[Samba] Lots of "Failed to create" error messages after upgrading to 2.0.25c

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Eric Evans wrote:

> What I find to be problematic about this is that all of 
> the Samba documentation on idmap backend that I have been
> able to find discusses the idmap backend option within the
> context of a system using LDAP.

That's hard to believe considering teh default is to use
a local tdb.

> We are not using LDAP.  So I haven't been able to figure 
> out what would be an appropriate setting for the idmap backend
> option in our case.  We have a very simple setup with our
> Samba server operating as a PDC to authenticate domain
> logins, just a single server, a single domain, not
> using LDAP, not using AD.  Can anyone recommend what 
> would be an appropriate idmap backend setting to use
> for such a system?

In your case, unless you need support for ntlm_auth or
pam_winbind.so,  don't run winbindd in this case.  You'll
loose nested group support but it appears you don't
really care about that.




cheers, jerry
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