[Samba] Ubuntu 18.04 classicupgrade help

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Aug 5 19:06:31 UTC 2020


On 05/08/2020 19:58, Carl Hunter via samba wrote:
>   On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 08:39:59 a.m. EDT, Carl Hunter via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>   
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>    On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 06:43:52 a.m. EDT, Rowland penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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>   On 04/08/2020 00:33, Carl Hunter wrote:
>> Next question.  I've got a script that's supposed to run at a user
>> login.  It works for the samba admin account.  I was able to change
>> the permissions in Windows to get a user account to work.  I just
>> tried a second user which I think is part of a different group than
>> the first user and the logon script doesn't seem to run.  Is there a
>> way in Windows (Windows 7 at the moment) to view all Samba AD DC users
>> and groups?  All shared drives are controlled like this right?  No
>> more chmod/chown?
>>
> Where is the script located ? Netlogon ?
>
> What is it supposed to do ?
>
> AD (Windows or Samba) uses SIDs, so a Windows user should see all users
> and groups, but only on a Windows computer.
>
> It's a bit different on a Unix domain member, Samba makes domain users
> and groups into Unix ones, but not all of them.
>
> I hope you can see from that it depends on where the script is run and
> how, if it will work.
>
> A bit more info will help ;-)
>
> Rowland
>
> Yes, the script is in Netlogon.  It maps a bunch of shares to drive letters and remaps local user folders to folders on the server.  Even though the script doesn't seem to run for all users I can still get to the shares on the network.
> How would I go about creating or managing users with this Samba setup under Windows.  Is that possible?
> Thanks
> Carl
>
> Any ideas as to why some of my users don't seem to run the script in the Netlogon share?  Is there a way in Windows to check and see if an attempt was make to run the script?  Or on Linux?
> Thanks
> Carl

Not sure, Louis is the Windows expert here, but I think you would be 
better off using GPO's to do this instead of scripts, but only for your 
Windows clients, but again, Louis knows more about these than I do.

Rowland





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