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

Florian Laws flaws at nadia.s.bawue.de
Fri Sep 24 16:13:52 GMT 1999


> > > >
> > > > ..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...

Yes. I had to create one on the Debian 2.0 where I installed Samba.
Strangely I didn't get it working with an other group name at that
time.
Did I do something wrong, or has it to be the wheel group?

Florian



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