[Samba] Sync win2k local user list with samba user list

[Paul Espinosa]

Well, I just went and tried Andrew Bartlett's suggestion.  Works like a
champ!

Guess I'm just used to not being able to nest groups.  heh

Thanks all,

Paul Espinosa

BTW

John,

Really getting a lot out of your book "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and
Reference Guide".  I bought it for work and am planning on buying it for my
personal bookshelf.

.----[ John H Terpstra wrote ]----
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| Sun, 15 Feb 2004 02:43:17 +0000 (GMT)
|
| On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Paul Espinosa wrote:
| 
| >
| > .----[ John H Terpstra wrote ]----
| > >
| > > Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:36:08 +0000 (GMT)
| > >
| > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 et at chaossphere.net wrote:
| > >
| > > > Hi all,
| > > >
| > > > I want to be able to at logon sync the windows 2000 userlist with
| > > > the samba user list, so that each user that is added to the samba
| > > > server is automatically added to each workstation with appropriate
| > > > permisions ie admin, power users, etc. Is it possible to do this
| > > > and if so how. I am running latest samba as PDC with roaming
| > > > profiles.
| > >
| > > Why in goodness name would you want to add accounts to workstations
| > > that already exist on the server? The whole purpose of having domain
| > > accounts is so that you do not need user accounts on the individual
| > > workstations.
| > >
| > > Baffled! ????
| >
| > I think what's he's saying is adding a local domain user to a box in
| > order to upgrade permissions.  In other words have "Bob" have a domain
| > logon, but also be able to be a local admin for the Windows box.
| 
| Doh! John T. Read it again next time! :(
| 
| As Andrew Bartlett has said, that's easy. Simply add the "Domain Users"
| group to your local Administrators group on each workstation.
| 
| Sorry - I should not shoot from the hip so fast.
| 
| >
| > >
| > > > Any help is greatly appreciated
| > >
| > > Avoid pain! Do NOT have local workstation accounts. Instead, use
| > > domain accounts.
| > >
| > >
| > > - John T.
| >
| > I would also like to know if this is possible as there is a lot of
| > software out there that still requires elevated privs to run on Windows
| > boxen.
| >
| > Paul Espinosa
| >
| >
| 
| Cheers,
| John T.