On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:01 +0000, Russell Jones wrote:
> Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > When I login using DOMAIN\user - a home dir under /home/DOMAIN/user is
> > created.
> > I remember having issues after domain registration with Samba home dis
> > pointing to /home/DOMAIN, so in my ignorance I changed it by hand back
> > to /home in smb.conf.
> > Thus logging in as DOMAIN\user or user always goes to /home/user.
> > Sorry my fault.
> > As I see it, to use the domain user I will have to move my local user
> > home dir contents to /home/DOMAIN/user.
> >
> > But still, where is uid DOMAIN\user stored?
> >   
> I think it's stored in a Samba tdb file... Ah yes
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbd.8.html
> 
> winbindd_idmap.tdb*
> 
>     winbindd's local idmap db
> 
> I wonder in turn how one would keep these in sync across machines?
> 
> (Of course, I'm not the first: 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-October/thread.html#111648
> Looks like HP have dealt with this in a proprietary way:
> http://docs.hp.com/en/B8725-90110/ch09s03.html
> "Access to an LDAP-UX Netscape Directory Server as the backend storage 
> for larger deployments to maintain winbind ID maps across multiple HP 
> CIFS Servers."
> 
> These look interesting:
> http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-25pre1.txt
> 
> Winbind IDMAP integration with RFC2307 schema objects supported by Windows 
> 2003 R2.
> 
> New Winbind IDmap plugin (ad) for retrieving uid and gid from AD servers 
> which maintain the SFU user and group attributes.
> 
> http://linux.israel.net/samba/devel/roadmap-3.html (can't find this on 
> samba.org)
> 
> )
> > What does Yast -> Windows Domain Memebership do to my config files?
> >   
> Isn't a lot of the YaST stuff perl scripts? Could you dig out (e.g. find 
> it's package and use rpm -ql <package name> ) the one for this YaST 
> module and read through it?
> 

OK, thanks, I'm back on local security :)





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