[Samba] samba4 as ADS member: some users visible, others not

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2015-12-29 um 18:59 schrieb Rowland penny:

> NO! This will give you precisely 0 users
> 
> config * == the range the 'builtin' users will be mapped to.
> config customer == the range for all the domain users that have a
> uidNumber attribute. If a user doesn't have a uidNumber attribute
> containing a number inside the range set in smb.conf (in your case
> 10000-999999) it will be ignored, the user will also be ignored if it
> doesn't have a uidNumber attribute. There is also another gotchya, the
> 'Domain Users' group *must* have a gidNumber attribute inside the range,
> or all users will be ignored even if they have a uidNumber attribute.
> 
> This all boils down to, have you manually given your users & groups the
> required uidNumber & gidNumber attributes ? they are not added
> automatically, they must be added manually.

Thanks a lot for that explanation.
I read it after it started working here yesterday so excuse my late
reply. I never understood it the way you described it above, this would
have helped me with other servers earlier as well.

thanks, Stefan