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Hello I have been solving a problem how to make a nonroot user able to administer the domain (add users, groups, modify them etc.) from Windows workstation using usrmgr.exe It looks like what is stated in Samba HOWTO collection as prerequisites is not enough. First I found Chapter 12 cxl "How to make Samba PDC users member of the Domain Admins group" - made the nonroot user member of

Hi All, I have already integrated my samba with the Active directory domain using winbind, but I am trying to do the following. I want to map a UNIX group "ccusers" to Active Directory group "NICE\ccusers". I need my AD users that don't have local accounts on my machine to be able to access directories owne by the UNIX group ccusers. It seems like it should be simple to

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

Hello Is here anybody who is able to manage his NT4.0 domain on hid Samba 3 PDC with User Manager for Domains? Can you please tell me what things must be checked to be sure USRMGR.EXE administration (User Manager for Domains aka Domain User Manager) works? I am unable to make it working and tried already these Samba versions: 3.0.0 3.0.0rc1 3.0.0rc2 3.0.0rc3 3.0.1pre3 3.0.1rc1 2003-12-04 head

I've got a Fedora Core 2 box running Samba smbd version 3.0.7-2.FC2. I've set it up as a Domain master for a new domain. I setup a Win2K Server box and had it join the domain. I made an "administrator" user, I mapped the groups via: net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=admins net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Users" unixgroup=users I

hi all. recectly i made the migration from samba 2.2.8 to 3.0. everything is working fine, except that i dont know how to grant administrator privileges in win 2000 clients. with 2.2.8, i used DOMAIN ADMIN GROUP parameter ( domain admin group = @adm) but its been removed in samba 3.0, and i dont know what to do. any help will be apreciated thanks in advance sebastian ------------ Internet GRATIS

Hello Tried to add user in user manager from domains, NT4.0 client, logged in as root on the NT client. Clicked "New User", filled in nick, description, full name, password1, password2 (was dead sure they were the same, carefully typed 9-chars long stupid passwd). The user wasn't in the database. Then clicked OK. Never managed to add user this way. Checked all the add user, del

Hello, i have some problems migrating a Windows 2000 PDC to a Debian GNU/Linux Samba Server, i want to migrate it to a LDAP backend.. but as i'm kind of newbie with ldap and samba migration stuff, i preffered to migrate it to tdbsam first and try it for a while, if everything works fine, then switch to a ldap backend. The problem is that Essential Windows Groups are automatically created, so

Relevant part of "net3 groupmap list" is System Operators (S-1-5-21-1617713866-2789119093-1479812082-1007) -> sys In howto there is the following example net groupmap modify ntgroup="System Operators" unixgroup=sys net groupmap modify ntgroup="Power Users" unixgroup=sys You can add System Operators but trying to add Power Users fails. If you do it in reverse

Hi I am new to linux & Samba. I would like to setup Samba as a domain controller and using Fedora-ds for authentication. I have read some documents from www.samba.org but I am still in the mist. Here is my dumb questions about Samba as follows. 1. Is CENTOS4.6+SAMBA3.0.25 as PDC +FEDORA-DS possible? 2. Is this HOWTO from

I'm using Samba 3.0.21b on Debian linux using a tdbsam database as a PDC for domain ADADOM. I have a problem with duplicate group mappings and need to delete some, however, I don't know which one is being used. Is there a way I can find out which ones have no users assigned to them? Here's the sorted output of "net groupmap list". The last three are the issue. I only

Hi Everyone, I have a small project going on. I'm about to migrate Redhat 7.3 to Debian Etch (smbd version 3.0.23d-2+b1). I've already managed to migrate Redhat 7.3 to Debian Sarge (smbd version 3.0.14a-) without any bigger problems. However, when I migrate to Etch I face a small problem. The last thing I want to do before I start samba is to grant my linux/samba admin, NT 'Domain

Hello, Second post: first had logs attached but was too big. I have a test environment with 1 windows 2000 AD domain pdc ( mixed mode install ), 1 linux server ( to become pdc ) and a win xp box to test logon when the migration was completed. The problem is no matter what I try after the migration the win xp's logonserver = windows server not linux server. I have no idea what is going

Considering the following page... http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/guide/small.html First of, my compliments to John for some great examples to study. In my mind I see three levels of security: 1) Linux - such as SSH'ing into the Linux server, Linux accounts and groups come into play here 2) Samba PDC - "Domain Admins" "Domain Users" come into play here. Examples

Firstly I apologise for the length of this query but I am hoping that if I document everything I did someone might respond / be able to help. My Configuration is Samba 3.0.2a as a PDC on Redhat 8. I cannot for the life of me get the "Domain Admins" functionality to work I am hoping that another set of eyes can shed some light on this problem as I have now spent 41 hrs googling /

Hello. After fresh install. Samba and ldap seems to run normally ( I can join win2k workstation to linux samba pdc ). Using yast I create a system group named domadmin But I am unable to map "Domain Admins" to domadmin I am unable to map "Domain Admins" to existing ntadmin group I am unable to mofify mapping "Domain Admins" to domadmin group Thank you for

Hi I have samba 3.0.14a (debian/stable) and wonder where the problem is that running this command: # net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=ntadmins rid=512 type=d gives: adding entry for group Domain Admins failed! but (note changed rid) # net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=ntadmins rid=1000 type=d works fine. Hm, winbind is not working, but I

Hi Please Help... Adding winXP pro user into Samba 2.2.12, no PDC, setup login account with same name and passwd on Desktop as on the server (used smbpasswd -a - to add passwd) following the guide www.faqs.org/docs/samba/ch03.html trouble - Can't access the server MP samba looks like it is running from the trouble shooting I have done... smbstatus returns the following on the test

Hi list, I'm trying to set up a samba server and have run into a problem: Whenever I try to access a share other than /home/<user> I get a message saying that this resource is nonexistant on the server... I have problems getting "net groupmap modify" work, the commands I'm using is: net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=root net groupmap modify

Hi All, Just a general question about groups. I am upgrading a Samba workgroup, server to a PDC. I have been reading: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/groupmapping.html#id2589321 In this link, they tell of how to map a windows group to a Samba group net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=domadm rid=512 type=d Question 1: if my previous