[Samba] GID range full!!

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:58:55 +0100
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Am 2017-12-04 um 13:55 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:41:32 +0100
> > "Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Am 2017-12-04 um 13:22 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> >>
> >>> There doesn't seem to anything really wrong with the smb.conf,
> >>> unless you are running a version of Samba from 4.6.0, see here for
> >>> how to set up idmap now:
> >>>
> >>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Idmap_config_ad
> >>
> >> So that seems to hit it, we run 4.6.11 and still
> >>
> >> winbind nss info = rfc2307
> >>
> >> That has to be edited if I interpret correctly.
> >>
> >> Is that a "dangerous" change? Should it be done with no users
> >> connected or with all daemons restarted after the change?
> >>
> >> thanks, Stefan
> >>
> > 
> > I wouldn't call it dangerous, but you will have to either reload or
> > restart the samba daemons, so probably best done when no one is
> > connected.
> 
> ok, will do so, thanks.
> 
> Do you think that my current mis-config leads to the GID-full-issue
> as described? Is there a valid explanation for this? Just curious.
> 

Possibly, if, by using the old config, Samba is ignoring the 'idmap
config DOMAIN' lines and putting everything into the '*' domain, then
you may (probably would) have more than your original set up allowed.
If this fixes it, you have found another bug ;-)
It should work with the old lines.

Rowland