On 7/22/2011 10:20 AM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
Hi there --
Thanks for everyone's replies. I do have putty 0.61, and I went ahead
with Matt's suggestion. Once that was done, I logged into the server that
was the subject of my posting, and the false positive did not appear.
I got bit by that
On 7/19/2011 4:47 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/19/11 1:28 PM, Ray Leventhal wrote:
Example:http://www.domain.com/pagedoesnotexist returns the expected 404
But browse to a page that does exist, like goodpage.php, then append
either a slash and some random string, or a ?=somerandomstring
HI,
I know this is OT and I apologize in advance, but with the wealth of
knowledge on this list I hope that some kind soul will help (off list is
fine).
I run CentOS 5.6 with the usual LAMP stack. One of the virtual sites on
this server failed a PCI Compliance (credit card security stuff)
big snip
It does not seem to matter what we try to do, what we get is petty
comments about how nothing changes. Nothing could be further from the
truth.
Please note there is a largely silent majority that appreciates very
much what the team does, is doing to improve and listening to
On 9/8/2010 9:52 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Thanks, I'll try that.
I had heard of fail2ban , but was slightly put off by the strange name;
what exactly is the name meant to convey?
to as in the sense of moving to, or converting
On 3/20/2010 6:35 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
Larry Vaden wrote:
snip
+1
you might also look at APF + BFD as it works as well. Both solutions
are intended for the server and not for a remote host, however you
could probably work around this with a small shell script.
This does beg the
cen...@911networks.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to write .htaccess Rewrite rules and it doesn't seem to
work for me:
Match the string between the domain and the question mark: ?
http://www.abc.com/blog:long-name-of-page?action=diff and I want to
redirect it to:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Hi,
# uname -a Linux obfuscated.example.com 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue
Aug 4 20:23:34 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I noticed a few days ago that I'm not getting my logwatch emails to the
root account any longer, and while I've definitely been applying updates
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 21 August 2009 17:29:09 Ray Leventhal wrote:
So while I now understand that they've been running on schedule and why
I've not been seeing them...I still am in a bit of a quandry as I would
*like* to receive them.
Should Mailscanner's threshold be addressed
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Ray Leventhalcen...@swhi.net wrote:
Hi,
I'd be happy to offer my services in proofreading the newsletter if this
is needed.
My 'day' job is that of a technical writer and I'm a native english speaker.
If I can be of help,
Hi,
# uname -a Linux obfuscated.example.com 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue
Aug 4 20:23:34 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I noticed a few days ago that I'm not getting my logwatch emails to the
root account any longer, and while I've definitely been applying updates
from base, no other
James B. Byrne wrote:
Nonetheless, it is very evident from the heated exchanges on this
mailing list that there exists a substantial divergence on which
path to take from here. It seems to me insupportable that the past
practices of a small coterie of initiates deciding on everything
Sorin Srbu wrote:
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of luc...@lastdot.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:24 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options
jalbum is a hog with large
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for a web photo gallery for my personal web server at home. Till
now I've done the galleries manually from Adobe Photoshop Elements, but I
feel that is a dead end, kinda', besides the fact that the galleries created
are rather static. I'd like an easier
Hi all,
CentOS 5.2, not yet updated to 5.3.
Based on the alert on udev, I attempted to update udev and libvolume
packages with the following result.
A check of what's currently on the system reveals udev-095-14.19.el5
which I believe to be the affected version. Is it just that it hasn't
Does not make much sense. You should update and move on to 5.3, if not
for other reasons, to keep your machine secure. Updating individual
packages might not work, it might even end up breaking your machine.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:54, Ray Leventhal cen...@swhi.net wrote:
[r...@wh01
Dhaval Thakar wrote:
Hi,
I need to implement trouble tracking system,
we have 250 users in one premise 3 desktop support technicians.
I need to implement trouble ticket system, where user will enter their
application / other issues. Mail will be sent to technician available on
duty.
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi all,
I've been asked by a college to setup a monitor to monitor a Windows
network, but on internet usage. They want to have detailed usage, i.e.
on a per IP / PC basis, and if possible to get stats for every
protocol, and see over a period of time what goes on.
