[KLUG Members] Local Administrator with Samba maps to domain root

[Michael Lueck]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:11:58 +0530, agencies_ad1 at sancharnet.in wrote:

>When I log in to a windows box as the local Administrator which is on a samba
>domain under Linux I get domain rights.

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>Why would the local administrator get domain rights on a box?

That does not add up correctly.

"Administrator" itself as a Windows account is a local account, not a domain
account. You might have an account called "Administrator" on the domain, but
then you would be logging in as domain\Administrator and not
local\administrator.

Assuming you have Ctrl-Alt-Del turned on, do so while logged in, you should get
the Windows Security box to pop. It will give the full name of who is logged
in, either domain\someone or the name of the pc \ someone. Other than that
screen, not sure how else to query that info off the top of my head.

Now, even if you log in local, have a domain user "Administrator" and the
password matches, you might be able to get to resources on the network as the
name/pw matches.

The domain details you provided did not include a user "Administrator" so those
are not relevant details.

Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/