Samba4 Administration

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Creating Users

  • users can be created in two ways:
  • they can be done through the gui provided by RSAT(Remote Service Administration Tools) to add users into Active Directory (AD)
  • simply click new user in the appropriate OU (organizational unit) and enter in name,username and password
  • User UID can be changed or specified using modXid script on AD server
  • to create user into AD using terminal use samba-tool
samba-tool user add USERNAME
  • UID can be specified at creation using command line, use:
samba-tool user add USERNAME --uid-number=UIDNUMBER

Changing XID

  • uid and gid for users in samab are translated from the users windows SID using idmap
  • idmap stores its database locally which contains the mappings
  • a script

MAC

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