BUG? admin users= ignoring force group=

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Brian Whitehead wrote:

>
> I'm wondering if this is a bug or if I'm not understanding this correctly.
> I've setup Samba with Winbind to work with a Win2K Server.  Everything is
> working fine with a few exceptions.  I'm using samba-2.2.3-pre2 from CVS on
> Redhat 7.2.
>
> What I'm having a problem with is that if I enable the 'admin users'
> directive on a share that I'm using the 'force group' directive anyone that
> is a member of the admin user list ignores the force group.  Anyone else pays
> attention to it and it works fine.

Maybe just a documentation bug.  I'll look into it as soon as I can (maybe
tomorrow?).






chau, jerry


>
> For example if I have the following share config:
>
> [ashare]
>   path = /home/samba/ashare
>   public = yes
>   writable = no
>   printable = no
>   write list = @DOMAIN+Domain\ Admins @DOMAIN+AUserGroup
>   force group = @DOMAIN+Domain\ Admins
>   admin users = @DOMAIN+Domain\ Admins
>   create mask = 0775
>   directory mask = 0775
>
> Now if I logon as someone that is a member of Domain Admins and create a file
> the file is created with root as the owner (which I expect) but Domain Users
> as the group.  If I create a file as anyone else then it is created with that
> user as the owner and Domain Admins as the group.
>
> One other question.  I can't seem to find a consistent way to use Win2K
> groups.  With some directives it understands the \ escape character and can
> be typed as above, but with others it does not and puts errors in the logs to
> the effect "group DOMAIN+Domain\ not found".  But when I enter some of these
> as @"DOMAIN+Domain Admins" then it works fine and doesn't cause errors in the
> logs.
>
> Any help here is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian W.
>
>

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