[Samba] Question about samba 4 member server of a pure Windows AD

[Rowland Penny]

On 31/07/15 20:43, Stéphane PURNELLE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually, we have a samba 4 AD DC and 2 samba 4 AD member server as
> file-server.
> But my company is member of a group who have i proper AD (A windows AD
> server)
>
> I don't know if the windows AD has implemented rfc2307 and if the sysadmin
> of the windows AD can add rfc2307.
>
> I just would like to know if there are alternative for have uid <> sid
> mapping without rfc2307.
> LIke extract uid from windows SID (based on algorithm uid = uid*2 + 1000
> or something like this)
>
> thank you for your help
>
>          Stéphane Purnelle

Yes, it is called the 'rid' backend, see 'man idmap_rid'

Rowland