need de-newbification re: user names

[Nelson C. Garcia]

Thanks Buchan.  No, full names are not really important in my current small
LAN.

However, I am planning on setting up a similar LAN at the elementary school
where I volunteer and using system policies to enforce the use of
password-protected screen saver to lock the workstations.  Since there will
be potentially many users, I thought that it would be better if somebody
could tell who is logged on when the screen saver locks the workstation.
But I guess we will just have to make do with the user id.

Aloha,
Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Buchan Milne
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 5:28 AM
To: Nelson C. Garcia
Cc: samba-ntdom at samba.org
Subject: Re: need de-newbification re: user names


This is something we 2.0.x PDC users have to live with. You will see the
long names (passwd comments) do appear in some places, but not all, and
you will also see "DOMAIN\Account Unknown" in some cases.

Hopefully some of these will be fixed in 2.2.x

Is it really so important that users can see their full name (surely
they know both their own name and their account name?)

Advive: when setting file security, make local groups on each machine,
and make the domain account a member of this group, and set permssions
only according to local or domain groups (ie Domain Admins) , then yuo
can see who has permissions on the files, rather than "Account Unknown"

Buchan

"Nelson C. Garcia" wrote:
>
> I am running Samba 2.0.7 on Linux Mandrake 7.0 as a PDC for Win NT 4.0
SP6.
> My smb.conf is quoted at the bottom of this email.
>
> Everything runs well, except that users complain that NT doesn't show
their
> full names like it used to (pre-PDC).
> For example my locked workstation message would read "<full name> is
logged
> on as DOLPHIN\garcianc".  I verified that I did enter full names when I
> created each user account on the Linux box.
>
> I haven't been doing this very long. Could I have done something wrong
when
> I ran smbpasswd?  Did I miss a switch?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Aloha,
> Nelson Garcia
>
> ------ smb.conf ----------
>
> # Global parameters
>
> [global]
>         workgroup = DOLPHIN
>         netbios name = LINUXBOX
>         server string = Samba SMB Server
>       security = user
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         time server = Yes
>         domain admin group = @admin
>         logon script = %U.bat
>         logon path =
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 64
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         wins support = Yes
>         comment = PDC
>         hosts allow = 90.0.0. 127.
>         printcap name = /etc/printcap
>         load printers = yes
>
> [public]
>         comment = public
>         path = /home/public
>         writeable = Yes
>         create mask = 0777
>         directory mask = 0777
>         guest ok = Yes
>
> [data]
>         comment = Data
>         path = /home/samba/data
>         writeable = Yes
>         create mask = 0770
>         directory mask = 0770
>         guest ok = Yes
>
> [netlogon]
>         comment = NETLOGON service
>         path = /export/samba/logon
>         browseable = No
>
> [profile]
>         comment = User profiles
>         path = /export/samba/profile
>         writeable = Yes
>         create mask = 0700
>         directory mask = 0700
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
>         browseable = No
>         printable = Yes
>         public = Yes
>         writeable = no
>         create mode = 0700
>
> [HPLaserJet4L]
>       path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
>       printer name = HPLaserJet4L
>         writeable = yes
> #       public = yes
>         printable = yes
>         print command = lpr -r -h -P%p %s
>       lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p

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