Samba4 file server status

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Wed Aug 14 12:24:28 MDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 19:21 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 14/08/13 18:50, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
> > Hi Rowland,
> >
> > Sorry for my ignorance but what do you mean that OP populated the gid
> > and uid in the AD?. If I'm not wrong, Windows server uses SID for the
> > users and groups and is winbind the one that maps this SIDs with unix
> > gids and uids and this maps are stored in the database chosen to use
> > with winbind. If I do wbinfo -u and -g I get both users and groups.
> > I even was able to chown a directory using a domain user without
> > problem, but I can't now as it complaints that the user doesn't exists.
> > Regards,
> Hi, the reason that I asked was because you posted ( via a web link) 
> your smb.conf and it had this line in it:
> idmap config CANAL4 :backend = ad
> 
> This means that winbind looks for gidNumbers & uidNumbers and will only 
> display users & groups that have them, or to put it another way, without 
> any uidNumbers & gidNumbers in the AD database winbind will not show any 
> users or groups.
> 
> Rowland

Hi
The OP is also missing the

idmap config * : range = J-K
line in smb.conf





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