Re: [Samba] Suggestions testing Samba 4 on same subnet as Standalone Samba 3 Server

2013-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/07/13 04:27 PM, Mike wrote: My network currently has the following server running Samba 3 as a standalone server to 50 client boxes: Linux a1 2.6.35.7 #3 SMP Samba Version 3.5.6. Currently, no true NT Domain Controller, in Windows speak - it's a Workgroup only. I have another server that

Re: [Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

2013-04-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/04/13 07:55 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 03/30/2013 11:45 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 30/03/13 08:38 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, I've been trying for months to get samba to share my printer with my wife's Win XP machine. I've RTFM, and spent hours on google to no avail. I can't

Re: [Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

2013-04-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/04/13 09:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 04/03/2013 09:02 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 01/04/13 07:55 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 03/30/2013 11:45 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 30/03/13 08:38 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, I've been trying for months to get samba to share my printer with my

Re: [Samba] Samba on Windows?

2013-04-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/04/13 04:18 PM, fromsamba.bitbucke...@spamgourmet.com wrote: When trying to copy files to/from a Windows file server from/to another Windows machine, at times the Windows Explorer application will just hang. This could be due the server being less than responsive, or some other reason.

Re: [Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

2013-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/03/13 08:38 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, I've been trying for months to get samba to share my printer with my wife's Win XP machine. I've RTFM, and spent hours on google to no avail. I can't see the printer from Windows so I can't mount it up. Nothing appears in the logs.

[Samba] can't connect to home share after renaming Windows user

2013-02-14 Thread Gary Dale
I just went through the ordeal of renaming a Windows user account (from the previous incumbent's name to the position title, so I won't have to repeat this). Everything went smoothly. The account has access to the programs and files that it previously did. The roaming profile is being updated

[Samba] [RESOLVED] Re: can't connect to home share after renaming Windows user

2013-02-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/02/13 06:52 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I just went through the ordeal of renaming a Windows user account (from the previous incumbent's name to the position title, so I won't have to repeat this). Everything went smoothly. The account has access to the programs and files that it previously did

[Samba] Windows 7 Easy Transfer

2013-01-18 Thread Gary Dale
I've installed Windows 7 64/Pro on a former XP/Pro workstation connected to Samba domain (Debian/Squeeze - v3.5.6). Prior to doing this, I saved the settings using the Windows Easy Transfer tool to create a 13G file on a USB stick. I completed the install of Windows 7 and joined the

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles - WinXP and Win7

2012-12-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/12/12 04:29 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: Hello All, Today I was able to implement Samba4 as a DC with AD in a test environment. I eventually got it all working and was able to join the domain from two different virtual machines. I was also able to set up a roaming profile share and configure

Re: [Samba] Help pls. -- Samba permission question

2012-12-12 Thread Gary Dale
If you want the CIFS permissions to be set correctly, use the Samba/CIFS tools to set them (ie. set them from the client. Don't set them using Unix permissions on the server). Your example shows you setting the group to managegroup but your smb.conf forces the group to management. Which is

Re: [Samba] Help pls. -- Samba permission question

2012-12-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/12/12 02:07 PM, J Gao wrote: Thank you Gary for the help. On 12-12-12 09:45 AM, Gary Dale wrote: If you want the CIFS permissions to be set correctly, use the Samba/CIFS tools to set them (ie. set them from the client. Don't set them using Unix permissions on the server). I don't

Re: [Samba] Help pls. -- Samba permission question

2012-12-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/12/12 05:18 PM, J Gao wrote: On 12-12-12 12:52 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/12/12 02:07 PM, J Gao wrote: Thank you Gary for the help. On 12-12-12 09:45 AM, Gary Dale wrote: If you want the CIFS permissions to be set correctly, use the Samba/CIFS tools to set them (ie. set them from

Re: [Samba] Help pls. -- Samba permission question

2012-12-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/12/12 08:01 PM, J Gao wrote: On 12-12-12 03:02 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/12/12 05:18 PM, J Gao wrote: On 12-12-12 12:52 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/12/12 02:07 PM, J Gao wrote: Thank you Gary for the help. On 12-12-12 09:45 AM, Gary Dale wrote: If you want the CIFS permissions

Re: [Samba] cannot modify files on client

2012-11-25 Thread Gary Dale
When you are using samba to connect, the user, group and file permission get passed through it. Rather than trying to force a particular user, try mapping the Windows (samba) user to the local (server) user tommy. On 25/11/12 10:10 AM, Dietrich Hentschel wrote: Hi, I want connect a linux

Re: [Samba] using samba similar to windows shares

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/10/12 04:17 PM, 鱼 wrote: Hi, I would like to share a main folder (main) with everyone but have different access rights to a subfolder of main (subfolder) with 2 groups. Is it possible that this can be done with samba? Regards LC You do it the same way that you do it on a Windows server.

