[Samba] Avoiding uid conflicts between rfc2307 user/groups and computers

Björn JACKE bjacke at SerNet.DE
Fri Jan 12 16:42:44 UTC 2018


On 2018-01-12 at 16:24 +0000 Rowland Penny via samba sent off:
> > Clearly, also 'Domain Computers' group have to get assigned an GID,
> > right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> The question is, do you need to do this ? Will a computer own anything
> on a Unix machine ?

it's not the question if he owns anything. It's enough that the machine uses
the machine account during the tree connect
to make it fail without a corresponding posix account.

Björn
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