[Samba] Samba Group Mapping

[Gaiseric Vandal]

On 01/11/10 10:13, Brajesh Shrivastava wrote:
> Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
>> On 01/11/10 06:48, Brajesh Shrivastava wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I have Samba 3.2.11 installed on Suse (sles 10) machine. I am 
>>> playing around the group mapping functionality. When I map a linux 
>>> group to nt group. I can see that groups is visible on windows 
>>> client. But, if I restart the smbd daemon (while changing the 
>>> scurity mode for ads to user or vice versa), I can no more see the 
>>> mapped group to the the Windows client. Though, I was able to see 
>>> the mapping in the output of 'net groupmap list' command. I will 
>>> request you to please let me know the answer of following questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Is there any way to see the mapped group to the windows client 
>>> even after changing the security mode or restarting the samba server?
>>>
>>> 2. Does  samba store the group mapping in group_mapping.ldb file. 
>>> Will it be enough to copy this file to other node to get cluster 
>>> wise solution for group mapping or do I need to follow any other steps.
>>>
>>> 3. Can I map built-in domain group like "Domain Admins", "Domain 
>>> Users" etc to the Unix group? If yes, should I need to keep SID 
>>> fixed by specifying rid value?
>>>
>>> 4. If I want to do the manual mapping, do I need to specify 
>>> parameter 'add group script' in smb.conf? When is this option called?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance.
>>
>> Group mappings should be persistent in either the local TDB file or 
>> the LDAP backend, depending on how you are configuring your 
>> machine.    There are some group mappings that you must have.
>>
>> I have found that I can copy a TBD file for group mapping between 
>> machines BUT your group mapping requirements may be a little 
>> different for a domain controller vs a member server.    It is 
>> probably safer to reenter the commands on the other machines.
>>
>>
>> The member server may need the local "Administrators" and "Users" 
>> groups defined (see below) that I don't think you need on the domain 
>> controllers.    The rid values for these well known groups is defined 
>> by Microsoft and available in the Samba docn.
>>
>> e.g
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=10512 rid=512
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Users" unixgroup=10513 rid=513
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Guests" unixgroup=10514 rid=514
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Controllers" unixgroup=10516  rid=516
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Computers" unixgroup=10515  rid=515
>>
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Administrators" unixgroup=10544 rid=544 
>> type=local
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Users" unixgroup=10545 rid=545 type=local
>>
>> net groupmap add ntgroup="Guests" unixgroup=nobody rid=546 type=local
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Gaiseric
>
> Thanks a lot for your prompt reply. Still there are some confusion:
>
> Do I need to specify the uid of the Unix user?  I think name should 
> also work. Let "Domain Admins" SID 512 is mapped with unix group gid 
> 10234. If, I change group permission on a file to "Domain Admins", 
> what gid value will be assigned to that file? Will it be 10512 or 10234?
>

Yes, you should be able to specify the unix group name rather than the 
unix group GID.   (no user names or uid's are involved.)    You must use 
the predefined RID (e.g. 512) -   your local unix GID can be whatever.  
(10512, 9223, smb_dom_admins, FunGroup1 etc.)   I think you will make 
fewer errors it the unix GID is either the same as the RID (e.g. if 
RID's are 512 and 513 the GID's are 512 and 513) or at lease there is 
some obvious pattern (e.g. RID's 512 and 513 map to GID's 10512 and 
10513, if you already the the 500 block of Unix GID's used for something 
else)



On the unix level, the group perms shown will be that of the GID not the 
RID.     So if RID 512 maps to GID 10234, the unix level will show 10234.


I have an LDAP backend for everything.  That seems OK with using "Domain 
Admins" as a unix group, despite the space in the names.   I don't know 
if you can do this if you are using NIS or /etc/passwd for the unix 
accounts.  I found that with samba 3.4.x it was easier if the unix group 
names were the same as the windows group names.