[Samba] Re: nss_wins: create_builtin_users: Failed to create
Users
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 04:36:23 GMT 2009
> This is where I got screwed up in "man smb.conf"
>
> idmap uid (G)
> The idmap uid parameter specifies the range of
> user ids that are allocated for use in mapping
> UNIX users to NT user SIDs.
>
> It was the "mapping" that made me think I had to map the
> existing UID's/GID's to the "idmap uid/gid" parameter.
>
> It was this next sentence that made me start to think:
>
> This range of ids should have no existing local
> or NIS users within it as strange conflicts can
> occur otherwise.
>
> It was the "strange conflicts" that got me.
>
> I am writing this rather weird synopsis as I searched
> the Internet in vain trying to find an answer and
> I wanted to get it salted in the archives so as to
> help someone else.
>
Reading smb.conf alone is sometimes confusing. I usually back that up
with the following online book:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/
John
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