Re: Samba and Win95/98 drive mounts

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>]

bedlam wrote:
> What is a user's PRIMARY group? And what makes it primary?

If you are not using a native NT PDC, it is the UNIX group listed in
/etc/group that corresponds to the UNIX user listed in /etc/passwd
where the 3rd field of the former matches the 4th field of the
latter.  E.g.:

/etc/group:
   ...
   nisusers:x:1024:
   ...

/etc/group:
   ...
   bjsmith:x:1024:1024:Bryan Smith:/home/users/bjsmith:/bin/bash
   ...

If you maintain native Windows server/PDC-FREE networks like I do
(which is the only way to be safe), you can use NIS as your
directory system and NFS as your distributable file system (DFS)
between UNIX systems).  Combined with Samba 2.2 which has both a
SMB/CIFS DFS implemenation and access control lists (ACLs) for the
XFS filesystem (which is very easy to install with SGI's XFS CD for
RedHat 7.1), You can build quite an enterprise network for *BOTH*
Windows *AND* UNIX clients.

-- TheBS

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