[Samba] rid and ad backends differences

[L.P.H. van Belle]

> so I think ADS is not the best option in my case.
> From your explanation I'm in favour of RID backend as it seems more 
>stable because of the static setup.


Your best options is : Use ADS, with backend RID. 

If you have 1 DC and (or 1 extra member server ) 
than RID is you best option, no hassle uid/gid and RFC2307 things.. 
but beware if  you do things on linux.. than you can need uid/gids.. 
1 example, you cant share the user homedirs on differented server with rid.. 
because the by rid generated uid/gid wil be different per server. 

If you want to use more server, then we advice you to use the AD backend. 


Gr. 

Louis



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>Van: y.goudetsidis at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 
>[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Yanni
>Verzonden: dinsdag 5 mei 2015 11:55
>Aan: Marc Muehlfeld; samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: [Samba] rid and ad backends differences
>
>Hi Marc
>
>Thank you. I now understand the difference.
>My plan is to create a samba file server in order to store 
>user profiles 
>and also keep things as simple as possible.
>I will not have users logging into different servers with different 
>shells. , so I think ADS is not the best option in my case.
> From your explanation I'm in favour of RID backend as it seems more 
>stable because of the static setup.
>
>Rowland thank you also for your reply.
>Yanni
>
>
>On 04/05/15 19:23, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
>> Hello Yanni,
>>
>> Am 30.04.2015 um 15:52 schrieb Yanni:
>>> Can someone please explain what is the difference between 
>the rid and ad
>>> backends in smb.conf?
>> Rowland already gave some information.
>>
>>
>> Just an advantage, that makes me like RFC2307 more than RID backend:
>> RFC2307 allows you to define homeDirectory and shells per 
>user central
>> in AD. This means you have /bin/ksh, because you like it, 
>your collegue
>> has /bin/bash, your boss /bin/csh and all other users 
>/bin/nologin. If
>> you use RID backend, then you can only have one shell for 
>users on each>> server (see smb.conf: template shell) and you have to ensure on other
>> ways, that e. g. normal users can't login via SSH.

>>
>> RFC2307 is a bit more administration work during user creation, but
>> makes life more flexible later, while RID backend doesn't require
>> anything else than to define it once in your smb.conf, but is more
>> static with per server defined values.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>
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