the entried winbind uid and winbind gid have apparently been replaced by idmap in samba 3. i get a warning in the logs saying winbind uid and winbind gid have been deprecated. i tried changing the ceiling of the ranges to 50000, but i get the same result.

wbinfo -u, -g, -a, -t, -p all work successfully, as well as getent passwd.

that function i mentioned about, getpwnam(), seems to just read in the /etc/passwd file and check against that. when i do a getent passwd, i get every single domain user, but the passwd file remains unchanged. i hacked this a little by doing 'getent passwd >> /etc/passwd' and everything worked. unfortunately, there are a lot of issues associated with cheating this way, so i can't really use this as a solution.

the man page did say that "if libnss_winbind was installed correctly, getpwnam() should always work properly." i'm pretty sure libnss_winbind is installed correctly...is there someway to tell if it is not??

again, we are back to the same problem...is there a way to make getpwnam() read from the PDC directly?

I am not sure if this is the answer you're looking for, but you can tell getpwnam to look at the PDC by editing the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

You should add winbind to the passwd: and group: lines.

Example:

passwd: files nisplus winbind

group: files nisplus winbind

I am running SAMBA 2.2.8 so it may be a little different for you.

ok, so it is finally working. thank you so much for all the help. the solution was pretty simple.

i had to reboot.

i think that problem was the changes i made to nsswitch.conf were not available to winbind. even when i did the ldconfig. so when i rebooted, it got sent the SIGHUP signal, which reinitialized everything. that was most likely the cause of the problems. either that or winbind was using its old cache and not looking to the PDC. either way, the SIGHUP signal fixed the problem.

now to tackle the home drives.....

again, thanks for all the help. im sure ill be back asking for more help soon.

For future reference you can stop and restart the winbind and samba services by typing the following in a terminal.

samba stop

service winbind stop

then type:

samba start

service winbind start