On 21/01/2011 2:41 AM, Collen Blijenberg wrote:
I'm curious how others manage their windows 7 machines
on a samba 3.x.x domain ..
especial the part of policies and scripts.
i got the win7 running in the samba domain, but i'm
stuck in the policies part.. and i don't want to use nitrobit for
Yassine AYACHI wrote:
Hi All,
I want to configure my samba [version 3.4.0] to permit access from windows
clients without asking password,
can any one propose me an example of configuration witch allows this,
Thanks in advance,
Yassine
On one of my work boxes I have one of the following
Jim Christiansen wrote:
I keep getting the error message:
The following error occured attempting to join the domain ROOM101
The username could not be found
Generally when I've seen that error, it was because the computer account
wasn't being created for some reason. Have you checked your add
On 28/11/2009 8:02 AM, jeff sacksteder wrote:
I'm following along in the instructions for migrating from a NT4 PDC
to a ldapsam configuration. When I get to step 13, getent does not
show the new users and groups in ldap. I can view my directory with a
LDAP browser and see the entries, but I
On 21/10/2009 3:11 AM, MikeSch wrote:
Is it possible to place my tdb files on another partition different from the
one that samba is installed on? Can I do that from the .conf file? If so
how?
As you know the locking.tdb file can get rather large and I'd like to place
that on a partition that
Todd Chester wrote:
Hi All,
I have a situation where I want users in one group to use one set of rules
for [homes] and another set of users in a different group to a different set
of rules for [homes]. Is this possible (and how)?
Sure is possible. I do this at the school I work for so that
dogb...@infinito.it wrote:
Thanks Oliver,
I will check all the files in /etc/pam.d
Check /etc/nsswitch.conf first. I think it may be your first problem.
I think that if I can succeed in authenticating via shell or ssh I can then
rule-out pam issues and work on samba configuration.
You need
dogbert wrote:
Ok, a little update on this issue.
I've changed the various common-* within /etc/pam.d and I've obtained
the following.
Now I can connect with ssh or su with a user defined in ldap as long
as this user is present also in /etc/passwd.
It seems that the system check for the user
Marc Fromm wrote:
I need to disconnect some samba connections to my linux redhat server.
I searched online and found these two tips but neither work:
1. Set the deadtime parameter to specific time in the smb.conf file
my smb.conf file does not have the parameter deadtime listed
2. Use kill
Usually this is a matter of filesystem permissions being wrong.
Can (for example) a sales person access the sales share when logged into
the server's console?
TB
Leonardo Carneiro wrote:
i still have this problem i have not found any solution. sorry for the
'up' on the topic, but i'm really
Vladimir Psenicka wrote:
Is there any option to join Windows 7 RC to domain? Message from windows
is : The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
Sounds like it's the same as the Beta... Same error message suggests
same problem still present.
See this blog I found
Ooi Kwan Chen wrote:
I'm planning to upgrade my Samba Server from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny.
Will this affect Samba? Is it safe to perform upgrade from apt-get
upgrade?
It generally goes fine I'd get apt to download all the required
packages the night before you plan to do the upgrade,
Is it possible to set up CUPS+Samba3 to allow users to delete print jobs
without being printer admins?
I want to allow staff at our school to delete print jobs, but as far as
I can see, the only way is to make them all printer admins. This is
probably not a good idea given the imaginative
Stefan Dengscherz wrote:
Another alternative would be to use more mature LDAP Account
management web utils:
- GOSA
- phpLdapAdmin (don't know if it supports user login change Samba
password hash)
LAM Pro (not the free one) also has a user self-service component. It
can also let users change
If you shares are on a filesystem that does ctime, you can find files
with a ctime older than 7 days. ctime should update when the files are
moved to the recycle directory.
For example, you could use find like this:
find /full/path/to/.recycled/ -ctime +7
TB
vishesh kumar wrote:
Dear all
Bruce Ferrell wrote:
Are domain logins required for login scripts to work or will they work
in workgroup mode as well?
