[Samba] Domain Admins?

Gémes Géza geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu
Wed Nov 27 20:39:00 GMT 2002


The good news are, that you don't relly need it, because, when you log in to
a domain as member of the Domain Admins group, you will automaticaly receive
Local Administrator priviledges on the given workstation. It's working for
me.

Best Regards

Geza Gemes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wyatt L. VanderStucken" <wyatt at wylovan.myserver.org>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: [Samba] Domain Admins?


> Hello all,
>
> Let me say first I'm very new to Linux (only had it running 3 days), so
> bear with me if I'm a bit ignorant. I'm unsure if I should even post
> this here, or if this list is exclusively for hardware issues...
>
> I'm running into difficulties (on a win2k client) adding the Samba
> "Domain Admins" group to the Windows "Administrators" group. I am able
> to log into the domain, the "Domain Admins" group shows in the list of
> available groups from the Samba server, but when I click "Apply" I
> receive the message:
>
> "A member could not be added to or removed from the local group because
> the member does not exist"
>
> I'm fairly certain I followed the setup correctly; I added a group
> called "domadm" to the etc/group file and added a user to that group
> using usermod. I've tried several configurations in smb.conf with
> "domain admin group" and "domain admin users" including:
>
> 1. domain admin group = @domadm
>
> 2. domain admin group = root @domadm
>
> 3. domain admin group = @domadm
>    domain admin users = root
>
> For the record I'm it's a brand new "stable" installation on a Performa
> 6400/180, the Windows machine is running win2k professional with all
> updates from windows update. I doubt that hardware makes a difference,
> but if you need to know, ask.
>
> Sorry if this has been long winded, I appreciate any help anybody can
> offer. Lastly, let me say I'm very impressed by Debian, and Linux as a
> whole. I look forward to learning much more, and hope I can soon make my
> own contributions...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Wyatt
>
>
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