samba - Apr 2011 - Using groups with windows

Hi,

we are using samba with ldap for our pdc.

And i was told by another admin, that when you use a windows server, you 
can only get the "Domain Users" and "Domain Admins" groups
from the
samba/ldap pdc.

So i tried to add a group, which i know exists on the server, to my 
windows server, but windows couldn't find it.

Is there a way to make other groups then "domain users" and
"domain
admins" usable under windows?

Regards,
adura

On 4/24/2011 12:45 PM, A.Dura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are using samba with ldap for our pdc.
>
> And i was told by another admin, that when you use a windows server, 
> you can only get the "Domain Users" and "Domain Admins"
groups from
> the samba/ldap pdc.
>
> So i tried to add a group, which i know exists on the server, to my 
> windows server, but windows couldn't find it.
>
> Is there a way to make other groups then "domain users" and
"domain
> admins" usable under windows?
>
> Regards,
> adura
>
Which version of Samba are you using?  I was able to get quite a few 
groups out of LDAP from samba4, but I had to add these entries to my 
ldap.conf:

nss_map_objectclass posixGroup group
nss_map_attribute uniqueMember member

I also needed to add GID and a password  value into the sam.ldb entries 
that I wanted to flow.

In the end I found that some groups hung (not sure why) and the setup 
caused problems when I installed software (because groupadd doesn't work 
right).  So I turned off getting groups from ldap.   I am getting my 
users from ldap and this works well (except I can't get ssl to work).  
If you are using Samba3 there are lots of guides on how to do it...