[Samba] How to Join Mac OSX workstation as AD domain member

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Jun 27 08:39:31 UTC 2018


On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:29:16 +0200
Ralph Böhme <slow at samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 07:48:50AM +0100, Rowland Penny via samba
> wrote:
> > > > If mapping of the GID, primary GID, and UID is disabled, the
> > > > Active Directory connector generates a GID, primary GID, and
> > > > UID based on Active Directory's standard GUID attribute.
> > > 
> > > So, if I *don't* do any mapping (disabled) what happens?
> > 
> > Sounds like you end up using something very similar to the winbind
> > 'rid' backend.
> 
> they're default mapping strategy uses 4 bytes of the ObjectGUID of
> the users and groups objects.
> 
> -slow
> 

Hi Ralph,
Any particular 4 bytes ?
As in, at the start, middle or end of the ObjectGUID and with this, is
it possible to get non-unique ID's ?

Rowland




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