[Samba] Re: smbusers and root privs

[reader at newsguy.com]

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br> writes:

> On 09/08/2006 08:26 PM, reader at newsguy.com escreveu:
>> Running samba-3.0.23c on Genoo linux
>> 
>> Is it possible with smbusers to allow a windows user to have root
>> privleges on a linux share?
>> 
>> A stock install of samba on Gentoo ends up with an /etc/samba/smbusers
>> file that contains this mapping:
>>   root = administrator admin
>> 
>> It appears then that other windows users could as well be mapped to
>> root like:
>>   root = administrator admin harry
>> 
>> and since I am the only user on either linux or windows on this home
>> network I'd like to map windows user harry to root but the above
>> example does not accomplish that.
>> 
>> Is there something else required?
>
> 	Did you tried to add harry to the Domain Administrators
> Group? (And you need netgroupmap configured to use that).
>
> 	Kind regards,

Is this required when not using domains in the network setup?