users list

[noelk]

My question to all this is.  Does the SID get copied with the users username 
and password.  If not to other nt servers the user is considered a different 
user.

I'm trying to move 3 NT domains to one Samba domain but I need to keep the sid 
so that all the users will be the same as their NT counter parts.

One way I was going to try getting the sid is to make samba a BDC for each 
domain and save the sam on the samba server.  Since I just compile and stalled 
TNG today I don't even know if the samba sam is in a human readable format.  
If it is I plan on keeping a copy of each domain I become a BDC of then I can 
add all three together to make one domain.

Will this work??

Thank you for the post I can't wait to try it tomorrow.
Ken


>===== Original Message From Joseph Obernberger <joeo at nssolutions.com> =====
>Bruno Badiali wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get the users list from an NT domain server (NT4 or 
Win2K)
>> using samba
>> running on a linux system?
>> Thank you for any answer,
>>
>> --
>>
>>     Bruno Badiali
>>     ppgbad at tin.it
>>     bbadiali at tiscalinet.it
>
>Yes.
>You can get the TNG version from samba-tng.org,
>and then can use samedit to 'enumuser' and 'enumgroup' to
>get the list.  Check out <http://www.samba-tng.org/cvs.html>.
>One can also use winbindd to automatically grab
>all the users and groups from the domain controller.  These users
>would then be like normal Unix users.
>In another version (can't remeber), rpcclient could be used
>to enumerate the users and groups.
>Hope that helps.
>                                                                    joeo

Kenneth Noel
Boston College
Information Technology
Systems Programmer
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