[Samba] AD Domain Member: User Mapping w/out winbind ?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Jul 6 15:03:04 GMT 2005


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Dan Am wrote:
| Hello everybody,
| I have set up authentication for a Linux Host
| using MS SFU. Works fine:  "getent passwd" show my
| users, they can login..."
|
| On the same host I want to set up Samba 3.0.9 as a
| domain member. The question: Can I use the AD Controller
| as  "idmap_backend"  _directly_ , skipping the use
| of winbind ? The problem with using winbind is that
| users will show up twice in "getent  passwd" and the
| parallel use of NFS becomes a problem, as files belong
| to the winbind user if created with Samba , and
| to the "SFU User" if created with NFS.

Dan,

Just don't define the idmap uid/gid parameters in smb.conf.
Winbindd will still run but not allocate any uids or gids
for accounts.



cheers, jerry
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