[K12OSN] Another Samba issue - A little more info.

[Brian Chivers]

Mark Cockrell wrote:
>> did you check the memberUid field in ldap??if this guy is in both it 
>> could
>> cause probs.. also check that twchucko groups dont have the same
>> gid..
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> All of the groups have unique GIDs as far as I can tell.  This user was 
> just an example, and not the sum of the problem.  I don't seem to be 
> able to make any group changes for any user.  User Manager won't let me 
> do it at all ("permission denied" error) and when I make changes in LDAP 
> they don't populate to Samba.  It doesn't matter if I use the LDAP Users 
> and Groups module of Webmin or if I use the tools in /opt/IDEALX/sbin, 
> LDAP accepts the changes but Samba doesn't.  User names and passwords 
> still work just fine, but the group mappings are stuck.
I've taken to using LAM (http://lam.sourceforge.net/) or JExplorer to alter groups etc.

I realise that this doesn't help much with this issue but it might help in the future.

Brian

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