[Samba] "Invalid Group" but It Isn't

[Michael Tokarev]

07.11.2022 01:02, Eric Robinson via samba wrote:
> Greetings --
> 
> What causes this? I can see that it is a valid group...

Um. The double \\ ? (Hint: escaping anything within single quotes doesn't work)
Or missing/misconfigured nss_winbind?
> 
> [root at store08b ts_folders]# wbinfo -g|grep site002 MYCHARTS\site002_group
> MYCHARTS\site002_group
> 
> But when I try to assign ownership, it says it is invalid...
> 
> [root at store08b ts_folders]# chown -R root:"MYCHARTS\site002_group" 002
> chown: invalid group: 'root:MYCHARTS\\site002_group'
> 
> I have samba 4.125.11-15 on Rocky Linux release 8.6.

Samba upstream has only 4.17. Your is 4.125 already - that's 100+ revisions!
I guess we can't say anything about that distant future yet :)

/mjt