[Samba] Group names matching user names

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Albert Chin wrote:
| We're configuring Windows Server 2003 against Samba with an LDAP
| backend. Things are mostly working. On the UNIX end, all users have,
| as their primary group, a groupname matching their login id. So,
| username "china" has groupname "china" as the primary group. I tried
| creating a local user on the Windows Server 2003 box and a groupname
| equivalent to the username but it wouldn't let me ("The account
| already exists" is the error returned). Is the way we're doing things
| on UNIX going to cause a problem for Windows? One Windows application
| we tested wouldn't allow us to login because of this issue.

Yeah.  Windows doesn't allow a user and group by the same name.




cheers, jerry


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