[Samba] File owner SID instead of name showing for one user

[Gary Dale]

This occurs when Windows cannot find a user name for the SID. Identify 
which user is the real owner and change the Owner of the file to the 
real owner. If the owner actually does exist then it's probably missing 
the name attribute.


On 08/07/10 01:56 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
> Also make sure that SID returned by "wbinfo -n DOMAIN\name" matches 
> the name returned by    "wbinfo -s SID" command.
>
> On 07/08/2010 01:45 PM, tms3 at tms3.com wrote:
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>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently migrated all data and user accounts from our old Samba file
>>> server to a new (Samba 3.4.0 on Unbuntu 9.10) one. Everything is 
>>> working
>>> fine except that there is one user whose SID is showing in the "Owner"
>>> column of Windows Explorer instead of the user name.
>>>
>>> It's not a big problem, but the user is uncomfortable with it and I'd
>>> like to know why it's happening and how to fix it.
>>
>> Check for duplicate UID's somewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Greg
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