[CentOS] Samba Question

Thu May 21 19:29:39 UTC 2009
Bo Lynch <blynch at ameliaschools.com>

On Thu, May 21, 2009 3:33 pm, Toby Bluhm wrote:
> Bo Lynch wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Is winbind added to the appropriate fields in nsswitch.conf?
>
> --


Yes