[geeks] Samba *headdesk* - Round 2...

[Mike Hebel]

Thus spake Mike Hebel:
> Thus spake velociraptor:
>> On 9/19/06, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
>>> So I turned up the debug level like Johnathan suggested and I got this
>>> junk from the log in question:
>>>
>>> ====================================
>>> [2006/09/19 07:22:07, 1]
>>> nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(184)
>>>   error getting user info for user '[CORPORATE]\[bUS-Eng-dell6$]'
>>> [2006/09/19 07:22:07, 1]
>>> nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(184)
>>>   error getting user info for user '[CORPORATE]\[bus-eng-DeLl6$]'
>>> =================================
>>>
>>> So I'm assuming that this means it can't validate the system in the AD
>>> domain for some reason?
>>>
>>> Why this system and nobody else though?
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>
>> Left field idea...I am not a Windows admin...
>> Maybe the box has cached local credentials that are allowing the user
>> to log in, but it's not showing up in the AD's list?  Maybe try
>> re-adding the machine to the domain?
>
> Possible.  I'll try that and post again.

And that has bizarrely fixed it when it didn't fix it on another machine
earlier.  Thanks!

I figured it was going to be something stupidly simple. :-(

Mike
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