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...Gave it a bit of thought, now I gave Domain Users the gidNumber of '100' i.e. 'users' on my linux box, so I altered 'idmap config EXAMPLE:range = 1000-40000' to 'idmap config EXAMPLE:range = 0-40000' and restarted the daemons. Winbind now works, so from this, I summise that a user needs both a uidNumber & gidNumber before the ad backend will extract them from AD and both need to be inside the range supplied. This sort of begs the question, if you are using the ad backend and presumably have already given your users & groups a uidNumber &/or a gid...

...d then loads the kernel and initrd.img. However, at that point, the NIC goes dead, and the install then requests the CDROM and/or user input for the rest of the install (defeating the purpose of the unattended install). As I said, the FC6 install works just fine. After many hours of research, I summised that the e1000 drivers buried in the FC4 initrd are downrev'd for that card, so I tried a *bunch* of things to get this to work: -- Downloaded and built the latest e1000 driver and added to the initrd for FC4, wouldn't load, same result, -- Tried using the FC6 vmlinuz/initrd (also FC5...