[Samba] Re: Getting Winbind IDMAP into LDAP?

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 09:01, Gibbs, Simon wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I was using the online "By-Example" documentation at:
> http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#id2579097
> Starting at the sub heading " IDMAP Storage in LDAP using Winbind".

Thanks. I'll revise this chapter as soon as I can get to this.

>
> The example that appears to be incorrect is related to /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> ...
> passwd: files ldap
> shadow: files ldap
> group:  files ldap
> ...
> hosts:  files wins
> ...
>
> The correct entries (working for me now) are:
>
> ...
> passwd: files winbind
> shadow: files
> group: files winbind
> ...
> hosts: files dns (we don't use wins)
>
> From a personal point of view it would have been useful to have an
> additional entry in this section explaining how the the idmap ou is
> populated, but I guess you can figure it out in the end.

Noted. Thanks for the feedback.

- John T.