[Samba] Re: Matching Group ID Numbers With Names

[Kristyan Osborne]

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>>Or since this data is coming from winbind...

>Yes I had considered that, but the assumed that the Linux OS itself still
>needed standard group info for the file system, thus assumed that /etc/group is
>maintained / synced by the winbind process.

The GIDs are not standard OS groups. Winbind does not touch /etc/group, its simliar to using an LDAP backend. The OS will resolve from whatever is in /etc/nsswitch.

Cheers

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Kristyan Osborne - IT Technician
Longhill High School
01273 391672 / 304086
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