[Samba] samba winbind and local unix groups.

[TAKAHASHI Motonobu]

From: "Diego Vera" <divera at afip.gob.ar>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:38:20 -0300

>  Hi,
> 
> Why does samba+winbind ignore the local unix groups ?

That's by design, I think.

And unix group cannot support joining global / universal group to the
unix group, storing SID value and other Windows specific features.

> but we do not want to add / change groups in Windows NT, we need to
> add users to our local samba (in /etc/groups) 

The only way is to stop using winbindd.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at samba.gr.jp>