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Samba setup with winbind: Error looking up domain users

Hello,

I am trying to setup the samba for one linux box. I am not a regular linux user so please bare with me. Currently, I have a windows domain setup where all the windows box use domain to access all the computers and access remote folders. (Windows xp for pcs and 2003 for the domain server)

Now, I have added a linux machine to this network. Now, i need to share files on the linux machine to only certain users. Therefore, I was trying to configure samba to work as a member of already existing domain so that i can give permission accordingly. However, I am stuck where the linux machine shows up on the network places but I cannot access any of the folders or if I can access it cannot modify them. Remember, I need to restrict view and write access.

While debugging i found that when tried to do following

wbinfo -u

i recieved "Error looking up domain users" error.

I don't know what information to provide to further explain my situation as I don't know what would be helpful.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for reading and/or replying to my post.

- akshah123

akshah123

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I know that smb.conf would be really helpful in understanding my current layout.

[global]
      netbios name = LINUX_BOX
      password server = *
      wins server = example.local
      workgroup = example
      os level = 20
      username map = /etc/samba/user.map
      encrypt passwords = yes
      winbind trusted domains only = yes
      realm = theorchard.local
      security = domain
      winbind separator = \
      idmap uid = 10000-20000
      idmap gid = 10000-20000
      winbind enum users = yes
      winbind enum groups = yes
winbind trusted domains only = yes
winbind use default domain = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes

[webserver]
      revalidate = yes
      browseable = no
      comment = webserver
      writeable = yes
      valid users = test, root
      path = /var/www/html/

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akshah123

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Thanks for the comments ...

>>aravinthrk,

I have tried using the redhat's config options but to no avail. I even got the webmin running to see if that helps but I still couldn't get it to work. Since, it is hard to explain graphically the configuration of my server, i simply posted the resulting config file.

>> mpomery
I did run the winbind command to join with the domain. That did result in a success. Howver, i ran following command ...

NET JOIN -uAdministrator

akshah123

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Hey guys,

I think i found out the problem. THe issue i believe was with the file permissions. ONce i gave the linux user proper file permission to the webserver directories, it started to work.

Thanks again...