[Samba] winbind + consistent uid & gid

[Michael Gasch]

 > Putting "idmap backend = idmap_rid:DOMNAME=1000-1000000" in the
 > smb.conf file seemed promising, but it didn't work for me.

that´s not the only thing you have to do
please refer to the samba guide about how to setup idmap_rid correctly
it´s working for me fine on several servers

greez

Emmanuel Blindauer wrote:
> You'll have to use ldap for storing the mapping
> 
> idmap backend = ldap:ldap://your.ldap.server
> 
> and uses smbpasswd -w to store the pass to access the ldap server
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
> Le Mercredi 24 Mai 2006 17:48, Adams Samuel D Contr AFRL/HEDR a écrit :
>> I am trying to get out Linux boxes to authenticate against our AD
>> domain. We have that part working just fine using Kerberos and winbind. 
>> The problem is when we use NFS on multiple machines.  As you could
>> guess, the UIDs and GIDs are not consistent across all of the machines. 
>> From what I have been reading on the internet, this seems to be common
>> problem, but all the solutions that I have found don't seem to work for
>> me.  Putting "idmap backend = idmap_rid:DOMNAME=1000-1000000" in the
>> smb.conf file seemed promising, but it didn't work for me.  Do you have
>> any recommendations to get this to work?  It is kind of critical to have
>> a distributed file system. It is not an option to modify out AD severs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sam Adams
>>
>> General Dynamics - Network Systems
>>
>> Phone: 210.536.5945

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