hi, can somebody explain, how the idmap backend with ldap works exactly. sorry for that stupid questions, but the docu is not clear for me. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ idmapper.html#id2588292 i understand the idmap topic/difficulty, why i need this, but how the ldap get filled with idmap entries? automatically/dynamically if winbind is running? or manually/statically if the user created maybe "readonly"? or i have to care myself? because if i add idmap backend = ldap:ldap://ldap1.foo.bla ldap idmap suffix = ou=idmap idmap uid = 10000-30000 idmap gid = 10000-30000 on DC nothing happens. the ou is still empty and the ldap log shows something like .......conn=41240 op=36 SRCH base="ou=idmap,...,dc=org" scope=1 filter="(objectClass=*)" we have 3 samba domains with trusts over vpn no proplem, but now i want to add a samba domain member server. i got only the server runing with nss/ldap only. all my unix accounts are in ldap, groups too. is it right that i need in the nsswitch.conf the ldap entry too and not only "passwd: files winbind"? i guess, but winbind reports allways "group xy not found" if i connect to a share on the domain member server. is it possible to get idmap example configurations (smb.conf), one for the samba DC with ldapsam and one for a samba domain member? if i need to add the entry manually, can somebody explain the following objectclasses, maybe with an ldif-file (sambaIdmapEntry and sambaUnixIdPool are clear, i guess): objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.2.2.9 NAME 'sambaSidEntry' SUP top STRUCTURAL DESC 'Structural Class for a SID' MUST ( sambaSID ) ) objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.1.2.2.10 NAME 'sambaConfig' SUP top AUXILIARY DESC 'Samba Configuration Section' MAY ( description ) ) objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.2.2.11 NAME 'sambaShare' SUP top STRUCTURAL DESC 'Samba Share Section' MUST ( sambaShareName ) MAY ( description ) ) objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.2.2.12 NAME 'sambaConfigOption' SUP top STRUCTURAL DESC 'Samba Configuration Option' MUST ( sambaOptionName ) MAY ( sambaBoolOption $ sambaIntegerOption $ sambaStringOption $ sambaStringListoption $ description ) ) objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.2.2.13 NAME 'sambaPrivilege' SUP top AUXILIARY DESC 'Samba Privilege' MUST ( sambaSID ) MAY ( sambaPrivilegeList ) ) because i need this for our free web based tool, which managed the whole network (www.ideaweb.de/netmc.php) and now my last questions, is it possible to set up network with the following conditions if the idmap tables are on ldap: the samba DC can allways establish a connection to the ldap, all clients and to the samba domain member (additional fileserver). the clients can reach both server (dc and fileserver) but the fileserver can not establish a connection to the pdc through the firewall or to all clients only to the ldap. we want a fileserver with webdav/modperl (webdrive) to access the samba files, located in an unsafe network (dmz). many thanks for helping, thomas sorry for my english =)