[Samba] Winbind!

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Nov 1 13:51:08 GMT 2002


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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Wieprecht, Karen M. wrote:

> Why not?  It does not affect whether or not my NT user gets matched to a
> UNIX UID and GID (username.map does that part for me),  but for files
> created by users with no corresponding UNIX account,  it makes the domain
> username show up on an "ls -l" minus the domain prefix so I can see who owns
> the file,  otherwise,  ls -l shows a truncated version of
> DOMAINNAMEseparatorUSERNAME,  and I can't tell who owns anything ...  
> 
> What is the purpose of the parameter,  and why is it a bad idea to use it?  

It was an accidental merge.  It has not been sufficiently tested in 2.2
(people have already reported problems with it).




cheers, jerry
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