Re: [Samba] Share working with IP not with hostname

2012-09-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/09/12 01:52 PM, Nitin Thakur wrote: hi guys I managed to setup the share. I am able to access the share with IP address, but as soon as I try to do it via hostname, I get a user name and password pop up, which always fail to authenticate. Any setting I am missing? Thanks nitin I'm

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. We have a lot more linux

Re: [Samba] User submitted job

2011-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/02/11 08:49 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there a way for a user to run a job on the server? In particular, I want to implement a 'one click' backup using rsync. An icon on the desktop would do something (in a batch script maybe or some canned program) that would run a job under their

Re: [Samba] call for a forum to replace the mailing list?

2011-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/02/11 03:58 PM, Chris Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Macwebreg.samba@panscend.com wrote: May be a forum would be better? Forums suck. Mailling lists are good. An NNTP newsgroup might even be better - but they seem to have gone the way of the Dodo as the

Re: [Samba] Help needed with Windows7 roaming files.

2011-02-18 Thread Gary Dale
Are you sure it's not a permissions problem? Have the Windows 7 machines been properly added to the domain? Are the user accounts enabled? Sorry, I have no Windows 7 clients to test things on. However, whenever I've had similar problems, it's been an account setup problem, not a Samba

Re: [Samba] require membership to two groups

2010-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/12/10 03:56 PM, Christ Schlacta wrote: I have some shares on a media server that are considdered Local, offline content, namely they should be accessible if the rest of the network is down, and each system has it's own group of users who are allowed to maintain it. the media servers in

Re: [Samba] Newbie : bad uid in the smbpasswd file ?

2010-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/12/10 06:43 PM, Francois Lafont wrote: tdb for the backend? The easiest way to get things working is to stop fighting the distributors. Ubuntu gives you a fully functioning basic Samba configuration. SWAT allows you to easily configure it to add shares, printers, etc.. Breaking

Re: [Samba] Newbie : bad uid in the smbpasswd file ?

2010-12-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/12/10 06:44 AM, Francois Lafont wrote: Hello everybody, I don't understand why the uid isn't correct in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file. My OS is Ubuntu 10.04. Some precise explanations below: #--- # smbd -V Version 3.4.7 # testparm -s

Re: [Samba] re. 3.4.9 printing addprinter command reparse doesn't see new printer

2010-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/10/10 11:51 AM, Jack Downes wrote: The behavior is different from the 3.2.5 version I used to use. I have server that handles some 504 printers for the hospital serving some 2k users. The ratio really isn't that bad, about 150 of those printers are specialty label printers. I moved to

Re: [Samba] samba 3.3 - poor performance (compared to NFS)

2010-10-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/10/10 05:55 PM, scott_st...@trendmicro.com wrote: OK, I can do that. In production this box will not be CIFS-mounted by Linux machines, but I wanted to do the iozone benchmarks so I could compare apples-to-apples vs. NFS. I will go hunt down and repackage a newer CIFS client for

[Samba] re. 3.4.9 printing addprinter command reparse doesn't see new printer

2010-10-04 Thread Gary Dale
Please don't hijack threads. You could try something like /etc/init.d/samba restart (or your local equivalent) to the end of perl script. -- hello I have cups printing with cups 1.4.4. I'm using the included smbaddprinter.pl command to add

Re: [Samba] re. 3.4.9 printing addprinter command reparse doesn't see new printer

2010-10-04 Thread Gary Dale
but interrupt the operation... and I get an Operation could not be completed error. Which makes sense... On 10/ 4/10 04:21 PM, Gary Dale wrote: Please don't hijack threads. You could try something like /etc/init.d/samba restart (or your local equivalent) to the end of perl script

Re: [Samba] trouble joining win xp machines to samba with ldap backend DC

2010-09-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/09/10 11:53 AM, Osmany wrote: Greetings, I would like some help figuring this out. I really don't know what to do anymore. whenever I try to join an XP machine to the domain it comes up that username or password is not correct. However I know that the credentials are correct, but when I

Re: [Samba] A question about Samba, authentication, groups, quotas, etc.

