Samba4 file server status

[Rowland Penny]

On 14/08/13 19:24, steve wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 19:21 +0100, 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
> Hi
> The OP is also missing the
>
> idmap config * : range = J-K
> line in smb.conf
>
>
>
There you go, yet another person has misunderstood the docs and set 
winbind up incorrectly, Just when are they going to either make it 
easier to set up or put it out of its misery.

Rowland