[Samba] machine account want use algorithm than sambanextrid

[Peter Eser]

Many thanks for the reply.
My thought (from the docs) was that samba use the algorithm for sid
building.
That's was wrong guess?


----- Original Message -----
From: "simo" <idra at samba.org>
To: "Peter Eser" <Peter.Eser at heuft.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] machine account want use algorithm than sambanextrid


> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 15:00 +0200, Peter Eser wrote:
> > Was questioned before with no answer, but have the same problem:
> >
> > With Samba 3.0.25 with ldap backend, what can i do for using  algorithm
"rid
> > =
> > 2*uid + 1000", when samba create samba attributes (sambasid) of computer
> > account, instead of SambaNextRid from SambaDomainName entry ?
> >
> > Background:
> > I create a machine account with smbldap-tools. After that a uidNumber
was
> > given to the machine.
> > If the machine logs on the first time a samba gives a SID to the machine
> > using SambaNextRid.
> > If I leave the SambaNextRid base to 1000 after a while adding machines
the
> > machine SIDs are in
> > the range of the user/group SIDs, so it would be better to use the
algorithm
> > than SambaNextRid.
>
> You shouldn't let smbldap tools create the SID.
> Samba can very well do it on its own, and that's the preferred and best
> way. All is need is the posixAccount to attach the sambaSamAccount
> to ...
>
> Simo.
>
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