[Samba] Problems after migration from samba 3.5.2 to samba 4.3.1

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Feb 17 20:24:52 UTC 2016


On 17/02/16 20:14, Fernando Favero wrote:
> And, there is any problem if I change the uidNumber manually via ldbmodify
> ??
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 17/02/16 19:53, Fernando Favero wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> have you given all your users a unique uidNumber inside the range you have
>>>> set in smb.conf on the fileservers (2000-50000) ???
>>>>
>>> Hmmm, looking my ldap, I discovered that I have duplicated uidNumbers.....
>>> would that be the problem???  =:O
>>>
>> If any of your users in AD (please don't call it ldap, it confuses me)
>> have a uidNumber attribute that is the same as another users, then you need
>> to sort this out. As standard (if you use ADUC) the numbers start at 10000
>> for both uidNumber & gidNumber.
>>
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>
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The only possible problem I can think of is, ownership of files, but 
then you possibly already have files owned by several users.

Rowland




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