samba - Mar 2005 - srvtools (Usrmgr.exe) : strange problem

Hello everybody. I have noted a strange problem when using Usrmgr.exe 
(from srvtools). The problem arise when a net groupmap is done on a 
group for which a user exist with the same name that the specified 
unixgroup. For example, lets say that I have the following UNIX user and 
group create on my Samba server :

joe (in /etc/group)
joe (in /etc/passwd)

Now I create the following map :

net groupmap add ntgroup="Joe Smith" unixgroup=joe type=domain

Now if I start Usrmgr.exe and I check the user joe I can see the group 
"Joe Smith" and others groups. If I try to remove the group "Joe
Smith"
then Usrmgr.exe popup a message "Access denied". What is strange is
that
if I check /etc/group I can see that the command has succeed because 
user joe is no longer member of the group joe. Still that if I look back 
to Usrmgr.exe, user joe is still a member of group "Joe Smith" even if
it's not the case in /etc/group. Anyone can bring some clarifications 
about that?

Hi,

I am not sure, but I think that windows does not support users und 
groups with the same name (joe-joe)
Trie to rename the group joe to e.g. joegroup and it will work.

Greetings

Hansj?rg




Olivier Rochefort wrote:
> Hello everybody. I have noted a strange problem when using Usrmgr.exe 
> (from srvtools). The problem arise when a net groupmap is done on a 
> group for which a user exist with the same name that the specified 
> unixgroup. For example, lets say that I have the following UNIX user 
> and group create on my Samba server :
>
> joe (in /etc/group)
> joe (in /etc/passwd)
>
> Now I create the following map :
>
> net groupmap add ntgroup="Joe Smith" unixgroup=joe type=domain
>
> Now if I start Usrmgr.exe and I check the user joe I can see the group 
> "Joe Smith" and others groups. If I try to remove the group
"Joe
> Smith" then Usrmgr.exe popup a message "Access denied". What
is
> strange is that if I check /etc/group I can see that the command has 
> succeed because user joe is no longer member of the group joe. Still 
> that if I look back to Usrmgr.exe, user joe is still a member of group 
> "Joe Smith" even if it's not the case in /etc/group. Anyone
can bring
> some clarifications about that?
>

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