[Samba] domain users appear as local to samba

[Nikos Gkorogiannis]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:25 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > I have a samba server (3.0.21c) that gets its UNIX user 
> > info from nss_ldap. It acts as an ADS member server (the
> > UNIX usernames match the ones in the Windows domain).
> > 
> > Simple usage works fine: if I log in on a Win client as 
> > DOMAIN\user then I can map a drive on \\samba\user and read/write
> > and so on. However if I look up the security properties of a
> > file in \\samba\user, the owner shows up as local to the samba
> > server, i.e. \\samba\user as opposed to DOMAIN\user.
> > 
> > My hunch is that when a Win client is asking about 
> > ownership (or security) details, it does so in terms of
> > SIDs, not usernames. And that Samba returns an SID which is
> > arbitrary w.r.t the domain SIDs. How can I fix that? Or
> > have I missed something obvious?
> 
> Your hunch is correct.  Run winbindd but do not set the
> 'idmap {uid,gid}' parameters and you should be fine.

Thanks for your response. I am already running winbindd without idmaps
or an ldap backend. Or is the ldap backend compulsory?

Thanks
Nikos




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