[Samba] Samba Domain Administrator

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jorge Ferreira wrote:

| I'm using SAMBA version 3.0.9-2.3-SUSE as a PDC
| and internal mail server (few users in user list)
| for quite some time and so far so good for what i
| wanted (Domain logins, shares, users files and backups).
| My problem is when i need to install software or
| hardware on a machine (client of the domain - Windows
| XP Pro). As the users don't have administrator priviledges
| on their machines, only the administrator (of the machine)
| can do such things. Now, what can i do to have a domain
| administrator (since root is a valid user in the domain
| but not administrator).

Look at the 'net groupmap' feature and create a mapping for
a unix group to the <domain SID>-512.



cheers, jerry
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