samba - Apr 2013 - Changing group name via samba-tool and other

1) Plesea, tell me knows how to change group name in samba 4. I don't
believe, that I can't do it, but:

# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool group --help
...
Available subcommands:
? add??????????? - Creates a new AD group.
? addmembers???? - Add members to an AD group.
? delete???????? - Deletes an AD group.
? list?????????? - List all groups.
? listmembers??? - List all members of an AD group.
? removemembers? - Remove members from an AD group.
For more help on a specific subcommand, please type: samba-tool group
<subcommand> (-h|--help)

2) One question makes me crazy. Samba 4 is AD. It can be run on linux! WOW! The
only thing I cannt understant is why I must use windows machine to configure AD.
For example I have ubuntu machine and many my colleagues do.So I must configure
AD. How can I do it from ubuntu? Or maybe I don't understand something?


-- 
Pavel

Hello,


Am 24.04.2013 11:45, schrieb ????????? ????????:
>   1) Plesea, tell me knows how to change group name in  samba 4.
Renaming isn't implemented yet.



> 2) One question makes me crazy. Samba 4 is AD. It can be
 > run on linux! WOW! The only thing I cannt understant is
why
> I must use windows machine to configure AD. For example I have
> ubuntu machine and many my colleagues do.So I must configure AD.
 > How can I do it from ubuntu? Or maybe I don't understand something?

The development of samba 4 took a long time and many things had to be 
done. And a higher focus was put on the backend and that it is 
manageable with the tools from windows. samba-tool already bring a lot 
of features. But there are also many things that are currently not 
implemented.


Just a suggestion as workaround:
Setup a VM or on an unused old PC an WinXP/7, install the management 
tools there and connect to the machine via RDP, if you must use ADUC, etc.


Regards,
Marc

Hello,

Am 24.04.2013 21:01, schrieb ????????? ????????:
> But I am shocked. I know samba is free and it means a lot,
 > but CRUD operations are always together. I am a programmer
 > myself and I know what I say. How can it be possible?

As every software, there's no version that is totally fitting all needs 
from everybody. samba-tool, like everything else on that project is 
growing and getting better with every version.

I'm sure, that samba-tool will provide more features in future versions.

But if you are a programmer and familiar with python, you can help 
adding new features to samba-tool. On the samba-technical mailing list 
you can ask for some first information to start, if you want to help.




 > Can samba 4 be used in production mode?

For me: Absolutely. I migrated our domain at work to samba 4, when it 
was in beta state (150 users, 230 workstations). And it's running 
perfect stable and I'm very happy with my samba4 backend.

But as everything in production, you should of course validate if the 
software is fitting your needs at your site.



> And one more question. In samba 3 we used create mask , force create..
 > to set file permisions. In samba 4 as I understand those options are
 > ignored and default acls are used instead. But, is it possible to set
 > by default different permisions on files and folders. For example
 > on folders rwx, and on files rw-. Because I dont want to give x
 > permision to file as I think it can be dangerous.

I currently don't have samba4 servers with 'create mask', etc. (only
on
3.6.x servers) and haven't looked at that yet. Have you tried it with 4.x?




Regards,
Marc