Regarding this problem, I have solved the mystery by adding:
admin users = root @domadm in the [global] section of my smb.conf. Domain admins can now happily add, modify and delete users through user manager. As usual with these things - a 10 second solution to a problem that has bemused me for hours!! James Niven > James Niven schrieb: > > Hi there > > > > I've just finished setting my first Samba PDC for 120ish users > and so far so > > good, although its only been live for 2 days!! > > > > One problem I've come across (actually I had loads but the HOW-TO, Samba > > archive and google solved most of them) is with usrmgr. There is one XP > > client that I have installed the NT 4 Server Tools software on for the > > school IT coordinator (note the phrase 'coordinator', not > exactly a guru or > > sysadmin) to use to tidy up user names, passwords etc. We are > both set up > > as Domain Admins and have our primary LINUX GID set to 0 (root) > but neither > > of us can log in and use the USRMGR.EXE program, it will connect but we > > can't view, add or delete etc. > > > > If I log onto the XP box as root it all works fine, users can be added, > > deleted, amended etc and of course I could get her to do this or use the > > server console, su as root and use pdbedit (Yeah, Right!). I've been > > pulling my already unsubstantial hair out over this all evening > and had I > > invested in the Google IPO I'd be a very rich man by now. I've > spent the > > evening checking net groupmap list, the unix user list, trying > to get usrmgr > > to allow me to tell it who has permissions to add users to the > domain (comes > > up with an error about local admins not being able to log in locally), > > adding domain admins to the local admin group, removing users from the > > domain admin group and adding them again and generally smoking a lot of > > cigarettes. > > > > So, could someone confirm that usrmgr can only be used fully when logged > > into a 2k/XP machine as root and that there is no functionality for the > > domain admin group to do this? > > > > On the brightside I successfully migrated from a smbpasswd > backend to tdbsam > > tonight so life isn't all that bad!! > > > > Many Thanks > > > > James Niven > > > > ps its my first time so I'm sorry if this has been covered ad nauseam > > already. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
