[Samba] Samba PDC and local admins

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Mar 13 07:12:03 GMT 2002


Anton Krall wrote:

> Hello Guys.
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> I used to have a win2k server PDC before I moved everything to samba.
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> On win2k server you could have certain users on the admin griup and 
> whenever those users would log in on of the workstations, they would 
> have local amin rights on the machine and could do anything... of 
> course,the other users that where not in the group would not have 
> rights to do anything like installing programs on the workstations and 
> such.
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> Is this true for samba also?
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Yes, look at the "domain admin group" feature in smb.conf

> or are all samba users by default admins on their workstations and can 
> install programs and such?
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No.

> did I lose that control about users?
>

No.


-Bill Moran






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