Samba Domain and Standard Users -- Solved

[Nathan Aubrey]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:52, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> I have a domain setup using samba and ldap. Everything works great, except
> for some permissions for users. When a non-admin user logs in he is not
> allowed to set a default mail or web browser, or any default app, and
> cannot even create shortcuts on the desktop from the start menu.
> Obviously I have missed something somewhere, but I cannot figure out what.
> Do I need to give each user local power user priveleges? This totally
> defeats the purpose of using any kind of domain control!
>
> Any comments?
>
> nathan

Power Users is a local group, and cannot be done over a domain controller.
I found an article that explains what you must do, and it is as I feared! You 
have to add every user to the group. What this article suggests is adding the 
domain users group to the local power users group, that way anyone who is 
part of the domain users would be given power users.
There are some people I can think of that I don't want power users, so his 
machine will not get this wonderful change, but it must be made to each users 
pc.

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-July/071048.html

If you know a better solution, please let me know.

nathan


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