[Samba] Winbind backend : rid is too much underappreciated

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 24 04:14:29 MST 2015


On 24/02/15 10:50, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> didnt we have the problem with backend to RID,
> that the user ID wasnt always the same on different member servers.
> and to keep that in line you had to copy the idmap.db to the other server?
>
> Or am i mixing up other things now.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Louis
>

Yes, you are mixing things up now :-D

idmap.ldb is only found on DCs and hands out different numbers on each 
DC, hence copying the idmap.ldb from the first DC to any subsequent DC.

Rowland


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