WINDBIND

[Nobody's Hero]

Can someone tell me how I can check if I have winbind running or not?

[Claudio Cilloni]

try this:

# service winbind status
winbindd (pid 11952) is running...

if it is running, it should print a line that.


also, you can check the existence of the winbind deamon process:

# ps -aux | grep winbind
root 11952 0.0 0.3 4356 1812 ? S 16:02 0:00 winbindd
root 13286 0.0 0.1 3756 580 pts/9 R 16:04 0:00 grep winbind

the first line (with pid 11952) is the winbind process.

hth
Claudio

[Nobody's Hero]

Ok thanks,

This is what is returned:

#service winbind status

winbindd dead but subsys locked

Is there some configuring I need to do to get this running?

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

maybe the winbind deamon died without closing itself in the right way; the process doesn't exist but the lock file /var/lock/subsys/winbindd is still there.

try restarting the service:

# service winbind start

This should be enough. Maybe deleting that file helps.

Ciao!
Claudio

[Pedro d'Alte]

Hi.

I think you should take a look at the log file.
You'll probably find it on the directory /var/log/samba with the name "log.winbindd". The log file usually says whats wrong.
I would bet on a bad or missing configuration on smb.conf.

Pedro.

[Avinoam]

hey

to check if winbind is functioning you should run the following commands:
1. getent passwd
this should return the domain user list in the format DOMAIN+Username

2. getent group
the same as 1 but this one eturn the Domain's group list

have fun

Avinoam