[Samba] usermap ignored?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Jan 31 20:28:50 GMT 2006


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Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi listm
> 
> i ran into some difficulties using samba 3.0.21b as an 
> PDC while mapping e.g. "root" to "administrator"
> With samba 3.0.10 it worked - however i cannot find 
> anything thats wrong.  Can somebody please point me
> where to look at? Can i test the usermap functionality
> somehow except for logging in on windows machine as the
> mapped account?  

Works fine here.   I just tested it.

> Should "getent passwd" reflect the mapping in any way?

no.  it's internal to Samba.

> And in /etc/samba/smbusers:
> -----------------------
> root = administrator admin

Do you have any entries after this? If you run smbd with a
debug level of 10, the resulting log file will show smbd
parsing the username map file.



cheers, jerry
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