[Samba] samba domain and windows server licenses

Hello, sorry if this post is a little bit offtopic, but samba is marginaly involved and I hope this problem was solved before. We have a windows 2000 terminal server in a domain where the PDC and BDC are linux/samba machines. Now on the TS we get a message 221 that we need more server licen

Re: [Samba] samba domain and windows server licenses

Firstly, you need to install and activate Terminal Server Licensing server (on one of the Terminal Servers or whatever Windows server you choose). Note the stand alone option. Than, add Terminal Server CAL's. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237811 Afterwards you need to edit registry on the t

[Samba] ldap backend samba

Hello everyone I have been trying for a week now to complete a simple task of integrating samba and ldap. I have run into a few problems, and have been helped by others. I finally completed the task and when I try get a windows xp user to logon I get the following error "The system cannot find me

Re: [Samba] ldap backend samba

Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008, Andy a écrit : > Hello everyone > > I have been trying for a week now to complete a simple task of integrating > samba and ldap. I have run into a few problems, and have been helped by > others. I finally completed the task and when I try get a windows xp user > to lo

Re: [Samba] ldap backend samba

I have always found this "the perfect" howto to help me: http://home.subnet.at/~max/ldap/ It is Debian based, but it should be applicable for other distros as well. It also uses smbldap-tools. On Jan 9, 2008 1:30 PM, Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Re: [Samba] Another Uploading Printer drivers problem.

Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Use client driver means something like "completely ignore the server side drivers and use a local one." IMHO, a better interpretation of "user client driver" is "it breaks print serving" and it shouldn't be used unless you explicitly know [and understand] why you

[Samba] DFS

Dear All, I had a working solution on a Redhat EL 4 or 5 or something like that (I don't remember exactly). I changed it to CentOS 5, and now the same config is not working on the right way. I see this on a windows map driver (I haven't tried it with linux): W:\Install\Windows\Windows\bla\sa

[Samba] Re: Do I need Winbind?

Scott Lovenberg wrote: Sounds like a bug I filed a couple of weeks ago. Do you have the line msdfs proxy = no in your config, perchance? Ref: 0002554: "msdfs proxy = no" in smb.conf causes shares to be unavailable. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2554 No. This is my config. [global]

[Samba] ldap interface authentication

What specific ldap config files are used by samba when it's used as the backend db? I have followed the FDC Howto and setup the ldap data on a dedicated FDC server. From the samba machine I have been able to do 'ldapsearch -x -D "cn=dirmng" -W *' for all the sambaSam information. I have added the

Re: [Samba] Another Uploading Printer drivers problem.

Richard Chapman schrieb: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Use client driver means something like "completely ignore the server side drivers and use a local one." IMHO, a better interpretation of "user client driver" is "it breaks print serving" and it shouldn't be used unless you explicitly kno

[Samba] Windows doesn't show Samba group names, only SIDs

Hi, I have a problem with Samba / LDAP running on SLES-9. This has been running well for a while until this week - now Windows workstations don't show group names anymore (editing Access Rights, for example, shows a list of group SIDs instead). I checked whether some software was updated - and i

[Samba] Winbind separator Problem

Hello list, I have installed samba-3.0.24 on FC 6. I have some problems to authenticate users against pam_winbind If the user has the winbind separator in the username then the authentication does not work Here are some logs: [2008/01/09 14:12:45, 3] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(

Re: [Samba] ldap interface authentication

Which version of Samba? As I understand it, Samba doesn't use ldap :-) At compile time, support for nss_ldap can be specified - samba talks to that for looking up users (and machines) - this requires /etc/ldap.conf to be correct. There are some add-on perl scripts bundled as smbldap-tools whic

[Samba] Printer sharing and LDAP traffic

Hello list, My linux server is using Samba to share cups printers. My nsswitch.conf is setup for LDAP authentication. I'm noticing tons of LDAP traffic all of the time between my Samba server and my LDAP server for printer names. For example, I have a printer share called "Undergrad Lab Printer

Re: [Samba] Need help with SWAT

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on-list, for various reasons. What message do you get after a telnet to port 901? Always give messages. For example, can't connect could mean "connection refused" or "connection timed out" -- completely different problems. Provide

[Samba] the architecture of remote W2K3 is now detected as Win2K instead of Win2K3

Hi all, We are using the following smb.conf definition. logon path = \\somesambaserver\Profiles\%U\Profile\%a %a maps now to Win2K for Win2K3 R2 SP2 servers. The mapping has been correct in the pass. We don't noticed the problem until recently when we replaced a Win2K terminal server in one of