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Dale
This happens sometimes when a local mail server rejects a message as spam because it contains words in a different language than used locally. Your original post did make it to the samba list. The spam message fortunately only went to the original sender (you). Someone on the list however

Re: [Samba] samba roaming profiles not working

2010-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 19/09/10 07:55 PM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: Gary, On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 14:21 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I've been at this for hours now and am still not getting it to work. I've been through the lists trying to find an answer and so far as I can tell, everything is configured OK

[Samba] samba roaming profiles not working

2010-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
Group SID: S-1-5-21-832165970-4128531365-4003982369-513 Full Name: Gary Dale Home Directory: \\whenim64\home\garydale HomeDir Drive: m: Logon Script: Profile Path: \\whenim64\home\samba\profiles\garydale Domain: RAHIM-DALE Account desc: Workstations: Munged dial: Logon time: 0 Logoff time

Re: [Samba] File owner SID instead of name showing for one user

2010-07-08 Thread Gary Dale
This occurs when Windows cannot find a user name for the SID. Identify which user is the real owner and change the Owner of the file to the real owner. If the owner actually does exist then it's probably missing the name attribute. On 08/07/10 01:56 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote: Also make sure

Re: [Samba] Set ACLs on Samba share from Windows

2010-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/07/10 01:11 AM, Dadoo wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:55:26 -0700, tms3 wrote: Operating system Samba Version. Fedora 13. Samba 3.5.4 (the one supplied with Fedora) Does *Nix file system used support ACL's? Yes. Are ACL's turned on for the samba share

Re: [Samba] Default Hidden Disk Shares

2010-07-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/07/10 05:00 AM, Atkinson, Robert wrote: Before I reply, please take my response in the light it's meant, which is curious interest and intrigue. I'm not and don't want to drag this out into a full blown dissemination of Windows security. The 'admins' directive in the CONF file holds a

Re: [Samba] Installation problem

2010-06-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/06/10 03:44 PM, Miha Krajnc wrote: Hey guys, i installed samba on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine (sudo apt-get install samba) and it didnt create any config files. There is no /etc/samba or /usr/local/samba. I dont realy know what to do The samba server fails to start and i cant connect to

Re: [Samba] new clients not joining to my domain

2010-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
Om Pastor Mosella wrote: Hello, Since about two weeks I've noticed (I tink after an update but I don't know) that when I try to join new XP client to my domain I get this error: /0x232B/ RCODE_NAME_ERROR And something about The DNS SRV record is not registered in DNS I don't paste all

Re: [Samba] new clients not joining to my domain

2010-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
Om Pastor Mosella wrote: Thank you for your response. I try to reboot again and wait until try to join but the error is the same. Thanks. - Mensaje original - De: Gary Dale Enviado: 21-04-10 15:27 Para: samba@lists.samba.org Asunto: Re: [Samba] new clients not joining to my domain

Re: [Samba] Snow Leopard and Samba

2010-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
jjrowan wrote: A customer has an expanding number of Mac computers. Last Friday and existing machine started having problems writing files to a Samba share on a CentOS 5.x server. They had no problems prior to Friday. They are getting permission failure errors in creating files and

Re: [Samba] Snow Leopard and Samba

2010-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:49:19PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: jjrowan wrote: A customer has an expanding number of Mac computers. Last Friday and existing machine started having problems writing files to a Samba share on a CentOS 5.x server. They had no problems

Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-09 Thread Gary Dale
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@rogers.com): Now perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no trouble with users mounting nfs shares. The idea that users can't

Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dale
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Chris Smith smb...@chrissmith.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jeff Layton jlay...@samba.org wrote: Yes, we added a patch a while back to make it such that mount.cifs would not allow itself to run as a setuid root

Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dale
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@rogers.com): Now perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no trouble with users mounting nfs shares. The idea that users can't mount cifs shares strikes me as odd and an unnecessary impediment. How about turning the binary we

[Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Squeeze on an AMD64 system. For some reason they have recently stopped shipping mount.cifs with the setuid bit set. Now it appears that they have changed the internal settings to prevent it from running setuid. This means that I can't define the share in fstab with user and

Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Dale
Jeff Layton wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:44:47 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: I'm running Debian/Squeeze on an AMD64 system. For some reason they have recently stopped shipping mount.cifs with the setuid bit set. That would be because it was horribly unsecure. Now

Re: [Samba] how to use m4_pattern_allow

2010-01-17 Thread Gary Dale
himmat baldaniya wrote: hello what is m4_pattern_allow ?? how to use it ?? I am installing patch of acl-2.2.49.tar.gz but it gives me error stating -- line 1650 :AC_CONFIG_MACRO:m4 line 1650 : use m4_pattern_allow thankx

Re: [Samba] Renaming a computer on a Samba domain

2010-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
Michael Wood wrote: 2010/1/13 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com: [...] The only down side is (the last time I checked anyway) is you need a commercial package like Ghost to give each image a unique SID. From http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx Note: NewSID has

Re: [Samba] Documents in home folder 'Read Only'

2010-01-13 Thread Gary Dale
Dave Coventry wrote: Sorry: the user told me she was in, but she is using someone else's password. (her supervisor's) It's no longer that she can't write to her home directory: she can't log in at all now. tail /var/log/samba/log.reception [2010/01/13 16:07:33, 0]

Re: [Samba] Renaming a computer on a Samba domain

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Dale
Jason Somers wrote: We shift computers around a lot, and therefore need to rename several whenever we get new batches of systems in. Tried simply renaming a system while on the domain, but got an access denied error. I WAS able to disjoin the domain, remove the LDAP entry for the computer,

Re: [Samba] Documents in home folder 'Read Only'

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Dale
Dave Coventry wrote: My user is logged in to the Samba Server. smb.conf has the following: [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 browseable = No writeable = Yes The files in the user's home

Re: [Samba] Renaming a computer on a Samba domain

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Dale
= Jason Somers Network Administrator Red Barn Technology Group, Inc. 1235 Front Street - Suite 3 Binghamton, NY 13905 (607) 772-1888 x222 Gary Dale wrote: Jason Somers wrote: We shift computers around a lot, and therefore need to rename several whenever we get new

Re: [Samba] Renaming a computer on a Samba domain

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Dale
It's not a Samba issue. It's a Windows issue. Windows associates the account name with a particular SID, whether it's a machine or a user account. You can't just change the name like you can in Unix. Now I admit I haven't worked on Windows Servers newer than W2K but the NT domain stuff hasn't

Re: [Samba] web client for samba

2009-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
jcflores wrote: Is there any way to access to samba server via web, I mean that the users windows can access to samba server via web. You can access the server using SWAT, which listens on port 901. If you want to access file shares via the Internet, that's a different issue. Try Googling

[Samba] how to get a qemu Windows XP guest to connect to a Samba domain

2009-12-25 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Squeeze on my desktop and have installed a qemu virtual machine (actually the qemu-kvm fork) with a tap interface to the network. The guest operating system is Windows XP. It can see my Samba shares and connect to them but I can't get the virtual machine to join the Samba

Re: [Samba] problem with force group parameter

2009-11-05 Thread Gary Dale
Force group forces the Unix group to be whatever you force it to. It has nothing to do with what group the connecting use belongs to. vishesh kumar wrote: I also facing same issue. Does it mean that we cant specify secondary group as 'force group' in group. On 11/5/09, Andrey Zykov

Re: [Samba] Move samba server

2009-10-17 Thread Gary Dale
Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: Hi everybody, I got a new servers and I'd like to move the old ones to the news, I know that to move samba, I need to move the SID. anybody knows a howto, o where I can find documentation to move the SID along with the users and machines. P.D. Currently the

Re: [Samba] Desiring to set up Windows Vista and Linux Fedora Core 4

2009-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
Barry L. Bond wrote: Greetings! Tonight is unfortunately the first small bit of time I've had to even try to get Samba configured between my Vista and my Linux FC4. (My mother as well as my extremely limited home time dealing with important things are my main delays.) It's not going

Re: [Samba] Designate one samba server for home directories

2009-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
Luv Linux wrote: Hello all, I have a few samba servers running winbind that are joined to the AD 2003 domain. Is it possible to designate one samba server to host the users' home directories instead of each one of them? If we have samba1, samba2, and samba3 and designate samba1 to host the home

