[Samba] Re: winbind confusion

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Feb 5 20:57:42 GMT 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 04:26, Tim Russell wrote:
> Well, it turns out that we ran out of available uids when we ran wbinfo -u. The 
> number of trusted domains and users was VERY large. I'm guessing the new user 
> just didn't get assigned a uid in the range because they weren't available. We 
> added more uids to the range and all of a sudden the user we created worked.
> 
> It brings up another question though? If we delete 100 users do we get 100 uids 
> back or does this list just keep growing? Just fuzzy on how that works?

You never get them back.  The old user might still own files on the
system.

Andrew Bartlett

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