[Samba] Consistent UID/GID mappings?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:07:11PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 08/04/14 20:54, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:48:53PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> >
> >>Jeremy, I thought before I posted, and I was being sarcastic in the
> >>way I posted. I wouldn't have posted except for the fact that in
> >>this instance, sssd actually works in the way that the OP wants,
> >>whereas the builtin winbind doesn't.
> >Sure, and it's entirely appropriate to say so, I have no
> >issues with that ! Remember the builtin winbindd in s4
> >is different to the member winbindd daemon. One of the
> >things Andrew is trying to do is unify the two so the
> >more flexible and complete 'member' winbindd can be
> >used in the AD-DC case and we can deprecate the builtin
> >winbindd, in the same way smbd replaced the ntvfs
> >backend for file serving. Having said that we're not
> >there yet.
> 
> In which case, could he use what is probably the best part of the
> builtin winbind, the fact that NO range has to be given in smb.conf.

Maybe. Andrew is doing the work so I'm
sure he can comment here.

> >I don't remember what I said (getting old :-), but I
> >hope I didn't tell you not to mention sssd.
> Er, yes you did (and you are younger than me! )

Sorry then. I probably have a worse diet, that's
the problem :-).

> The problem is the usual one of the reader not being with the
> writer, you sure lose a lot with the loss of body language.

tl;dr - email sucks :-).

Cheers,

Jeremy.