Is there any SIMPLE way to maintain consistent mappings between windows RIDs and UNIX/LINUX UIDs/GIDs among multiple samba servers servers running winbindd? Will that problem be addressed in future samba releases? I've read about the "idmap backend" possible solution but is that the only current one? Help!!!
I'm looking to accomplish the same thing across two samba servers. Both servers are members of a Windows 2000 AD Domain. One's a "hot standby" using heartbeat/drbd under Linux so I need the UIDs of files to match on both. I'm uncertain if "idmap backend" will work if winbind is getting the account from a Windows AD Domain Controller rather than a Samba PDC, and setting up LDAP seems like a lot of trouble.
So I've come up with either:
1. Just copy winbindd_idmap.tdb from one server over the one on the other with samba/winbind running on both - I've tried this and it seemed to work ok...
2. Use "net idmap dump" and "net idmap restore" as a "safer"(???) way of doing #1 above, automated via cron and ssh.
Anyone have any thoughts on either of these methods?
Thanks, Josh
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