[Samba] Domain groups with spaces in their names

[Jeremy]

yaya wrote:

> I believe it should be @"spaced groups" how we type it, not "@spaced 
> groups".
> eg: valid users = @"spaced groups"
> But I don't know if @spaced\ groups will work.

Both work fine, testparm changes displays either way as @"name". The 
spaced names don't work either way, but it seems more of an issue with 
smbd, rather than everything to do with groups. ie. Winbind seems to be ok.

Cheers,
Jeremy

> yaya
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy" 
> <jnysen-samba at triaptic.com.au>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Domain groups with spaces in their names
>
>
>> 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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