[Samba] creating new users - missing uidNumber

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:01:06 +0100
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Am 2017-02-01 um 15:32 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> 
> > You don't need to do that, there are a couple of attributes (which
> > you will probably not have) which will store the next uid &
> > gidNumber. these are 'msSFU30MaxUidNumber' & 'msSFU30MaxGidNumber'
> > and they should/can be here:
> > dn:
> > CN=samdom,CN=ypservers,CN=ypServ30,CN=RpcServices,CN=System,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
> 
> Well, I have to "grep" them somewhere as well, right?
> Or can I point their admin to some spot in his Windows-Tools (RSAT) to
> read that?
> 
> feels a bit strange to have to take care of these details
> 
> I mean, ADS stores dozens of awkward values etc and then I as admin
> have to keep track of that one attribute?
> 
> sorry, no ranting, just wondering.
> thanks for your help.
> 
> 

If you use the Unix Attributes tab on ADUC, these are the attributes
that are used, but ADUC has the code to use them, samba-tool doesn't!

Rowland