Samba4 file server status

[Juan Pablo Lorier]

ok, I didn't realise of that when I read the papers. Any way, I'm
installing samba4 right now to see if I can get this to work faster.
I'll let you know the results asap.
Regards,


On 14/08/13 15:21, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 14/08/13 18:50, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
>> Hi Rowland,
>>
>> Sorry for my ignorance but what do you mean that OP populated the gid
>> and uid in the AD?. If I'm not wrong, Windows server uses SID for the
>> users and groups and is winbind the one that maps this SIDs with unix
>> gids and uids and this maps are stored in the database chosen to use
>> with winbind. If I do wbinfo -u and -g I get both users and groups.
>> I even was able to chown a directory using a domain user without
>> problem, but I can't now as it complaints that the user doesn't exists.
>> Regards,
> Hi, the reason that I asked was because you posted ( via a web link)
> your smb.conf and it had this line in it:
> idmap config CANAL4 :backend = ad
>
> This means that winbind looks for gidNumbers & uidNumbers and will
> only display users & groups that have them, or to put it another way,
> without any uidNumbers & gidNumbers in the AD database winbind will
> not show any users or groups.
>
> Rowland