NIS Groups on 2.2

[Gerald Carter]

Nick,

Can you reproduce this using the latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs code?






cheers, jeerry


On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Nick Tan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've upgraded from Samba 2.0.7 to 2.2.0 on a Solaris 2.7 server
> running as a NIS client.
>
> I have samba set to security = domain, and joined the NT domain using
> smbpasswd -j.  My aim is for the samba server to pass authentication
> off to the PDC, which seems to be working mostly.
>
> I have a share defined with valid users = @groupname which worked
> perfectly on 2.0.7.  However with 2.2.0, it would only let the user
> access the share if groupname is their primary group.
>
> I tried 2.2.0 on a linux 2.4.3 (Redhat 7, also NIS client) machine
> with the same config file (except for servername etc), and it worked
> for all users who are in the group.
>
> I've added individual usernames in the valid users field for now which
> works but isn't very pretty.
>
> I've searched through the archives and the website trying to find any
> information on this before posting, but couldn't find anything.  I
> hope I've provided enough information, but please let me know if I
> haven't.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
>



-- 
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 http://www.valinux.com/     VA Linux Systems      gcarter at valinux.com
 http://www.samba.org/          SAMBA Team             jerry at samba.org
 http://www.plainjoe.org/                           jerry at plainjoe.org
 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--