Samba 2.0.7 PDC not updating user list

Tue Aug 1 11:48:24 GMT 2000

Hi All,

This works. I now have a semi-functional samba 2.0.7 PDC . It seems I
must have made a mistake with one of the machine accounts. I have now
just moved all the user accounts above the machine accounts, and I am
sure I will find the offending entry when I try and add the rest of the
machines to the domian.

I am actually quite happy with the way 2.0.7 is running in this regard,
as changing passwords from the NT client (after pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL)
works.

Thanks to all who responded.

Buchan

Now on to making local groups on all the machines ...

Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
> In the old TNG version I have seen these symptoms in the case were a user was
> removed from the system password file. In this case you do not see a complete
> list but you see a truncated list, it stops at the user who no longer exists.
> Could that be your problem? If so the simply remove any non-existant UNIX users
> from smbpasswd. I have no idea if it is the same in 207.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On 31-Jul-00 MATLAB Control Models wrote:
> > No, the users have accounts (unix and samba) made with "adduser .. user" and
> > "smbpasswd -a user", they can log in to the domain, but they are not added to
> > the user list seen from the NT clients.
> >
> > This list is seen in
> > a)User Manager for domains before you try and edit an entry and get Dr Watson
> > b)Copy a profile from System applet in Control Panel, and set who can use the
> > profile
> > c)Add permissions for a domain user to access a windows share
> > d)Make local groups cosisting of domain users.
> >
> > All of these work, and show me the old list of users, not including those I
> > have recently added, although they can log into the domain, browse thier home
> > directory etc.
> >
> > I need d to work at a minimum, but b would also be nice. The other 2 are not
> > necessary but I think they all use the same list.
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't send you pieces of my smbpasswd and passwd files, or
> > even
> > smb.conf, but I can assure you that this is the ONLY problem I am having,
> > which
> > makes it very irritating. I want to join my samba printer to the domain so I
> > don't have to allow guest printing, butI can only do that once all the users
> > can access shares they had access to before. This means I need to add them to
> > a
> > local group or a share acl.
> >
> > Thanks for the replies so far. I guess I am one of the few doing this kind of
> > stuff with 2.0.7, but I was led to believe that 2.0.7 could do this, and on
> > my
> > test domain everything worked that I needed.
> >
> > Buchan
> >
> >> Date:          Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:03:47 +1000
> >> From:          David Bannon <D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au>
> >> Subject:       Re: Samba 2.0.7 PDC not updating user list
> >> To:            matlab at control.co.za, Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> >>                <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> >
> >> At 12:27 AM 01/08/2000 +0200, MATLAB Control Models wrote:
> >> >Ah, but 2.0.7 has made a list. Thus there must be some way to update it.
> >> >
> >> >I have no need for user manager for domains to work on the samba box, just
> >> to
> >> >be able to authenticate users on the client workstations. This is working
> >> fine
> >> >except that the list does not update.
> >> >
> >> >Where is the list stored ? How can it be updated. Can I force samba to
> >> update
> >> >the list.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hmm... What we have here is a failure to communicate !
> >>
> >> When you say that samba is not updating its passwd list what are you doing
> >> and what is samba not doing ?
> >>
> >> Have you created the origional smbpasswd (data) file ? You should be using
> >> the program smbpasswd to add a user to the smbpasswd file. There should
> >> already be an entry in /etc/passwd for that user. For example under linux
> >> as root :
> >>
> >> > adduser -n -s /bin/false -g users joeblow
> >> > smbpasswd -a joeblow
> >>
> >> Joe Blow will then be prompted to enter a password. You should be able to
> >> see the entry in smbpasswd by :
> >> > tail /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
> >>
> >> All of the above command produce reasonable error messages and 'User
> >> manager for Domains' is not involved at any stage. More info on
> >> http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
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