are mentioning have already a uid
in the
linux+winbind box.
but if you already have a "fred" account in the linux box and a
"fred"
account in the ad or pdc and winbind is running the results is a unix
account and ad or pdc account that ar equal in name "fred" but
different
uid.
i think that this is your problem.
> Hello,
>
> I'm experiencing a frustrating problem configuring winbind and Samba
> 2.2.3a on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server.  I would appreciate ANY help and/or
> advice.  I have read the documentation which comes with the samba source,
> but I'm still having problems. I can successfully see the Windows
> Users/Groups through Linux, using "wbinfo -u", "wbinfo
-g", "getent
passwd",
> and "getent group".  I think my problem might be related to the
pam.d/samba
> file, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
>
> Configuration: Red Hat Linux 7.2, Samba 2.2.3a with winbind. Primary
> Domain Controller is a Windows 2000 machine.
> Here's my problem:
>
> A user "fred" logs into his Windows 2000 PC, and attempts to
access
> through Samba his /home/fred directory.
> 1. If "fred" is a normal linux user, and has an entry in
> /etc/passwd AND winbind is loaded then I receive an error  "The
network
name
> cannot be found.".  Samba seems able to determine that
"fred" is a linux
> user and shows the corresponding [homes] directory, I'm just not able
to
> access the home directory.  I was thinking that this might be related to
the
> UID's being different between the linux account of "fred" and
the windbind
> account "domain+fred".
> 2. If "fred" does the same thing as above, but this time
> winbind isn't loaded (I need to restart smb after killing the winbind
> process) then everything works as I want.  The problem is that now with
> winbind not loaded, Windows Users who don't have a Linux account are
unable
> to access most of the Linux shares.
>
> I'm hoping there's a way to fix this.  Ideally I'd like to
allow
> everyone to access the Samba share on the linux server, if a user has a
> linux account then in addition I'd like their linux home directory to
be
> displayed as well.
>
> Thanks in advance for help,
> John Matthews
>
>
>
>
>
>
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