> -----Original Message----- > From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Friday, 1 April 2011 1:13 AM > Subject: Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share > > On Mar 31 09:46, Christian Gelinek wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > > Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 6:51 PM > > Subject: Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share > > > > > > On Mar 30 10:53, Christian Gelinek wrote: > > > > Here, I was out of luck as this command did not return anything. I also > > > > tried > > > > > > > > mkgroup -U username -S- -D my_samba_box > > > > > > > > but that reported 'mkgroup (102): [1355] The specified domain either > > > > does > > > > not exist or could not be contacted'. > > > > > > Try > > > > > > mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box > > > > > > When you use -D, it's looking for the domain name "my_samba_box", but > > > you're trying to get the group list from the machine called > > > "my_samba_box". See mkgroup --help and the User's Guide: > > > > > > > In my previous message, I mentioned that I already tried that and it did > > not return anything. Only because it didn't work was that I tried the -D > > option which I found in the documentation. Any suggestions why the list > > returned by > > > > mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box > > > > is empty? > > Erm, serves me right to use copy/paste. What I meant to write is > > mkgroup -U groupname -S- -L my_samba_box > > You have to specify the groupname(s) as args to the -U option when > using the mkgroup command. Using the username doesn't help.
Thanks a lot, should have guessed that myself! Works like a charm now - finally, correct flags and users/groups from my Samba share in Cygwin! Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple