Upgrading from Samba 2.0.5a to CVS/Head for User Mgr. for Domains

Melissa Thrush mmt4q at ee.virginia.edu
Tue Dec 7 13:15:32 GMT 1999


Phil,

Thanks so much for your reply and clarifying what works!

I'll give it a go before folks come to work tomorrow morning hopefully.

Melissa

"Mayers, P J" wrote:

> Well, *that* will work - the domain users list only needs to be readable for
> that. In fact, I have the same thing working here. An "admins" NT group
> (also a unix group using unified logons with LDAP ) contains the global
> admins, and that group is part of the local "Administrators" group. Also,
> individual users are made part of the Administrators group on their own
> machine (or Power Users).
>
> So if that's all you need to do, that will work fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melissa Thrush
> To: Mayers, P J; samba-ntdom at samba.org
> Sent: 12/7/99 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Upgrading from Samba 2.0.5a to CVS/Head for User Mgr. for
> Domains
>
> Phil,
>
> If this is the case then you are correct, the CVS/Head branch is useless
> to me.
> I want to be able to add a Domain User to a Local group on an individual
> WinNT
> SP6a
> client.
>
> Thank you for the info,
>
> Melissa
>
> "Mayers, P J" wrote:
>
> > I hate to tell you this, but User Manager for Domains does not "work"
> in the
> > HEAD branch fully. It will let you *view* information fine, but you
> can't
> > set anything - no create users, no reset passwords, no add users to
> groups.
> >
> > I suspect this means it's of little use to you.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Phil
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Melissa Thrush
> > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> > Sent: 12/6/99 4:58 PM
> > Subject: Upgrading from Samba 2.0.5a to CVS/Head for User Mgr. for
> Domains
> >
> > Since I need to use User Manager for Domains I need
> > to "upgrade" from Samba 2.0.5a to the CVS/HEAD code.
> >
> > If I switch to the CVS code ( I have a download
> > from late October ready to go.) is there anything I have to do with
> the
> > MACHINE.SID?  I know when I've upgraded to newer versions of
> > 2.0.x I had to copy the original MACHINE.SID into the new install
> > tree.  With the CVS code isn't it DOMAIN.SID and is this created
> > automatically or do I need to copy my MACHINE.SID from 2.0.x
> > and rename it.
> >
> > Also, any known reason I should use a "newer" cvs code than the one
> > I have downloaded from Oct 28th?
> >
> > Thanks to all,
> >
> > Melissa
> > --
> > Melissa Thrush
> > Dept. of Electrical Engineering
> > University of Virginia
> > Thornton Hall - C213
> > Phone: 804-924-6072
> > Fax:   804-924-8818
>
> --
> Melissa Thrush
> Dept. of Electrical Engineering
> University of Virginia
> Thornton Hall - C213
> Phone: 804-924-6072
> Fax:   804-924-8818

--
Melissa Thrush
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Virginia
Thornton Hall - C213
Phone: 804-924-6072
Fax:   804-924-8818




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