Bingo!  I rebooted without starting winbind and saw that /var/lock/samba was
empty.  I did a grep of /etc/rc.d for /var/lock and found that the boot
script does a rm on /var/lock/* and var/lock/*/* (among others).

Thanks, Ken and everyone else for your input.

On Friday 10 January 2003 09:33 am, you wrote:
> This reinforces my belief that the mapping database is being deleted.  The
> UID's are being reassigned starting at the beginning of the defined range,
> as users log on in a different order from the last time.  Where you see the
> numbers is for UID's that haven't been reassigned yet.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:27 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Samba weirdness
> >
> >
> > When Samba (and winbind) are restarted, some names start
> > showing up, but they
> > aren't the same as the ones that were setup before the
> > reboot.  Additionally,
> > it seems to not be the same one every reboot.
> >
> > nscd is set to not start up at boot time.
> >
> > On Friday 10 January 2003 08:37 am, you wrote:
> > > > Any ideas or comments before I take this to the samba list?
> > >
> > > Do the names eventually start showing up again? Just a
> >
> > thought - did you
> >
> > > try turning off the name switch caching daemon (rcnscd stop)?
> > >
> > >           -Mike MacIsaac,  IBM   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   (845) 433-7061
> >
> > --
> > Rich Smrcina
> > Sytek Services, Inc.
> > Milwaukee, WI
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Catch the WAVV!  Stay for Requirements and the Free for All!
> > Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price.
> > WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC.
> > April 25-29, 2003
> > For details see http://www.wavv.org

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Rich Smrcina
Sytek Services, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
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