[Samba] username maps and security=ads

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:
| I have been having problems with username maps and security=ads.
|
| I now have a solution (or at least a work around) that is working
| for me.  I sort of stumbled across it, as I don't recall reading
| any samba docs that mentions the need to have the realm name
| in the smbuser file.
|
| Samba server is RHEL3 with samba-3.0.20 compiled from source
| authenticating against a windows ADS.

This is described in the smb.conf man page and in
the release notes for Samba 3.0.8
...
| I found that the smb user map file had to look like
|
| # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
| unixuser = smbname GROUP.COMPANY.ORG\smbname








cheers, jerry
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