[Samba] sendmail getting domain\user as email userId

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Jul 25 15:59:36 UTC 2016


On 25/07/16 16:31, Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I'm not sure why a DC ignores the "winbind use default domain = yes"
> setting.  Its not the only setting that a DC ignores and the only real hint
> of DCs acting weird is the line in the introduction of the wiki about
> setting Samba up as a DC that calls these "idiosyncrasies in the winbindd
> configuration on the Active Directory Domain Controller."  Since it seems
> to be a well known issue, I haven't ever filed a bug report against it.
> I'm guessing the Samba devs have a reason for these "idiosyncrasies", but
> maybe it would be worth filing a bug report and that may shed some more
> light on why it is, or has to be.

There is already a bug report for this: 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9780

>
> Being a lowly system admin, I just try to work around the issues I run
> into, and that's why I suggested using sssd instead of winbind for the user
> enumeration.  It (sssd) does drop the domain from the username (at least on
> a member server it does) and so I think it would work for your situation.

This is the only reason I can think of for using sssd.

>
> Maybe one of the Samba devs can chime in on the "why" things seem to be so
> different for a DC.?

It is just a lack time and, sorry to say, this isn't a priority.

Rowland

> Mike E.
>
>
>




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