Winbind is part of the Samba suite and provides an NSS and PAM layer for Unix/Linux systems to integrate authentication with a Windows domain
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CentOS 7 group permissions not allowing access to folder
I have a CentOS7 box, "box1", domain joined using Winbind + RID method.
I have a folder (NFS mount) @ /shares/share. The permissions are:
root@box1:/shares# ls -n /shares/
total 8
drwxrws--- 2 0 25022 4096 Jun 15 12:26 share
I have multiple AD…

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Resolve NetBIOS names without full qualification
I am connected to my office VPN and I can successfully RDP into my computer using the fully qualified name for it PC00001.myofficevpn.plc.
When I try to connect using only the hostname PC00001, I do not get access, is there any way to resolve this?

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Output from "wbinfo --user-groups USER" and "wbinfo --group-info GROUP" do not match
I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 with winbindd/smbd version 3.6.23-20.0.1.el6.
I created some new AD groups and added existing users. I used this command:
wbinfo --group-info
My username is correctly listed. However,…

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How can I use winbind to return a filter-id based on group membership?
I have a couple of FreeRadius 3.0.9 servers which were just put into production on our Meraki network. We want to use user group membership in Active Directory to determine policy to be carried out by Meraki.
There are certain user groups that we…

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kerberos5 unable to authenticate
We have a Debian file server, configured to serve up samba shares, using winbind and kerberos. This is configured to authenticate against a Windows2003 DC.
All worked fine until recently when I did a maintenance update on all packages. Since then,…

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Samba authenticates users, but does not reply
Sometimes the samba 4.1.11 stops serving the clients. Every day, I have to restart the smbd just to get this fixed. The windows clients say, that the shared device is unreachable or the authentication has failed.
When they try to connect, the…

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forcing winbind/samba to use single server
In a network, there are 2 AD servers. We are integrating samba and squid with AD for user authentication. Interestingly one of the servers does not allow us for enough security level. So we have to use one of them. In spite of using IP and realm of…

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Speeding up Winbind group lookups?
I have an RHEL 6 server bound to an AD domain. Everything works fine but group lookups are extremely slow. Some lookups can take over 60 seconds. This is very painful when running sudo and when users ssh in and it needs to verify their group…

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AD accounts on centos 6.4 not showing up despite successfull wbinfo -u
I have a centos 6.4 box with samba 3.6.9 which I have connected to MS server 2008 R2. That part seems to work fine, since I can see my AD users and groups with wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g. What does not work is using the AD users on the centos box. I…

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Samba/winbind to AD - the userid mapping
Guys I got issue with UID mapping from my AD.
I got Centos 5.5 x64 box and AD witk 2k8 Windows Server.
The problem is with username mapping.
Example:
getent passwd
XF-DEV+prouser01:*:16777231:16777230:Prouserf Prousern:/home/prouser01:/bin/bash
My…

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ubuntu server name resolution order
I am using LAMP on Ubuntu server, and I need to query MSSQL database on Windows XP machine, both on the same network. I use winbind to resolve SMB hostnames. My problem is name resolution order. It first tries to resolve using primary DNS, then…

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How to use Active Directory's homeDirectory attribute for Samba?
I currently have a Samba share setup where I would like to share Unix folders with Windows users, with Active directory as the backend. I see that there is an attribute called homeDirectory in Active Directory, but no matter what I set, Samba…

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Variables are not expanded in smb.conf when using Samba 4
I'm using Samba 4.0.0beta2 on Debian Wheezy as Active Directory domain controller. I also use winbind in my /etc/nsswitch.conf so getent passwd returns domain users.
I've set
template homedir = /home/%U
in my smb.conf file but, instead of…

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Logging into Linux server gives users 'domain users' for default group can it be changed?
I recently attached a RHEL 5 test box to our active directory server to try and get all of our users to not have to remember so many passowrds. I'm using winbind and samba and everything seems to be working ok, but I've noticed any user account…

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pam auth via winbind, howto map primary group for users?
I have unix users authenticating to an PDC (via winbind) and want to have the primary group of those users a local unix group (e.g. www-data).
users have the group "domain users" with gid 10006 (as the gid winbind mapping)
idmap uid =…

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