On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, james wrote: > Is anyone out there using CentOS5 integrated correctly with a Windows 2008 > domain so that active directory authentication can be used for samba > shares? Yes, I use it with 2008 with the SFU attributes present. The standard samba3x packages are sufficient. > I have tried the newer RPM's from SERNET up to 3.5 and 3.6 without any luck. > The usual behavior is wbinfo returns the active directory users and groups > but 'getent passwd' only returns local users. I also tried compiling samba > from source but could never get winbind to properly connect. I choose not to use winbind but instead use nss_ldap and pam_krb5 on EL5. If you're seeing what you say is your nsswitch.conf incorrect perhaps? jh