[Samba] Slow, Incorrect Group Resolution through Winbind

Sonic sonicsmith at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 16:55:58 UTC 2017


On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Rowland Penny via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> And, yes the smb.conf manpage does say this:
>
> These are suitable for use in the default idmap configuration.
>
> and refer to tdb,tdb2 and ldap. I wouldn't use any of these on a Unix
> domain member, because the manpage also says this:
>
> these create mappings of their own using internal unixid counters and
> store the mappings in a database.
>
> This means there is no way to ensure that users and groups will get the
> same ID on different Unix domain members.

I'm the first to agree that using tdb for the DOMAIN domain is not
ideal. However, it is not invalid (as far as I can tell from the
documentation).

Chris



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