Winbind and trusted domains

[Tim Potter]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:51:17PM -0500, Walter_Prentice/Trimax at trimax.com wrote:

> Oh man you should be called Harry instead of Tim, your a wizard man,
> 
> Restrict Anonymous registry key  was all my problem, old Netw. admin, had
> set security issues on two of the domain controllers, actually one of them
> was the PDC, the one I chose to validate accounts.

That's good news!

> I have a question:
> Is there any file I could backup that keeps the mappings between Domain
> user and groups names and uid and gid used by Linux ?
> So in case I lost the connection to the Domain and have to set it up again
> (maybe reinstall samba and winbind), I don't  to need to setup all the
> security again if those mappings change.

Yes - it's called winbind_idmap.tdb and it's stored in Samba's lock
directory, usually /usr/local/samba/var/locks


Tim.