Bug #166

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Jul 3 16:58:08 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:43:19AM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote:
> 
> Nope! I will NOT do this. It is apparently not our bug! It is a
> pre-meditated feature!
> 
> According to M$ documentation, the MMC ComputerManagement snap-in can not
> be used to manage domain users and groups, for that my dear watson you
> need the Active Directory User and Groups tool. Well, one gets that only
> with Win2K Server and upwards - AND - it does not connect to pre-Win2K
> domains.
> 
> This means that the only solution M$ offer is use the Server Tools on
> Win2K or WinXPP. This tool does work against Samba-3.0.0-Beta2.
> 
> M$'s only other solution is to upgrate to Win2kx and Active Directory. :-)

Oh I see - it's the "forced upgrade" path again.... Thanks for letting
me know.

Jeremy.



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