Re: [Samba] winbind and existing UIDs

2010-02-08 Thread Liam Gretton
I guess I'll stick with the method I'm currently using then. Can anyone answer my original questions below, or would I be better off asking in samba-technical? 1. Is winbind guaranteed to never delete mappings from its database, only to add new ones? 2. Is 'idmap alloc' documented

[Samba] winbind and existing UIDs

2010-02-04 Thread Liam Gretton
Hi, I'm implementing a Samba service on Solaris (the native CIFS service being unreliable in our environment); all is working well but I have a couple of questions regarding winbind which I can't find answers to in the documentation. I'm using 3.0.37 at the moment, but it wouldn't be a big

Re: [Samba] winbind and existing UIDs

2010-02-04 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
On 02/04/10 04:07, Liam Gretton wrote: Hi, I'm implementing a Samba service on Solaris (the native CIFS service being unreliable in our environment); all is working well but I have a couple of questions regarding winbind which I can't find answers to in the documentation. I'm using 3.0.37 at

Re: [Samba] winbind and existing UIDs

2010-02-04 Thread Liam Gretton
On 04/02/2010 15:00, Gaiseric Vandal wrote: On 02/04/10 04:07, Liam Gretton wrote: What I've done to get round this is to use the ldap backend for winbind, and create the mappings myself. This seems to work perfectly well but I can't believe there's not a means within winbind to use the

Re: [Samba] winbind and existing UIDs

2010-02-04 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
I don't think you would want to install SFU to actually provide sevices but just to enable the uid and other unix parameters on the user account properties in the Active Directory Users and Groups console in Windows. SFU unix is pretty useless otherwise. This is just a guess but maybe you

Re: [Samba] winbind and existing UIDs

2010-02-04 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:00:35AM -0500, Gaiseric Vandal wrote: Compiling Samba from source is a bit of a pain as well. The Samba build from sunfreeware is pretty good but it doesn't include the nss_windind.so file and I think zfs isn't properly supported. We have ZFS vfs modules in the