On 1/11/06, Jason Balicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Lamanna wrote: > > Question about changing file permissions in Windows XP when running > > samba as a PDC. > > If you hit Properties and go to the security tab, instead of listing > > the proper group/user names it lists the full SID. > > Is there a way to get Windows XP to map these to the proper > > user/group names? I am using LDAP as a backend with Samba. > > You have something wrong. You should see the proper > DOMAIN\username display and not the sid. > > I suspect a domain sid mismatch between the XP client and > samba server. > > There is a utility at sysinternals.com called "psgetsid" > that will show the SID of the logged in user on the > XP machine. Use that utility to compare with > "net getlocalsid" on the samba PDC and make sure that > the domain part matches. The local part will differ > (the last bit). > > If there is a mismatch, you'll need to rejoin the XP > box to the domain. If there's not, then I don't > know what's wrong. :) > > Be aware: rejoining to the domain will cause the profiles > on the box to get messed up, but you can reassign the > profiles by changing the registry and setting permissions.
Hrm. The domain part of the SIDs definitely match. What's interesting is that it doesn't even get the default-ish groups right (like Domain Users for example, it just shows [domain sid]-513) Any other ideas? > > HTH, > > --J(K) > > -- James -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
