similar to: User nobody in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

I know it is a moderated list - just do not know how to get to the moderator. Was just reinstalling suse 9.1 on top of an existing 9.1 (with samba) (it solved another issue with the monitor but created a samba problem) applied all patches reinstallation remembered all settings correctly, even the smb.conf file, but smbd does not start anymore. , I get a

I have been trying to get a share running for public access to part of a workstations hard disk. Realise now that this is not possible at userlevel security without a username, password pair. Part of my playing around involved creating on the machine user nobody, then setting guest account = nobody in samba.conf. Once realising i needed a passwrd pair I smbpasswd -X nobody and then userdel

Hi all I've been trying to get this sorted out for a day now, I have done the following: Followed the howto at http://samba.idealx.org/smbldap-howto.en.html Changed the reg settings in XP added the computer to ldap added administrator to ldap when I try to add the computer using the settings in XP, when prompted with username and password I use the administrator and password set

Hello all, I am working with samba-3.5.6 on Debian Squeeze. From the smb.conf(5), I assumed that, by using 'ldapsam:trusted=yes', one can avoid touching the NSS/PAM configuration. However, I am getting a: user in passdb, but getpwnam() fails in the logs. Is my assumption wrong? Regards, Joe -- .o. I'm a Free man. I use Free Software. ..o ooo http://www.joesteeve.org/

Hi, I have a PDC with samba Version 3.0.9-2.3-SUSE + OpenLDAP 2.2.15 When trying to join my Domain with administrator, it's working When trying to join my Domain with another account I have this error in /var/log/samba/log/log.computername : User xxx in passdb, but getpwnam(),fails! ... Here is my getent passwd, Administrator is bind to root : root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

hi there im trying to to raise the smbd deamon but i can't!!!! and in the log i get an error... User tftp in passdb, but getpwnam() fails! can ypu please give me an answer assaf

Hi everyone. I am installing an Samba 3 PDC with an OpenLDAP backend. I am currently having a problem when I try to login to the domain with my username and password. But no such problem when i am trying to join to domain or connect to a share. So, i get the following error : [2005/12/21 18:08:02, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(840) User serg in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

I keep getting the following errors when I try to log on to my domain or access a share (some how I have no clue I was able to get one computer to access the samba domain). It is a standalone PDC, ldap on the same computer. This problem has been killing me for about a week, any help would be greatly appreciated I'm running samba 3.0.9 on redhat 9 stock ldap server that comes with redhat

Hi my problem is just like the subject, I could browse the shares with the same username & password but I can't login to the domain, I'm using samba 3.0.2.a with ldap backend, can anyone help me with this, I know it's been posted before but I can't find a solution. thanks

I've gotten passed the problem I had with joining the domain. However, I am still having problems with the authentication of domain user accounts against the samba server. wbinfo -u shows my users from the domain correctly. wbinfo -g does the same for my domain groups. getent passwd shows the domain users as expected. wbinfo -t shows a good trust. wbinfo -a allows me to authenticate any

Hi everybody, I have one SAMBA server (with PDC configuration) which is configure to use an OpenLDAP server (on the same local server) where users and computers account are store (I want to have the two Unix/Linux and Samba account attributes stored to use Name Service Switch and Pluggable Authentication Module). My problem is as follow : If I don't put the following line : ->

Hi all, I'm tring to configure samba 3.0.10 on hpux machine as domain member. Unluckly I got some error. When I try to open my server froma a windos machine it seems all ok: [2005/07/25 15:42:19, 0] smbd/server.c:open_sockets_smbd(383) open_sockets_smbd: accept: No buffer space available [2005/07/25 15:42:19, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0,

All Samba domain. OS FreeBSD 5.2.1 ldap set up with working replication ldap slave ldap master ldap slave 192.168.4.0-------192.168.1.0--------192.168.3.0 BDC-1 PDC BDC-2 PDC and BDC-2 are fine but on BDC-1 I get the following errors: - id(1) only return values for system password database users - machine logs indicates a problem with getpwnam():

Hello List, I've been running into the following winbind problem and would really appreciate if anyone could give me a hint here: I'm currently using Samba 2.2.7a as a fileserver (domain member), user-authentication is done on a WinNT 4.0 PDC. The Samba fileserver is running winbind so all the users need not be created locally. Now I want to replace the old Samba version with Samba

Hi list, I've seen this error now many times (at my own setup and in the archives): sam_account_ok: Checking SMB password for user Simon Dassow [2004/03/05 12:54:19, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(821) User Simon Dassow in passdb, but getpwnam() fails! But: # id 'Simon Dassow' uid=1000(Simon Dassow) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=513(Domain Users), 512(Domain Admins)

I have a RedHat 8 box configured as a Samba server using winbind (version 2.2.7 installed from RedHat's rpms.) The server successfully joined my Win2K domain. Everything works great. Users can log in to the RedHat server via ssh using their AD accounts. Users can connect to the shares from their windows machines. All except one. I have one account that has problems. If I restart

Hi, I have a very strange issue with samba as an ad member server. log.smbd goes: check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user [TSNR]\[Administrator]@[ADMIN] with the new password interface [2015/11/27 19:09:26.196960, 3] ../source3/auth/auth.c:180(auth_check_ntlm_password) check_ntlm_password: mapped user is: [TSNR]\[Administrator]@[ADMIN] [2015/11/27 19:09:26.196993, 4]

I wonder anyone has came across this problem I have facing. Currently running 3.0.20b as member of W2K3 AD, I have a third party educational software that runs from a samba share which is available for all students. Somehow, I find that CPU is running high in % with server slowing down and winbind users not resolving properly to username from GID. I notice that a lot of these messages are

Hi all (excuse my poor english): I have a samba PDC on a network with 100 machines and 200 users. Everything worked fine with FC2 and samba 3.0.14a, but a hd crash decided me to update system to FC4. I can see now, in the logs file "User jon in passdb, but getpwnam() fails! when an user try to log in. On XP I can not login neither add new machine to domain. My pass backend is

Hello List, below our smb.conf and loglevel 5 output of a failed authentication. We want to get the Unix User details from MS-SFU using the new idmap_ad Backend. If the Windows User is mapped to local name it's all fine. But if we want to use our SFU Users it fails. We believe getpwnam() on AIX is faulty. "id username" and login works for all users local and AD! Any ideas how to