[Samba] monitor domain logons

[Avinash Rao]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Alex Crow<acrow at integrafin.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> I have been trying to use "root preexec" to add domain users to Power
>> users group on the local workstation, it never works..
>> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetCommand.html#autopoweruserscript
>>
>> Have you used this??
>>
>> thanks
>> Avinash
>
> We do this by setting up a scheduled task (as SYSTEM) which will run a
> batch file from a netlogon share on one of the dc's. The batch file does
> all of the stuff using windows commands.
>
> We have something in the logon script that if you are a local admin, it
> will set up that scheduled task, thus, when we set up a new PC, we log
> it on as root once, and the scheduled task will forevermore do what we
> want it to do as the SYSTEM user on each local box.
>
> If you need more details I can give you example logon.bat and what we
> call "root.bat" files.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
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Alex,

Thank you for your reply. I don't mind giving your logon.bat files.
I tried to execute this manually and here's what is happening...

#net rpc group addmem "Administrators" "Domain Users" \ -S WINPCO32
Password:
Usage: 'net rpc group addmem <group> <member>

root at sunbox:~# net rpc group addmem "Power Users" "domain_name\username"
Password:
Could not add domain_name\username to Power Users: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_ALIAS

I replaced the domain_name with the name of the domain and username
with the appropriate user account.

what does this error mean?

Thanks
Avinash