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Rowland, If you were up for another hint at rid versus ad... I'd like to understand a bit more. With rid, I map the administrator to root only... no mapping of users in AIX. How does Samba figure out that bobw at mydomain.com should use the samba user ID bobwsmb? If I use ad, I would use rfc2307 attributes to address that (I think). It seems more "specific" to use ad, but that's more from the "having some control" viewpoint than anything else. Ideally, the customer would still strive for low administration, so is rid more suited f...

Thanks again for the continued help... Current thinking is using rid for the backend does not place any new administrative functions on the staff - agree? Begs questions of what is being written in smbpasswd, and do we have administrative work on AIX? Such as adding users and a group or two in the range specified for idmap? A mapping "table"? If rid is hands-off administration,