samba - Nov 2002 - Domain Admins?

Hello all,

Let me say first I'm very new to Linux (only had it running 3 days), so
bear with me if I'm a bit ignorant. I'm unsure if I should even post
this here, or if this list is exclusively for hardware issues...

I'm running into difficulties (on a win2k client) adding the Samba
"Domain Admins" group to the Windows "Administrators" group.
I am able
to log into the domain, the "Domain Admins" group shows in the list of
available groups from the Samba server, but when I click "Apply" I
receive the message:

"A member could not be added to or removed from the local group because
the member does not exist"

I'm fairly certain I followed the setup correctly; I added a group
called "domadm" to the etc/group file and added a user to that group
using usermod. I've tried several configurations in smb.conf with
"domain admin group" and "domain admin users" including:

1. domain admin group = @domadm

2. domain admin group = root @domadm

3. domain admin group = @domadm
   domain admin users = root

For the record I'm it's a brand new "stable" installation on a
Performa
6400/180, the Windows machine is running win2k professional with all
updates from windows update. I doubt that hardware makes a difference,
but if you need to know, ask.

Sorry if this has been long winded, I appreciate any help anybody can
offer. Lastly, let me say I'm very impressed by Debian, and Linux as a
whole. I look forward to learning much more, and hope I can soon make my
own contributions...

Thanks in advance for your help.

Wyatt

The good news are, that you don't relly need it, because, when you log in to
a domain as member of the Domain Admins group, you will automaticaly receive
Local Administrator priviledges on the given workstation. It's working for
me.

Best Regards

Geza Gemes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wyatt L. VanderStucken" <wyatt@wylovan.myserver.org>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: [Samba] Domain Admins?

> Hello all,
>
> Let me say first I'm very new to Linux (only had it running 3 days), so
> bear with me if I'm a bit ignorant. I'm unsure if I should even
post
> this here, or if this list is exclusively for hardware issues...
>
> I'm running into difficulties (on a win2k client) adding the Samba
> "Domain Admins" group to the Windows "Administrators"
group. I am able
> to log into the domain, the "Domain Admins" group shows in the
list of
> available groups from the Samba server, but when I click "Apply"
I
> receive the message:
>
> "A member could not be added to or removed from the local group
because
> the member does not exist"
>
> I'm fairly certain I followed the setup correctly; I added a group
> called "domadm" to the etc/group file and added a user to that
group
> using usermod. I've tried several configurations in smb.conf with
> "domain admin group" and "domain admin users"
including:
>
> 1. domain admin group = @domadm
>
> 2. domain admin group = root @domadm
>
> 3. domain admin group = @domadm
>    domain admin users = root
>
> For the record I'm it's a brand new "stable" installation
on a Performa
> 6400/180, the Windows machine is running win2k professional with all
> updates from windows update. I doubt that hardware makes a difference,
> but if you need to know, ask.
>
> Sorry if this has been long winded, I appreciate any help anybody can
> offer. Lastly, let me say I'm very impressed by Debian, and Linux as a
> whole. I look forward to learning much more, and hope I can soon make my
> own contributions...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Wyatt
>
>
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