[Samba] usrmgr: group not found.

Koenraad Lelong samba.k.lelong at ace-electronics.be
Wed Oct 26 07:43:12 GMT 2005


Koenraad Lelong schreef:
> Matthew Easton schreef:
> 
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> I tried more things. I found that adding users made them member of a
>>> number of Linux-groups (defined by /etc/default/useradd).
>>
>>
>> <<snip>>
>>
>>> If I remove the extra groups, leaving just the primary group of the  new
>>> user (in Linux) then if I double click on the user and again just  click
>>> on OK, this error message is gone.
>>
>>
>>
>> So is this a problem on the Linux side?  You are trying to add a user  
>> to several groups and one or more of the groups does not exist.  When  
>> you add a user in samba, it creates the Linux user using the defaults  
>> in /etc/default/useradd... so you get the error message.
>>
>> grep through /etc/group and see if the groups in fact exist.  If they  
>> do not, either change /etc/default/useradd, or create the necessary  
>> groups with /usr/sbin/groupadd
> 
> No, all the groups in /etc/default/useradd do exist.
> I'm going to install 3.0.20b, and start from scratch. I'll keep in touch.
> 
> Regards,
> Koenraad Lelong
> ACE electronics.
So I installed 3.0.20b and started from scratch, with the same problems.
I'm using the same scripts as in TOSHARG chapter 2, Domain Controller's
smb.conf.
Is no-one able to give me some hints how and where I should look ?

Regards,
Koenraad Lelong
ACE electronics.



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