samba - Nov 2003 - Power users on Samba 3.0.1.

Good Afternoon,

  How do I set my domain users to became Power Users on the workstations?
  Is there a way to map unix group "x" on the domain to became nt
group
  "Power Users"? I did some research and I found someone mentioning
"take
  domain users from the users group, and add it to the power user group"
  but my w2k does not list "Domain Users" under users.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you!

Hello Emannuel, I think the thing to do is to run a script like the following:

---start of script ---

#!/bin/tcsh
/bin/net groupmap modify ntgroup="Power Users" unixgroup=powergrp

--- end of script ---


The /bin/net command is the one that comes with samba, so before I put it in 
/bin it was /usr/loca/samba/bin (I use a symlink).

ntgroup="Power Users" is the ntgroup you're setting equal to the
unixgroup.
unixgroup=powergrp means powergrp is found in /etc/groups.

I believe you use this script once.  You can read more about using this script 
here:

http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/groupmapping.html

I keep a copy of my script in /etc/samba/scripts and incidentally my script 
does more than just define Power Users.  You can define other group 
equivalences.

i.e.

---start of script ---

#!/bin/tcsh
/bin/net groupmap modify ntgroup="Power Users" unixgroup=powergrp
/bin/net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=sysgrp
#/bin/net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Users" unixgroup=usersgrp

--- end of script ---

Cheers
Jeff



On Wednesday 19 November 2003 13:29, Emannuel Silva
wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
>   How do I set my domain users to became Power Users on the workstations?
>   Is there a way to map unix group "x" on the domain to became nt
group
>   "Power Users"? I did some research and I found someone
mentioning "take
>   domain users from the users group, and add it to the power user
group"
>   but my w2k does not list "Domain Users" under users.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
-- 
Jeff Gardiner [ gardiner@imaging.robarts.ca ]
System Administrator - Imaging Research Laboratories
Robarts Research Institute - London ON, Canada
519.663.5777 x34089

       ~~~~~~~
  Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
        -- Henry Spencer
~~~~~~

Jeff

Does that groupmap work since power users are a LOCAL USER account? or do
you then have to go to the computer and login as Administrator and make the
users part of the power users group?


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Santos Soler
MCP, Network+, A+
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, WinXperts wrote:
> Jeff
>
> Does that groupmap work since power users are a LOCAL USER account? or do
> you then have to go to the computer and login as Administrator and make the
> users part of the power users group?
You need to add the Domain Global Group containing the users whom you want
to give Workstation Power User status too into the Workstation Local Power
Users Group.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org