[Samba] id mapping

[Greg Dickie]

Hi Robert,

  Thanks for the response. You are referring to 
idmap backend = rid

correct?

Greg

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 09:10 -0400, Robert Freeman-Day wrote:
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> I have been the most happy with the hash idmap.  It really is the least
> invasive and "just works" (does that need to be trademarked these
> days?).  Since it hashes the SID with the same algorithm, all members
> get the same UID/GID mappings, which is a big win.
> 
> Robert
> 
> On 08/23/2010 05:21 PM, Greg Dickie wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   Today I'm trying to debug a problem on samba 3.5.4 where a domain
> > member server is having trouble mapping UIDs to SIDs. I must admit I
> > never really looked at this before as everything seemed to "just work".
> > Today I discovered that idmap backend on the PDC and the member server
> > were both defaulted to tdb. This means they have independent views of
> > UID to SID mappings I guess. That sucks. So I'm looking at the ldap
> > backend but I notice that it uses a special ou in the LDAP tree to store
> > mappings. Why do we need that if the sambaSamAccount schema also has
> > SIDs and UIDs for each user. Also, how is that tree populated?
> > 
> > Looking at my PDC it seems to just pull everything out of gencache.tdb
> > or say that no mapping exists. Doing a tdbdump of winbind_idmap.tdb
> > shows only a few entries. This seems to be more complicated than I
> > expected. I'm sorry if this is a silly question but what am I doing
> > wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> 
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