Bug 10819 – samba winbind database problem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Achim Gottinger (RETIRED) 2002-11-16 04:11:04 UTC]

Hi guys,

Just found that winbind stores it's databases in /var/run/samba. So everytime 
the machine restarts the bootmisc script removes all these files and you loose 
all the relations between SID's and UID's for example. The result is that a 
user who logs in with an windows account might get another UID assigned next 
time he logs on.

cu achim~

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2002-11-16 14:43:01 UTC]

achim do you know off hand what the ./configure fix or whatever
is for this?  if not i'd have to investigate into it :/

[Comment 2 Achim Gottinger (RETIRED) 2002-11-18 15:40:52 UTC]

Hi donny,

I took a look in the samba package and found that it is indeed --with-lockdir 
which should be fixed.
the lsb.spec file uses /var/lock/samba the suse spec file /var/lib/samba, so it 
looks like all the databases currently located in /var/run/samba should be 
persistent.

cu achim~

[Comment 3 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2002-11-19 06:34:08 UTC]

Achim I upgraded my PDC.  Everything is working fine; all went smoothly.
At first I thought the databases would need to be moved, but I guess not.
I did this just to convince myself:

samba stop ; emerge samba ; rm -f /var/run/samba/* ; samba start
logout/login on WinXP/Win9x boxes
all is good :-)

only 2 changes:
--with-lockdir=/var/cache/samba
install -m0755 -o root -g root -d ${ROOT}/var/cache/samba

i'll commit this later today sometime, hope thats okay.

[Comment 4 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2002-11-20 11:30:22 UTC]

thanks Achim.

samba-2.2.7 is on cvs now...