[Samba] Trouble with groups

Bert Rapp
Tue, 05 Nov 2002 19:17:54 -0000

Have I wandered into uncharted territory?  They has to be someone out
there that can point me in the right direction.  Please help me.  :)

Bert Rapp wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting myself in to the administrators group.
I'm
> using samba as a domain controller.  I have a samba account called
> administrator.  I have these settings in my smb.conf::
>
> domain group map = /etc/samba/groups.mapping
> domain user map = /etc/samba/domainuser.mapping
> local group map = /etc/samba/localgroup.mapping
>
>
> This is in my domainuser.mapping to alias the administrator samba
> account to the linux root account:
> root = \\NORTHTRAILRV\\Administrator
>
> This is in my groups.mapping to alias admins to the Administrators groups
> admins = Administrators
>
> This is the group listing in /etc/group:
> admins:x:200:root
>
> And for fun I have a local group mapping like this:
> admins = BUILTIN\Administrators
>
> For some reason though, when I log on to the domain as administrator,
> I still do not have permission to change the time or anything else.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>