[Samba] winbind generates a UID for a group

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Mar 9 09:22:06 UTC 2022


On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 10:10 +0100, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
> 
> 
> Perhaps this (from FAQ)?
> 
> Do Samba AD DCs Support Replication?
> 
>      Everything stored inside the AD, is replicated between DCs. For 
> example: users, groups, and DNS records.
> 
>      In the current state, Samba does not support the distributed
> file 
> system replication (DFS-R) protocol used for Sysvol replication. To
> work 
> around, see Sysvol Replication (DFS-R).
> 
> 
> I understand from this that idmap.ldb gets synced / replicated
> between 
> DCs, meaning I will NOT get different IDs on different DC's. Correct?

You understand incorrectly, idmap.ldb is not inside AD and is not
synced automatically.

Rowland





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