On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ray Strode wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Why does winbindd use a tdb file that maps rid's to dynamically > generated uid's? I ask because with the 2.4 linux kernel uid's are > 32-bit values, so it seems that the rid could be used for the uid and > gid directly. Is this because rid's might conflict with system uid's (< > 500) ?
No. this does not work with even two trust relationships..... > If i mount a common locks directory on all the machines, will all the > different winbind daemons coexist together? Or will I end up with a > corrupted map file? We're working on this..... cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
