[Samba] samba-tool OU's organisational units

Stuart Naylor stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org
Wed Apr 16 12:58:03 MDT 2014


 --userou=USEROU       Alternative location (without domainDN counterpart) to
                        default CN=Users in which new user object will be
                        created


Doh, I had seen that but for some reason presumed it couldn't be an OU as how do you find or create an OU to put a user in?

The help part threw me slightly.

Stuart 
 
-----Original message-----
> From:Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday 16th April 2014 9:08
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] samba-tool OU's organisational units
> 
> On 16/04/14 01:48, Stuart Naylor wrote:
> > I am confused as with samba-tool it does practically everything and all the default methods of M$ AD are covered.
> >
> > For some reason OU's seem to be missing I know OU's are very Group policy orientated but also they are simply Organisational Units.
> >
> > The ability to list, create and delete OU's seems to be omitted.
> >
> > Also when you add a user the destination OU parameter is missing.
> 
> Hi, you can already put users & groups into a different OU with samba-tool:
> 
> --userou=USEROU       Alternative location (without domainDN counterpart) to
>                        default CN=Users in which new user object will be
>                        created
> 
> --groupou=GROUPOU     Alternative location (without domainDN counterpart) to
>                        default CN=Users in which new user object will be
>                        created
> 
> Try running 'samba-tool --help'
> 
> Rowland
> >
> > Is this something in the pipeline?
> >
> > Stuart
> >   
> >
> 
> 
> 


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