[Samba] winbind uid problem

jhall at vandaliamo.net jhall at vandaliamo.net
Sat Aug 25 12:22:27 GMT 2007


Thank you. This worked wonderfully.


Jay

> You probably need to remove the winbindd_idmap.tdb file and restart
> winbindd. Be advised this will delete all current mappings so any
> files with those UID/GID's may get different "owners". The other more
> complicated option is to run tdbtool on the file and only delete the
> "bad" mappings.
>
> If you don't know where to find that file run
>
> smbd -b | grep LOCKDIR
>
> jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
>> I have installed winbind and it is working, but I need to change the
>> uid/gid being used by winbind since I am running into some conflicts
>> with
>> UIDs.
>>
>> UID 10071 is being used by my spamfilter and winbindd is also mapping
>> one
>> of the user IDs from the W2K3 server to 10071.
>>
>> In an attempt to change this, I modified my smb.conf file as follows.
>>
>> [global]
>>         workgroup = MO
>>         idmap gid = 15000-20000
>>         idmap uid = 15000-20000
>>         winbind enum users = yes
>>         winbind enum groups = yes
>>         winbind separator = +
>>         security = domain
>>         password server = 10.129.10.41
>>         wins server = 10.129.10.41
>>
>> I restarted the server thinking my users would be remapped in the range
>> 15000-20000.  However, they are still mapped in the 10000-20000 as I had
>> originally set in the smb.conf file.  I confirmed this using getent
>> passwd.
>>
>> I am running 3.0.23c on FreeBSD 6.2.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Jay
>>
>




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