[Samba] Question about groups in ldap

mamue at lb-bbs1.emd.ni.schule.de mamue at lb-bbs1.emd.ni.schule.de
Sat Dec 13 15:03:26 GMT 2003


> Am Fr, 2003-12-12 um 15.29 schrieb Gerald (Jerry) Carter:
>> Tilo Lutz wrote:
>> | In Samba-Developers-Guide.pdf included with samba 3.0
>> | page 72f. In the document well known groups have
>> | special names starting with DOMAIN_. Can Windows clients
>> | recognize these names and translate them into localized
>> | groupnames, like "user" or "power users" in english and
>> | "Benutzer" and "Hauptbenutzer" in german?
>>
>> That reference in the PDF file is a #define for
>> the well known rids.  You can setup a group
>> mapping entry using whatever name you wish.
>
> How does MS handle this? If I have an english server with
> the well known group "users" and a german client.
> Will the groupname translated into "Benutzer"?

If I got it right, the name doesn't matter much. Important is the rid. The
name shown is the one you gave the group but it is handled according to
it's rid.

mamue


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