AW: [Samba] samba and BUILTIN groups

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jörg Horchler wrote:
> Curious - I found the problem: 
> 
> Our old server runs with 'valid users = @<GROUP>' for all shares. This
> syntax works. 
> 
> I ran smb with log level 10 on the new server and saw that it tries to
> find the group 'Unix Group\<GROUP>'. After changing the parameter to
> 'valid users = @<DOMAIN>\<GROUP>' in our smb.conf it works!
> 
> Is this a new behaviour?

Yes and No.  Fully qualifying domain names in smb.conf
has been recommended since 3.0.8. WIth the 3.0.23 series,
this has become a requirement.  Did you read the release notes?





cheers, jerry
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