Re: [Samba] Mapping usernames

2009-09-29 Thread Gary Dale
I suspect that the problem is that Samba is looking up the Windows name and simply mapping to the first instance it finds. A work-around would be to use the force user setting on the share. Allow garcijo access then force the user to be mpcadmin. You may also want to consider your strategy

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 Support

2009-09-29 Thread Gary Dale
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, sambalist wrote: Hello Samba, I hope to know if the latest Samba release could provide file or print service to Windows 7 or Vista. Thanks! :) 3.3 works with Windows 7. (For files anyway, I didn't test printing) Of course, CUPS should

Re: [Samba] Help needed: valid users

2009-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
Chris Osicki wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:03:48 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Chris Osicki wrote: Hi I'm using Samba 3.0.33 on Solaris10 and have the following problem. In the smb.conf I have workgroup = CORPROOT security = domain and users authenticated

Re: [Samba] Help needed: valid users

2009-09-16 Thread Gary Dale
Chris Osicki wrote: Hi I'm using Samba 3.0.33 on Solaris10 and have the following problem. In the smb.conf I have workgroup = CORPROOT security = domain and users authenticated to CORPROOT domain can connect shares w/o problems, [homes] for example. Now I would like to create a

Re: [Samba] Help needed: valid users

2009-09-16 Thread Gary Dale
Chris Osicki wrote: Hi I'm using Samba 3.0.33 on Solaris10 and have the following problem. In the smb.conf I have workgroup = CORPROOT security = domain and users authenticated to CORPROOT domain can connect shares w/o problems, [homes] for example. Now I would like to create a

Re: [Samba] Simple CIFS Linux permission

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Dale
Willem P. Botha wrote: Have you tried connecting as your user account and letting the force user in smb.conf do its work? When your Windows clients connect, they are using their own ids and that is working. Why are you doing it differently for Linux? Now that is the weird thing, The

Re: [Samba] Samba and chroot

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Dale
Eric Vielet wrote: Hi all, Is there a way with samba to chroot the user in order than he can't browse up ? I guess we can to that through Unix rights, but maybe samba can do that without changing the rights on the directories ? Regards, I'm not sure what you're asking. Network shares

Re: [Samba] Simple CIFS Linux permission

2009-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
willem.bo...@adticket.de wrote: Greetings all, I have a VERY basic fileserver in my network, that works well for my needs, and have run into a problem that I can't solve. I am sure that the more eperienced users here will be able to help me in less than 5 minutes, so please, if you have some

Re: [Samba] Simple CIFS Linux permission

2009-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
Willem P. Botha wrote: Willem wrote: I connect my Linux clients with a fstab entry: //192.168.1.127/sharefiles /mnt/fileserver cifs credentials=/home/.auth,rw,soft 0 0 The connection works fine on boot. How do I map this remote uid to the local uid? Gary wrote: In the

Re: [Samba] Simple CIFS Linux permission

2009-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
Willem P. Botha wrote: Your situation is very confusing. Your server name is, according to your smb.conf line: netbios name = fileserver and you are also forcing all users to connect as username group force user = fileserver force group = fileserver The force

Re: [Samba] Simple CIFS Linux permission

2009-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
Willem P. Botha wrote: OK. So now try removing the credentials entirely. Also, set the log level in smb.conf to 10 and restart it. Then connect from the command line (as root) using -o username=fileserver,domain= See if you get an error message and also check the logs. OK, first

Re: [Samba] Desiring to set up Windows Vista and Linux Fedora Core 4 Samba; brand new subscriber

2009-09-01 Thread Gary Dale
Barry L. Bond wrote: Greetings! I am a brand new subscriber to this mailing list. I will try to be kind and humble, and I would appreciate if anyone reading this could offer to help me set this up, I would appreciate it. I have 192.168 addresses, and I will openly share whatever

Re: [Samba] Password Sync not letting users to change password.

2009-08-29 Thread Gary Dale
Avinash Rao wrote: Dear all, Ubuntu 8.04 Server Samba 3.0.28a configured as PDC. I want to give options to samba users to change their own passwords and sync it with the unix passwords whenever they change it. I have used the following in my smb.conf file unix password sync = yes passwd

Re: [Samba] I am try to install samba on debian 2.6

2009-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
Samantha Bandara wrote: i am new to samba i want install PDC on debian2.6 with xp prop. please help me Simply enter the following: aptitude update enter aptitude install samba swatenter Use your favourite browser to go to localhost:901, which is the local swat site, then use

Re: [Samba] I am try to install samba on debian 2.6

2009-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
Gary Dale wrote: Samantha Bandara wrote: i am new to samba i want install PDC on debian2.6 with xp prop. please help me Simply enter the following: aptitude update enter aptitude install samba swatenter Use your favourite browser to go to localhost:901, which is the local swat

Re: [Samba] How to test roaming profiles

2009-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
Marc Delisle wrote: Hi, I'm working on a server that was upgraded a few weeks ago (Linux Mandriva was reinstalled with a more up-to-date Samba version which is 3.3.2). Now, roaming profiles no longer work. I even wonder what would be the proper to way to test them. Workstations are running

Re: [Samba] How to test roaming profiles

2009-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
Marc Delisle wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : Marc Delisle wrote: Hi, I'm working on a server that was upgraded a few weeks ago (Linux Mandriva was reinstalled with a more up-to-date Samba version which is 3.3.2). Now, roaming profiles no longer work. I even wonder what would be the proper

Re: [Samba] roaming profiles

2009-07-04 Thread Gary Dale
Wojciech Giel wrote: Gary Dale wrote: The netlogon share is, AFAIK, used if you want to provide scripts to be run at logon. It's not essential for roaming profiles but it's also probably not large so there is no point in not having one. Corporate types love being able to control end user's

Re: [Samba] roaming profiles

2009-07-03 Thread Gary Dale
Wojciech Giel wrote: Hi I trying to configure Samba PDC/BDC with LDAP master/slave backend and file server as a Member serwer. PDC/BDC with ldap is working. But now I 'm in the middle of configuring roaming profiles but I don't understand some issues. Samba PDC/BDC with ldap's is on ubuntu

Re: [Samba] Basic Samba Server Global Options

2009-05-13 Thread Gary Dale
Wayne Hammond wrote: I have a few OpenSuse Samba Servers. They are all stand alone File Servers. All the Clients are Windows XP. The Server and Clients are set up as a Workgroup. Usually no more than 15 Clients. The Samba Server is setup as the Master Browser, but as I read more about

Re: [Samba] question add user script

2009-05-09 Thread Gary Dale
murrah boswell wrote: Hello all, I have never had the need to use the add user script functionality but now I do. However, it does not seem to be working. My smb.conf entry is like so: add user script = /remote/configure_scripts/addusers.sh where addusers.sh is a bash script that reads in

Re: [Samba] Samba machine's account migration

2009-05-09 Thread Gary Dale
Maxime V wrote: Hello, I moved my samba to another server, but my windows computer can't login. I tested this: put win computer out of domain, and re-add it. But i loose my personal application changes. How can i allow windows computers to login to my samba domain ? Should i create machines'

Re: [Samba] question add user script

2009-05-09 Thread Gary Dale
murrah boswell wrote: The add user script I use is /usr/sbin/useradd -g users %u. The script should only add one user at a time as far as I know. Here is what the SWAT documentation has to say about it: add user script (G) This is the full pathname to a script that will be run /AS

Re: [Samba] Low cost additional storage on a Samba server

2009-04-28 Thread Gary Dale
Easiest way is to implement software RAID on your current server. - add 2 (or more) new drives partitioned identically to your current drive (unless you want to replace your existing drive) - partition type is fd (RAID) - create RAID 5 arrays using the new drives partitions (except for /boot

Re: [Samba] error 1310 when installing to a Samba share

2009-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
Michael Heydon wrote: Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to install some income tax software to a Samba (Debian 3.2.5 i386) share and I'm getting the above error. Does it work correctly installing over the network to a windows host? *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * micha...@jaswin.com.au

[Samba] error 1310 when installing to a Samba share

2009-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
I'm trying to install some income tax software to a Samba (Debian 3.2.5 i386) share and I'm getting the above error. I've tried resolving it through the Windows knowledge base, which suggested it was the Windows Installer running as a local system account but even granting guest access to the

Re: [Samba] What is the purpose of add user script?

2009-03-29 Thread Gary Dale
MargoAndTodd wrote: Hi All, I am confused. In one of the examples of a PDC, the following smb.conf parameter is given: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m -G users '%u' If you have passdb backend = tdbsam and the way to add users to tdbsam is pdbedit -a -u username, what is the

Re: [Samba] Are tdbsam and smbpasswd linked?

