On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:02 -0500, Kristofer wrote:
> To add to this, I let my script continue until the rIDNextRID reached the end 
> of the pool.  This caused a waste of about 129,000 RID's.
> 
> This concerns me because Microsoft has used 8 billion RID's in 12 years 
> (http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2011/09/12/managing-rid-pool-depletion.aspx),
>  and I have burned through almost 5 million in less than a year - and my 
> organization is nowhere near the size of M$.
> 
> With Samba not supporting domain trusts, there is no ability to migrate users 
> to a new domain, so if this is to continue and cause an excessive RID pool 
> depletion, the missing domain trust feature of Samba will leave users dead 
> with no way to get users onto a new domain with a fresh RID pool.

It's just a bug, with a fix in master and a patch attached for 4.0 to
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10014

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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