problem with samba...

[David Timms]

Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:
> 
>> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> Samba can't find my "users" group. And when I do "groups" it doesn't
>>> show up here either. It was added using system-config-users
...
>> When did this stop working, and exactly what error message are you
>> seeing?
> 
> Samba stopped working *before* I deleted and recreated the group, that's 
> why I did it.
# rpm -q fedora-release
# rpm -qa|grep samba
# grep samba /var/log/yum*

> Which I've done. Any other ideas?
The @group is not working in fc6's current version.
smb.conf:
A name starting with a '@' is interpreted as an NIS netgroup first (if 
your system supports NIS), and then as a UNIX group if the name was not 
found in the NIS netgroup database.

But there is a weird thing with nis where it is failing, and hence never 
giving smb useful results.

You can
- in /etc/samba/smb/conf change the @ to + {look in unix groups first}
or
- in /etc/nsswitch.conf set netgroup:  files  {which worked for me}

There is some similar bugs such as
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3741
but their resolution is noted as 3.0.23b, and fc6 uses 3.0.23c

DaveT.