[Samba] ID Mapping

[Rowland penny]

On 03/11/2020 12:17, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
> I tried setting uidNumber et al via the active directory editor and samba-ldbedit, however the mapping doesn't seem to change so I am wondering if it ends up stored somewhere else in the AD case.
Did you give 'Domain Users' a gidNumber ? without this, the uidNumber 
attributes are ignored.
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>> The OP is using numbers in the '1000' range, this is something I wouldn't do, it leaves no space for local Unix users.
> These were migrated from an old (Samba 3 era) install, so it's vintage now ;)
>
That is just about the only reason to use them and even then I would 
think hard about setting up a new domain.

Rowland