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I am still trying to resolve an issue where I need the ad user's home directory to have a specific uid so that when I nfs its home somewhere the user can access his files. I found wbuser.pl out there at http://www.occam.com/tools/: Mapping Active Directory Users to Existing UNIX UIDsUse this procedure on systems where AD user accounts should correspond to UNIX user accounts on other systems. Among other things, this allows NFS shares from a UNIX server to work on an Active Direc...

...--- I moved a RHEL4 machine so that it could authenticate logins from a different ADS domain than the one I originally set it up for. I have done this before, and found it to be a bit of a pain to make UNIX UID/GIDs, to ADS SID mappings the same on multiple machines. I had found a utility called wbuser , http://www.occam.com/tools/README.wbuser-1.1 , that could delete and add the UID to SID mappings but did not work for GID to SID mappings. Fortunately, I found that I could just copy the Trivial Data Base (TDB) file called winbind_idmap.tdb from one machine to all the others, and then start t...