FW: [Samba] Possible bug!!

[Andrew Bartlett]

Kristyan Osborne wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
> Sent: 14 August 2002 16:14
> To: Kristyan Osborne
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Possible bug!!
> 
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Kristyan Osborne wrote:
> 
> > I'm using samba head cvs from 01/08/02 with ldap support. I have set
> > some global groups up, however when i run the command (from win2k
> > client) net group it /DOMAIN i get system error 5 access is denied.
> >
> > When i look at the logs on the samba server i get
> >
> > [2002/08/12 11:43:30, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_connect_system(398)
> >   ldap_connect_system: successful connection to LDAP server
> > [2002/08/12 11:43:30, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_search_one_user(410)
> >    ldapsam_search_one_user: searching for:[(&(uid=it)(objectclass=sambaAccount))]
> > [2002/08/12 11:43:30, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_getsampwnam(1276)
> >    We don't find this user [it] count=0
> >
> >
> > It seems samba is using uid=group instead of gid=group, is there
> > something I have missed or is this a bug???
> 
> You should forward this off to andrew bartlett since he rewrote all that
> stuff in HEAD.  Contact him on the samba-technical list.

I saw this when it first went past samba at samba.org, but I can't see
what's wrong.  In particular, I'll need quite a few more details...

But there are code paths which will look up 'users as groups', in an
attempt to detect clashes.  Users and groups share the same NT
namespace.  I don't think this bit is your bug.

Andrew Bartlett

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