[TriLUG] using net groupadd

[Chris Bullock]

It is a PDC and the clients will be Windows, but how do you use net groupadd.  
I want to create groups just like I would on a Windows PDC have ie Chrisb and 
Jonc in the Domain Admin group, how would I go about doing this.


On Thursday 08 April 2004 05:41 pm, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:17, Chris Bullock wrote:
> > I have a samba 3 domain controller and I want to use groups for the
> > workstations to give permissions based on the user instead of have to
> > login in locally and assign rights to every user.  It looks like 'net
> > groupadd' is my answer.  I have found little documentation about how to
> > use it.  Is there a conf file that I can edit to put ie Administrator in
> > the Domain Admins group, or does every user have to be entered through
> > the command line?
> > Regards,
> > Chris
>
> Are you referring to NFS? NFS would work for you if the workstations
> were Unix based. The Samba server would have to be the NFS master.
>
> Otherwise, you might be referring to using the Samba server as a Primary
> Domain Controller. That would work if the workstations were Windows
> based.
>
> At a former employer we ran a Samba server as the PDC/NFS master and
> that worked very well for our mixed environment... and yes, NFS is not
> very secure, but we were fairly tight with our restrictions on which
> machines could join the NFS - so it worked well.
>
> Jon Carnes