[Gllug] Samba - Add Active Directory User to UNIX Group?

[KJS]

Bruce Richardson wrote
>> The group was created before the server was setup to auth from the 
>> Active Directory server, and it is a group I have created not a system 
>> group, it is so users can access a dir to run some bespoke software. So 
>> perhaps I will try to add the user to /etc/group and see if that 
>> works... I would move it to AD but I feel that might cause further 
>> problems with GID's etc?
>>     
>
> Not if you're using winbind.  But there's no need to move it to AD
> unless you want central administration of local groups.
>
>   

FYI, editing the /etc/group file and adding it by hand seemed to work 
fine! I don't know why I didn't try this first... It seems so obvious 
now! (Like these things always do when you resolve them).

Thanks for your help with this everyone :)
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