[Likewise-open-discuss] idmap uid and gid

[Douglas Furlong]

I'm interested in knowing the answer to this, as we are currently
reviewing this product for use in our location.

I would be curious to know if once one licences the LikeWise windows
management utilities, if you have to role out updates to the clients to
make use of the new features, or if the LikeWise windows management just
provides an easier "unix" centric style of management from within the
windows environment (hopefully that makes sense).

I think (pure guess) that it is the latter and not the former.

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 10:15 -0400, Conrad Lawes wrote:
> I don't have an answer for you but in order for you to get same
> UID/GUID as you remote from one computer to another, the  GUID/UID
> must be stored centrally.   A Windows domain controller would  be the
> ideal repository for this information.  When  you  think about  it AD
> already stores the SID for every object that is part of that domain.
> On a Windows 2003 R2  domain, the AD schema is already extended to
> store UNIX GUID and UID  data.   
> 
> In fact, the commercial version of LikeWise stores the GUID/UID  in
> AD.    I suspect that this is a limitation, by design,  in the open
> community version.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Davide Ferrari
> <davide.ferrari at atrapalo.com> wrote:
>         Hi
>         
>         I've seen the question was asked before (a few days ago)
>         http://lists.likewisesoftware.com/pipermail/likewise-open-discuss/2008-April/000228.html
>         
>         but I'm in a little bit different situation, cause I'm not
>         running Identity
>         Management for Unix on the Windows 2003 R2.
>         Nonetheless, I see that idmap uid and idmap gid ara simply
>         ignored in
>         lwiauthd.conf. I'm using likewise-open 4.0.5 (as in current
>         Ubuntu 8.04), I
>         got it work the very first time, but I can get the same
>         UID/GID as in another
>         server using the standard winbind with the idmap options I
>         mentioned.
>         
>         What's the best/official way to synchronize the UIDs in a
>         mixed
>         winbind/likewise environment?
>         
>         Thanks in advance
>         
>         --
>         Davide Ferrari
>         System Administrator
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> 
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> Regards,
> Conrad Lawes
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