[Samba] Primary and secondary group issues with Vintela VAS andSamba

[Marc Donnelly]

what version of samba have you seen this on?

-marc

On Feb 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Golden Butler wrote:

> This is not a Vintela issue.  I've experienced this with Samba and 
> winbind, and I haven't found any solution to it yet. I really wish 
> that this can be solved because it's a serious hinderance!
>
> - Golden
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Donnelly <marc at targetadv.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:04:43
> To:golden at cnt.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Primary and secondary group issues with Vintela 
> VAS andSamba
>
> Samba 3.0.21b
>
> On Feb 20, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Golden Butler wrote:
>
>> What version of samba are you running?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc Donnelly <marc at targetadv.com>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:29:18
>> To:samba at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: [Samba] Primary and secondary group issues with Vintela VAS
>> and
>> 	Samba
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone on the Samba mailing list has seen this 
>> problem
>> with Vintela VAS and Samba.
>>
>> ----------
>> The problem I am having is that Vintela VAS knows about the groups in
>> AD but Samba only seems to recognize a user's primary group in AD. So,
>> if I chgrp a file or directory in Solaris to anything other than a
>> user's primary group and share it out via samba, a user is not able to
>> access the file or directory even though they are a member of the 
>> group
>> I used.
>>
>> We're able to view the groups via "/opt/vas/bin/vastool list groups"
>> without a problem.
>>
>> system specs:
>> Solaris 10
>> VAS 2.6SP4
>> Samba 3.0.21b
>> heimdal kerberos libraries 0.7.1
>>
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> passwd: files vas
>> group: files vas
>>
>> We followed the following instructions for installation:
>> http://rc.vintela.com/topics/samba/howto-heimdal.php
>>
>> so in short
>> vas + solaris = works great!
>> vas + solaris + samba = doesn't work except for the primary group.
>>
>> It's a longshot to post this to the Samba mailing list, but any
>> suggestions would greatly help!
>>
>> -marc
>>
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