NIS Groups on 2.2

[Nick Tan]

I got today's CVS and it is working fine now.  Compiled it on solaris and
linux and both work.

Thanks,

> Nick,
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> Can you reproduce this using the latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs code?
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> cheers, jeerry
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> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Nick Tan wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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,
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Nick Tan
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The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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