[Samba] Permissions issue on domain member server (samba as an appliance)

[Greg Dickie]

Thanks Rowland.

Greg

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 4:06 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:35:14 -0400
> Greg Dickie <greg at justaguy.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hey Rowland,
> >
> >   Sorry, I'm thick. I understand why you would not want to create a
> > linux user called Administrator but then where will the credentials
> > come from? In my AD, I do not have a user called Administrator. I
> > guess I must have a user with RID 500 though, I'll look for that.
> >
>
> If you look here:
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Mapping_the_Domain_Administrator_Account_to_the_Local_root_User
>
> It tells you how to set up the user.map on a Unix domain member (on a
> Samba DC, the mapping is done for you in idmap.ldb).
>
> Amongst the information notes is this:
>
> If, for any reason, you change the domain Administrator account name,
> you must use your new name for Administrator in the following instead
> of Administrator.
>
> Rowland
>
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