On Sunday 07 August 2005 18:20, Ian Moore wrote: Looks like there is something in my group file samba objects to - using a copy of group from my home computer worked correctly. The odd thing is that the OS doesn't have a problem with the group file. Oh well!
> Hi, > I'm building up a new server to replace an old one running Samba2. The new > server is running Samba 3 and I'm having a problem getting it to recognise > my groups in /etc/groups. > I'm using the old smbpasswd backend, not the new tbdsam database. > > I've copied my smb.conf, and the files from /usr/local/private across to > the new machine, as well as /etc/group and migrated the user accounts > accross I can login OK from a workstation, but I can't get access to any > shares other than the home directory & netlogon. > > Looking in the log files, the problem seems to be that samba doesn't > recognise groups: > > [2005/08/07 13:19:27, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(466) > Couldn't find group @tech > > The groups do exist - I've checked the group file & used groups to check > the user really is in the group, but samba won't find it for some reason. > > I can't seem to find any record of others having this problem in the list > archive. Is version 3 looking for group information somewhere other > than /etc/group? > > I'm running samba 3.0.14a on FreeBSD 5.4. It's installed via the FreeBSD > port. > > Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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