Samba 4 and winbind

Alexander Bokovoy ab at samba.org
Mon Apr 15 11:55:58 MDT 2013


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Rowland Penny <repenny at f2s.com> wrote:

>  On 15/04/13 18:23, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Rowland Penny <repenny at f2s.com> wrote:
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>>  On 15/04/13 16:47, Jeremy Allison wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:42:50PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
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>>>> Again, this I understand, but if Winbind was a stand alone daemon,
>>>> like it is with S3, then you could choose to use it or not. I
>>>> actually think that if there was a choice then most people would
>>>> choose not to use winbind due to its complexity  and inconsistency.
>>>>
>>> Oh, bitching on winbindd again. Very popular on this list it
>>> seems :-).
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>>> If you have specific problems, please log bugs. Don't just
>>> try and make some specific code into the boogyman, we've
>>> had enough of proprietarty vendors doing that against the
>>> whole of Samba thanks very much, we don't need our own users
>>> to join in.
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>>> Jeremy.
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>>>   OK, do you really want me to log a bug that basically says that
>> because S3 & S4 winbinds are different and the fact that you cannot get the
>> same uidNumber on the server as on the clients that winbind is broken!!
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> Yes, I do want you to log this bug. There is no reason why winbind
> implementation in Samba AD DC should use unpredictable and dependent on the
> order of allocations high watermark algorithm.
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> Could you please write this again in English, specifically the last part.
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Please file a bug about ID mapping in Samba AD DC winbind being different
from ID mapping in previous Samba versions.

Thanks in advance.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy


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