Evening sir. Hope you?re doing okay.
Shall I go ahead and replace that wiki page then?
On 21 Oct 2024 at 18:56 +0200, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org>, wrote:> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:26:30 +0200
> Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > There was a long conversation about this some months ago with
> > @Rowland, I take it there is.
> >
> > If all happy with that, I can edit the wiki no problem, in fairness
> > this particular article:
> >
> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Sysvolreset
> >
> > Seems quite complex (and outdated) to me.
>
> There was a time that running sysvolreset would break things, not fix
> them, but that was quite a few years ago, that wikipage was from that
> time and is no longer relevant.
>
> When that wikipage was written (by the much missed Louis Van Belle), it
> was thought the best way of running samba was to use RFC2307
> attributes. I personally do not think this anymore, all it actually
> gives you is the ability to use individual Unix home directories and
> logon shells, with the downside that you have to add the rfc2307
> attributes manually. There is also the problem of Domain Admins, if you
> use RFC2307 attributes, you must either not give the group a gidNumber
> attribute or not set 'idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes' in the DC(s)
> smb.conf (as pointed out by Luis Peromarta).
>
> Rowland
>
>
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