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bakytn
Asked: 2012-04-10 09:36:29 +0800 CST

Two samba servers and UID,GID mappings across them

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I have a samba server and just installed the second one to configure a reserve file server.

It all went well and both of them successfully are on Active Directory domain (actually SAMBA 4)

the problem is that on the server 2 user shares messed with wrong uid/gids.

and if I id user1 on server 1 I get 2010 but but I run id user1 on server 2 I get 2031

They use 99% identical smb.conf

and they have: passdb backend = tdbsam

I have found out that in order to achieve equal UID/GID's I would need to use ldapsam but I don't know how to do it.

Do I need to first export from tdbsam and then install ldap server on server 1 export to that ldap server?

and then set passdb backend to ldapsam on both?

samba ldap

1 Answers

  1. You could export samba's users on the first server an import them on the next with pdbedit:

    pdbedit -e tdbsam:/tmp/tdbsam.bak

    and scp or rsync the file to the second server and on the second server:

    pdbedit -i tdbsam:/tmp/tdbsam.bak

    or import them from tdbsam (the local file) to ldapsam:

    pdbedit -i tdbsam:/tmp/tdbsam.bak -e ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1

    Edit: I just saw this is an onl question... well if somebody still needs this.

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