profile & group map fail

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Jens Skripczynski wrote:

> Lars Kneschke:
> > Vladimir Stavrinov wrote:
> [...]
> > > 2. Group and user mapping don't work. This is form my smb.log file:
> > > 
> > > [2000/01/13 18:05:52, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1672)
> > >   Ignoring unknown parameter "local group map"
> [..]
> > And my group mapping are working too. domain group map works like
> > expected(Domain Administrator), only the local group map doesn't
> > work like expexted. I can watch the groups with the usermanager,
> > but i'm not able to change the clock(i'm in the Administrator
> > group).
> Luke reportet to me that all the maps have to be world readable.
> (I think before they were put in the privat Directory).
> So please check if all your files (and dirs above) are world readable.
> 
> Lars: can you put that in your FAQ ?

also mention that they should _not_ be put in the private/ directory, as
this is automatically modified to be -rwx------ every time samba access
it, which will lock out any world-readable files in it.