samba - May 2009 - PDC and "group" question

Hi All,

   I just upgraded a workstation server to a PDC server.
I am using tbdsam as my user database.

Question 1:  As a workgroup server, I created my groups
in /etc/group (groupadd).  Is this still the case?
Do I also need to tell Samba about a different database
for groups?

Question 2: occasionally I get asked for the user
with "administrator's" privileges.  Do I need to create
a group called "administrators" (with an "s") and
populate it with "root", "todd" (me), etc.?

Many thanks,
-T

Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 12:31 -0700 schrieb
MargoAndTodd:
> Hi All,
> 
>    I just upgraded a workstation server to a PDC server.
> I am using tbdsam as my user database.
> 
> Question 1:  As a workgroup server, I created my groups
> in /etc/group (groupadd).  Is this still the case?
> Do I also need to tell Samba about a different database
> for groups?
I am not quite sure, I understand your question correctly:
probably you will want to use commands like
# net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=wheel  type=d 
  rid=512
which would map the Windows group "Domain Admins" to the local UNIX
group wheel and so on. See the documentation on samba.org for more
details examples.

Greetings

Uli.
> Question 2: occasionally I get asked for the user
> with "administrator's" privileges.  Do I need to create
> a group called "administrators" (with an "s") and
> populate it with "root", "todd" (me), etc.?
> 
> Many thanks,
> -T