On 05/03/2007 14:23, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
That's a little bit of a "hard guess". Windows can be an
wild environment, and profiles can be even wilder. :-)
I know, I know ;).
PS: actually, I suppose I could simple delete both Linux and Samba users
and create them again, as long as I know their passwords or inform the
"human" users that they have to enter a new password... but what happens
to their roaming profiles? Are they completely lost? Can't I reuse them
by just changing file ownerships?
There is a great chance that with new sid the workstation
will create a new profile, isn't anything in the Samba Official
HOWTO (Desktop Profile Management Chapter) about this?
No, as far as I can tell this situation is not covered there; it talks
about migrating profiles from a NT PDC, which is somehow different, and
I'm missing the pieces to link it all together.
Anyway I see mention of a "profiles" Samba tool which might be useful:
it changes all occurrences of a SID in a NT registry file. But I
strongly fear it could break something; it also only appears to support
NT, which probably means you're in for a headache if you use it on XP
profiles.
Anyway, I could avoid touching the SID, if I can make the Samba users
keep their SIDs while changing their Linux UIDs.
This is the first piece I'm missing: what is the link between Samba
users and Linux UIDs? What happens if I only change the UIDs? Can't I
just change some references to them in the Samba database?
PS: uhm, I now also noticed that the pdbedit command has -G and -U
arguments which should be able to change the user/group SID for a
user... If the only problem is the new SID, then maybe I could simply
set it like the old one this way.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Ciao,
Marco.
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