[Samba] should I use idmap?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Farkas Levente wrote:
| hi,
| suppose  I have a samba 3 server with ldap backend and
| all users has  both the sambaSamAccount and posixAccount.
| than it's enough or should I  have to use idmap and create a
| new tree on my ldap server for the unix  <-> windows id mapping?
| thnaks in advance.

the idmap options are only used by winbindd for handling
trusted users (or possibly the 'winbind enable local accounts'
options).

I doubt you need them in your case unless you want to support
trusts between the Samba domain and other domains.




cheers, jerry
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