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Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:42:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share
- References: <000d01cbef30$86c99e60$945cdb20$@com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
> >
> > 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:
> >
>
> In my previous message, I mentioned that I already tried that and it did 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 returned by
>
> mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box
>
> is empty?
Erm, serves me right to use copy/paste. What I meant to write is
mkgroup -U groupname -S- -L my_samba_box
You have to specify the groupname(s) as args to the -U option when
using the mkgroup command. Using the username doesn't help.
Corinna
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