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Is there something special I need to do to let root add computers to the domain in 3.0? When I try to add the workstation I get an error about 'user not found' even though I can logon to a workstation joined to the domain as 'root'. I was able to add computers to the domain with 2.2.8 with an 'add user command' entry and 'domain admin group = root' in my

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

Hi ! I'm using samba-3.0RC3 as a PDC (for testing). I'm using the ldap backend. I created 1 user, 1 computer and some groups. I mapped the unix groups domainadmins to "Domain admins" with my_personnal_sid-512. I added my user to domainadmins. I set "admin users = @domainadmins" in my smb.conf, but I still do not have domain admin rights on workstations :( Any idea

Dear Samba Gurus, I got the following errors: tail -f /var/log/samba/log.wb-DOM1 [2013/07/02 15:49:19.990168, 2] winbindd/winbindd_rpc.c:320(rpc_name_to_sid) name_to_sid: failed to lookup name: NT_STATUS_NONE_MAPPED log.smbd [2013/07/02 15:40:51.809516, 2] auth/token_util.c:455(finalize_local_nt_token) WARNING: Failed to create BUILTIN\Administrators group! Can Winbind allocate gids?

1. Here's my case: [root@dsat ~]# net groupmap list [root@dsat ~]# net groupmap add rid=512 ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=domainadmins adding entry for group Domain Admins failed! 2. Here's samba log: [root@dsat ~]# tail /var/log/smbd.log [2006/10/10 08:51:23, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(851) ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb

Hi there, I switched servers yesterday. The old server was running 2.2.7a-1 on RedHat 8.0. The new server is 3.0.8-0.pre1.3 on Fedora Core 3. I did the migration by copying the following: /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/samba/* I then copied /home and fixed all the permissions on stuff. I then started up samba on the new server, and unplugged the old one. Most everything went

Hi all. I'm trying to migrate our NT4 domain to Samba-3.0.1-rc3. My smb.conf: [global] netbios name = vp workgroup = NUSAUS server string = Samba Server %v bind interfaces only = true # interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 interfaces = 10.146.1.100/24 passdb backend = tdbsam log level = 5 log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m max log size = 50 name resolve

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

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

Hello, I've got a somehow weird problem with the primary GID of samba users. passdb backend is tdbsam. when I connect to the samba server my gid is set to 2147483404 instead of 1002 (domainusers). The GID 1002 ist configured as my primary group in /etc/passwd. This also happens with other usernames. After deleting group_mapping.tdb this worked for some hours but the error came back.

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 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

dn: cn=Domain Admins,ou=groups,dc=mydomain objectClass: top objectClass: posixGroup objectClass: sambaGroupMapping gidNumber: 512 cn: Domain Admins description: Netbios Domain Administrators sambaSID: S-1-5-21-3936576374-1604348213-1812465911-512 sambaGroupType: 2 displayName: Domain Admins memberUid: root memberUid: sadmin dn: cn=Domain Users,ou=groups,dc=mydomain objectClass: top objectClass:

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

Hi All I have Samba 3.2.11 installed on Suse (sles 10) machine. I am playing around the group mapping functionality. When I map a linux group to nt group. I can see that groups is visible on windows client. But, if I restart the smbd daemon (while changing the scurity mode for ads to user or vice versa), I can no more see the mapped group to the the Windows client. Though, I was able to see

Hello all, I am having a some problems with groups. If I use this command "net rpc group list -Uroot%not24get" as the root users I get an error. "Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1 The username or password was not correct" If I try to add groups I also get the same error. and I don't know if this is relevent or not but when I try to join win groups and Unix groups

Good Afternoon, How do I set my domain users to became Power Users on the workstations? Is there a way to map unix group "x" on the domain to became nt group "Power Users"? I did some research and I found someone mentioning "take domain users from the users group, and add it to the power user group" but my w2k does not list "Domain Users" under

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

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 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