Yes. Workgroup is what you could call a peer to peer mode. Nothing
controls anything, and nothing really trusts anything.
TB
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A quick Google suggests it's possible. The NTLM module apparently sets a
variable with the username. I would suggest checking the mediawiki
extensions list on the mediawiki site... Someone might already have done
NTLM support.
TB
Didster wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm not entirly
Kyle wrote:
smb.conf states This user must exist in the passwd file, but does not
require a valid login
What exactly does this mean? As I understand it, adding a user with
'smbpasswd -a nobody' automatically gives it a valid login.
What it means is that you need the user in your *nix accounts,
Gustavo Michels wrote:
So, what is wrong in here? Or it isn't possible to do it in the domain
level?
Not sure if you can do it like that, but if you only want to give them
local admin on their own computer (and not everyone else's), you're
going to want to do it on each computer manually
Onatawahtaw wrote:
Can you verify from the server that the file is gone as well. Could it be that
the file actually does exist on the server, but they cannot see it on the
Windows mount?
Or the other thing, where some idiot's moved it to a subdirectory
without realising. I had that from a
Justin Piszcz wrote:
1) Can not support .chm help files
They're just files. In what way aren't they supported?
2) Does not support locks for multi-user access to Access
Access doesn't really support that either. But 2 staff at the school I
work for often have the same Access file open. Not
Lucia Donatto wrote:
Let me explain it better, if a user A in an A pc ask the access to a
shared resource in a B pc by a B user, it is not possible because it
recquires user and password and only takes that of the user previously
logged on B pc. No other user works with its password, not even
Is your overall issue that you can't work with computer names anymore?
If so, I'd recommend setting up a real DNS server to fix that. Or if
your router allows it, enter static local DNS entries in that (sounds
like you don't have that option though).
TB
Skip Guenter wrote:
I've read too many
Hi.
How stable and tested is the Recycle module? In particular, the version
that's supplied with Debian Etch.
The reason I ask is that some files have gone from one of our servers
(so says a user, anyway). They were supposedly in a share that uses the
recycle module, but there's no copy in
Michael Heydon wrote:
Could the files have been moved rather than deleted? I find alot more
users accidentally dragging when double clicking than I do
accidentally deleting things.
Well, I did a search on the entire set of folders we share on samba, and
didn't find anything like what they said
Hello people
Just wondering how people deal with deletion of roaming profiles and
homes on their servers.
I currently have a script that moves old homes for one subset of our
users... but it's very messy. I'm considering re-writing it, and
including the profile dirs too, but I was wondering
Whit Blauvelt wrote:
I'm looking for somerecognition that the Samba project may have gone astray in
the decision to
package winbind as part of the main package, given the many specific
shortcomings
No problems with doing that. I'm pretty sure some of the little tools,
scripts and gadgets for
you name it NTConfig.POL and put it in /samba/netlogon
and only 2000-Vista clients will load that. for win 95/98 clients I
think it needs to be called Config.POL.
Tim Bates wrote:
At one site I support, I have just recently put a policy file on their
server to try and make some stuff easier
I've just been looking at pdb_multi to use as a method of transitioning
a client's samba server to LDAP. Unfortunately it appears to be rather
undocumented...
Is there any info out there on using it?
Does the 0.2 release work on Samba 3.0.24? It says it's for 3.0.23
Does it work reliably
At one site I support, I have just recently put a policy file on their
server to try and make some stuff easier to manage. Only problem is
Windows is not even trying to load it. I watched the traffic in
Wireshark, and there's no request for the ntconfig.pol file at all. And
of course nothing from
Michael Heydon wrote:
but if you just want to share directories from the windows system then
you really don't need samba.
What if you have a non-server version of Windows and wanted to use it as
a domain controller or do something more tricky than Windows allows
(especially XP Home's
Is it possible to use map to guest in a single share?
We have 2 or 3 shares where I want this behavior, but for most I would
like to not use it due to issues with home directories with bad users.
