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| author | Volker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org> | 2006-04-30 13:01:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-04-23 08:47:18 -0500 |
| commit | cfe3367aa3a78548c9a1296df1542e118a6628a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 7806dd0bd7758a6ea6e53260c8c9d0124215b228 /docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml | |
| parent | f9bdd0bfdf459ea4eaff5fb14711d5a49957313a (diff) | |
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Clarify smb.conf entry
(This used to be commit 5b0320ace11ac8e506f1e7e047bb010809f460be)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml index 711f20f39d..75c61fbec0 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <description> <para> The purpose of the idmap backend parameter is to allow idmap to NOT use the local idmap - tdb file to obtain SID to UID / GID mappings, but instead to obtain them from a common + tdb file to obtain SID to UID / GID mappings for unmapped SIDs, but instead to obtain them from a common LDAP backend. This way all domain members and controllers will have the same UID and GID to SID mappings. This avoids the risk of UID / GID inconsistencies across UNIX / Linux systems that are sharing information over protocols other than SMB/CIFS (ie: NFS). |