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...and get buy in by the Win Admins, to the Winbind model when we are asking them to do more work. And there is still no great solution for the primary group dilemma I first wrote about in the chain (i.e. same user on multiple systems may get a different primary group used for that system). -Crispin Bivans

Hello, All: The vignette with the sos package used "upquote.sty", required for R Journal when it was published in 2009. Current CRAN policy disallows "upquote.sty", and I've so far not found a way to pass "R CMD check" with sos without upquote.sty. I changed sos.Rnw per an email exchange with Prof. Ripley without solving the problem; see below. The

On 04/06/2020 21:22, Bivans, Crispin via samba wrote: > Rowland said: >>> Can you point me to a Release Changes note that says explicitly that Winbind is now required or that mapping of AD users to local unix accounts has been removed? >>> >>> Crispin >> Yes, see here: >> https://wiki...

Rowland said: >> Is there a set of settings to restore the mapping of AD users to pre-existing Unix Users? >No >> >> Does the official Samba distributed project source continue to support AD Users mapping to pre-existing Unix Users? >I do not think it ever did. I found this reference quickly from google describing the previous behavior. Winbind was always optional

Statement of issue -------------------------- A feature our company relied on to map AD users to existing Unix users was broken when upgrading to 4.8.x Samba packages from Red Hat for RHEL7.6 History of prior usage -------------------------- For over 5+ years and many more, our company would configure for server mode = ADS with net ads join and allow Samba to map incoming users by user name

I have some Custom VB apps that use Oracle OO4O for database communication. I can get Oracle 817 and 920 clients to work on my wine, but so far any of my attempts to get the Custom VB app to run do not work, generating run time error #5 that it couldn't get a valid Oracle connection going. Has any gotten a VB app to connect to Oracle on Wine? Thanks. -Crispin

Has anybody gotten Oracle client programs to work on Wine? I'd like to study your environment to see how I could make mine work on wine. I have sqlplus and tnsping working but any OCI or OO4O related programs for Oracle do not work currently. -Crispin