Permission Problems with Samba

[bLaDe]

Hi Guys,
I have just setup Samba as a PDC but when I login via the windows box's I am not assigned administrator rights or at least a power user so I am able to make systemwide changes or load certain programs ie ICQ.

Is there an easy way around this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Darren

[Dolda2000]

I think that it helps if you add yourself to the "Administrators" group or something like that. I'm no Windows expert, though, so I can't say for sure.

[bLaDe]

The funny thing was I am an administrator of the machine when it isn't on a domain (hopefully that makes sense)

Basically what I needed to do is modify the smb.conf file.

Here is what I changed then restarted the service and bang it worked a charm

domain admin group = root @admins darrenk

I originally had it so it looked like

domain admin group = root @admins

An excellent guide for setting up Samba as a PDC is available here

There is a slight error on one of the pages where it is going on about adding machines, I couldn't get it to work for the life of me so if you need a hand let me know and I'll pass on what I used.[/url]