[Samba] How are user and group SID's generated?

[Dan Stevenson]

Greetings,

Hoping someone can shed some light on this. I've been searching for over 
a week and cannot find information on how Samba generates SID's from 
Unix UID's and GID's.

I keep running into situations where after adding a new user to my 
CentOS server all other users are suddenly prevented from accessing 
shares that have a group ACL assigned.

I finally figured out that it is because Samba will assign an SID to the 
new user that is identical to an existing group SID.

For example I have a group named management with an SID of 
S-1-5-21-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-1026 (X's are my server's ID)

Then I add a user and Samba generates the exact same SID for the new 
user. Now when I check the folder properties from Windows I can see that 
instead of the group name showing in the security tab like it used to it 
now shows the name of the new user.

I do not have a Windows domain, just a simple workgroup.

I am hoping there is a config file somewhere that I can use to tell 
Samba to use different SID ranges for user and groups so there will 
never be duplicates?


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