From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I have found two problems with Winbind support on Core 2 Test 3, which I was able to solve, eventually. As far as I can tell, however, winbind support is not currently working out of the "box". Problem 1: Authentication Configuration depends on /usr/bin/net, which is not necessarily installed, but no error is shown if it is not. When running from a terminal, it becomes apparent that the binary is missing. To fix this problem, in did "yum install samba-client" which will install /usr/bin/net. Problem 2: The syntax is apparently wrong for the domain join command. Something like the following is done: [/usr/bin/net domain join -w <domain> -S <server> -U Administrator] This command simply lists the domain controllers. I did a "man net" and didn't find anything on the "net domain" command, but apparently this is what it does. Once you remove the "domain" word, joining the domain works fine (of course I had to do it manually). Once I did these two things I had joined the domain and winbind worked as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): authconfig-gtk 4.6.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open terminal 2. # /usr/bin/system-config-authentication 3. Click on "Configure Winbind" 4. Enter information for a valid domain Actual Results: a. See that the output does not join a domain, but only lists domain servers. b. Or, if samba-client not installed, see: "sh: line 1: /usr/bin/net: No such file or directory" Expected Results: Should join the domain. If /usr/bin/net not available, should report that samba-client must be installed, or /usr/bin/net should be part of the base install. Additional info:
Hmm. Looks like newer "net" doesn't need to be told which protocol to use. Fixing both problems for 4.6.3.
Too bad 4.6.3 didn't make it into Fedora Core 2 release. Now the release has broken domain support :(.