Samba 4 and winbind

[Rowland Penny]

On 15/04/13 18:55, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Rowland Penny <repenny at f2s.com 
> <mailto:repenny at f2s.com>> wrote:
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>     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
>>     <mailto: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.
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>>             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.

OK, I will file a bug, but could you please advise me what 'the order of 
allocations high watermark algorithm' means in English, I do understand 
it at all.

Rowland

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> Thanks in advance.
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