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that users use on DOS or Windows machines to those that the UNIX
box uses. The other is to map multiple users to a single username
so that they can more easily share files.</para>
+
+ <para>Please note that for user or share mode security, the
+ username map is applied prior to validating the user credentials.
+ Domain member servers (domain or ads) apply the username map
+ after the user has been successfully authenticated by the domain
+ controller and require fully qualified enties in the map table
+ (e.g. biddle = DOMAIN\foo).</para>
<para>The map file is parsed line by line. Each line should
contain a single UNIX username on the left then a '=' followed