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Title: Moving samba away from smbpasswd?
Post by: andy75 on September 05, 2005, 04:53:09 AM

I'm looking at replacing my existing Mandrake Linux PDC with SME. My fundamental issue with this is Samba and the continued use of the now depreciated smbpasswd backend.

Using this backend samba makes all RID's (the last part of the SID) uid * 2 + 1000 and their group RID is uid * 2 + 1001.

This is a non-issue when setting up a new PDC but when migrating an existing domain it means you simply cannot transparently migrate your users as it is impossible to override their RID's (unless they can all be made to map to the above rules which mine can't).

If the default was changed to the tdbsam or LDAP backend then this power would be available. From a maintenance point of view it would simply require the backups to capture /var/cache/samba directory.

It looks like there have been a few bites of the cherry at migrating off smbpasswd (6.5b1 and 7a3). Can someone explain the issues?

Title: Re: Moving samba away from smbpasswd?
Post by: CharlieBrady on September 08, 2005, 01:15:47 AM

Quote from: "andy75"

It looks like there have been a few bites of the cherry at migrating off smbpasswd (6.5b1 and 7a3). Can someone explain the issues?

This thread should give you some background:

http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/devinfo/msg07259.html

Please join one of the developer mailing lists (devinfo, or the developer list at smeserver.sourceforge.net) and we can talk about this. [I don't use Windows, so I'm dependent on others who care to drive changes in the samba configuration.]