Is there possibly a process start up sequence problem?  I modifed the smb
script to start up winbind after smbd and nmbd.  But I did not mess with when
the smb script is run at startup time.  Does winbind need to start before
something earlier in the process?

On Friday 10 January 2003 08:13 am, you wrote:
> 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.

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