[Samba] Identically named users and groups

[Michael Gasch]

hi jerry,

i thought this would never get fixed, because i think i hit the same 
problem already last year.

[Samba] [Problem] Samba v3 Errors when group and user exists with	same name]

jerry said:

| i have a user called "biblio" and a group called "biblio"
| normally this is no problem under linux but samba seems to "emulate"
| windows behaviour indirectly.

Windows won't allow a user and groupw ith the same name.
Not much we can do about that. However, if you establish a
group mapping entry and set the ntgroup value to a
different string, things will work out ok.

so are you talking about a issue on linux side and samba or windows side 
and samba?

greez




Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Josh,
> 
>> We have a Linux user and group with the same name 
>> (username prox, group name prox) and a Samba share
>> with "force user = prox" set. Since upgrading from Samba
>> 3.0.21b to Samba 3.0.23a, that share no longer works.
>> smbclient gives the following error when connecting to
>> the share:
>>
>> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER
>>
>> The Samba server logs the following error:
>>
>> [2006/08/07 09:38:26, 1] auth/auth_util.c:create_token_from_username(1060)
>>  prox is a Domain Group, not a user
>>
>> So Samba no longer likes having a user and group 
>> by the same name.  Is this an intentional change
>> in Samba 3.0.23, or is it a bug?  I don't
>> remember seeing anything about it in the release 
>> notes.
> 
> We think that we have this fixed in the current
> SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE.  Would you mind testing this
> and letting me know?  You can grab it from
> svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE
> or rsync;//rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba_3_0_release.
> 
> I'll hold 3.0.23b until I hear from you.  Thanks.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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