[Samba] Fwd: Having problem with RID backend - must be missing something

Rich Webb
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:08:20 -0000

----- On Sep 15, 2018, at 4:32 AM, Rowland Penny via samba samba at
lists.samba.org wrote:

>
> Including modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
>

Yep.

>>
>> Yes, that is how I did it - I compiled from source.
>
> Exactly as per the Samba wiki using Heimdal instead of MIT ?
>

Yes - I followed this article:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Build_Samba_from_Source

I really would prefer to use an RPM build but there doesn't seem to be any
well maintained ones other than SerNet which has decided to charge for their
RPMs now.  I had thought about seeing if someone wanted to help create an RPM
build for CentOS 7 so it would eliminate the need to compile from source to get
an AD DC.  I have never taken on such an endeavor but the experience would
probably be well worthwhile and final product rewarding :)

If you're wondering why I don't use a Debian based build such as Ubuntu
the reason is that I have been burned by their update system too many times.
Yum (on CentOS) just always works no matter how old your server gets.  It seems
like whenever I used Ubuntu if it got sufficiently out of date apt failed to
bring it up to date listing all kinds of dependency problems - yeah yeah I know
keep your system up to date but sometimes things fall behind.  A package manager
should always be able to update without issue to whatever is current no matter
how old the system.  I have just had much better luck with CentOS in that
regard.

Rich