Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A09CEC5.3667C72F@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 23:08:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: Some domain groups not found by 'mkgroup --domain' References: <20001108201000.9123.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rick Rankin wrote: > > I'm not sure exactly how to provide an example -- the situation simply exists. > However, I've been poking around in the MSDN documentation, and I've found some > [...] To keep it simple: Each NT/W2K machine has local groups. A local group is only valid on the local machine. They are retrieved by the function `NetLocalGroupEnum' or in a Cygwin environment on the command line by `mkpasswd -g' or `mkgroup -l'. A domain is a domain is a domain. A domain has domain groups which are sometimes named `global groups' by the Microsoft documentation. These groups are retrieved by the function `NetGroupEnum' or on the command line by `mkgroup -d DOMAIN'. If you don't give a domain name, the default domain is used. Domain (or global) groups may be member of local groups while domain groups may only have users as members. There's another class of groups which is called `predefined local group' or similar. That are the groups which already exist on a machine when it has been installed. Examples are the administrators group or the guest group. Except that they are predefined they behave the same as later defined local groups. I suggest (how boring) reading the ntsec chapter in the online users guide: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@redhat.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com