[Samba] Winbind mappings change over time

[simo]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:52 +1300, Richard Greaney wrote:
> Hi Simo
> Thanks for your reply. I might have made things a little hazy in my 
> initial post. The 40-odd servers I mentioned are all on remote client 
> sites and each has it's own corresponding Windows server. Effectively, I 
> have the same problem on all sites at one time or another. My issue 
> isn't with the order of winbind mapping, but more with the fact that the 
> SID to UID mapping appears to change over time.

This can happen only if you delete winbind_idmap.tdb
Mappings cannot change otherwise. Make sure you backup that file so that
you can restore it in case you need.

> I will take a look for information about idmap_ldap as a backend to see 
> if it is going to work with my setup.

idmap_ldap is useful if you need to share mappings, otherwise it is less
ideal for reliability and performance reasons (you start needing ldap
replicas and manage them).

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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