Kai, Thank you, it works exactly like you told me. Loggin in as root from a workstation works for usermgr.
Eddie. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kai Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eddie Lania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: Re: Samba 3.0 and UserManager? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eddie Lania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 > 8:47 PM > > > > I haven't got this to work altough I have read several mails now on this > > list of people that seem to have it working. > > I was wondering how this should be done. > > I can start UserManager for windows NT and see the accounts and groups, > but > > whenever I try to open one of them I get a "permission denied". > > This is a known bug. It was introduced about two months ago if I remember > correctly. It however only affects users other than root that are in the > BUILTIN\Administrators group of the samba PDC. So not many people will have > noticed it. > > > > > Please, can somebody help me? > > If it is the bug I'm thinking of, then there are three solutions to it: > > 1) Use the user root (it must be added to passdb) to administer with usrmgr > 2) Apply a patch I've appended > 3) wait till Andrew Bartlet has applied the patch to HEAD > > The preferred solution is using the root user on the windows machines. > Currently only root has write access to the sam. With the two other > solutions, you will be able to open your users in usrmgr, but not change > anything. Once the new sam subsystem is in place, all members of the > Administrators groups should be able to administer the sam, but that is no > where near ready yet. > > > Eddie. > > > > Kai >
