chown space in group name

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triumdh

I am trying to change the group ownership of a folder. I am having problems as the Active Directory group name has a space in it. I do not have the option of changing the group name.

Code: 
# chown 'DOMAIN\group name' /foldername
chown: DOMAIN\group name: Invalid argument

I have successfully completed this task with other groups without a space in the name.
The only thing a search has revealed is that other people have had this issue.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
it will fail even without spaced, because you are using chown, instead of chgrp
for chown you need username:groupname (:groupname might just work)

try
Code: 
# chgrp 'DOMAIN\group name' /foldername
 
Does the group name map to a group id number?
Yes

Same error message on chgrp or chown with space. Both work fine without the space.
 
Solved

Code: 
chgrp 'windows group' /foldername

works as Samba was not looking for domain name to proceed group name.

Thanks for your answers.
 
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