Hi,

I'm trying to convert an old system on Solaris 10 that uses the smbpasswd file authentication method to a system that authenticates against Active Directory. I've managed to get winbind working but of course this just allocates UIDs as it sees fit whereas the smbpasswd file method used the UID from the /etc/passwd file. The user codes on the Solaris server match the user codes in AD but if I just switch over to winbind the UIDs will not match. If there were only a small number of users I could simply change the ownership of the users home directories to match the winbind allocated UID but unfortunately there are thousands of users and so this would be a mammoth task. I've has a look at various bits of documentation but can't get my head around the best strategy. Has anyone needed to do something similar and if so how did you go about it?

Also the users' home directories are distributed around multiple directories and I would prefer to continue to use the home directory information from /etc/passwd as opposed to using "template homedir" (although I assume that I could leave the directories in place and just set up links to them). I've had also had a look at the PADL nss_ldap stuff but can't get it to compile, it seems to be looking for SASL, would the SASL version on the Sun Freeware site work?

Martin.

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