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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:42:46 +0200
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Subject:	Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
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On Mar 31 09:46, Christian Gelinek wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 6:51 PM
> Subject: Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
> > 
> > On Mar 30 10:53, Christian Gelinek wrote:
> > > Here, I was out of luck as this command did not return anything. I also
> > > tried
> > > 
> > >   mkgroup -U username -S- -D my_samba_box
> > > 
> > > but that reported 'mkgroup (102): [1355] The specified domain either does
> > > not exist or could not be contacted'.
> > 
> > Try
> > 
> >   mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box
> > 
> > When you use -D, it's looking for the domain name "my_samba_box", but
> > you're trying to get the group list from the machine called
> > "my_samba_box".  See mkgroup --help and the User's Guide:
> > 
> 
> In my previous message, I mentioned that I already tried that and it did not return anything. Only because it didn't work was that I tried the -D option which I found in the documentation. Any suggestions why the list returned by 
> 
>   mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box
> 
> is empty?

Erm, serves me right to use copy/paste.  What I meant to write is

  mkgroup -U groupname -S- -L my_samba_box

You have to specify the groupname(s) as args to the -U option when
using the mkgroup command.  Using the username doesn't help.


Corinna

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