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accounts even though the user and group names in
both environments may not be identical. Perhaps
most important, User and Group Mappings lets
you maintain a single mapping database for the entire
enterprise.
In addition to one-to-one mapping between
Windows and UNIX user and group accounts, User
and Group Mappings permits one-to-many
mapping. This lets you associate multiple UNIX
accounts with a single Windows account, or multiple
Windows accounts with a single UNIX account.
This can be useful, for example, when you do not
need to maintain separate UNIX accounts for
individuals and would rather use a few accounts to
provide different classes of access permissions.
You can use simple maps, which map Windows and
UNIX accounts with identical names. You can also
create advanced maps to associate Windows and
UNIX accounts with different names, which you can
use in conjunction with simple maps. Furthermore,
with User and Group Mappings, you can obtain
UNIX user, password, and group information from
one or more NIS servers, or from imported password
and group files.
Section Topics
This section contains the following topics
 “General Tab” on page 74
 “Simple Maps” on page 76
 “Explicit User Maps” on page 77
 “Explicit Group Maps” on page 80
General Tab
To map NFS users and groups