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does winbind have the capability to have a backup idmap backend via ldap? ie: idmap_backend = ldap://primary idmap_backend = ldap://secondary I know this syntax is not allowed but I'm wondering if anybody sees this as a usable feature. I apologize ahead of time if this is not the catalyst of a relevant discussion. Thanks all....

Hello everybody, I have set up authentication for a Linux Host using MS SFU. Works fine: "getent passwd" show my users, they can login..." On the same host I want to set up Samba 3.0.9 as a domain member. The question: Can I use the AD Controller as "idmap_backend" _directly_ , skipping the use of winbind ? The problem with using winbind is that users will show up twice in "getent passwd" and the parallel use of NFS becomes a problem, as files belong to the winbind user if created with Samba , and to the "SFU User" if created wi...

Environment: AIX 5.2 Samba 3.0.21b (compiled at this site with Visualage C/C++ 6.0) configure was run as: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --with-pam --with-acl-support --with-aio-support --with-winbind Windows environment is a mix of Windows NT domain and Novell file servers. Does anybody know of a single document or set of documents that have a "cookbook"

...shares which they have posix group access to If (ii.) is incorrect then really this whole email is a little moot; however, I thought of my objections to which attribute were being queried before I thought of the group membership issue on client machines. I propose that the combination of "idmap_backend = ad" and "winbind nss info = rcf2307" be changed to actually look at the rfc2307 group attributes instead of the windows group attributes. I have just started to wrap my mind around the complexities of posix<->windows mapping, and I look forward to any response that expand...