[Samba] samba-tool cannot add or remove group members

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 29 May 2017 21:51:15 +0200 (CEST)
Sébastien QUESSON via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> samba-tool group addmembers stage user
> ERROR(exception): Failed to add members "user" to group "stage" -
> Unable to find "user". Operation cancelled. File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/group.py", line 227,
> in run add_members_operation=True) File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 274, in
> add_remove_group_members raise Exception('Unable to find "%s".
> Operation cancelled.' % member)
> 
> net rpc group addmem stage user -UAdministrator
> >ok, user added
> 
> samba-tool group removemembers stage user
> >error
> 
> net rpc group delmem stage user -UAdministrator
> > ok user deleted
> 
> I remember that I provisionned my domain few weeks ago with
> samba-tool without problem! This command does not work anymore for
> another user, or for other groups...
> 
> What's the problem? I'm on debian 9, samba 4.5.8
> I read some similar problem on the list
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/samba/msg142240.html, but I did not
> help me
> 
> Best regards, 
> 
> Sébastien QUESSON
> 

would you be trying to add the user to the group like this:

samba-tool group addmembers unixgroup "SAMDOM\user1"

If so, try it like this:

samba-tool group addmembers unixgroup suser1

Rowland