[Samba] Migrating from NT4 auth with winbind to ADS style auth

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Tom Dickson wrote:
| Is there anything special that has to be done to migrate this config?
|
| Right now we're using Samba 3.0 with the old NT4 authentication through
| winbind, the same method that samba 2.2.8 used.
|
| If we want to recompile samba and upgrade to the new ADS support, will
| winbind correctly continue to use the same Windows Username to Linux UID
| mapping so that ACLs don't have to be redone?

Yes.  Just make sure you have a backup of winbindd_idmap.tdb.


cheers, jerry
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