[Samba] Getting a Windows username from an SID with Samba/Winbind

[samba at asktoby.com]

That looks perfect.

How do I tell it which server to use? At the moment I think it's assuming 
localhost and just giving:

$ wbinfo -s S-1-5-21-484763869-1275210071-682003330-23849
Could not lookup sid S-1-5-21-484763869-1275210071-682003330-23849

The other (Windows) tools I've used need an SID and an IP of a server, but 
I can't see the option in the manpage for wbinfo for a server.

Toby

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Alexander Födisch wrote:

> wbinfo -s <SID> is what you are looking for.
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>> I am running Linux in a corporate windows environment.
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>> I need to convert user's Active Directory security identifiers (SIDs) to 
>> usernames, for example S-1-5-21-484763869-1275210071-682003330-34567 to 
>> mydomain\jbloggs.
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>> There are a few Windows tools that do this like SIDDecode and SidToName, 
>> but they don't work under wine.
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>> I've been reading about Winbind and Samba and it seems it may be possible 
>> to achieve this with those. Does anyone here know how?
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>> Many thanks,
>> Toby Newman
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