hello, i still trying to deal with groups in a samba-pdc i am now closer to my problem: the net groupmap cant find the group about a wrong groupid. i found similar errormessages by googling, but no answer, which brings me to understand what exactly happens. it follows a snipp from smb.conf, a snipp from the debug-info i am getting. my ldap has ous people, groups and Idmap samba is 3.0.4 system is solaris 8 smb.conf: passdb backend = ldapsam:ldaps://localhost domain logons = yes ldap admin dn = "cn=Manager,dc=agrl,dc=ethz" ldap group suffix = ou=groups ldap user suffix = ou=people ldap machine suffix ldap suffix = dc=agrl,dc=ethz debuginfo: ./net groupmap add -d 5 ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=domadm \ type=d rid=512 .... [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(objectClass=sambaIdma pEntry)(gidNumber=4294967295))], scope => [2] [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [ou=groups,dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(objectClass =sambaGroupMapping)(gidNumber=4294967295))], scope => [2] [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_getgroup(1898) ldapsam_getgroup: Did not find group [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [ou=groups,dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(|(objectCla ss=posixGroup)(objectclass=sambaIdmapEntry))(gidNumber=4294967295))], scope => [ 2] [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(objectClass=sambaIdma pEntry)(gidNumber=4294967295))], scope => [2] [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [ou=groups,dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(objectClass =sambaGroupMapping)(gidNumber=55001))], scope => [2] [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_getgroup(1898) ldapsam_getgroup: Did not find group [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [ou=groups,dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(|(objectCla ss=posixGroup)(objectclass=sambaIdmapEntry))(gidNumber=55001))], scope => [2] [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 5] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search(932) smbldap_search: base => [dc=agrl,dc=ethz], filter => [(&(objectClass=sambaIdma pEntry)(gidNumber=55001))], scope => [2] adding entry for group Domain Admins failed! [2004/08/19 10:43:52, 2] utils/net.c:main(792) return code = -1 -- ________________________________________________ Andreas Burger Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich Departement AgrL ISG LFW A2 8092 Zuerich 632 68 54 andreas.burger@agrl.ethz.ch _________________________________________________