Samba TNG FAQ updated
Kevin Colby
kevinc at grainsystems.com
Thu Apr 27 19:40:11 GMT 2000
Maybe it's just me, but you lost me here. Your statements
seem to contradict each other. Why do you think this is
not needed? Paragraphs 2 and down seem to indicate it
_is_ needed.
- Kevin Colby
kevinc at grainsystems.com
Paul J Collins wrote:
>
> I don't think Samba needs to support nesting of global groups in local
> groups in its own SAM. The nesting support on the workstations and
> servers is all you need for the domain to operate correctly.
>
> Whenever you join a machine to a domain, the global groups "Domain
> Admins", "Domain Guests" and "Domain Users" get added to the
> workstations corresponding local groups (in fact, WSes can *only* have
> local groups). That is:
>
> Global group inserted into local group
>
> DOMAIN\Domain Admins WS\Administrators
> DOMAIN\Domain Guests WS\Guests
> DOMAIN\Domain Users WS\Users
>
> Since a workstation grants the right "Log on locally" to WS\Users by
> default, the insertion of DOMAIN\Domain Admins into WS\Users enables
> all domain users to log into that workstation.
>
> [...]
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