[Florian Laws: Re: how do I become a domain administrator]

Stephen Waters swaters at amicus.com
Fri Sep 24 13:24:02 GMT 1999


Michael.Keightley at quadstone.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:26:27AM +1000, Mayers, P J wrote:
> > > The Domain Admins group must be a member of the local administrators group.
> > >
> > > Also, I'm not sure:
> > >
> > > localgroup.map
> > > --------------
> > > pcadm=BUILTIN\Administrators
> > >
> > >
> > > ..is correct. You might want:
> > >
> > > wheel=BUILTIN\Administrators
> >
> > I noticed this on my version of 2.1prealpha from half a year ago, too.
> > Isn't it a bit strange that Samba depends on the mapping being to the
> > group wheel for it working?
> >
> > Florian
> >
> ---- End of forwarded text ----
> Group wheel is BSD speak,  there is no group wheel in Solaris or HP-UX,  DG-UX,
> NCR Unix etc...  Does this mean group root (GID=0)?

debian 2.1 doesn't have a wheel group by default either...

-stephen


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