[Samba] groups with cn similar to domain

[Mr. Robert John Moggach]

Thanks Marc,
I'll leave it to your crew to determine if it's a bug— I've gone forward having scripted everything I need using ldbsearch.
Thanks for the link - I'm not using any of the words in the "Table of reserved words" so my suspicion is it's a bug in the queries being performed by wbinfo.
I'm using the latest build of Sernet's Samba (4.1.12) on CentOS 6.5.
Rob



On Oct 13, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:

> Hello Robert,
> 
> Am 13.10.2014 um 06:13 schrieb Robert Moggach:
>> Question follows the description…
>> 
>> I have a domain something like "DC=example,DC=lan"
>> 
>> I can create a group named “example” within group OU “OU=Groups” using:
>> 
>>    samba-tool group add example —groupou=“OU=Groups"
>> 
>> I can’t query the group using:
>> 
>>    wbinfo —group-info example
>>    failed to call wbcGetgrnam: WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND
>>    Could not get info for group example
>> 
>> However I can query using:
>> 
>>    ldbsearch --url=ldap://dc1.example.lan -k yes -b “dc=example,dc=lan" "(&(objectclass=group)(cn=example))" -b ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=lan
>> 
>> Is it bad practice to create group names that match one of the domain path items?
>> 
>> Another example which isn’t part of the domain path is the cn “operation"
>> 
>> I can get what I need using grep,sed, etc. but wonder if I’m breaking the rules.
> 
> 
> I can't say if this is a bug or something based on AD requirements.
> 
> MS has a good document about naming conventions:
> https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/909264/en
> 
> I could not find your problem there. But there are some situations
> mentioned, that can bring conflicts under certain situations (see e.g.
> "OU names" / "Special issues"). Maybe something like that could be the
> reason.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
> 
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