Huck schrieb: > After joining machines to my Samba domain (in a school setting)some > accounting software no longer functions as it needs to be run as the > user that installed the software. > > So I uninstalled the software and attempted re-install as that user, but > was told via a pop-up error message that the user did not have rights to > install. > > The user exists on the local machine(XP Pro) and has administrative > privileges, but apparently when logging into the domain it changes the > user's effective rights.
A local user PCXYZ\username is always distintct from a domain user DOMAIN\username, so PCXYZ\username's rights don't apply to DOMAIN\username. > > Is there some simple 'user configuration' on the Samba side that I need > to do with 'smbpasswd' or with the linux groups to allow users to > install software? > Just add the domain user to the local Administrator's group. As a local administrator on the machine enter the following command: net localgroup Administrators DOMAIN\username /add This gives admin privileges to the domain account. Kind regards, Wolfgang Ratzka -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba