[Likewise-open-discuss] idmap uid and gid

[Steve Romanow]

i have used their commercial product for abt 10 months and my
uid/gid's are stored in AD.  Their licensing is only like $200/server
which is pretty reasonable for server use.

On 4/4/08, Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong at arc.com> wrote:
> 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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> > Conrad Lawes
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