SAMBA

[Nobody's Hero]

I just set up SAMBA for the first time. Pretty easy:

Question:

Can I map an NT group to a unix user?
If so, how would I do this? I know you can map nt users to unix users. If I map the NT group to the unix user, than I only have to administer the accounts on the NT side(Domain)

[Arockia Jegan]

Did you try "net groupmap" command? That will help you if you want to map the NT group with Unix group.

Arockia.

[Geoff Wild]

Well, with a username.map file, you can just map all your nt id's to a single unix id.

unixid = ntid1, ntid2, ntid3

Rgds...Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

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[Nobody's Hero]

arockia,

where do I find the net groupmap command. I dont see it anywhere.

[Wouter Jagers]

Indeed. Might be worth to check some documentation on winbind.

http://fre-ks.greatplains.net/samba/winbind.html

http://www.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2003-January/msg00019.html

..and of course the docs that came with your samba distribution.

Let us know if you get it done, I haven't seen it work on an HPUX yet !

(no intend to scare you, but we didn't get it working.. prepare to spend some time on it ;-)

regards
Wout

[Darren Prior · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

There's a couple of options which might achieve what you're after.

1) If you only have a couple of NT groups you could set up a share for each group. Each share would point to the same path, but would map the NT group to a single unix user using "username map" and "force user". In this way any one from the specific group writes to the share as a specific unix user.

2) Within "username map" you can map an NT group to a unix group.
ie: ourteam = @NTteam

See smb.conf man page or the O'Reilly Using Samba book for usage of these parameters.

regards,

Darren.