group ownship stop working -- pease forward to samba mailing list

[Yang, Min]

> Hi All,
> 
> I have encountered following issue after everything worked fine for a year:
> 
> 
> 	I have a unix directory /proj/admin  which group ownership is UNIX group of "engadm". In samba, I configured as following
> 
> 	# This one is /proj/admin
> 	[admin]
>   		 comment = project admin
>   		 path = /proj/admin
>    		writable = yes
>    		valid users = @engadm
>    		create mode = 0664
>    		directory mode = 1775
>    		case sensitive = yes
>    		mangle case = yes
>    		strict locking = yes
> The "admin" share only works when I have a UNIX account with primary group ID is "engadm". If I have an unix acccount with "engadm" as secondly UNIX group(which means the primary group is something else), it will keep prompting me usrname/passwd when I try to mount the share on my PCs. Then no matter what username/passwd I try, it always fails. 
> 
> If I do $ ./smbclient //js1/kitsdev -U username%passwd 
> added interface ip=10.13.46.29 bcast=10.13.46.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Domain=[LOCERD01] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.3a]
> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
> 
> If I change my unix account primary group to be "engadm", I'll have no issue:
>  ./smbclient //js1/pdt2 -U username/passwd
> added interface ip=10.13.46.29 bcast=10.13.46.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Domain=[LOCERD01] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.3a]
> smb: \> 
> 
> I have to stresss again that this configuration worked fine until suddenly one day issue came out. All samba configuration has not been changed before and after the problem came along. Since I am a UNIX administrator, I do not have much idea  what happened to Windows environment. Please advise what could causes this failure.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Min Yang
> 
> Intel Corp.
>