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

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:19:18AM +0100, KJS wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Let me explain my setup... We have a 2003 SBS box and a Samba server, 
> the 2003 Server does the Active Directory authentication for the Linux 
> box, which is working fine for samba and local auth and SSH.
> 
> However, I need to add a user from Active Directory (a virtual user 
> really), to a local group. Now this does not seem to be easy, I can't 
> just usermod the Active Directory user to add a group as I get "User not 
> found in /etc/passwd" or similar error.
> 
> Having poked around on google I have found that most people are saying 
> you need to do this from the Active Directory server, but how is the AD 
> server going to be aware of the Groups on my Linux server??

It won't -- add them all in AD.
The groups on the Linux box should just be the standard system ones.

By groups I assume that you mean what is in /etc/group.

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