Winbind user weirdness

[Jalapeno]

I have an internal ftp server that I have winbind set up to use. Several users are using it. However, I have 2 users that cannot login. When I do a "getent passwd", I get the list of users, including the 2 that are the problem. They do have the correct UID. However, if I do a "getent passwd username" on the 2 problem users, no user name is found. When I do an "ls -ltr" on user home directories, all of them look fine except the 2 problem users. They show up as being owned by the UID instead of the user name. If I do a chown username:group directoryname, it says "username not found"

I have done extensive renaming of these 2 users on the windows domain, seeing if uppercase letters, blank characters, etc, might be the issue, but all letters are now lowercase in the username and it still is not mapping correctly. I'm really at a loss at this point, I have over 100 users working correctly and only 2 that do not. Any ideas?

 

[PHV]

Are the 2 username in /etc/passwd ?

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[Jalapeno]

Just checked and they are not.

 

[PHV]

So you have to ask your sysadmin why you have 2 user home directories belonging to non-existent users.

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[Jalapeno]

I am the sysadmin and the users do exist on the NT domain. They also do list out when you do a getent passwd. But for whatever reason, Linux does not seem to want to recognize those 2 users.