RE: [Samba] Need help with SWAT

Do you have entries for swat in /etc/services file? swat901/tcp /etc/inetd.conf file? swatstream tcp nowait.400 root/usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/09/2008 11:34:53 AM: > Telnet attempt returned "Connection to closed > by foreign

RE: [Samba] Need help with SWAT

Telnet attempt returned "Connection to closed by foreign host." When I attempted the same thing to the loopback address, I got the same thing (just a different IP address, of course); "Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed by foreign host." As for documentation on swat, there is precious little of i

RE: [Samba] Need help with SWAT

>From my inetd.conf file in etc: # SWAT is the Samba Web Administration Tool swatstreamtcpnowait.400root/usr/local/samba/sbinswat (looks like I have a piece missing there; I forgot the /swat at the end of sbin - I'll edit and retry) >From my services file in /etc: sw

RE: [Samba] Need help with SWAT

Thanks, everyone (especially Ryan and Vickie). That correction in my inetd.conf file took care of the problem. I hand the path but not path/filename in the swat entry in inetd.conf. Once I corrected that, it started working. I appreciate all the help. From: Vick

[Samba] Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

Using simple authentication I have been able to tie FDS to Samba 3.x.24. Knowing that the unix passwd and smb passwd are different, dare I ask how difficult it would be to have them sync? Most of my users are using netatalk w/ posix user info and MD5 password. I would like to swing this over to sam

Re: [Samba] Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

Hi Jim, Using simple authentication I have been able to tie FDS to Samba 3.x.24. Knowing that the unix passwd and smb passwd are different, dare I ask how difficult it would be to have them sync? Most of my users are using netatalk w/ posix user info and MD5 password. I would like to swing this o

[Samba] Can't access dirs with subgroups of a samba share

Hi all! Here's the problem we have since patching Monday night. Tuesday morning Samba wasn't running, but started fine, and everything seemed to be working. Were currently running samba3.0.24-2.23 and I believe before the patch we were running samba3.0.22-13.30. We have some samba shares w

Re: [Samba] Need help with SWAT

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No problem. In that case, it was probably trying to exec the directory (which unsurprisingly did not work). Donald Woeltje wrote: > Thanks, everyone (especially Ryan and Vickie). That correction in my > inetd.conf file took care of the problem. I han

[Samba] Sporadic Copying XP/2000

Hello, I've setup a basic Linux Workgroup via SAMBA. Everything is working fine except for the following: I just replaced a Windows 2003 Storage Server with CentOS 5.1. When my users start copying TIF images from the now CentOS 5.1 server, XP copies the images sporadically. For example: fol

[Samba] mount -o remount /mnt/samba creates duplicate mount

This is a repost, since I'd really like to get some info about whats going on. when using, "mount -o remount" on an linux box, I get a duplicate mount instead of a proper remount. /proc/mounts backs me up: the system really does have multiple mounts in the same place, of the same drive. The versio

[Samba] Winbindd fails to start

Hi, I have just compiled and installed MIT krb5-1.6.3 and got a ticket with kinit: Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valid starting ExpiresService principal 01/09/08 18:27:06 01/10/08 01:07:06 krbtgt/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/08 18:31:18 01/10/0

Re: [Samba] Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis Cardon wrote: > Hi Jim, >> Using simple authentication I have been able to tie FDS to Samba 3.x.24. >> Knowing that the unix passwd and smb passwd are different, dare I ask >> how difficult it would be to have them sync? Most of my users are usin

Re: [Samba] Samba locking with NFS backend.

Volker Lendecke wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:12:14AM +0100, Jan Hugo Prins wrote: What is the reason that it won't come back. Is there noone to maintain it? Is it to difficult? Caused too much confusion, and it is by far not the only search we're doing against ldap these days. So

Re: [Samba] Samba locking with NFS backend.

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:31:05PM +0100, Jan Hugo Prins wrote: > Ok, then I have a question for you. > Suppose the following. We run terminal servers for al little customers. > We have all those little domains in one big ldap. So far so good, we > tell every samba where in the ldap tree the domai

[Samba] Re: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis Cardon wrote: Hi Jim, Using simple authentication I have been able to tie FDS to Samba 3.x.24. Knowing that the unix passwd and smb passwd are different, dare I ask how difficult it would be to have them sync? Most of

Re: [Samba] Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis Cardon wrote: Hi Jim, Using simple authentication I have been able to tie FDS to Samba 3.x.24. Knowing that the unix passwd and smb passwd are different, dare I ask how difficult it would be to have them sync?

