Long machine names...
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Thu May 21 18:25:37 GMT 1998
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Tim Winders wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > > A typical unix system cannot
> > > have a uid larger than 65534 (or something like that). If the key is to
> > > keep rids unique, why not have samba generate the rid using a number that
> > > is greater than the largest possible uid? If you do that, you don't have
> > > to worry about duplicate uid/rid conficts etc. I am sure I am missing
> > > something here and you/jeremy will point it out...
> >
> > yes: you need a mapping function.
>
> These trust accounts do not NEED a real unix account.
oh yes they do.
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