It does have the unix extensions on it which is how I was able to get this far 
(set uids/gids/etc in AD). But I don't have the old windows NIS service running 
though, so I don't use the SFU30 or whatever attributes since I believe those 
are all obsoleted and will soon likely disappear.

________________________
Michael Talbott
Systems Administrator
La Jolla Institute

> On Apr 22, 2016, at 1:18 PM, Ian Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Does your AD have SFU (or whatever it is called these days) set up? 
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Michael Talbott <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You're exactly right. The DN in ad is the full name and if I create a user 
> where the DN and shortname match, then everything works great. Unfortunately, 
> I'm not sure if updating all the DNs to match the short name will break other 
> dependancies of it deployed in existing software elsewhere. One day when I'm 
> feeling brave and have a little downtime scheduled, I'll batch update all the 
> entries and see if anything breaks. But, I suppose I'm stuck with winbind for 
> the time being. But thank you for all the help.
> 
> 
> 
> > On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:27 AM, Paul B. Henson <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:35:56PM -0700, Michael Talbott wrote:
> >
> >> all the group members are listed as "John Doe" rather than jdoe which
> >> means that when jdoe logs in, he can't access his groups due to the
> >> naming disconnect. Any ideas of how to fix that? Somehow map the group
> >> members to samAccountName rather than the DN?
> >
> > How is your AD structured? It sounds like it's using full names for DN's
> > rather than usernames? If so, that's not going to work.
> >
> > Our AD uses usernames for DN's; for example, I'm:
> >
> > dn: CN=henson,OU=user,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> > cn: henson
> > sn: Henson
> > givenName: Paul
> > initials: B.
> > distinguishedName: CN=henson,OU=user,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> > displayName: Paul B. Henson
> > sAMAccountName: henson
> >
> > and if you look at a group I'm in:
> >
> > dn: CN=netadmin,OU=group,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> > cn: netadmin
> > description: Network admins
> > member: CN=henson,OU=user,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> > distinguishedName: CN=netadmin,OU=group,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> > sAMAccountName: netadmin
> >
> > So the RDN for both users and groups is the short name that a unix box
> > expects to see, and the long name is in the displayName or description.
> > I'm guessing you're using the full name as the CN and your users look
> > like:
> >
> > dn: CN=Paul B. Henson,OU=user,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> >
> > so your group members look like:
> >
> > member: CN=Paul B. Henson,OU=user,DC=ad,DC=cpp,DC=edu
> >
> > If that's the case, I don't think there's any way you can get it to
> > work. The rfc2307bis group support expects the RDN to be the username,
> > there's no way to get it to look up some other attribute of the entry
> > and use it instead.
> 
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