Problem with latest samba patch and redhat es4

[Joshua Miller]

I have had problems in this area when mounting shares as smbfs, rather
than cifs.  I would verify that you are mounting the shares as cifs and
see if the problem persists.

Josh, RHCE

Bliss, Aaron wrote:
> Hi everyone, there may be a problem with the latest samba-common rpm
> 3.0.10-1.4E.6.2.i386 ; I have 2 redhat es 4 machines setup to use our ad
> environment for file sharing; after upgrading the samba rpms (samba,
> samba-client and samba-common), it seems that winbind is having a tough
> time at least resolving guid's from it's pool to domain group names;
> doing a ls -l yields root 100000 as owning a particular directory that
> previously yielded root domainname\test_ad_group ; chgrp
> "domainname\test_ad_group" /usr/shared doesn't fix the issue ; no
> changes to the ad group were made, and all relevant files
> (/etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/krb5.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf) were not
> altered; sharing the actual files doesn't seem to be affected; I
> reverted the 3 rpm's back to 3.0.10-1.4E.6 and all is normal (i.e. ls -l
> /usr shows that /usr/shared is owned by root domainname\test_ad_group ;
> neither samba's or winbind's error logs show much; any ideas how to
> address this further?  Thanks.
>
> Aaron
>
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