[Samba] Winbind on AIX 5.2

Anders Larsson
Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:56:19 -0000

Hi!

Ee are using samba/winbind authing agains w2k3 AD native mode
we hade to modify the winbind_nss_aix
so it works with AIX and build a new WINBINDD
and creates the home dir in /home/%D/%U

We have about 900 users on the AIX box authing against AD :)


// Anders


On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:04:30PM -0600, samba@braingia.org
wrote:
>
> Has anyone had luck getting Winbind from Samba 3.0.11 to compile and
> authenticate users telnetting (or ssh'ing) into an AIX lpar?  If so,
> what'd you do?  :)
>
> I've compiled kerberos and openldap, both installed.  Able to run the
> configure script for Samba, pointing LDFLAGS and related to the correct
> location for the openldap libraries.  I've been unable to get Samba
> compiled correctly when adding --with-pam to the configure script though.
>
> I've followed the instructions in the Samba docs and placed lines in
> /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg as well as changing the SYSTEM line in
> /etc/security/user.
>
> wbinfo -u shows the domain users.  wbinfo --authenticate=user%password
> indicates that the user could be authenticated in the domain.  Still
can't
> telnet into the server.  The syslog says something to the effect of
> authentication denied for UNKNOWN_USER from <ip>.
>
> A pam problem perhaps?
>
> The winbindd log has errors such as "Illegal multibyte sequence"
too.
>
> Any hints, pointers, etc from someone who has this working would be
> appreciated.  I've just about googled everything I could think of at
this
> point.
>
> The goal is to be able to use active directory to store and manage all
> user information and not have to do any of that on the lpar itself.
>
> Thanks for any help.
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