Hmm, interesting, i wasn't sure the "username map" was necessary when using
Winbind.
I can see how that would work, but it seems unecessary, since Winbind's
purpose is to make Active Directory users and groups appear to be local
users and groups, so permissions on a shares would be modified using
Actually, in the case of disparate usernames between Windows and Unix accounts,
that's exactly how it's done (or CAN be done).
At my previous job, I was using Samba+Winbindd to allow Unix share access to
Windows/AD accounts; the file specified in the "username map" parameter
contained a bunch o
I have joined samba to a 2003 active directory server.
If a samba shared dir is owned by root, how does active directory manage it?
more specifically, how are the permissions mapped? administrator to root?
i have seen reference to a parameter in smb.conf to "username map",
but i don't see refere
