samba - May 2002 - Synchronizing uids on deferent machines running winbind

Hello,

 I've a small Linux network, NFS amd NIS server with three clients. Each
machine is running winbind to connect to a windows 2000 domain. All is working
fine, I just have a problem synchronizing the uids generated by the winbind to a
windows user that logs on to the Linux network. For example, on one machine a
user can get uid 10000 and on another machine the same user can have uid 10001.

 Is there a way to sync these uids between the Linux machine? 
 Can I use the NIS server to do the winbind connection and update the NIS
database so that the Linux clients wouldn't have to run the winbind service?

Thanks,
 Shlomi Bachar
 IT Manager
 Airslide Systems Ltd.
 www.airslide.com
 Tel: +972 9 970 9861
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 Fax: +972 9 970 9843
 eMail: shlomi@airslide.com

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Shlomi Bachar wrote:
>  I've a small Linux network, NFS amd NIS server with three clients.
Each
> machine is running winbind to connect to a windows 2000 domain. All is
> working fine, I just have a problem synchronizing the uids generated by
> the winbind to a windows user that logs on to the Linux network. For
> example, on one machine a user can get uid 10000 and on another machine
> the same user can have uid 10001.
> 
>  Is there a way to sync these uids between the Linux machine? 
>  Can I use the NIS server to do the winbind connection and update the
> NIS database so that the Linux clients wouldn't have to run the winbind
> service?
Are you running Active Directory?  If so, you should look at 
AD4UNIX and PADL's nss_ldap module instead of winbind as a
possible solution.





cheers, jerry
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