Mixed profiles w/Samba-PDC

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Mark Funkenhauser wrote:

> > 
> > what about group rids?
> 
> ... are treated just like user RIDs. They share the same number space.
> If you create a new local group (via UserManager), the RID for this
> group is sequentially after the last user (or group) RID available.
> For me, the last user was RID=1009 and when I created the new
> local group, it got RID=1010.

exactly, so with pre-existing unix uids and unix groups, we need a system
that maps these into some proprietary RID space.  given that the uid and
gid numbers both count from zero, this is going to be a lot of fun to work
out.

even if it means creating a file to maintain the mapping....