Well, I just went and tried Andrew Bartlett's suggestion. Works like a champ!
Guess I'm just used to not being able to nest groups. heh Thanks all, Paul Espinosa BTW John, Really getting a lot out of your book "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide". I bought it for work and am planning on buying it for my personal bookshelf. .----[ John H Terpstra wrote ]---- | | Sun, 15 Feb 2004 02:43:17 +0000 (GMT) | | On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Paul Espinosa wrote: | | > | > .----[ John H Terpstra wrote ]---- | > > | > > Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:36:08 +0000 (GMT) | > > | > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > > | > > > Hi all, | > > > | > > > I want to be able to at logon sync the windows 2000 userlist with | > > > the samba user list, so that each user that is added to the samba | > > > server is automatically added to each workstation with appropriate | > > > permisions ie admin, power users, etc. Is it possible to do this | > > > and if so how. I am running latest samba as PDC with roaming | > > > profiles. | > > | > > Why in goodness name would you want to add accounts to workstations | > > that already exist on the server? The whole purpose of having domain | > > accounts is so that you do not need user accounts on the individual | > > workstations. | > > | > > Baffled! ???? | > | > I think what's he's saying is adding a local domain user to a box in | > order to upgrade permissions. In other words have "Bob" have a domain | > logon, but also be able to be a local admin for the Windows box. | | Doh! John T. Read it again next time! :( | | As Andrew Bartlett has said, that's easy. Simply add the "Domain Users" | group to your local Administrators group on each workstation. | | Sorry - I should not shoot from the hip so fast. | | > | > > | > > > Any help is greatly appreciated | > > | > > Avoid pain! Do NOT have local workstation accounts. Instead, use | > > domain accounts. | > > | > > | > > - John T. | > | > I would also like to know if this is possible as there is a lot of | > software out there that still requires elevated privs to run on Windows | > boxen. | > | > Paul Espinosa | > | > | | Cheers, | John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba