[Samba] Problems with mapping drives

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 sspitzner at planalytics.com wrote:

> idmap.tdb file. There is really no tool that will enable us to remove
> just that one ID, and it would not pick up the new ID with the old one
> remaining in the file.

Yeah.  We're workign on a good solution to this....
would you scream if we exported the mapping tdb 
via the registry api and used regedit.exe ? :-)

> Question(s):
>      Why would Samba (2.2.5) not allow an all lower case name?

If you have a level 10 log file hanging around I could probably 
tell you,  But my guess is that problem was the fact the NSS 
getpwnam() is case sensitive.  What were the user's typing the 
name in as?





cheers, jerry

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