Re: [Samba] Question about groups in ldap

2003-12-13 Thread mamue
> Am Fr, 2003-12-12 um 15.29 schrieb Gerald (Jerry) Carter:
>> Tilo Lutz wrote:
>> | In Samba-Developers-Guide.pdf included with samba 3.0
>> | page 72f. In the document well known groups have
>> | special names starting with DOMAIN_. Can Windows clients
>> | recognize these names and translate them into localized
>> | groupnames, like "user" or "power users" in english and
>> | "Benutzer" and "Hauptbenutzer" in german?
>>
>> That reference in the PDF file is a #define for
>> the well known rids.  You can setup a group
>> mapping entry using whatever name you wish.
>
> How does MS handle this? If I have an english server with
> the well known group "users" and a german client.
> Will the groupname translated into "Benutzer"?

If I got it right, the name doesn't matter much. Important is the rid. The
name shown is the one you gave the group but it is handled according to
it's rid.

mamue
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Re: [Samba] Question about groups in ldap

2003-12-12 Thread Tilo Lutz
Am Fr, 2003-12-12 um 15.29 schrieb Gerald (Jerry) Carter:
> Tilo Lutz wrote:
> | In Samba-Developers-Guide.pdf included with samba 3.0
> | page 72f. In the document well known groups have
> | special names starting with DOMAIN_. Can Windows clients
> | recognize these names and translate them into localized
> | groupnames, like "user" or "power users" in english and
> | "Benutzer" and "Hauptbenutzer" in german?
> 
> That reference in the PDF file is a #define for
> the well known rids.  You can setup a group
> mapping entry using whatever name you wish.

How does MS handle this? If I have an english server with
the well known group "users" and a german client.
Will the groupname translated into "Benutzer"?

Tilo


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Re: [Samba] Question about groups in ldap

2003-12-12 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
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Tilo Lutz wrote:

| Is it possible to use different groups with the
| same well known SID or is a well known SID only
| allowed once?
Nope.  SIDs should appear only once.

| Is it allowed to uses spaces in groupnames, e.g.
| "domain admins"? Afaik groups with spaces are
| not posix conform.
They normally work.  Really is OS dependent (libc)
I think.
| In Samba-Developers-Guide.pdf included with samba 3.0
| page 72f. In the document well known groups have
| special names starting with DOMAIN_. Can Windows clients
| recognize these names and translate them into localized
| groupnames, like "user" or "power users" in english and
| "Benutzer" and "Hauptbenutzer" in german?
That reference in the PDF file is a #define for
the well known rids.  You can setup a group
mapping entry using whatever name you wish.


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