[Samba] One user getting: "Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups" on standalone server

[Stuart Reedy]

Greetings,

We are having some rights issues on Samba 3.6.18 running on Slackware64 
14.0 (the official Slackware Package).  One of our users is having 
access issues and I believe I have traced the problem to the following 
entry in the log.smbd:

  Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups

Issuing the groups command for this user returns the 8 Linux groups in 
which the user has membership.

In researching this, I found another reference to this log entry for 
which the solution had to do with Windows groups and their relationship 
to local groups.

Since we are using Samba stand-alone, we do not create any Windows 
groups and use local Linux groups for privileges. (I'm assuming Samba 
can still be used this way.)

My question is: How does Samba calculate these group memberships?

I'll look through the source code and see what I can see, but I am no 
programming wizard, so I doubt I'll find what I need there.

Thanks!
Stu...
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