[Samba] roaming profiles and Documents and setting with non-standard Windows 2k3 administrator RID.....

[John H Terpstra]

On 01/27/2010 08:29 PM, Daniel R. Gore wrote:
> Because of the extremely restrictive security environment we work under,
> our Windows Admins have disabled the administrator account on our Domain
> and created a new account with administrator rights.  The result is that
> the common RID of 500 which maps to the Linux UID and GID of 500 is no
> longer valid.  This means that when the Windows Domain controller, via
> the Domain Administrator (which has another name and RID) tries to make
> an account on the samba share where the profiles are intended for, it
> fails because Samba expects this to come from the well known RID of
> 500. 
> 
> Is there any way to specify in Samba what RID number to expect and use
> for Domain Administration  management?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dan

Dan,

You can assign suitable rights and privileges using the "net" utility as
follows:

net rpc grant rights "DOMAIN\Group Name" SeMachineAccountPrivilege
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege SeBackupPrivilege SeRestorePrivilege
SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege SePrintOperatorPrivilege SeAddUsersPrivilege
SeDiskOperatorPrivilege -Uadministrator%password

When correctly processed for domain group "Whatchamacallit" you will get
something that looks like this:

net rpc rights list accounts -Uwinadmin%n3v3rgessit
BUILTIN\Print Operators
No privileges assigned

BUILTIN\Account Operators
No privileges assigned

BUILTIN\Backup Operators
No privileges assigned

BUILTIN\Server Operators
No privileges assigned

BUILTIN\Administrators
SeMachineAccountPrivilege
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
SeBackupPrivilege
SeRestorePrivilege
SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege
SePrintOperatorPrivilege
SeAddUsersPrivilege
SeDiskOperatorPrivilege

Everyone
No privileges assigned
URDOMAIN\Whatchamacallit
SeMachineAccountPrivilege
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
SeBackupPrivilege
SeRestorePrivilege
SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege
SePrintOperatorPrivilege
SeAddUsersPrivilege
SeDiskOperatorPrivilege


Yell if you need more help.

Cheers,
John T.