[CentOS] Centos+AD integration (uid/gid problems)

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| Ray Van Dolson writes:
| 
| > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 06:07:46PM +0100, nux at li.nux.ro wrote:
| > You might try taking a look at idmap_ad(8) (and the other idmap_*
| > man
| > pages as well).
| >
| > I'm not sure which idmap backend gets used by default (RID?). I did
| > think idmap_rid would result in consistent UID/GID mappings based on
| > the SID assuming you choose the same ranges on each server...
| >
| > Ray
| 
| Ray,
| 
| Thanks for the tip. I will have a look in this whole idmap thing.
| AFAIK the IDs are assigned by winbind from a rather generous range,
| but I
| think it's the same range on every machine.

You may also need to look at having Service For UNIX installed on Windows 2003 machines.  R2 and 2008 have it included but you need to enable it.  This will add another tab to the user properties where you can assign fixed UID/GIDs

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