Here's my advice, don't take it as biblical.
Change that winbind uid to 10000-20000, not 2000.. that may be the key..
Also, I use wins, and have it specified in the smb.conf file to point to
my wins server.. that helps a lot of resolution issues.
Hope this helps.
Gabriel
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, jiangy wrote:
! Could anyone give me some hint on how to get winbindd working ?
! I have added the following to smb.conf , called smbpasswd to join the
! domain
! and got security=domain working.
!
! security = domain
! encrypt passwords = yes
! workgroup = MYDOMAIN
! password server = x.x.x.x
!
! But when I try to use winbindd, even if I followed the man page
! instruction and did the following:
!
! added the following to smb.conf:
!
! winbind separator = +
! winbind cache time = 10
! template shell = /bin/bash
! template homedir = /home/%D/%U
! winbind uid = 10000-2000
! winbind gid = 10000-20000
!
! added the following to nsswitch.conf:
!
! passwd: files winbind
! shadow: files
! group: files winbind
!
! copied libnss_winbind.so and set up link for libnss_winbind.so.2 (I am
! running linux 2.4)
! I still can't get it work and keep getting the following error:
!
! "Could no look up dc's for domain MYDOMAIN"
!
! Then I composed a LMHOSTS file as:
!
! x.x.x.x mypdc #PRE #DOM:MYDOMAIN
!
! and point nmbd to it, it still doesn't work.
!
! Could anyone give me some hint on what I may have done wrong here or if
! there is anything
! I am missing here ?
!
! Thanks a lot.
!
! Yuquan
!
!
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Gabriel Matthews
Network Support
Cinergy Communications
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