samba - Aug 2013 - "groups" command not working as expected

Hi all,

I can't seem to figure this one out.

I have a test rig Samba 4 VM up and running nicely. Have imported my old
Samba 3 directory and am using nslcd to get users and groups back to *nix.

I have a perl login script which generates on-the-fly .bat scripts per user
as they login using the root preexec and postexec commands in my smb.conf
(which worked out of the box with Samba 4 surprisingly).

My current issue is that I use the "groups user.name" command to list
what
groups that user is a member of. This is then parsed into my batch script
and the users and mapped drives accordingly.

The groups command appeared to be working ok, but I've just noticed that
any changes I make to existing or new users aren't passed to the groups
command. getent group and getent passwd still work ok but neither of these
can list a users' groups in the manner that I need.

Can anyone suggest an alternative method or a fix for the groups problem?

Thanks in advance.

Chris.

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Update on this.

It appears that the groups command is working, it takes a while to filter
through for some reason (like, about 15 minutes). Any ideas why it should
be so slow to update?

c:)


On 28 August 2013 16:17, Chris Alavoine <chrisa at acs-info.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't seem to figure this one out.
>
> I have a test rig Samba 4 VM up and running nicely. Have imported my old
> Samba 3 directory and am using nslcd to get users and groups back to *nix.
>
> I have a perl login script which generates on-the-fly .bat scripts per
> user as they login using the root preexec and postexec commands in my
> smb.conf (which worked out of the box with Samba 4 surprisingly).
>
> My current issue is that I use the "groups user.name" command to
list
> what groups that user is a member of. This is then parsed into my batch
> script and the users and mapped drives accordingly.
>
> The groups command appeared to be working ok, but I've just noticed
that
> any changes I make to existing or new users aren't passed to the groups
> command. getent group and getent passwd still work ok but neither of these
> can list a users' groups in the manner that I need.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative method or a fix for the groups problem?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris.
>
> --
> ACS (Alavoine Computer Services Ltd)
> Chris Alavoine
> mob +44 (0)7724 710 730
> www.alavoinecs.co.uk
> http://twitter.com/#!/alavoinecs
> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-alavoine/39/606/192
>


-- 
ACS (Alavoine Computer Services Ltd)
Chris Alavoine
mob +44 (0)7724 710 730
www.alavoinecs.co.uk
http://twitter.com/#!/alavoinecs
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-alavoine/39/606/192