[Samba] Re: Samba 3.0.23c-1.fc5 problem - groups

[Rex Dieter]

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:

>> I use FC5.
>> I discovered, for an exemple, if you have a user group with 3 members
>> (Alan, Baker, Clive), before 3.0.23c this line at smb.conf worked fine:
>>  
>> valid users = @user
>>  
>> But with 3.0.23c update it doesn't work anymore.
>>  
>> You have to replace the line like this:
>> valid users = Alan, Baker, Clive
>> 
>> I mean, replace the "@groupname" with the complete userlist of the group
>> separated by commas.
...
>> I´d appreciate any help or comments.
> 
> Did you saw that the groupmap feature changed in 3.0.23c?
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.23c.html

groupmap sounds interesting, but does that imply that the old-style group
usage is now invalid/deprecated?  It seems so (intentionally or not)
because I can't seem to get valid users = @group to work with samba-3.0.23c
either (on my rhel4 boxen).

-- Rex