hi,

followed the howto at: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:Samba word for word and ran into same problems...
When I try to exec net groupmap add... I get error:

[root@beefylinux ~]# net groupmap add rid=512 ntgroup='Domain Admins' unixgroup='Domain Admins'
Can't lookup UNIX group Domain Admins
[root@beefylinux ~]#
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if I run getent group:
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[root@beefylinux ~]# getent group root::0:root
bin::1:root,bin,daemon
daemon::2:root,bin,daemon
sys::3:root,bin,adm
adm::4:root,adm,daemon
tty::5:
disk::6:root
lp::7:daemon,lp
mem::8:
kmem::9:
wheel::10:root
mail::12:mail
news::13:news
uucp::14:uucp
man::15:
games::20:
gopher::30:
dip::40:
ftp::50:
lock::54:
nobody::99:
users:!!:100:micro
dbus:x:81:
floppy:x:19:
vcsa:x:69:
nscd:x:28:
rpm:x:37:
haldaemon:x:68:
utmp:x:22:
netdump:x:34:
slocate:x:21:
sshd:x:74:
rpc:x:32:
rpcuser:x:29:
nfsnobody:x:65534:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
pcap:x:77:
apache:x:48:
squid:x:23:
webalizer:x:67:
xfs:x:43:
ntp:x:38:
gdm:x:42:
mysql:x:27:
micro:!:500:
ldap:!:55:
dcldap::501:
Domain Admins:x:2512:
Domain Users:x:2513:
Domain Guests:x:2514:
Domain Computers:x:2515:
[root@beefylinux ~]#
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Which is what I have read it is supposed to say...
My smb.conf is as follows:
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[root@beefylinux ~]# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
# many!) most of which are not shown in this example
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
# to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors.
#
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        load printers = yes
   idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        null passwords = yes
   template shell = /bin/false
        dns proxy = no
        cups options = raw
        netbios name = beefylinux
        server string = BEEFYLINUX
   idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
   password server = None
   workgroup = workgroup
        os level = 33
        domain logons = yes
        domain master = yes
        local master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        wins support = yes

        logon home = \\%L\%u\profiles
        logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u
        logon drive = H:
   template shell = /bin/false
   winbind use default domain = no
        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
        max log size = 50
   security = user
        passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://beefylinux.com
        ldap admin dn = cn=Directory Manager
        ldap suffix = dc=beefylinux,dc=com
        ldap user suffix = ou=People
        ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers
        ldap group suffix = ou=Groups

[netlogon]
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
read only = yes
browsable = no

[profiles]
path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
read only = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700

[homes]
browsable = no
writable = yes

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
        public = yes
        printable = yes

[Another]
comment = The other one
path = /another
force user = netfiles
force group = users
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

[Share]
comment = Our file share
path = /linsys
force user = netfiles
force group = users
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

[Wisker]
comment = long
path = /home/micro/Desktop/SHARED
force user = micro
force group = micro
read only = No
guest ok = Yes


# This one is useful for people to share files
;[tmp]
;   comment = Temporary file space
;   path = /tmp
;   read only = no
;   public = yes

# A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
# the "staff" group
;[public]
;   comment = Public Stuff
;   path = /home/samba
;   public = yes
;   read only = yes
;   write list = @staff

# Other examples.
#
# A private printer, usable only by fred. Spool data will be placed in fred's
# home directory. Note that fred must have write access to the spool directory,
# wherever it is.
;[fredsprn]
;   comment = Fred's Printer
;   valid users = fred
;   path = /homes/fred
;   printer = freds_printer
;   public = no
;   writable = no
;   printable = yes

# A private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write
# access to the directory.
;[fredsdir]
;   comment = Fred's Service
;   path = /usr/somewhere/private
;   valid users = fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no

# a service which has a different directory for each machine that connects
# this allows you to tailor configurations to incoming machines. You could
# also use the %u option to tailor it by user name.
# The %m gets replaced with the machine name that is connecting.
;[pchome]
;  comment = PC Directories
;  path = /usr/pc/%m
;  public = no
;  writable = yes

# A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that all files
# created in the directory by users will be owned by the default user, so
# any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously this
# directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of course
# be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user instead.
;[public]
;   path = /usr/somewhere/else/public
;   public = yes
;   only guest = yes
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no

# The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two
# users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users. In this
# setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have the
# sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to
# as many users as required.
;[myshare]
;   comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
;   path = /usr/somewhere/shared
;   valid users = mary fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no
;   create mask = 0765

#[Share2]
#comment = The other one
#path = /home/micro/Desktop/SHARED
#writeable = yes
#guest ok = yes
#read only = no
#force user = netfiles
#force group = users

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated... im also kinda looking ahead and wondering how you setup "Domain computer" accounts so you can add windows machines to domain.. but thats pointless until i can get past this hurdle.

Thank you
Ryan