[Samba] samba authenticates only against the primary group of a user?

Hello everyone! I seem to be have a bit of a problem setting up a few network folders for a my office on a Qnap storage device running Samba -v3.5.2. So I ask: when the 'write list' of a share contains ONLY groups, and a user tries to log on to ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2011 - 8:20 PM ET

[Samba] users map with ADS not working

Hi All I am running two instances of samba on same box. One instance of samba has joined AD domain ABC and the other 123. My workstation is on ABC domain and when I try to connect to samba server on ABC domain, it asks me for user name and password ...

Message posted on the October 10th, 2012 - 11:20 PM ET

[Samba] Samba idmap against ad

Hello, I have a samba server (old - running FC6, samba 3.0.24-11.fc6) that authenticates against AD. This is all configured and has been working fine until this week. A new user has been added to AD, but cannot access the samba drives. All other ...

Message posted on the August 11th, 2010 - 7:40 AM ET

[Samba] Samba authentication problem

Hi, I have asked around in other forums but no one seems to know why this doesn't work. I have a backup server with samba on it and am trying to set it up to only allow write access when a user authenticates but to allow reading from anyone ...

Message posted on the March 24th, 2011 - 3:10 PM ET

[Samba] UID mapping

Hi, I'm trying to convert an old system on Solaris 10 that uses the smbpasswd file authentication method to a system that authenticates against Active Directory. I've managed to get winbind working but of course this just allocates UIDs as it sees ...

Message posted on the June 14th, 2011 - 1:00 PM ET

Mixing Windows AD authentication with Linux group memberships

Hello I have a functioning Samba server (Ubuntu 10.04) that authenticates its users via winbind to a Windows AD. The AD has about 10000 users (call it set A), but the Samba server is to be accessible to about 50 among those (call it subset B). I ...

Message posted on the September 29th, 2010 - 11:40 AM ET