Hi All: Stuff I'm using:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 Samba 2.2.7 OpenLDAP 2.0.25 I followed the Idealx.org howto to build Samba+LDAP. I have a functioning, replicating domain on my lab workbench right now. Then I began to explore permissions on local shares, etc. when I discovered that to a Windows client, the only domain groups that are available from a Samba PDC are "Domain Users" and "Domain Admins". Upon further reading in the Idealx Howto, I see this comment: "In Samba 2.2, only 2 groups are dealed for Microsoft Windows workstations: Domain Admins and Domain Users. All other groups are considered Local Unix Groups. That means that a Samba user will only be a Domain User or Domain Admin. If you only use Samba servers, there is no problem, but if you plan to use Microsoft Windows NT member servers using groups, just forget about it..." What this doesn't say is that the local Windows workstations will not be able to see anything but users those two groups. I have several machines sharing data and printers from the local machine. This simply isn't enough groups for me to apply my scheme of local rights. Well, more correctly, this causes me a great deal of administrative overhead maintaining local group definitions as things change. I've googled, read more howtos than I care to mention and have basically fried my brain looking for viable options to solve this problem. So I'm posing the question to the group: Is there anyway I can get additional groups (which are available to Samba) through to the local Windows workstations? -- Kevin L. Collins, MCSE Systems Manager Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba