[CentOS] Samba Question

Thu May 21 18:48:32 UTC 2009
Bo Lynch <blynch at ameliaschools.com>

On Thu, May 21, 2009 2:43 pm, JohnS wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:16 -0400, Bo Lynch wrote:
>> Hopefully very easy question to answer. I am trying to migrate data of
>> of
>> a samba server that is using winbind joined to a windows domain to
>> another
>> box. What samba or winbind files do I need so that this will resolve to
>> names rather than UID and GID. For example........
>> drwxr-x--- 1049  10926                  10005 36864 May 15 11:46 Student
>>
>> Thanks
> --
> Migrate what data exactly? Is winbindd/samba your domain controller or
> is it on a Active Directory Server?
>
> Caveat is you don't need winbindd. If you using winbind with AD then
> save your *.tdb files. Depends on your situation totally. Kerberos cache
> come to mind also. You smb.conf also. Just to migrate user data none of
> the above is needed. This answer you ? ?. As far as I know UID and GID
> is the only way to inter operate with AD...
>
> JohnStanley
>

The situation I'm in is that this box is joining to a win2000 PDC using
samba+winbind for setting permissions on files and dir with domain
users/groups. When I do a ls -l I just see the uid or gid instead of the
domainame+_user domainname+group which is causing samba not to know who
owns the file.