[Samba] Re: User Primary group problem
Pierre Lebrun
ple001 at artic.fr
Wed Dec 7 09:33:15 GMT 2005
Michael Barnes wrote:
> How do I establish both a user's primary NTgroup and Unixgroup when
> creating a new user?
>
> Depending on the tool, I can set his NTgroup or his Unix group, but I
> don't seem to be able to establish both with one tool.
>
>
> I'm having a little difficulty with creating users with the proper
> groups. My login scripts are based on the user's primary group. When I
> create a new user with usrmgr, I can set the Samba primary group but it
> has no effect on the Unix primary group. For instance, I have a user
> John Smith who works in accounting. In usrmgr, I create the user jsmith
> and set his primary group as acctng. He can login and the group is
> mapped so he gets the right department drive, however, he has no rights
> to files in the drive. I check /etc/groups and he is listed as a member
> of the acctng group. I check pdbedit -Lv jsmith and see his group SID
> is his personal group, not the SID of the acctng group. I fix that with
> pdbedit, but he still has no rights to files in the acctng drive. A
> quick check of /etc/passwd shows he is still in his own primary group
> instead of acctng. I then have to go in via Webmin and change his Unix
> group.
>
> Thanks for your ideas,
>
> Michael
Did you set ' set primary group script = ' in smb.conf ?
it could be like:
set primary group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -g %g %u
I think this should be the answer to your pb.
Pierre.
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