My
Hi all,
I perform a nightly snapshot of /home to a USB attached drive scheduled
via cron. The system is CentOS 5.2 and only gets attached to the
internet periodically for updates, otherwise serves as a samba server to
about 20 Windows clients.
The rsync command being used is:
rsync -av --delete
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Hi all,
I perform a nightly snapshot of /home to a USB attached drive scheduled
via cron. The system is CentOS 5.2 and only gets attached to the
internet periodically for updates, otherwise serves as a samba server to
about 20 Windows clients.
The rsync command
Spiro Harvey wrote:
Perhaps you can alter it into an altar
:) that was my keyboard's fault. It can't spell.
That's yer story and yer stickin' to it. If I may quote our dear Field
Commander Wieers (hi Dag!):
[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
We need to move away mail from the current machine to a new machine,
as our old mailserver is a bit unreliable at the moment (the hardware
is showing its age).
Thanks, Ralph, to you and any other volunteer sysadmins who maintain
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is
full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this.
I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Ray Leventhal scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM:
I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order
(would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really
stumped as to where the space is being eaten up.
Try a yum
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Ray Leventhal scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM:
I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order
(would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really
stumped as to where the space is being eaten up.
Try a yum
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Ray Leventhal scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM:
I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order
(would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really
stumped as to where the space is being eaten up.
Try a yum
Robert wrote:
snip original stuff
I noticed the chorus of agreement that your problem was likely a
result of failure to mount your backup drive. My backup script, which
also uses rsync begins like this, insuring a good mount before shoving
bytes around. It's not SUPPOSED to be mounted
HI folks,
If this is the wrong forum for this question, please let me know (with a
gentle pointer to the right place)...TIA for that.
I've started to receive some 'Severe Errors' in my nightly logwatch
emails.
As the system had been initially misconfigured for logwatch emails, I've
only
kcc wrote:
Hi
In my mailscanner, i have mail in quarantine folder.
How can I get back attachement in quarantine folder?
I use mail user message. but the attachment is just coding not the
attachment
thank you
I'm not certain this is *the* way to do it, but...assuming you've
allowed the
Do you have a link to this application's website? Maybe we could
determine why it might be stuck to a limited set of OS releases. If a
software can't keep up with a limited subset of OS updates, maybe they
are concerned more with costs then security.
The OP is happily incorrect on the
Noob Centos Admin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seen this?
http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2007/09/18/safely_change_firewall_rules_remotely.html
Unfortunately, only after you pointed it out :(
But thankfully
Les Mikesell wrote:
David Hl�c(ik wrote:
hope i am not making an offtopic
Currently we are looking for storage/backup solution in our company.
snip
My 2cents: For commercial backup, cross platform, I have found that
Arkeia products are not only easy (rpm based!) and stable, but they
Robert Spangler wrote:
On Thursday 24 July 2008 03:34, Gopinath Achari wrote:
Please suggest me a good firewall package for Cent OS 5.1 Server. This
server is going to face to internet and will be accessed by the branch
offices.
adding a late voice to this thread, I've used and
Hi all,
Issue:
I've been tasked with extracting a bunch of MIME attachments (M$Word
docs) from emails which have been stored in an imap folder in
/home/username/mail/imap foldername. As the subject states, the
imap folder is about 700MB.
Googling suggested that munpack might do the trick,
snip
I've read the man page, but am wholly unclear as to:
1) will this do the trick for me
2) are there other known tools which might be recommended
Mime::Parser will split out the body and attachments of a message into
files. I've only used it on single files being delivered via procmail
Les Mikesell wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
I've read the man page, but am wholly unclear as to:
1) will this do the trick for me
2) are there other known tools which might be recommended
Mime::Parser will split out the body and attachments of a message
into files. I've only used
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Ok, any particular reason why not?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no functional delta-addon for yum in CentOS-5, are you getting
confused with Fedora here ?
So this doesn't work with CentOS then, correct?
