Well said Steve >From what I have read on the two samba mailing lists, Samba 4 is supposed to be a clone of windows AD, well windows AD does not have winbind, so I suppose this begs the question, why when running as a DC controller does Samba4?
On 5 June 2013 17:56, steve <st...@steve-ss.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 16:22 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 15:42 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > > > > > > I never said that I couldn't get it to work, I just said that it is > > > just too complicated. Yes I can read and there was no need to get > > > personal > > > > > > > You said you gave up because it was too complicated. Also if you are > > setting up a Samba file server and need UID/GID to SID mappings the only > > supported option is Winbind if sssd works at all. > > Hi > Why don't we simply store the uid in the directory along with everything > else concerming the user? Why store that information somewhere else? > > All the OP wants is consistent uidNumbers. The only way I know how to do > that is to store the uidNumber in the DN of the object. All DC's pull > the same attribute at all times. Forget idmap ranges. You can use > winbind to do that and prolly pull stuff from AD too. However, those of > us who have tried alternatives for pulling rfc2307 from AD find the > alternatives easier to install and configure. Anyone who has tried sssd > is unlikely to return to winbind. It also has the advantage that it > works fully on a S4 DC, not just for uid and gid but for the whole of > rfc2307. For good measure, it throws in dynamic dns updates for fwd and > reverse zones. For free. > > sssd does what it says on the tin. With winbind, there are too many > different tins;) > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
