[WBEL-users] SAMBA

[Ganeshram Iyer]

Hey Johnny,
I tried out the solution that you suggested and this is my current 
status. I think I am having a basic problem with the user root not being 
a local administrator on the domain member Windows PC. So I am unable to 
unzip anything in the Windows System Folder on that account. Is this 
expected behavior or did I do something wrong? That problem apart I 
created the Debugger Users (for Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET) group in 
the WBEL Samba machine and tried to add global group to the local group. 
But when I do that I am unable to specify that group to be added. It 
comes up as not found in my Windows XP Pro. I just cannot add the global 
Debugger Users group that I have created. As an alternate I tried to add 
the Linux/Samba Users group to my local group and I could not add that 
group also. Do I need to log in as global root or as local 
administrator? I really appreciate your help and any advice that you 
have will be most welcome.

Thanks
Ganesh

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>There are 2 kinds of groups ... global groups (groups that are domain
>wide) and local groups (groups that only affect that specific PC). 
>SAMBA doesn't do local groups ... it does do global groups.  
>
>If the group that is created is a local group (created on each windows
>PC), you would add the user to the group by going to "Control Panel ->
>Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups"
>and adding the the user into the local group.  In this case, you can
>also create a global group that has all users you want to be able to do
>this (using usrmgr) and on the individual windows computers, add that
>global group to the local group created by the program.
>
>If the group that is created is a Global group, then you need to use the
>usrmgr tool and add the users from your domain to the group directly.
>
>As I said, I have no experience with this specific program (VS.NET) ...
>but I have lots of experience with windows groups in samba and windows.
>
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