Thats what I said earlier, we dont support delta
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Scott McClanahan wrote:
This is completely off topic but just curious if you guys had any extra
insight into what time today Firefox 3 will be released. Thanks.
http://spreadfirefox.com/
Ralph
I'm guessing they're not ready just yet, since I get the 'Unable
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Scott McClanahan wrote:
This is completely off topic but just curious if you guys had any extra
insight into what time today Firefox 3 will be released. Thanks.
http://spreadfirefox.com/
Ralph
I'm guessing they're not ready just yet
Hi all,
I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into
the following instruction:
-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on
the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -
Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will
-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on
the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management -
Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary
configuration.
Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI
Thanks for the answers, pointers and help.
Haste makes not only waste, but exposes inexperience, as it has done
here. (my own, of course)
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Sean Carolan wrote:
In our environment we have many legacy application servers running
apache/jserv. There is a web server front end, then a couple of
load-balanced java servers on the backside. One of the problems we
are faced with is hung or stuck jvms. I have looked at the java
process
He already knows that sendmail accepts connections. Maillog is of no help
(maybe with a higher log level, I know that you can get even more info with
14). He has to identify the cause of the timeout and the first step is to
identify the phase where it happens.
Kai
Hi folks,
Name
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Jim Wildman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Better, google for tiny centos and build a new box with the minimum on it.
Hmmm, that looks exactly like what I'm looking for! I'm actually
trying to find someone who has already done the
HI folks,
I've an up-to-date CentOS 5.x box on a small intranet (20 users).
We did a reboot over the weekend and all appears well except that
clients on the LAN can no longer send email. Just hangs/times out. No
clear identifiers in the /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages.
We're not
Ray Leventhal wrote:
HI folks,
I've an up-to-date CentOS 5.x box on a small intranet (20 users).
We did a reboot over the weekend and all appears well except that
clients on the LAN can no longer send email. Just hangs/times out.
No clear identifiers in the /var/log/maillog or /var/log
Ray Leventhal wrote:
HI folks,
I've an up-to-date CentOS 5.x box on a small intranet (20 users).
We did a reboot over the weekend and all appears well except that
clients on the LAN can no longer send email. Just hangs/times out.
No clear identifiers in the /var/log/maillog or /var/log
lingu wrote:
Hi lingu,
Thanks for your reply.
Check the below things on your server.
1) diskspace
df -h shows 253GB free on the LVM which holds mail
2) mailq
mailq says 'mailqueue is empty'
3) netstat -ntlp |grep :25 |grep tcp
# netstat -ntlp|grep :25|grep tcp
tcp0 0
This now seems like a timeout issue. Increasing client-side timeout to
180 seconds gets mail going just fine.
Any ideas on what might be happening since a reboot to cause this change
in MTA behaviour would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
-Ray
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
so, it's a connection to itself. was this a test to localhost?
If not, that hints in the direction of the problem.
Maybe you accidentally set the smarthost to itself or so?
I'd try a manual connect and walk thru an SMTP conversation and send a mail.
Also, clients can produce
lists-centos wrote:
are you configured for spamassassin or clamav as milters on the
server (in the sendmail.cf) and either/both of these didn't start up
on the reboot? sendmail will still accept mail with sa/clamav not
running, but it takes a bit longer.
there's also the possibility of an
snip
where does the server point to for its dns? if it's (supposed to be)
running a nameserver (e.g., you're pointing to 127.0.0.1) but the dns
server isn't running you'll get a timeout. if you have a second
nameserver configured in /etc/resolv.conf you'll likely ultimately
get a response, but
Tim Nelson wrote:
I know I would certainly be interested in this... please post!!! :-)
ditto for me
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Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:42:27 -0400:
Do you think it's wise to replace the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files
from the snapshot (after backing them up, of course)?
If you did not change the files: no. As I said: go thru a manual send and
check
big snip
All your Daemon_options (`port... definitions are turned off (dnl).
You have effectively told sendmail to not listen to anybody.
At a minimum you need DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1,
Name=MTA') turned on for local mail to move, or
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') to
snip
DNS. It's always DNS :-)
(more accurately, host and IP address resolution).
How long is it taking your server to resolve the IP address into a
name? To resolve names into IP addresses? To resolve destination MX
records?
Hi Stephen,
While I agree, I'm still a bit stumped.
