[Samba] How to join join Ubuntu desktop to AD

[lingpanda101]

On 12/9/2016 11:00 AM, Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth via samba 
wrote:
> Just to confirm that it can be done, I followed the wiki and joined my
> Ubuntu 16.04 desktop to a Samba AD using the Ubuntu distro provided
> packages.  I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the Samba AD DCs are also
> running Ubuntu 16.04 with the distro provided packages.
>
> Mike E.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Rowland Penny via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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Does getent return data for a domain user?


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- James