samba 3.0 pre 21: group mapping and private groups?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:41, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:38, Lars O. Grobe wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have samba 3.0 pre21 here, and a "private groups" installation, meaning 
> > that every user has an own group named like the user's login (user ONEUSER 
> > has primary group ONEUSER).
> > 
> > I have used smbgroupedit to map my unix group "users" to the power users 
> > group (it's a shame, almost all windows applications require users having 
> > power users' rights). But now, if I log into my samba-controlled domain, 
> > log.smbd tells me that the user's primary group is not a NT-group.... and 
> > that NT doesn't like this ;-)
> i reported a couple of days ago that this message is printed 
> even when the user's primary group IS a domain group.
> so far I've not seen any ill effects as a result.  
> I'm beginning to think the error message is bogus.

I recently refactored that codepath, and we get the list of user's
groups from a different source, and don't display that error message. 
Win2k doesn't seem to mind non-domain sids being fed to it - but this is
for domain logons - there might be different issues in the management
tools, for which the code that message is for was originally written.

Andrew Bartlett

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