On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 10:19 -0800, Peter J. Stieber wrote: > I'm trying to use samba with Windows domain authentication on a Fedora > 10 x86_64 box (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64). I'm getting core dumps from > winbindd. There are other entries in messages that make me wonder if I > have samba setup properly... > > Jan 18 12:13:20 maggie winbindd[9065]: [2009/01/18 12:13:20, 0] > winbindd/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(823) > Jan 18 12:13:20 maggie winbindd[9065]: ERROR: Initialization failed > for alloc backend, deferred! > I posted a bugzilla report to samba, but I was wondering if someone here > could help. > ---- not knowing what is in /etc/samba/smb.conf and only considering the errors above, I would have to guess that you need an idmap statement so that - and again, I am speculating, you have some other windows domain controller that is providing the account information (login name/password) but they have to mapped to an id and to a local 'home' directory. if you look at the man page for smb.conf and go to the part where it starts covering idmap, your answers are probably there but again, without seeing your smb.conf, I can only guess. man smb.conf and once in the man page, type /idmap it will take you there. and if you decide to ask more, probably a good idea to run the command 'testparm -s > /tmp/samba.conf' and show us the ouput of /tmp/samba.conf Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
