What's happend when the UID/SID mapping changes for a computer account ?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jun 27 09:08:42 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:30, Raphaël Berghmans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Could you please tell me, what's happend when the UID/SID mapping
> changes for a computer account ?
> 
> In my previous mail, I explain that suddenly every computers of my
> domain was unable to connect to our samba logon server. 
> 
> Before this problem, a 'net rpc vampire' was done to resynchronize the
> samba ldap-sam with the NT4 PDC, and samba has been restarted, I suspect
> that after this operation the UID/SID idmap mapping has been changed !

Which version of Samba?  The previous beta did not change the SID->UID
mapping, the current version does.  More likely to cause problems with
machine logins is a change to the SID.  

The 'net' command should allow you to suck in the SID from the NT PDC,
if for some reason it has been lost.

Andrew Bartlett

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