Hello, I am using samba 3.5 (Red Hat Linux 6) which comes with idmap_hash plugin. I have put the following in smb.conf: workgroup = WORKGROUP password server = * security = domain idmap backend = hash idmap uid = 500-33554431 idmap gid = 500-33554431 winbind nss info = hash winbind normalize names = yes idmap_hash:name_map = /etc/samba/name_map.cfg template shell = /bin/bash winbind use default domain = false winbind offline logon = no winbind enum users = true winbind enum groups = true log level = winbind:3 An abstract of /etc/samba/name_map.cfg is: ntadmins=WORKGROUP\Domain Admins I restarted winbind. The problem is that the following command gives: # getent group "WORKGROUP\Domain Admins" WORKGROUP\domain_admins:*:16777224: Instead of something like: ntadmins:x:503: The same problem with getent passwd. I noticed that whatever value I put for idmap backend (event a xrong value), it does not change anything nor produces any error message in log. Any idea? Thanks a lot