[Samba] Loosing admin privileges after login

[John H Terpstra]

On Monday 02 May 2005 12:04, Michael Joyner wrote:
> Herbert Mann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a Samba-newbie, so please excuse, if my question
> > seems to you stupid.
> >
> > I've set up a PDC, based on Samba 3.0.14a (SerNet) and
> > a OpenLDAP-Server. So I took a Windows XP client and
> > integrated it to the domain. Afterwards I logged in as
> > administrator and copied the existing profile of an
> > user to the server.
> >
> > The user was able to login and his profile was loaded
> > from the server. But I wonder, why the user only has
> > user rights and not administrative privileges,
> > although he is in the group of local administrators.
> > On the PDC he's only domain user.
>
> on the workstation, while logged in as an administrator try this:
>
> net localgroup administrators /add "DOMAINNAME\username"
>
> and see if that helps.

I know this tip was provided a while back, but I just want to provide feedback 
that I have added this info to the new Samba3-HOWTO (Samba-HOWTO-Collection).

- John T.