[Samba] Multiple Clients, Winbind and idmap in LDAP, documentation incorrect?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri May 19 00:21:24 GMT 2006


On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:15:33PM +0200, Erik Forsberg wrote:
> *) Even though I use ldap as idmap backend, it seems like
>  /var/lib/samba/winbind_idmap.tdb is still used. Running 'net idmap
>  dump /var/lib/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb' reveals that entries that I've
>  asked for with 'getent passwd <username>' or 'getent group
>  <groupname>' are stored in the .tdb. Is this intended behaviour, and
>  if so, why? 

Caching.

Jeremy.


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