[nzlug] Maintaining owners /groups over network shares

[Cliff Pratt]

Anton wrote:
> 2008/5/5 Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com>:
>> Samba Domain Controllers? Not *necessary* surely, though maybe
>> indicated by other requirements.
> 
> That was an OR list of examples rather than an AND list :)
>
Ah, OK.
 >
> Without resorting to fragile kludges or manual efforts (which is ok 
> for a very small number of machines/users), generally AFAIK the 
> recommended way to keep uids and gids consistent across machines is a
> centralised user account database.
> 
> A Samba DC was just one example of that.
> 
I'm not sure that I'd go down the Samba DC route if there was an AD
Domain Controller in the area! That's all I was thinking.
> 
> Although I'd welcome further thoughts...
> 
Ah, no, just thought I was missing something.

Cheers,

Cliff