[Samba] using chown on server with Domain username

[Rowland Penny]

On 17/11/15 20:36, Jeff Dickens wrote:
> Just replied to another thread with the same problem...
>
> This is on a member server, not the DC.
>
> No the second chgrp command with the escaped space doesn't work.
>
> Getent returns big numbers for the uids and gids.... too big, I think.
>
> root at florence:/home# getent passwd Administrator
> administrator:*:4294967295:4294967295::/home/IOL/administrator:/bin/false
> root at florence:/home# getent group Domain\ Users
> domain users:x:4294967295:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Rowland Penny 
> <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com <mailto:rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 17/11/15 19:38, Jeff Dickens wrote:
>
>         Hi.  I'm following this document:
>
>         https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_Samba_as_an_AD_Domain_Member
>
>           - setting up my second Samba server in a test environment. 
>         We're planning
>         a medium to large-scale deployment (six sites, 8 domain
>         controllers, 8 NAS
>         boxes, 120 workstations).  I've already set up an AD
>         Controller and
>         successfully joined a Windows workstation to it.
>
>         I got down to the part where I've configured nsswitch and
>         getent returns
>         info on domain users properly:
>
>         *root at florence:/etc/samba# getent passwd Administrator*
>         *administrator:*:4294967295:4294967295:Administrator:/home/IOL/administrator:/bin/false*
>
>
>         As suggested, I try the chown command using the domain user,
>         and it returns
>         without error:
>
>         *root at florence:/etc/samba# ls -l file.txt*
>         *-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Nov 17 14:15 file.txt*
>         *root at florence:/etc/samba# chown Administrator:"Domain Users"
>         file.txt*
>         *root at florence:/etc/samba# ls -l file.txt*
>         *-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Nov 17 14:15 file.txt*
>
>
>         ​But as you see it doesn't seem to have any effect.  Any idea
>         what's wrong?
>
>         ​
>
>
>     Is this on the DC ? and are you using sssd?
>
>     does 'chgrp Domain\ Users file.txt' work
>
>     Rowland
>
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Yes, I have replied on another thread, now go and set your smb.conf up 
correctly.

Rowland