AW: [Samba] samba and BUILTIN groups

Jörg Horchler joerg.horchler at coremedia.com
Tue Sep 5 12:59:40 GMT 2006


I have not read the release notes in all details - I should better do it
in future ;-) 

Am Dienstag, den 05.09.2006, 07:02 -0500 schrieb Gerald (Jerry) Carter:
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> Jörg Horchler wrote:
> > Curious - I found the problem: 
> > 
> > Our old server runs with 'valid users = @<GROUP>' for all shares. This
> > syntax works. 
> > 
> > I ran smb with log level 10 on the new server and saw that it tries to
> > find the group 'Unix Group\<GROUP>'. After changing the parameter to
> > 'valid users = @<DOMAIN>\<GROUP>' in our smb.conf it works!
> > 
> > Is this a new behaviour?
> 
> Yes and No.  Fully qualifying domain names in smb.conf
> has been recommended since 3.0.8. WIth the 3.0.23 series,
> this has become a requirement.  Did you read the release notes?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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