Scott van Looy wrote: > Samba can't find my "users" group. And when I do "groups" it doesn't > show up here either. It was added using system-config-users > >From the groups man page: groups - print the groups a user is in It looks like you are not part of the users group. If you want to see if there is a group called users, try running: grep users /etc/group > I actually removed the existing group and replaced it with the > system-config-users generated one. > Unless you added the users to the group after you created it, chances are that the group users does not have any members. When you deleted the users group, you removed all the members at the same time. Re-creating the group does not put them back. I would also expect that the group you added has a different group ID then the old one. > This problem has only manifested itself today, it was previously working > fine. > <-------------------[ SNIP ]------------------> > > Have I done something wrong? Or is there a bug? Or has something changed > in the way the config works? > Deleting a re-creating a group needs to be done with care. Linux uses the GID (number), and not the group name for things like group ownership of files. Unless you look at the GID before deleting the group, and specify the same GID when re-creating the group, you run the risk of leaving files/directories with GIDs that do not map to a group name. When did this stop working, and exactly what error message are you seeing? I suspect that it started when you deleted and re-created the users group, and Samba is complaining that it can not access the files/directories with group users. If that is the case, then you will need to delete the users group, and re-create it with the old GID, or change the group on the directories to the new users GID. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
