Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Gasch
hi again :) It's a variant of the same problem but has been exacerbated by the change from string comparisons to token based access checks for smb.conf parameters. stupid question: so why did you change to token based access check at all? what were/are samba-internal reasons to do this?

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-09 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:05:26AM +0200, Michael Gasch wrote: stupid question: so why did you change to token based access check at all? what were/are samba-internal reasons to do this? Lots :-) We had all sorts of access check variants all over the code, all working slightly differently. So

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Gasch
first, thx volker! consider this case: valid users = DOMAIN\test DOMAIN\test DOMAIN\test is a user and a group (don´t ask why ;) ) members of the group DOMAIN\test would never be able to logon to this share, right? There's no way in Windows that I know to have DOMAIN\test to be a user and a

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-09 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:02:24AM +0200, Michael Gasch wrote: well, this was kind of mind game: i have a samba PDC with a group test and a user test. this works fine for the DC (tested). how would samba on a member solve this issue, if smbclient connects (no windows involved)? Sorry to say

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Gasch
ok, understand :) i just wanted to find out the way samba would solve this issue if there´s a user and a group with the same name. if i´d ever face this problem, i would rename either of them. thx! micha Volker Lendecke wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:02:24AM +0200, Michael Gasch wrote:

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-09 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Gasch wrote: hi again :) It's a variant of the same problem but has been exacerbated by the change from string comparisons to token based access checks for smb.conf parameters. stupid question: so why did you change to token based

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-08 Thread Michael Gasch
hi jerry, i thought this would never get fixed, because i think i hit the same problem already last year. [Samba] [Problem] Samba v3 Errors when group and user exists with same name] jerry said: | i have a user called biblio and a group called biblio | normally this is no problem

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-08 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Gasch wrote: i thought this would never get fixed, because i think i hit the same problem already last year. jerry said: Windows won't allow a user and groupw ith the same name. Not much we can do about that. However, if you

[Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-07 Thread Josh Kelley
We have a Linux user and group with the same name (username prox, group name prox) and a Samba share with force user = prox set. Since upgrading from Samba 3.0.21b to Samba 3.0.23a, that share no longer works. smbclient gives the following error when connecting to the share: tree connect

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-07 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh, We have a Linux user and group with the same name (username prox, group name prox) and a Samba share with force user = prox set. Since upgrading from Samba 3.0.21b to Samba 3.0.23a, that share no longer works. smbclient gives the

Re: [Samba] Identically named users and groups

2006-08-07 Thread Josh Kelley
On 8/7/06, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh, So Samba no longer likes having a user and group by the same name. Is this an intentional change in Samba 3.0.23, or is it a bug? I don't remember seeing anything about it in the release notes. We think that we have this