[Samba] RE: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

Sorry about the acro, I am working with Fedora Directory Server (ldap). Currently user passwords stored in FDS can be changed from netatalk (apple protocol), FDS web interface, or unix/passwd via the PAM interface. To hit all three of these areas I would think that the password sync would need to s

[Samba] Re: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The PAM module I mentioned is not for sync, really, but for initial migration from /etc/passwd to an NT-hashed password store (in smbpasswd format). If you're trying to sync passwords (a person has accounts in both places with working passwords on bot

[Samba] RE: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

Ryan, That is close. We have several hundred unix accounts used by our Mac clients via pam/ldap authentication. Here is the scenario. Consider 300 Macs tired of native file services and willing to use smb. I can't move them all in one year much less one weekend. Their account/password must be vali

Re: [Samba] Name Resolution (Network Browsing) in Samba4 server with Vista Client?

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 04:06 -0800, Timothy Bisson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get a samba4 server to show up while "network browsing" > on a Vista client, but with no success. I've scoured the web and tried > many things, but most documentation is for samba3. I can however mount > the

Re: [Samba] Windows doesn't show Samba group names, only SIDs

> Hi, > > I have a problem with Samba / LDAP running on SLES-9. This has been > running well > for a while until this week - now Windows workstations don't show group > names > anymore (editing Access Rights, for example, shows a list of group SIDs > instead). > > I checked whether some software wa

Re: [Samba] Windows doesn't show Samba group names, only SIDs

> I've had that problem before and it was always due to winbindd not running > or not running properly. > > If you have swat loaded you should be able check the status tab as well as > restart winbindd. > With ldap (no ads) you supposedly do not need winbind but I can admit I have seen this behavio

[Samba] Help with backslash issue on smbfs

I am in the middle of migrating a number of applications from one server to another and I am running into an issue with backslashes on a smbfs mount. Basically, the backslash can be used in a file path on the old server and not on the new. This turns out to be important because of the samba share i

Re: [Samba] ldap interface authentication

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 06:26 -0800, Deas, Jim wrote: > What specific ldap config files are used by samba when it's used as the > backend db? > > I have followed the FDC Howto and setup the ldap data on a dedicated FDC > server. From the samba machine I have been able to do 'ldapsearch -x -D > "cn

Re: [Samba] RE: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:56 -0800, Deas, Jim wrote: > Ryan, > That is close. We have several hundred unix accounts used by our Mac > clients via pam/ldap authentication. > Here is the scenario. Consider 300 Macs tired of native file services > and willing to use smb. I can't move them all in one

Re: [Samba] Samba locking with NFS backend.

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 00:26 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:12:14AM +0100, Jan Hugo Prins wrote: > > What is the reason that it won't come back. > > Is there noone to maintain it? Is it to difficult? > Caused too much confusion, and it is by far not the only > search we'

Re: [Samba] Samba locking with NFS backend.

> >> The main reason we don't use the Cifs capabilities of the Isilon cluster > >> is that it doesn't support how we use Samba / Ldap. > >> We have 1 LDAP tree, with all little OU's and each OU is the container > >> for 1 domain. > >> We use a filter to make sure that a user that connect to the s

Re: [Samba] RE: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

> Sorry about the acro, I am working with Fedora Directory Server (ldap). > Currently user passwords stored in FDS can be changed from netatalk > (apple protocol), FDS web interface, or unix/passwd via the PAM > interface. To hit all three of these areas I would think that the > password sync would

Re: [Samba] ldap interface authentication

> As I understand it, Samba doesn't use ldap :-) Samba uses both NSS and LDAP (if configured to use LDAP; and the "ldapsam:trusted" option complicates it a bit more). This is all covered in the Samba docs. > At compile time, support for nss_ldap can be specified - samba talks > to that for loo

Re: [Samba] Terminal Server entries in SambaPDC

> is it possible to modify Terminal Server entries like 'Terminal Server > Profile Path' and 'Terminal Server Home Directory' with 'pdbedit'? In > case of 'yes', idd like to know the syntax. In case of 'no', can it be > done otherwise (except for the usermanager in Windows)? We provide different s

[Samba] Re: mount -o remount /mnt/samba creates duplicate mount

Kyle Schmitt wrote: This is a repost, since I'd really like to get some info about whats going on. when using, "mount -o remount" on an linux box, I get a duplicate mount instead of a proper remount. /proc/mounts backs me up: the system really does have multiple mounts in the same place, of the s