If you are only using NT clients it doesn't matter too much what you use for UIDs. If you want, you can just map all NT users to the same UID, since the files will all have NT security and what matters is the ACL. However, if you do have UNIX users accessing the data you will want to have a consistent mapping for the UIDs. I agree that is how SSAM should work. We'll look into fixing it.
Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick.Day.B@bayer.com Patrick.Day.B@bayer.com To: - (052)toasters(a)mathworks.com toasters@mathworks.com Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 8:54 AM Subject: NT and UID
I have a question about the use of UID entries in the passwd and group
files in
regards to an NT environment. We are installing a NetFiler 740 with Ontap 5.1.2 and only use NTFS (no mixed or NFS) permissions. We also have
enable
quotas. I am using the Secure Share AccountMigrator to pull in and merge
two
separate NT domains. The SSAM arbitrarily/sequentially assigns UID's on
the
initial merge. However, i was wanting to use the SSAM as an accont update utility as well. When we make changes to the account database on a daily basis, we can simply merge and save using the SSAM. When i have
experimented,
i found that a user's UID may change from update to update. I can't find anything wrong with this, but wanted to know if anyone else is doing the
same
and whether or not they have encountered any problems.
Thanx! W. Patrick Day System Adminstrator Bayer Corporation Clayton, NC