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...g of uid's & gid's can happen. > > But that's where the power samba-tool ends: samba-tool doesn't have the ability to modify users and groups. And samba-tool can only assign uid to users but not gid to groups. There was a patch for this, if I remember correctly, by Marc Muehlfield. > Is there a possibilty to change uid or gid via script using ldbedit? > Oh definitely, just open the users AD record in ldbedit and add/edit attributes as required, or you can use ldbmodify and an ldif. Just make sure that you know what you are doing, or you could end up with problems....

...can happen. > >> >> But that's where the power samba-tool ends: samba-tool doesn't have >the ability to modify users and groups. And samba-tool can only assign >uid to users but not gid to groups. > >There was a patch for this, if I remember correctly, by Marc >Muehlfield. > >> Is there a possibilty to change uid or gid via script using ldbedit? >> > >Oh definitely, just open the users AD record in ldbedit and add/edit >attributes as required, or you can use ldbmodify and an ldif. Just make > >sure that you know what you are doing, or...

Thanks for your advice regarding modifying the ldb. Before I do that I have to tell that uids and gids are automatically assigned in ADUC Unix tab. All have to do is to choose the NIS domain. After changing this field all other Unix attributes are automatially filled in. So this works. I tried something different for testing: I added a user with samba-tool using a script and assigned a random