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Subject: RE: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:09:47 +1030
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Friday, 1 April 2011 1:13 AM
> Subject: Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
>=20
> 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
> > >=20
> > > On Mar 30 10:53, Christian Gelinek wrote:
> > > > Here, I was out of luck as this command did not return anything. I =
also
> > > > tried
> > > >=20
> > > >   mkgroup -U username -S- -D my_samba_box
> > > >=20
> > > > but that reported 'mkgroup (102): [1355] The specified domain eithe=
r does
> > > > not exist or could not be contacted'.
> > >=20
> > > Try
> > >=20
> > >   mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box
> > >=20
> > > 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:
> > >=20
> >=20
> > In my previous message, I mentioned that I already tried that and it di=
d 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 ret=
urned by=20
> >=20
> >   mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box
> >=20
> > is empty?
>=20
> Erm, serves me right to use copy/paste.  What I meant to write is
>=20
>   mkgroup -U groupname -S- -L my_samba_box
>=20
> You have to specify the groupname(s) as args to the -U option when
> using the mkgroup command.  Using the username doesn't help.

Thanks a lot, should have guessed that myself! Works like a charm now - fin=
ally, correct flags and users/groups from my Samba share in Cygwin!

Christian



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