[Samba] winbind - local unix uid

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon May 17 18:59:41 GMT 2004


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Paul Brown wrote:

| I am trying to setup samba with winbind to our NT
| domain server. The problem arises when I want to try
| and use an existing unix account which happens to
| have the same name as a windows account (my
| account). It always seems to prefer the domain\uid account.
| Is there a way to map this account to a local
| account similar to net groupadd, or am I missing something
| obvious  ?

This is by design.  However, if you have existing UNIX
accounts for all the Windows users and groups, you can set
'winbind trusted domains only = yes'




cheers, jerry
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