net/samba35 "needs" to have winbindd_enable set to yes - this can't be right

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:28:06 +0200
> Torfinn Ingolfsen articulated:
>
>> After I upgraded net/samba35 to version 3.5.14, I noticed this:
>> root at kg-quiet# service samba status
>> Cannot 'status' samba. Set winbindd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or
>> use 'onestatus' instead of 'status'.
>> root at kg-quiet# service samba start
>> Cannot 'start' samba. Set winbindd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or
>> use 'onestart' instead of 'start'.
>>
>> What? Since when?
>> Ok, let's try to explicit set winbindd_enable to NO then:
>> root at kg-quiet# grep winbind /etc/rc.conf
>> winbindd_enable="NO"
>>
>> root at kg-quiet# service samba status
>> Cannot 'status' samba. Set winbindd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or
>> use 'onestatus' instead of 'status'.
>> root at kg-quiet# service samba start
>> Cannot 'start' samba. Set winbindd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or
>> use 'onestart' instead of 'start'.
>>
>> Well, that defeats the purpose of having winbindd_enable at all.
>> Yes, my Samba is built with WINBIND=on, but still it shouldn't fail
>> this way. Here is my options:
>> root at kg-quiet# make showconfig
>> ===> The following configuration options are available for
>> samba35-3.5.14: LDAP=on "With LDAP support"
>>      ADS=off "With Active Directory support"
>>      CUPS=on "With CUPS printing support"
>>      WINBIND=on "With WinBIND support"
>>      SWAT=off "With SWAT WebGUI"
>>      ACL_SUPPORT=off "With ACL support"
>>      AIO_SUPPORT=on "With Asyncronous IO support"
>>      FAM_SUPPORT=off "With File Alteration Monitor"
>>      SYSLOG=off "With Syslog support"
>>      QUOTAS=off "With Disk quota support"
>>      UTMP=off "With UTMP accounting support"
>>      PAM_SMBPASS=off "With PAM authentication vs passdb backends"
>>      DNSUPDATE=off "With dynamic DNS update(require ADS)"
>>      AVAHI=off "With Bonjour service discovery support"
>>      EXP_MODULES=off "With experimental modules"
>>      POPT=on "With system-wide POPT library"
>>      IPV6=on "With IPv6 support"
>>      MAX_DEBUG=off "With maximum debugging"
>>      SMBTORTURE=off "With smbtorture"
>> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
>>
>> and my FreeBSD version:
>> root at kg-quiet# uname -a
>> FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1: Sat Jan  7
>> 14:05:57 CET 2012
>> root at kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>> How do I fix it?
>
> I had a similar experience with Samba-3.4 recently. I entered the
> "WINBINDD_ENABLED=YES" in the /etc/rc.conf file to get Samba working.
> Since I don't need the "winbindd" service, I reconfigured the Samba
> port to not build with it and then rebuilt the port.

But did you report that the port wasn't working as intended?

> Personally, I believe that "WINBINDD" should be "OFF" by default;
> however, it is easy enough to configure the port not to build with it.
>

I agree that it is easy to reconfigure and rebuild the port.
But - the port still has a startup script that isn't working as
intended; that is an error in the port. Such errors should be reported
so that port maintainers so that errors might be corrected.
Which is what I have done.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen