On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 18:07 +0100, nux at li.nux.ro wrote: > I need to have several EL machines in an AD env. > Joining the machines was easier than expected using authconfig, but what > happens now is that blahdomain\blahuser gets assigned a > different, random ID each time I use a different station. > In AD I did specify the UID and GID in the UNIX Attributes tab for blahuser, > but it gets totally ignored; so do the other values (for home, shell etc). Do you have UNIX identity management turned on in AD? If so I think you can - idmap backend = ad winbind nss info = rfc2307 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes winbind cache time = 300 > Ideally I'd have all the users assigned a static uid and gid from AD and > have /home on all machines mounted from NFS; but right now if I log in with > blahuser to another machine my $HOME is owned by another random id. > Sugesstions? What am I missing? I'm quite a noob with Windows :) This is winbind stuff.