How do you make a domain admin?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, John Burchett wrote:

> Luke,
> 
> I am having trouble setting up an admin account. Samba is my PDC, NT my
> client, and I can now successfully log in as several users, including
> 'root'. However, when I go to the User Manager and try to view user
> profile information, it tells me 'access denied' - also for other admin
> stuff like certain options on the NET command. These are the measures I
> have already done to setup an admin
> 
> domain admin group = root

this option is no longer in samba 2.1 pre-alpha.

> domain user map = ... file which contains
>     adm    Domain Admins
>     root    Administrators

you need:

domain group map = ... file which contains
adm="Domain Admins"

and:

local group map = ... file which contains
wheel="Administrators"

and:
domain user map = ... file which contains
root=Administrator

and IMPORTANTLY:
private/smbpasswd file which contains
root:.....

NOT, repeat NOT:
administrator:....


then in /etc/group, any users that you want to be local administrators
must be in wheen, and anyu users that you want to be domain admins must be
in adm.