[Samba] Samba 4 AD and Samba 3.6 Fileserver GID Problem

[Marc Linden]

Hi Rowland,

thanks for the clarification, although I hoped for a different solution.

We use a third party archiving software that currently only supports 
samba 3.6.

best
marc

Am 08.05.2018 um 15:04 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> On Tue, 8 May 2018 14:38:16 +0200
> Marc Linden via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am preparing a migration from openLDAP to Samba 4 AD
>>
>> I am trying to get a Samba 3.6 fileserver (for different reasons it
>> has to be samba 3.6) with ad backend to work with a Samba 4 AD.
>>
>> Almost everything is working. The only problem is that the fileserver
>> does not map the users gidNumber correctly.
>>
> 
> And that is your problem, Samba 3.6 will ALWAYS use Domain Users as the
> users primary group, you need to use at least 4.6.0 for the users
> gidNumber to be used as the users primary group.
> 
> Why do you have to stick with 3.6 ?
> 
> Rowland
> 

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