[Samba] UID Matching

[Linux Addict]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
<gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>wrote:

> As a disclaimer, I am not using samba as a AD member server-  although I am
> also thinking about how I might make that happen.
>
> I am reading the man page for idmap_ad.
>
>
>       The idmap_ad plugin provides a way for Winbind to read id mappings
> from
>       an AD server that uses RFC2307/SFU schema extensions. This module
>       implements only the "idmap" API, and is READONLY. Mappings must be
>       provided in advance by the administrator by adding the
>       posixAccount/posixGroup classes and relative attribute/value pairs to
>       the user and group objects in the AD.
>
>
> So on closer reading it does suggest it will pick up the unix UID and unix
> GID directly from AD.    I had confused this earlier with the idmap_rid
> backend.
>
>
> Are you also using autofs for your unix clients?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 01/18/2011 05:35 PM, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
>
>> Samba shd allocate unix id's for your windows accounts,  but
>>> unfortunately they will not end up being the same as your existing uid's.
>>>
>>>
>> -----
>>
>> Is there any way around this?  Perhaps Windows Services for Unix?  Will
>> Samba read the Unix UID from SFU if it's installed???  I _HAVE_ to get the
>> UID's to match.
>>
>> Not all my Windows users use Unix, but, ALL my Unix users use Windows ---
>> and the Windows users also need access to all the files.
>>
>> Without getting the UID's to match up, I don't see how I'm going to make
>> this work...  Unless, I'm thinking shortsighted and there is other info
>> I'm
>> unaware of?
>>
>> -b
>>
>>
>>
>
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group map + rid may solve your problem. Force samba to write with a same gid
as nfs and make the dir setgid.