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..., I was wondering if anyone knew a way to configure samba so that it does not use /etc/passwd for a list of users,group id's,etc. I am currently setting up a server to authenticate against AD. I have that configured fine. The overall goal here is to provide a samba backup to our existing fileserverserver. Here is the problem: we need a way to sync the info in /etc/passwd between servers, these two serves will have a different list of users,groups,etc. So instead of writing a script that will compare the two and add the ones as needed (as well as do a bunch of other cleanup work) I thought ma...