[Samba] Domain groups with spaces in their names

[Jeremy]

John Ennew wrote:

>Hello Samba,
>
>I have a Samba file server which I have successfully joined to a domian 
>controlled by a Windows 2003 domian controller. I cannot get the server to 
>allow access to users who are members of a group with spaces in its name.
 >

I have the same problem with Samba version 3.20b. What is interesting is
that groups with spaces in the name work through Winbind (ie. apache
with mod_auth_pam), but don't work from within Samba (ie. the smb.conf
file).  Is this currently being resolved, and/or is there a work around?

Cheers,
Jeremy

>The domain has three (main) groups:
>- students
>- teachers
>- spaced users
>
>My Samba.conf has the following shared directories defined:
>
>[teachers]
>comment = teacher's shares
>writable = yes
>valid users = @teachers
>path = /home/groups/teachers
>writable = yes
>browsable = no
>create mode = 0660
>directory mode = 0770
>
>[students]
>comment = student's shares
>writable = no
>valid users = @teachers @students
>path = /home/groups/students
>create mode = 0660
>directory mode = 0770
>write list = @teachers
>
>[spaced]
>comment = test with spaces
>writable = yes
>valid users = "@spaced users"
>path = /home/spaced users
>create mode = 0660
>directory mode = 0770
>browsable = yes
>
>The following works fine:
>members of @teachers have access to both teachers and students shares
>members of @teachers can write to both teachers and students shares
>members of @students can only see the students shares
>
>But this does not work:
>"@spaced users" should be able to access the spaced share but cannot. On a 
>Windows XP terminal on the network, any attempt to view the spaced shared by 
>anyone (including members of the "spaced users" group) results in a login 
>box popping up and no combination of user name or password will let you see 
>the share.
>
>I am using Samba version 3.14 running on Fedora Core 4.
>
>I have included my full smb.conf 
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>John
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