samba - Jun 2004 - Newbie group mapping question

I'm wondering if, in a context where samba 3.0.4 is PDC for an NT domain
with XP clients, it is necessary or at least normal practice to map
most/all NT groups (eg Domain Admins, Domain Users) to unix groups?

Also, I notice when I do 'net groupmap list' that there are not only
Domain Admins, Domain Users and Domain Guests, but also plain Admins,
Users and Guests. What is the significance of these two sets of groups
(the Domain groups and the 'plain' groups), should I map to one or the
other or both?

Sorry, my knowledge of Windows is even less than my knowledge of Samba
at this point in time.

Thanks
Mick

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:25, Ninti Systems wrote:
> I'm wondering if, in a context where samba 3.0.4 is PDC for an NT
domain
> with XP clients, it is necessary or at least normal practice to map
> most/all NT groups (eg Domain Admins, Domain Users) to unix groups?
> 
> Also, I notice when I do 'net groupmap list' that there are not
only
> Domain Admins, Domain Users and Domain Guests, but also plain Admins,
> Users and Guests. What is the significance of these two sets of groups
> (the Domain groups and the 'plain' groups), should I map to one or
the
> other or both?
> 
> Sorry, my knowledge of Windows is even less than my knowledge of Samba
> at this point in time.
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There is coverage of groups in the very excellent samba 3 how-to - see
the documentation page at the samba web site <http://www.samba.org>

Rather than cover it inadequately, you would be better served by reading
the information there. It seems that you already have mapped groups.
'Plain' groups are local accounts - not of much importance to a Samba
machine.

Craig