[Samba] Unable to "show" a group using samba-tool

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Apr 1 07:23:46 UTC 2020


On 31/03/2020 22:48, David Kowis via samba wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> I'm setting up a domain controller, and things are going wonderfully, 
> but I'm running into a strange problem, only some groups will display 
> using the `samba-tool group show` command.
>
> <snip>
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool group addmembers videos dkowis
> Added members to group videos
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool group list | grep videos
> videos
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool group show videos
> ERROR: Unable to find group "videos"
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool user show dkowis | grep videos
> memberOf: CN=videos,CN=Users,DC=dark,DC=kow,DC=is
> </snip>
>
> The group exists, I can add members to it, and those users show this 
> membership.
>
> I can only "show" some groups:
>
> <snip>
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool group list | egrep "Administrators|Domain 
> Users"
> Administrators
> Domain Users
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool group show "Administrators"
> ERROR: Unable to find group "Administrators"
> root at vorador:~# samba-tool group show "Domain Users"
> dn: CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=dark,DC=kow,DC=is
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: group
> cn: Domain Users
> description: All domain users
> </snip>
>
> I'm hoping someone here can help me understand why some groups show up 
> using show, and some do not.
> I'd really like to be able to see the group details, especially for 
> the "videos" group, as it'll have GID and Unix details.
>
> Thanks!
>
Strange, what version of Samba is this ?

Rowland





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