What does winbind do?

dhanar_10 · 06-18-2006, 09:54 AM

Hi,

I have some question.

1. What does winbind do?

2. I got this in my /var/log/samba/winbindd.log.

Quote:

[2006/06/18 21:38:18, 1] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(978)
winbindd version 3.0.21b-2 started.
Copyright The Samba Team 2000-2004
[2006/06/18 21:38:18, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:winbindd_param_init(781)
winbindd: idmap uid range missing or invalid
[2006/06/18 21:38:18, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:winbindd_param_init(782)
winbindd: cannot continue, exiting.
[2006/06/18 21:38:18, 1] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(1011)
Could not init idmap -- netlogon proxy only
[2006/06/18 21:38:18, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1576)
PANIC: Could not fetch our SID - did we join?

[2006/06/18 21:38:18, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1584)
BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
#0 winbindd(smb_panic2+0x8a) [0x83289a]
#1 winbindd(smb_panic+0x19) [0x832af9]
#2 winbindd(init_domain_list+0x164) [0x7bd5c4]
#3 winbindd(main+0x674) [0x7b4c04]
#4 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x4da7e4]
#5 winbindd [0x7b3511]

Is that a bug or just misconfiguration?

Thank you very much.