[Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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James A. Dinkel wrote:
> Here's the situation:  We have users who are members of groups and those
> groups are sometimes members of a 2nd level of groups.  If a folder has
> permissions assigned to a 2nd level group, then the user can not access
> the share.  Doing a "getent group | grep user | grep 2nd_level_group"
> also returns nothing.  Samba seems to not be recognizing that a user is
> a member of a group under another group.
> 
> Is there any way to enable Samba, or Winbind, to follow down the group
> hierarchy?

We (centeris) have a patch that will be merged upstream shortly.
Either myself or Danilo (it's his code) need to break it out
and submit it for review on samba-technical.  Look for this in 3.0.24.





cheers, jerry
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