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Subject: Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
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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:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup


Corinna

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