[Samba] idmap mapping questions

Chere Zhou qzhou at isilon.com
Thu Jun 12 18:12:42 GMT 2003


Do you have nsswitch and pam working correctly with winbind?  You need to 
configure nsswitch and pam for that.

On Thursday 12 June 2003 04:04 am, Raphaël Berghmans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've setup a samba 3 server. The mapping between SID and uid is done by
> idmap. When a user create a file on the server, the owner of this file
> cannot be resolved by Linux (the uid cannot be resolved to the human
> name). Then in smb.conf list (for example : printer admin) I've to setup
> the uid of a user and not his real name otherwise the user is considered
> as unknown !
>
> How to deal with the access permission to the files and directories if
> the mapping (SID - uid) change or if the idmap.tdb is corrupted ?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Regards,



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