[Samba] Re: Samba 3.0.8pre1 Available for Download

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Sat Sep 25 04:04:15 GMT 2004


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Norman Zhang wrote:
| Hi Jerry,
|
|> - ---------------------------
|> Change in Winbindd Behavior
|> - ---------------------------
|>
|> All usernames returned by winbindd are now converted to lower
|> case for better consistency.  This means any winbind installation
|> relying on the winbind username will need to rename existing
|> directories and/or files based on the username (%u and %U) to lower
|> case (e.g. mv $name `echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`).  This may
|> include mail spool files, home directories, valid user lines in
|> smb.conf, etc....
|
|
| Would this solve the bug/behavior that I notice after upgrading from
| 3.0.2 to 3.0.6? My original post can be found at,
| http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=109598567508194&w=2

Yes.  This + the winbind_getpwnam() fix that was originally
included in 3.0.7 should solve it for you.




cheers, jerry
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