User Manager for Domains / RAS callback problem

Ariel Mella samba at nebula-sa.com.ar
Thu Apr 25 09:56:01 GMT 2002


Do you mena that right now i can create groups and users under UserManager
for domains in samba??
and edit the expiry and policys and others things??

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Francois Micouleau" <Jean-Francois.Micouleau at dalalu.fr>
To: "Alex Keahan" <agkeahan at netscape.net>
Cc: <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: User Manager for Domains / RAS callback problem


>
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Alex Keahan wrote:
>
> > I have a Samba (post-2.2.3) domain controller and a Win2K RAS server.
> > I want users to be able to log in to the Win2K box (RAS), get
> > authenticated against the Samba PDC, and called back by the RAS
> > server.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the only way to assign a callback number to a domain
> > user is through the "User Manager for Domains", which was written for
> > Windows NT.  I don't have any NT servers around, but I have copied the
> > usrmgr files from another NT server, and it seems to run perfectly
> > under Win2K.
> >
> > There are two problems however:
> >
> > 1) When I run the UMfD as a regular user, I cannot change any user
> > properties and get an "access denied" error
> >
> > 2) When I run the UMfD as "root", I also cannot change any user
> > properties, but this time it claims that "The group name could not be
> > found."
> >
> > According to the UMfD, the only group that the user whose properties I
> > am trying to change belongs to is "Users".
> >
> > Is there a solution to this?  Does samba support the dialin and
> > callback properties?  If so, how can I set the callback number;
> > otherwise, how can I help implementing it?  I am willing to reverse
> > engineer the way NT does this, if need be.
>
> yes there is a start of solution. user manager is fully usuable in samba
> 3.0. the backend user database would need to be expanded to store the
> callback number. that's doable.
>
>
> J.F.
>
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