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Active Directory and nested groups

Note: This article is specific to PaperCut Quota and PaperCut ChargeBack. All versions of PaperCut NG support AD nested groups.

UPDATE: Nested groups are supported as of version 5.2 and higher

PaperCut can be configured to import users from either:

  1. The whole domain
  2. A selected group of users within a domain

For the second option to work as expected, users need to be "primary members" of the group as apposed to indirect members through a nested group relationship. For example, a school may wish to monitor users in two domain groups; staff and students. A third group should be created (e.g. "PaperCut Users") and users should be added to this group as direct members. The Active Directory management tools offer an advanced selection interface that will allow you to quickly select staff and student users.

Nested groups are currently not support for either "group level" features or the initial user import due to the need to support existing PaperCut users still running on the NT domain model. The PaperCut development team plan to support nested groups in early 2005.

Categories: PaperCutQuota, Domains

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