On Thursday 09 January 2003 03:47 pm, you wrote: > I have a Samba installation that is authenticating to a Windows NT PDC and > working just peachy. All until the virtual machine is rebooted. Then all > of the security that was set up for the shares and directories and files > under the shares revert back to uid and gid numeric values (instead of > names). > > Has anyone run into this before and how was it resolved. This is Samba > 2.2.7a running under SLES7.
I have seen this happen when the owner of the files and directories is missing, or not readible, from /etc/passwd. In this case the mapping from UID/GID to username/groupname does not exist. If your using NIS or LDAP, check to make sure that you still have a connection to the server. /etc/nsswitch.conf should control this but it's traditionally one of those files that is really easy to botch up while editing and it normally reverts back to the default of "files" if the service specified is not available.
