[PLUG] Samba/Winbind with NT Domain

Bill Barry barryb at proaxis.com
Sat Jun 7 20:32:02 UTC 2003


On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:20:27PM -0700, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
> I'm working on joining a Red Hat Samba server to our
> NT Domain, using winbind. It seems to finally be
> working, but many of our Domain groups have spaces in
> them. I can't seem to find a way to add these to my
> smb.conf file, is it uses spaces to separate shares. I
> have tried enclosing them in quotes and escaping the
> spaces with a leading \ but nothing seems to work.
> 

> Is there an easy way to do this, or must I rename all
> of my groups (groan)?
> 

In the  WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta1
http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta.html
there is this note.

10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba 
    domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs

which might solve your problem. 

Bill Barry




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