I would simply try moving that line to a share definition to see what
happens, but I don't want
Dexter Filmore wrote:
Wanna share a dir to win clients so that they can just map it locally without
providing any password or login or whatsover.
So far I'm at:
[foo]
path = /mnt/foo
guest ok = Yes
security = share
public = yes
writable = yes
Josh Kelley wrote:
On 10/26/07, Barry Cisna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Run into a weird one. When students save their MS Publisher files to the
samba server,they save fine. But,,,when they reopen them to edit them,
then try to resave them they will not save. Even if they save with an
extra
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
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Tim Bates wrote, On 20-09-2007 20:46:
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
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Check sambaldap-tools (smbldap-tools) from IdealX, it
probably has what you want. :-)
Already looked
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Tim Bates wrote, On 19-09-2007 23:29:
Can anyone point me to a guide on migrating Linux and Samba accounts to
LDAP? I can only find part guides, and I can't figure out how to get the
account data combined
Can anyone point me to a guide on migrating Linux and Samba accounts to
LDAP? I can only find part guides, and I can't figure out how to get the
account data combined (without a lot of manual effort).
I can get the Linux accounts over no problems. I then tried to do
pdbedit -i tdbsam -e
Terry VanDerMaarel wrote:
Yeah, yeah, I know v2.2.x is no longer supported. However, I have a
stable running release of this and would rather not upgrade, but I
need to add a recycle bin. I have successfully added a recycle bin to
a v3.0.10 release and am wondering when the 'vfs objects =
HI.
A few users have told me their powerpoint presentations they've been
working on have been corrupted in the last week.
One user is very close to the quota limit (a few hundred KB left), and I
know they are using embedded photos in the presentation. Could it be an
issue with hitting the
I'm getting that same problem since upgrading my Debian server from
Sarge to Etch. I've got the map to guest = bad user thing in my
config, but it's like it doesn't work now.
In the end, since 99.9% of the access I needed was as guest anyway, I
switched those shares over to share security. Of
Michael Barnes wrote:
I cannot use a normal map network drive, because I have to map to C:\Program
Files\Application\share. It can't map to f:\share.
What about mapping to a drive and then using an NTFS junction to
redirect it to the directory name you need? Not the neatest solution,
but it
Michael Lueck wrote:
So, just a general heads up... something smelling fishy with Debian Etch.
So it's not just me having weird problems on recently upgraded servers
that have weird permissions setups.
Now if only I had the time to go and try the official packages on the
most problematic
Dhillon, Gurjit wrote:
We have the system customized, there are few user whose home directory
is under /corp/home/gurjit or /fem/home/gurjit1 or /family/home/gurjit2.
so I cannot mention path = /home/
How can I go about this now ??
Isn't there a variable for the user's home dir? Something
.
[BTW, [printers] has conflicting directives - public = yes and
guest ok = no.]
Good luck,
Dale
Tim Bates wrote:
I upgraded a server from Debian Sarge to Etch the other day. Today I
discovered a fairly major issue... All the shares I had set up for
guest access have stopped working. The shares
I upgraded a server from Debian Sarge to Etch the other day. Today I
discovered a fairly major issue... All the shares I had set up for guest
access have stopped working. The shares are meant to be writable by me
and a few others, and read only for guest, but it's flat out refusing to
for dev = 302, inode = 2528190, tv_sec = 3d048716, tv_usec = 19b20
Are these problems related? How can I fix them?
Thanks,
Tim Bates
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little idea of how Samba
operates, and no idea about what an oplock is, I'm hoping someone can help
me out.
Thanks,
Tim Bates
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and prevent it
happening again.
More proof that posting a problem publicly is the best way to fix it, or in
my case make it go away.
Thanks,
Tim Bates
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. Can someone give me a pointer as to what might be
the problem?
Thanks,
Tim Bates
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it by address, as I described earlier. What puzzles me most is that my
Linux desktops (including this self same machine when booted in Linux) have
no problems at all.
Thanks,
Tim Bates
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