[Samba] RE: migrating samba to new hardware and different OS [SOLVED]

[Andrew Jeremy Gargan]

Hi Guys

Thanks a lot this has helped me greatly.

The basics are now working i just have to migrate the rest of the user
accounts and
all will be well. :)

Regards

Andrew

On 8/26/07, Julian Pilfold-Bagwell <jools at oss4all.plus.com> wrote:
> Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 03:12:30PM +0200, Andrew Jeremy Gargan wrote:
> >
> >
> >> write list = @agroup, auser, another user
> >>
> >
> > Fedora bug. Change the @ to +.
> >
> > Volker
> >
> Hiya,
>
> It's not just a Fedora bug it's a change in the way that Samba handles
> permissions.
>
> If you check the release notes you'll find that instead of @"Domain
> Admins" for example, you now use a + and, in certain circumstances, the
> NT domain name. The example above would therefore go from @"Domain
> Admins" to +"DOMAIN\Domain Admins"  and a user e.g. fred goes from fred
> to DOMAIN\fred.
>
> Substitute DOMAIN for your actual NT domain obviously but you should
> find this cures all the ills. I was caught out by this one so I make
> sure I always read the release notes before upgrading now. BTW, I think
> the change occured around version 3.0.8.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jools
>
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