[Samba] Unable to add AD users to local groups
Robert Martel
r.martel at csuohio.edu
Thu Nov 17 21:13:50 UTC 2016
On 11/17/2016 02:42 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:32:16 -0500
> Robert Martel via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/16/2016 04:34 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>> Provided that the group urbanweb exists in /etc/group and your users
>>> are shown by getent passwd or id, then you could try the unix tools
>>> i.e. usermod -G urbanweb ADDOMAIN\\1001362
>>>
>>> Rowland
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Thank you for the response.
>>
>> the matching UNIX group exists. Been using local groups on Samba for
>> years.
>>
>> # getent passwd "ADDOMAIN\\1001362"
>> 1001362:*:2091888:2000513:Robert M Martel:/home/1001362:/usr/bin/bash
>>
>> wbinfo returns useful information
>>
>> # wbinfo -i 1001362
>> 1001362:*:2091888:2000513:Robert M Martel:/home/1001362:/usr/bin/bash
>>
>>
>> I can "su" to an AD user without a problem.
>>
>> I can access shared folders as that user, I just cant add anyone to a
>> samba local group. My test Solaris 10 machine running same version
>> of samba does not exhibit this problem.
>>
>> usermod said the user did not exist - but I want to add user to Samba
>> local group, not the UNIX group in /etc/group.
>>
>> # usermod -G urbanweb ADDOMAIN\\1001362
>> UX: usermod: ERROR: ADDOMAIN\1001362 is not a local user.
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>>
> You said 'local' group, a group can be a local group or a Samba group,
> it cannot be both.
>
A Samba group local to the AD member server - not an Active Directory
group.
Sorry if I chose the incorrect term.
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