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...are based on the user's primary group. When I create a new user with usrmgr, I can set the Samba primary group but it has no effect on the Unix primary group. For instance, I have a user John Smith who works in accounting. In usrmgr, I create the user jsmith and set his primary group as acctng. He can login and the group is mapped so he gets the right department drive, however, he has no rights to files in the drive. I check /etc/groups and he is listed as a member of the acctng group. I check pdbedit -Lv jsmith and see his group SID is his personal group, not the SID of the acctn...

.... Connection closed by foreign host. [root@server data]# testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[netlogon]" Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[data]" Processing section "[acctng]" Loaded services file OK. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions [..] [root@server init.d]# smbstatus Samba version 2.2.12 Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- data mp002 samba 14342 mp16 (192.168.10...

...extended to # as many users as required. ;[myshare] ; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff ; path = /usr/somewhere/shared ; valid users = mary fred ; public = no ; writable = yes ; printable = no ; create mask = 0765 [data] path = /usr/data force group = samba [acctng] path = /usr/acctng browseable = no _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Alright, I give up. I'm going to go out in the parking lot and scream. Over the years I have built many, many versions of Samba on many versions of BSD[386,OS] and other unixen. I have never, ever had trouble like this (except, of course, with Irix). Never with a BSD. 4.2 ships with Samba 2.0.6 (why? -- 2.0.7 was released last April). I've been running 2.0.7 on a DEC Alpha running OSF