Thanks for the reply ! But no such luck :
#group: db files nisplus nis passwd: files winbind shadow: files winbind group: files winbind #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: files dns # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us... #services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files *grin* On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:34:27 -0500 "Lahners, Jeremy" wrote: > I had similar problems with getent on one of my servers. After some > investigation, I had forgotten to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to add winbind > to the users and groups there. Wbinfo worked great, nothing from > getent. After the change, and a restart of winbind (don't know if that > was necessary or not) all was well. > > Jeremy Lahners > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The Schemmer Associates Inc. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Maybe I'll rephrase it shorter : > > 1) eventhough 'wbinfo -g' gives me the correct groups, they do not show > up when I go 'getent group'. Can it be the spaces in the Samba groups > 'Domain Admins' and 'Domain Users'? Where is the information > about these groups stored on the Samba pdc? > > 2) I only get winbind to do it's job (which is connecting to a local > share on the domain member with a winbind user) when I > a) set the parameter 'winbind cache timeout = 0' > OR > b) create the user locally on the domain member, which is of course what > we try to avoid by using winbind... > > any idea's why playing with the cache timeout causes a difference? > > Thanks in advance... > > the full story is below but I guess it's to long for anyone to read > *grin* > > Jo De Baer NEOlabs - http://www.neolabs.be - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba