FW: user mapping in security = domain mode

Cole, Timothy D. timothy_d_cole at md.northgrum.com
Wed Sep 29 17:00:35 GMT 1999


I didn't get a reply when I sent this originally, but understanding this
behavior is very important to me.  I really didn't want to go code-diving
for the purposes of finding all of the relevent code and writing my own
documentation for it, but it looks like I may have to...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Cole, Timothy D. 
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 22, 1999 13:37
> To:	'samba-technical at samba.org'
> Subject:	user mapping in security = domain mode
> 
> How precisely does user mapping work with security = domain?  Can someone
> either:
> 
> a. point me to documentation that describes the precise behavior,
> including any implicit mappings done, precedence of mappings, what users
> with the same username in different domains map to, and any other special
> cases.  smb.conf(5) does not do this.
> 
> b. the relevent areas of the source
> 
> Both would be nice, actually.
> 


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