Hi all,

I’ve running a CentOS 5 64bit server that hosts VMware Server and uses authentication via Samba/Winbind. The problem is that authentication in the VMware Server web interface does not work because apparently it is a 32bit application and CentOS 5 x86_64 provides only a 64bit version of the pam_winbind.so library. At least that what I conduct from the following message I get in /var/log/security:

Jan 14 18:10:45 ittvm1 vmware-authd[7946]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_winbind.so)

Jan 14 18:10:45 ittvm1 vmware-authd[7946]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_winbind.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

Jan 14 18:10:45 ittvm1 vmware-authd[7946]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_winbind.so

And when I look into the filesystem I find a pam_winbind.so in /lib64/security and none in /lib/security. Of course the module is in the samba-common.i386 package, but since it also contains a lot of other tools and utilities I don’t want to install it in addition to the 64bit version.

Any advice/hints?

Best regards,
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/homas

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