Re: [Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-29 Thread Madhusudan Singh
I think I might have worked out the grouping problem locally by simply adding (manually) the names of members of B to /etc/group, and changing the directory ownership to the corresponding groups. Its a strange situation as there are users in /etc/group that are not present in /etc/passwd (they are

Re: [Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-23 Thread Madhusudan Singh
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Grant wrote: > > Since you are already doing everything based on AD ... > Have the windows folks make AD security groups for your groups b c d e And > then filter the shares using smb.conf entries like > valid users = @ad\groupB > write list = @ad\groupB > > To

Re: [Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-22 Thread Grant
On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Hello, > > Server: Ubuntu Lucid server version > Role: Samba file server (I administer it) > Authentication: Against a Windows AD (I do not administer it) using winbind. > No other authentication scheme is practicable/possible - I do NOT w

Re: [Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Dale
This happens sometimes when a local mail server rejects a message as spam because it contains words in a different language than used locally. Your original post did make it to the samba list. The "spam" message fortunately only went to the original sender (you). Someone on the list however did

Re: [Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-22 Thread Madhusudan Singh
I understand neither the language nor the intent of this message. How could the initial message possibly be spam ? Was it the use of the capital case for the workgroup ? 2010/9/22 > Message rejected: message contains bad words. > Message is marked as spam. > > De informatie uit deze e-mail (en e

[Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-22 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hello, Server: Ubuntu Lucid server version Role: Samba file server (I administer it) Authentication: Against a Windows AD (I do not administer it) using winbind. No other authentication scheme is practicable/possible - I do NOT want to manage passwords locally on this machine. LDAP: Not explicitly