[Samba] Permissions issue on domain member server (samba as an appliance)

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:07:56 -0400
Greg Dickie via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   We have a rat's nest of windows servers all sharing little bits of
> storage which I'm trying to consolidate on one biggish linux server.
> I've install a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 and samba 4.15 that comes standard.
> I've also joined the domain using autorid as the backend and users
> are getting UID and GIDs correctly as evidenced by wbinfo -i USER and
> id USER. I've also mapped a domain admin user to root using username
> map and the connection shows up as root in smbstatus.

Could you please point out where it says to map a domain admin to root
instead of mapping Administrator to root ?

Rowland
 
> Created a
> share, changed the group of the directory to "Domain Admins" and did
> a g+rwx on the share root dir. Everything looks good.
> 
> But. When I connect to the share as that admin user and try a mkdir
> tt I get access denied. robocopy from one of the windows servers give
> me "A required privilege is not help by the client".
> 
> Level 10 logs are pretty verbose but I did not see a cause.
> 
> What am I missing? Where should I look next?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
>