[KLUG Members] Samba apparently does not recognize Linux secondary groups.

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Mon Mar 20 13:43:46 EST 2006


> Samba apparently does not recognize Linux secondary groups.
> Samba _will_ let a Windows user (who has a corresponding Linux user account)
> look into a directory that is accessible only by the user's primary group (as
> you'd expect), but it will _not_ let them look into a directory that is
> accessible only by the same user's secondary group, even though the same user
> can access the directory from within a Linux shell (i.e., they can 'cd' to
> it).

This is simply not true;  we have all kinds of
functionality/access-conditions that rely on secondary group memberships
- all work perfectly.

Make sure your NSS configuration is properly reporting secondary group
membership.

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