[Samba] Samba group mapping mechanism

Dina Fine dina at exanet.com
Mon Dec 26 13:25:54 GMT 2005


> Hi
> 
> I would like to use group mapping mechanism in order to map some nt
> groups to unix groups (like username map)
> But although I configured a mapping using the net tool, samba doesn't
> even call to groupmap sid->gid function.
> 
> As I could see from the code, samba calls to getpwnam which returns
> passwd struct with already mapped gid (by winbind idmap)
> 
> The passdb backend has a default value.
> 
> Thanks in advance for reply
> 
> Dina Fine
> 
> 


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