[Likewise-open-discuss] idmap uid and gid

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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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.

No.  The enterprise idmapper is included in LW Open as well.  Just
not built by default.  The missing piece is the tools for setting the
attribute information in AD.  We're working on getting the tools
available to do this from Linux available under an open
source license as well.





cheers, jerry
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