[Samba] smbgroupedit & ldapsam backend with samba 3.0a23 - Solved

Christoph Scholz scholz at cs.uni-bonn.de
Wed Apr 16 14:10:52 GMT 2003


Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
>>Which additional details do you need?
> 
> to figure this out I would look at the contents of the ldap db.
> to be sure that the groups are part of sambaGroupMapping 
> 
> i would add a new posix group and try to modify it with smbgroupedit
> 
> I'm sorry I can't be of more help - this just worked for me.
> 
> note: the default groups do not exist in ldap - just user defined groups
> and those have to already be in ldap as posix groups...

That's it! After re-reading the release notes I found the part 
mentioning the posixGroups. Sorry. My fault. However, it seems to work 
fine now.

I thought smbgroupedit would work similar to smbpasswd. With "smbpasswd 
-a user" the user does not have to be in LDAP before.

Thanks a lot!

Christoph




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