[Samba] How to join join Ubuntu desktop to AD

[lingpanda101]

On 12/9/2016 10:23 AM, Kevin Davidson via samba wrote:
>> On 9 Dec 2016, at 14:26, lingpanda101 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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>> Still no luck getting getent to retrieve user information. I have uid's and gid's setup for all users I am attempting to query.
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> But did you give Domain Users a gid? If you don’t do that, winbind  and getent will not find any UNIX users (doesn’t matter if the users have a uid and gid within the range you’ve specified in smb.conf). It’s been a while since I had this problem - my memory is it’s not clearly mentioned in the wiki at all.
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I do.

I had a Debian domain member joined to my ADDC successfully in the past 
with the help from Rowland. For whatever reason Ubuntu is not playing 
nice. I tried then with Ubuntu and couldn't get it to work either.

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- James