From f75a6fddf064d8e1ce436d3e4457a4aaca0904bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:33:47 +0000 Subject: clarifying 'map to guest = bad uid' (This used to be commit 81e49da90d10408eb39293eb00bcd7109ad7b7a9) --- docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml index 57f0000f44..8993959073 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml @@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ Bad Uid - 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 logins which are successfully authenticated but which have no valid Unix 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. + guest account. This was the default behavior of Samba 2.x releases. Note that + if a member server is running winbindd, this option should never be required + because the nss_winbind library will export the Windows domain users and groups + to the underlying OS via the Name Service Switch interface. -- cgit