"Lars O.Grobe" wrote: > > Hi list, > > again, I have to ask a question about problems using samba 3.0 - although I > know that the cvs sources are not for production... ;-) > > I have a version of mid-july up and running, with the accounts in smbpasswd. > However, I have two problems, one with group mappings, one with adding > windows 2000 clients to the domain. > > I have my unix group users mapped to Power Users with smbgroupedit. As we use > German windows 2000 clients, this group is named "Hauptbenutzer" on the > machines. But the domain group seams not to be in the local group (Power > Users is not listed in Hauptbenutzer). Is it necessary that the domain group > exists at the time the client is added to the domain? The machines joined the > domain when I had a samba 2.2-pdc, so I didn't have a power users group at > that time. Do I have to re-join the domain, so that the clients can add the > domein group to their local group? That's how I understand the howto from > samba-3.0.
Simply mapping the groups should be sufficient - but I still think there might be some gremlins in our group mapping code. > The second question is about joining the domain. Has the code providing this > functionality been broken in recent cvs-versions? I don't get my machines > into the domain any more, while the machines I had in my 2.2-domain still > work fine. BTW, will I still have to use the roor-account to add machines to > the domain? It should work - some detail on the failure might help. Yes, you still need to use the root account. > So, basically, I would like to know if these things SHOULD work, so that I > can continue finding the problem, trying new cvs-versions etc.... Running current CVS is always a good idea, but these indeed SHOULD work :-) Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
