[Samba] On linux clients: how do you add domain users to local groups?

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Jeff LePage <Jeff.LePage at asg.com> wrote:
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> Regular desktop users on ubuntu are members of these groups: adm,dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,dip,video,plugdev,fuse
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> Membership in these groups allows access to various important things.
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> When my domain users log in their primary group is set to domainusers, because that's what group I put them in on the samba server.  More to the point I set up a groupmap so that samba transmits this info to the client machine.
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> Question:  how do I set things up so that the members of domainusers will also be members of the other groups?
> If I try to simply add the domain users to the local groups, I get an error: no such user.
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> If I create the corresponding groups on the samba server and groupmap them, won't that cause conflicts?
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It sounds like you did not setup /etc/nsswitch.conf

John