On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:33, Geoff Scott wrote: > Hi all, > > The new NT migration chapter of Samba guide seems to indicate in the > migration Log Validation (section 9.3.1.1) that users get added to all the > same groups that they were in under the NT4 domain. However I am not > seeing this despite having had a seemingly successful migration. All my > users get added into the Domain User group but not into any other group. > Is the text below now wrong or right????
If you use version 3.0.12 or later, for most migrations the multi-group info should transfer OK. I am now aware that if the NT4 domain is post SP5 on some migrations multi-group info is not transferred and some account (both user and machine) password entries are not transferred either. Maybe Andrew Bartlett will chime in on this? > " > > 7. Q: After merging multiple NT4 Domains into a Samba-3 Domain, I lost all > multiple group > mappings. Why? > A: Samba-3 currently does not implement multiple group membership > internally. If you > use the Windows NT4 Domain User Manager to manage accounts and you have an > LDAP > backend, the multiple group membership is stored in the Posix groups area. > If you use > either tdbsam or smbpasswd backend, then multiple group membership is > handled through > the UNIX groups file. When you dump the user accounts no group account > information > is provided. When you edit (change) UIDs and GIDs in each file to which you > migrated > the NT4 Domain data, do not forget to edit the UNIX /etc/passwd and > /etc/group > information also. That is where the multiple group information is most > closely at your > fingertips. > > " Oops. That one needs updating. Thanks for pointing it out. - John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
