Re: Samba Domain Admins?
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:21:44AM -0500, Wyatt L. VanderStucken wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Let me say first I'm very new to Linux (only had it running 3 days), so
> bear with me if I'm a bit ignorant. I'm unsure if I should even post
> this here, or if this list is exclusively for hardware issues...
>
> I'm running into difficulties (on a win2k client) adding the Samba
> "Domain Admins" group to the Windows "Administrators" group. I am able
> to log into the domain, the "Domain Admins" group shows in the list of
> available groups from the Samba server, but when I click "Apply" I
> receive the message:
>
> "A member could not be added to or removed from the local group because
> the member does not exist"
>
> I'm fairly certain I followed the setup correctly; I added a group
> called "domadm" to the etc/group file and added a user to that group
> using usermod. I've tried several configurations in smb.conf with
> "domain admin group" and "domain admin users" including:
>
> 1. domain admin group = @domadm
>
> 2. domain admin group = root @domadm
>
> 3. domain admin group = @domadm
> domain admin users = root
>
> For the record I'm it's a brand new "stable" installation on a Performa
> 6400/180, the Windows machine is running win2k professional with all
> updates from windows update. I doubt that hardware makes a difference,
> but if you need to know, ask.
>
> Sorry if this has been long winded, I appreciate any help anybody can
> offer. Lastly, let me say I'm very impressed by Debian, and Linux as a
> whole. I look forward to learning much more, and hope I can soon make my
> own contributions...
It's true, this isn't the right list, because the operation of samba
isn't powerpc-specific. You might try searching the debian-user archives,
or check out the docs on www.samba.org if you haven't already.
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