Re: [Samba] getent passwd not returning users/groups

2011-11-08 Thread Eddy Sturg
Does nsswitch.conf have winbind listed? On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:09 AM, James Chase ja...@chasecomputers.netwrote: I tried a second install of CentOS with X, thinking perhaps the GUI setup might do something that I was missing in terms of getting samba connected to active directory. However

Re: [Samba] winbind auth, specifying shell

2011-11-08 Thread Eddy Sturg
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Eddy Sturg tride2...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I'm using winbind authentication against MS Active Directory, and it's working great. Because of template shell = /bin/bash in smb.conf, new users are getting assigned the bash shell, which is great

[Samba] winbind auth, specifying shell

2011-11-03 Thread Eddy Sturg
Hey folks, I'm using winbind authentication against MS Active Directory, and it's working great. Because of template shell = /bin/bash in smb.conf, new users are getting assigned the bash shell, which is great in most cases. Some users, however, prefer a different shell (tcsh). How can I

[Samba] Samba permissions problem, winbind auth, ldap nss

2010-04-07 Thread Eddy Sturg
Greetings list, I'm having a problem setting file permissions for users connecting to my samba file server. CentOS 5.4, samba-3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.1. I have authentication configured to use winbind, and name services configured to use LDAP. I've configured valid users in smb.conf to contain

[Samba] Fwd: Samba permissions problem, winbind auth, ldap nss

2010-04-07 Thread Eddy Sturg
Sorry folks - false alarm. A bit of searching in the archives showed me that I needed: admin users = DOMAIN\username Fixed the problem. Carry on... -- Forwarded message -- From: Eddy Sturg tride2...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:40 AM Subject: Samba permissions

[Samba] Winbind Auth - prevent some users from logging on

2010-02-03 Thread Eddy Sturg
Hey folks, New to the list - and I hope this isn't a dumb question. I am in the process of revamping the way we authenticate to our Linux servers. Moving away from pam_ldap and pam_nss, in favor of winbind and pam_nss. The reason for this is that I feel winbindd does a better job of failing