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Hello all, I have a functional samba/windind file server (SLES 10) thats a member server of an Active Directory domain. I'm able to successfully resolve user and group accounts from AD. The problem I'm having is samba isn't creating home directories automatically when I try to map to a AD user share from Win XP. What I am able to do is, when I ssh into the machine with an AD user,

...inbind separator = +' might cause problems with group membership." In your experience, is this truly the problem? I am hesitant to make a change to the [global] section unless I am confident it will solve my problem. Thank you, Michael Davidson Mount Washington Observatory www.mountwashington.org

...membership at least on glibc systems, as the character + is used as a special character for NIS in /etc/group." What *exactly* are the implications of using '+' as the winbind separator (in the absence of NIS)? Thank you, Michael Davidson Mount Washington Observatory www.mountwashington.org

...sid(606) could not lookup sid [2008/12/24 12:36:37, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_group.c:getgrgid_got_sid(606) could not lookup sid I am unsure where to troubleshoot next. I appreciate your help very much!! Michael Davidson Mount Washington Observatory North Conway, NH 03860 www.mountwashington.org

I recently had a problem with Winbind where new Active Directory user accounts could not access the list of shares on a particular Samba server. "wbinfo -u" showed that the users did exist, but they were not appearing in "getent passwd" results. "/var/log/samba/winbind.log" showed the following error (with Winbind error logging set to either 2 or 3): idmap Fatal

Here is the solution to a problem that I recently had. (I almost emailed this list asking for help, but then a co-worker clued me into the solution.) Server: a new Cent OS 5.1 install with Samba 3.0.28 that is joined to a Win 2003 domain. Client: Win XP Pro SP3, member of same domain A user was attempting to save an Excel file which had 644 perms and was owned by her. As soon as she