[Samba] Windows UIDs

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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John Halfpenny wrote:
> hi all.
> 
> how does samba create its uids and gids from the windows domain? 
> and what can i do to prevent it 'dropping' these mappings?

uids and gids are allocated by winbindd on an as needed basis
in a monotonically increasing fashion.

> i've set up windows 2003 sfu to allow samba to map to the 
> uid stored in active directory (by using sfu nis), is this
> the safest way to ensure folder permissions remain constant
> or am i being unnecessarily scared? :-)

Probably unnecessarily scared.  Just keep winbindd_idmap.tdb
backed up.  If you have a single domain with no trusts, you
might prefer to look at the rid idmap backend.






cheers, jerry
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