[Samba] How to join join Ubuntu desktop to AD

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:23:24 +0000
Kevin Davidson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> > On 9 Dec 2016, at 14:26, lingpanda101 via samba
> > <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

It is mentioned on the wiki, to be precise here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Idmap_config_ad#Prerequisites

Do you think it needs more emphasis ?

Rowland