Local devices and samba/ldap...need help

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, David Trask wrote:

> Ok...I have my Edubuntu servers (feisty)  authenticating to a Samba/LDAP
> server (plain 'ol Ubuntu Feisty server).  Just now I tried to use a USB
> thumbdrive in a thin-client and it doesn't show up.  Couple things I'm
> wondering....could this be because the user is not a part of one of the
> essential groups for local devices...like fuse or something.  

That sounds likely.  Your users were created on edgy or dapper when that
group didn't exist.

You'll need to create a group in LDAP with the same GID as the fuse group
on the edubuntu system and join your users up to it.  Then a user should be
able to type "groups" and see fuse in there.

Gavin