What you posted was the sendmail.mc file. That might not be the
options your system was running on if you never actually ran it
through the macro processor. As I was looking through the rest of the
thread, it looks as if you are not running on the settings in the
sendmail.mc file. Do you run
snip
You might try RPMs for Fedora Core 7 (not a perfect match, but maybe
close enough):
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/gphpedit-0.9.91-3.fc6.i386.rpm
Otherwise, try building the RPM yourself, it's not that hard.
Basically, create a file named ~/.rpmmacros
Hi all,
Advance apologies for being slightly OT.
Has anyone had successes with installing gphpedit on CentOS 5? There
don't seem to be any rpms avail for our distro and I'm far too new to
roll my own.
Thanks in advance (off - list replies are welcome if that's more
appropriate)
-Ray
Hi all,
We're attempting to use CentOS 5.1 on a test platform which uses a CF
card as it's primary storage. (MB: ETX-LX)
The BIOS supports booting from CD and/or the CF.
Issues we've run into are:
During installation of CentOS 5.1, it appears all goes well through
partitioning, package
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
So what does everyone out there use to generate web statistics these
days? Are the tried and true awstats or webalizer still the best out
there?
Ray
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http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GBword1=Anne+Wilsonword2=Jim+Perrin
:-)
Anne
But...if it were not for the sister-rock band Heart, would that be the
case? Namesake and all.
;-)
-R
Kevin Thorpe wrote:
I found Amanda rather complex for what we wanted to do (simple backup
of a single server to a single tape drive).
We eventually decided on BRU (www.tolisgroup.com). It's not free, but
the simple 'workstation' version isn't very expensive.
Their support staff are really
Martyn Drake wrote:
snip
Arkeia (at least when I last used it several years ago) was pretty much all
point-and-click.
Regards,
Martyn
And therein lies one of the downfalls of Arkeia. Its ease of use
requires X. I don't generally enable X on servers, but as this
particular network is
Dag Wieers wrote:
You may be interested in a blog post of mine:
Improving Putty settings on Windows
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windows
If you have other best-practices, add a comment :)
Thanks,
Dag,
Thanks for that *very* helpful post. Putty is now far
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:36 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote:
Hi all,
Excuse the question as I'm sure those more experienced will find it simple.
I've a CentOS5.1 box with six physical drives, two of which are used for
nightly rsync
backups. Contents of /etc/mtab, /etc
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
I have a centos 4.0 box that has three network interfaces and is used
as router. It runs shorewall as a two-ISP firewall for a single LAN.
This morning, the motherboard's LAN interface gave trouble, spewing
out IRQ problems, so I disabled it and changed the network
Les Mikesell wrote:
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
I'm no expert, but I'd be the HWADDR values in your
/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ethx files need to be updated to reflect the
new MAC addresses of the physical interfaces in the box.
Done that. The ifcfg-ethX is referencing
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:08:22 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?
Quoting Pam Astor [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Is AWStats included in the Centos 5.1 Distro?
No, but you can get it from rpmforge.
Alfred von Campe wrote:
On Apr 7, 2008, at 13:07, Ray Leventhal wrote:
I want to backup the /home tree to that box nightly via rsync
(cronjob), so I tried this:
rsync -avrogz /home/ /mnt/backup/
First, drop rog from the options, as they are implied with -a.
Also, since you are not going
Jeff Larsen wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rsync does not create archives. Are you sure that the archive does not
exist in the source directory? Is it just being rsynced along with
everything else? Perhaps it is left over from previous backup
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# mount
...
st0 on status type unknown (rw)
/dev/st0 on status type unknown (rw)
Well, obviously these are the two that are causing the problem. st0
seems to be tape drive
Barry L. Kline wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
| Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem?
If you're asking because you're concerned about backup/restore then
you'll want to forget about the location of the data files and instead
use the mysqldump command to make your
Hi All,
I just saw this in output from df -h:
# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
131G 4.6G 120G 4% /
/dev/sdc1 271G 141G 117G 55% /home
/dev/sdd1 271G 3.9G 253G 2% /home/admin
Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
How can I get a list of all SCSI controllers supported by CentOS 5.1 ?
Thanks in advance.
Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito
Hi Mario,
I'd be willing to bet that Cent is compatible with upstream. This link
may help
https://hardware.redhat.com/
HTH,
-Ray
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Hi All,
I just saw this in output from df -h:
snip
I should have originally stated: CentOS5.1 32 bit running on a Dell PE 4600.
-Ray
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Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just saw this in output from df -h:
# df -h
df: `status': No such file or directory
df: `status': No such file or directory
Any ideas why the 'status' messages are showing 'No such file
Scott Silva wrote:
on 4-1-2008 11:03 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:
Have you actually looked at the HCL in a while?
RHEL5 lists exactly 16 components and 516 systems. I'm sure it runs on
more than that.
That list usually only lists certified equipment that RedHat or a
partner has tested
Hi,
I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My
user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing
for things backing up os and configs.
Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated.
Pointers to good how-to's especially
Barry Brimer wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk.
My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are
doing for things backing up os and configs.
snip
Have you looked at rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org ??
Hi Barry,
Thanks
Ned Slider wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk.
My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are
doing for things backing up os and configs.
snip
In a mixed Linux/Windows environment, I deployed a Linux backup
Les Mikesell wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already
and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system,
so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and
with what you and others have written, I'm
HI folks,
Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll
carry on my searching elsewhere.
Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem?
Thanks in advance
-Ray
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Hi,
I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My
user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing
for things backing up os and configs.
Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated.
Pointers to good how-to's especially
James A. Peltier wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Tim Alberts wrote:
So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I
think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the
world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the
system.
What's a good way to
Hi all,
I've got a clean CentOS 5.1 install and need php/mysql support. Seems
mysql (client) is installed, but I need server, so I did
yum install mysql-server
and got the errors posted below.
Have I missed something or is there a problem with this package?
(actually I should ask do I
John R Pierce wrote:
ok, virgin CentOS 4.6 w/ updates, was a minimal install.From the
top...
# yum -y install samba samba-swat
big snip
Anyways, assuming all of the above, from the windows station, start -
run - \\linuxserver\username
and voila, you should get your home directory in a
Hi all,
I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the
samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that
way). At present, the home share and one for the company's public share
are in place.
I can
John R Pierce wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Hi all,
I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the
samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that
way). At present, the home share and one
Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-26-2008 6:55 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:
Hi all,
I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the
samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that
way). At present
Les Mikesell wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
big snip
Thanks in advance,
-Ray
If you are going to use smb passwords anyway, why set security to
share?
You should set security to user and make sure you keep unix users
and samba users synced.
snip
With user level security you can't connect to different shares as
different users, so if you remove the 'public' from the home section
(as you probably should) and let people connect as themselves, they
will have to also connect as themselves to the public shares.
And now that Ive
Les Mikesell wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Normally you have to add the users yourself with their passwords since
the encryption is different than the linux passwd file uses and it can
only be done when you still have the plaintext.
smbpasswd -a login_name
But didn't you say you used
Like John, I fought long and hard to get user share working. I read
Eeverything I could, including buying Samba3 by Example. In the end I
admitted defeat and went back to shares.
Anne
As the powers that be are
Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-26-2008 11:31 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:
yet more from my samba saga. Making the change from security=share
to security=user has resulted in my aforementioned login prompt box
from Windows.
I noted, while doing a 'service smb restart', that this turns up
Anne Wilson wrote:
This is becoming a real hijack, which I didn't intend. However,
All users that are intended to be able to share have a user account on the
samba server. All users have samba passwords matching their login passwords,
whether in windows or linux. I couldn't even get
On your Windows box, set up a user and password that match *exactly*
what was entered for *samba* user/password. I can browse and connect
to samba servers with security = user .
Akemi
Hi Akemi,
I've done that with my own un/pw on my WinXP machine as well as the new
CentOS/Samba server.
It is possible, because I am doing it. I have share=user and have home
directories viewable by the user and the admin (me). I have various
departmental shares that each department can access and no one else
(but the admin -- again me). Even shares that aren't browsable, so no
one even
Then try this: Open Windows Explorer - Tools - Map Network Drive -
Connect using a different user name.
This will prompt you to enter both username and password. If you
still cannot connect this way, the problem is somewhere else.
Akemi
Hi Akemi,
I tried your suggestion with the same
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