getent doesn't work properly

[Maayan Apelboim]

Update:
- I tried installing cygserver as a service but problem persists.
- Also tried verifying the user in the domain with net user. While getent fails to find my user, net user finds it with no issues.
- Tried installing and configuring krb5-workstation but it didn’t help as well.

Will appreciate any other leads to check...

Thanks

-----Original Message-----

>> Why do I need cygserver?
> You don't exactly NEED cygserver. But if you have 1. Domain (or even
> multi-domain) environment.
> 2. and/or remote/slow/flaky connection to the domain server.
> cygserver may provide a smoother experience as it caches some 
> information related to names resolution.

Running cygserver will also cache info and speed up processing if you run many:

- service daemons under Cygwin, especially cron jobs or ssh sessions
- concurrent processes, especially deeply nested, forked, or background
  (some cron jobs background subprocesses *heavily* to reduce run time)
- XSI IPC message queues
- semaphores
- shared memory segments

otherwise that has to be managed by either the process itself or the root parent process, possibly in parallel threads.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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