[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

Sun Feb 7 15:20:31 UTC 2010
Jeff <jlar310 at gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>>Wbinfo -u & wbinfo -g do indeed work for me however getent passwd or getent group returns no AD users or groups. I have winbind entries in nsswitch for both the passwd & >group entries. Josepeh, I will try a newer RPM from a different repository and see if that resolves my issues. Did my smb.conf look ok?
>
> getent doesn't need to return data for this to work, just wbinfo.
> It's likely the issue I spoke of, aside from the winbind entries
> in smb.conf that allow local logon.
>
> Take my advice:
> yum erase samba == uber happiness
>
> Get ldap working, no interop issues with the old samba version in rhel and
> newer ms servers. Plus you will be using something forward compatible that
> a txt edit could likely fix in the event something drastic changed in the
> schema and search filters for example had to change.

+1

We've been using nss_ldap against AD for years. It's never a problem.

Jeff