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@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
<emphasis>hate</emphasis> you if you set the <parameter moreinfo="none">map to
guest</parameter> parameter this way :-).</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><constant>Bad Uid</constant> - Is only applicable when Samba is configured
+ in some type of domain mode security (security = {domain|ads}) and means that
+ user logins which are successfully authenticated but which have no valid
+ user account (and smbd is unable to create one) should be mapped to the defined
+ guest account. This was the default behavior of Samba 2.x releases.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Note that this parameter is needed to set up &quot;Guest&quot;