2009-03-29 Thread Gary Dale
MargoAndTodd wrote: Hi All, I just added three users to my tdbsam with pdbedit -a -u username (had to do useradd first). All three appeared in tdbsam as they should, as verified with pdbedit -L. But, all three also appeared in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. This is not a mistake, they were not

Re: [Samba] Cannot login from windows

2009-02-24 Thread Gary Dale
Assuming you are using a version of Windows (XP/pro, not home) that allows domain logins (accounts passwords kept on server) then I suggest you install and use SWAT. Use the wizard to create a domain controller. Also, add and activate each user on the Password screen. Next you need to log

Re: [Samba] Can't add machines to domain after Debian-Update

2009-02-22 Thread Gary Dale
Can't say for certain its related but - I notice that Debian/Lenny also has trouble with shares that end in $. Windows uses this convention to hide shares network browsing. Since Samba also uses a trailing $ for computer accounts, perhaps there is a common cause underlying both issues. Bernd

Re: [Samba] What steps to take

2009-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
Tom Van Deun wrote: Hi list I'm attempting to list windows shared printers in Unix. That's really all that I need and I can't install Samba on the machine I need to list the shared printers from. I started analyzing the smbclient code hoping to extract the necessary info but as you all know

Re: [Samba] What steps to take

2009-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
but to be honest I can't find any. If you know of some do let me know. Kind regards, Tom Van Deun On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com mailto:garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Tom Van Deun wrote: Hi list I'm attempting to list windows shared printers in Unix. That's

Re: [Samba] What steps to take

2009-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
help I'm afraid. It needs to be CLI On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com mailto:garyd...@rogers.com wrote: There are the GUI tools like the KDE printer and the print manager that acquire the list of printers somehow. And there's the Konqueror Services Print

Re: [Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-06 Thread Gary Dale
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Re: [Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
Gary Dale wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: ile sharing is working well after I remapped the drives on a running XP/Pro workstation. However, I can't get logins to work. I've set up machine accounts for each XP/Pro workstation and used SWAT to create the new Samba accounts and enable them

Re: [Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:32:18PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Samba wants the machines to have Unix accounts too! I don't recall this behaviour previously, and I note my old server didn't have them - Samba has *always* behaved this way. Jeremy. Why? I can

Re: [Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:56:07PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:32:18PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Samba wants the machines to have Unix accounts too! I don't recall this behaviour previously, and I note my

Re: [Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-04 Thread Gary Dale
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: ile sharing is working well after I remapped the drives on a running XP/Pro workstation. However, I can't get logins to work. I've set up machine accounts for each XP/Pro workstation and used SWAT to create the new Samba accounts and enable them (with the same password

[Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-03 Thread Gary Dale
I'm trying to set up a new server to replace my previous domain controller/fileprint server on my home network. My old server was running Debian/Etch on a 32bit sempron system with two HDs. The new one is running an old 64bit single-core processor and 3 HDs configured into multiple RAID 1 and 5

[Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-03 Thread Gary Dale
Further to below, here are the syslog entries for an attempt to login from an XP/Pro workstation. While it is indicating a problem authenticating a machine account, the machine account does exist: Jan 3 17:50:44 whenim64 smbd[11537]: [2009/01/03 17:50:44, 0]

Re: [Samba] Cant Set Password on Windows Side.

2008-08-11 Thread Gary Dale
: Gary Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Subject: Re: [Samba] Cant Set Password on Windows Side. Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:41:39 -0400 There are several things that could be causing it. 1) is your passwd program really called userpasswd? 2) does the passwd chat really match what your passwd program

Re: [Samba] Cant Set Password on Windows Side.

2008-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
There are several things that could be causing it. 1) is your passwd program really called userpasswd? 2) does the passwd chat really match what your passwd program expects? 3) have the windows machines joined the domain? 4) can the windows machines see the domain controller? Jeff L wrote:

Re: [Samba] can join,but not log into domain

2008-06-21 Thread Gary Dale
Peter Hartmann wrote: Hi, I have a problem where I can join an xpsp2 machine to a domain but, no matter what %COMPUTERNAME% i use, it says system error: a duplicate name exists on the network after the reboot when upon successfully joining.If I try to log in as a valid user, i get the the

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