[Samba] Power Users - Is it possible?
Felipe Alfaro Solana
felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Fri Jul 25 10:32:14 GMT 2003
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 12:17, Beast wrote:
> Friday, July 25, 2003, 5:09:31 PM, Felipe wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:54, Beast wrote:
> >> > If Samba is acting as a domain controller (PDC), then it will only
> >> > mantain global groups. Local groups are only available on workstations
> >> > and member servers.
> >>
> >> This is incorrect.
> >> This is my smb.conf (Its PDC) :
>
> > Well, local groups do exist in domain controllers, but they are shared
> Yes :=)
>
> > between domain controllers exclusively. That is, a domain workstation
> > does have its own "Power Users" local group, which is totally different
> > from the "Power Users" local group of the domain controllers.
>
> That's why it called "Local" :=)
I just wanted to clarify on this as I think there are people out there
that are adding users to the "Power Users" group of the domain hoping
that they will automatically become members of the "Power Users" local
group of their Windows workstations, and this won't work.
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