[Likewise-open-discuss] idmap uid and gid

[Conrad Lawes]

I'm confused.  What do you mean by "not built by default"? If the idmapper
is included,  where is it?  How do you use it?  Where is the documentation
on this?


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry at samba.org>
wrote:

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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.
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> cheers, jerry
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Regards,
Conrad Lawes
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