[Samba] Why is Samba4 not recommended as a file server?

mathias dufresne infractory at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 09:32:25 UTC 2016


Can you explain why it would be an issue giving GID to "Domain Admins"
group?

2016-07-28 10:50 GMT+02:00 Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org>:

> On 28/07/16 09:43, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>
>> You can of course export file shares from a DC. It's just that our file
>> server has seen much wider deployment as an AD member instead of a DC,
>> that's all. There is much more experience with it, and all the topics
>> around idmapping are much better known. I'm not saying that they are much
>> better implemented, it's just the better-known setup. Volker
>>
>
> Hi Volker, as far as I can see, the only problem is idmapping, only
> yesterday I found out that giving Domain Admins a gidNumber isn't a good
> idea, the group needs to own Policies in sysvol.
>
> Rowland
>
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