Re: [Samba] Samba and XP
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:38:37PM +0200, Deon Steyn wrote: Is it possible to run Samba on Xp Pro No. You could run Samba in a *nix VM sitting on top of a XP host. Performance is going to suck, but it can be done. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...
Yep - which is why I think your bosses are correct. Deploying a *new* NT4 domain in 2008 is just nuts. When most clients are XP or Vista and many applications have integration with AD. You've been brainwashed by M$. It is not nuts to deploy a new Samba server in 2008. Samba 3.x configured with an LDAP auth backend and Winbind offers at least 80% of the functionality that the typical windows network admin and user needs. As a file server, Samba walks all over Windows in terms of performance and cost. Neither Windows XP nor Vista require AD and I've yet to see a mainstream application that REQUIRES it either. If your network configuration demands that deploy AD, then let windows handle that function and plug Samba in where it excels. I've been following this list since before Samba could do NT4 DC functionality. One thing that is a constraint is users trying to implement extremely complex network configurations when they likely don't need them. Much of this is rooted in the fact that M$ tends to throw loads of functionality options at its users and make these functionalities seem easy to implement by front ending them with some type of wizard. Users attempt to blindly deploy things without asking themselves Do I really need this. Fact is, most of us don't have farms of domain controllers and hundreds and hundreds of users. Most of us manage small to medium sized networks that can benefit hugely by the cost savings of deploying Samba instead of Windows. I'm not talking about just costs of software licenses; but cost of hardware, sys admin staff, and down time. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] WINS and Subnets [was: Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...]
You only need 1 WINS server for your organization (or 2 for redundancy). We have multiple subnets here at OSU and only 2 WINS servers. Our DHCP servers had out the WINS server IP addresses to all clients, and Samba is configured to use them as well. You DO need a master browser on each subnet. Are you pointing your clients on a given subnet to the local master for WINS queries or the primary WINS server? I have a couple subnets, but hand out the Primary WINS ip to ALL of my clients. WINS browsing across the subnets fine, but updates from the subnets tend to be really slow. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Multiple IP addresses
I have been trying to connect to Samba over the Internet as I have static IP that is publicly available for connection. I can use this IP to connect to our Intranet web site but Samba doesn't work correctly when trying to connect to it from outside. Our internal network addresses work fine. Even a VPN connection, which gets our internal address scheme works. But, when trying to use the publicly available IP address to connect to Samba it can't find it. There are likely a couple things preventing access: 1. Did you open the Samba ports on your firewall? Most firewalls have these ports closed by default. 2. Hosts allow/Hosts deny parameter. Is this set so that Samba will actually respond to the subnet that you are trying to access Samba from? IMO, opening Samba up to the internet is an inherently bad thing to do and something that very rarely really needs to be done. Instead, you should look at an ssh tunnel or an IPSec VPN. I use IPsec VPN routers to connect my two offices, which are both on different subnets and in different Citys. The routers I used are fairly inexpensive, but work wonderfully and are very easy to setup: http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/WiredVPNFirewallRouters/FVS114.aspx Greg --- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. President, Principal Engineer LEI Engineering Surveying 2468 West 11th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Re: Samba 3.0.25b as a domain member to a Samba PDC
A user cannot access a Linux machine unless he is authenticated by the machine. Jamrock, Many thanks for your very informative response. The makes complete sense really. Ultimately, I'm sure LDAP is the best solution and one I intend to look at in more detail. A message to the Samba Howto/Docs maintainers: This would be VERY good topic to include in Chapter 6/7 Samba Docs. There is very little information about this topic. Thanks again jamrock! Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Vista, NTLMV2, security = domain
What fails? Vista *should* work against us even without It does. I've been authenticating Vista machines for some time against a Samba PDC. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] test please ignore
test please ignore It is almost always considered very bad etiquette to sent test emails like this to a mailing list. My guess is that there are thousands of people this list. If people made it a practice to do this, we'd all be overwhelmed with basically amounts to static. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Vista can't use samba hosted printer drivers
I tested against the Vista RC builds and printing was fine. But it seems some things were changed before the final bits. We'll have to do some more testing to find out the scope of it. I have been running Vista since the early betas and have noticed intermittent problems with Samba (mostly with deleting dirs on samba shares), but they are not reproducible. Vista implements some pretty extensive security features. I would not be suprised if there is a relation between the setting of these security features and Samba issues. I did quite alot of trouble shooting when I ran into the delete dir issue and had an extensive conversation in the Samba bug tracker with other users about the issue. Everything pointed back to Vista. Given that Vista is hitting the steets tomorrow, seems it would be best to see what the masses produce. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Changing expired NT password
I'm using a Linux workstation in an NT domain environment. I ran into a problem today where my NT password had expired and I could no longer use any services Jeremy, It is essential that you provide specifics about your Samba implementation (e.g., version of samba, distro that you are running samba, and any critical config parameters) if you are wanting any real help from anyone. The way you've phrased your question would be similar to calling a mechanic on the phone and saying my car is making a funny noise, please tell me how to fix it. Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Windows Vista RC2 can't delete Samba Directories
First, can you try 3.0.23c? If that does not work either, can you please file a bug report at As requested; I tested using the 3.0.23 with no luck. I've raised a bug in the tracker: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4188 I don't know how to run a trace. If you could spell it out for me, I'd be happy to do this and provide the output. Best regards, Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Windows Vista RC2 can't delete Samba Directories
ethereal or the command line utility tcpdump. If you are not familiar with ethereal, simply capture the packets with tcpdump. Thank you David. I think I have everything up there except the tcpdump information. I'll post that shortly. P.S.-what is your PE in? Forest Engineering, you? Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Windows Vista RC2 can't delete Samba Directories
Can anyone share any insight as to why Vista RC2 can't delete directories on a Samba 3.0.10 share? No problem delete directories using a windows XP client. Thank you. Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Windows Vista RC2 can't delete Samba Directories
First, can you try 3.0.23c? If that does not work either, I'm running RHEL 4. Given that the RH team backports critical patches without changing package numbers, it's difficult to know what I'm working with. I see in the Samba-Technical list that you added somethign to the source tree that might be related to this. Can you send me the patch? I should be able to patch the packages I have here and give it another shot. Otherwise, I may be able to setup another machine running Fedora and see how Vista interacts with it running the current Samba. Would you like me to send the log level 10 output I have now? Thank you. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] smbclient causes segfault
I'm getting a very reproducible segfault with smbclient 3.0.7 on RH73: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/bin/smbclient '\\receiving\barcode' password -d 3 -U username -c 'print - ;' -l /tmp/test Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Any ideas? If I remove the -l flag the segfault goes away. By the way, I'm running samba under deamontools. -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Starting Samba 3.0.7 using -F -S flags
I'm attempting to start smbd and nmbd using the -F -S flags, but get the following: added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option Seems that Samba is defaulting back to the -D flag. Any ideas? Thank you. Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Legal questions with jCIFS 0.8.2
First, I think you're posting to the wrong list. I think you would have better luck here for all things jCIFS: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/jcifs If people submit code changes to your product, do you find out if the submitter has the right to distribute the code? If so, do they need to sign any kind of statement? I'm not all that familiar with jCIFS, but a quick look at http://freshmeat.net/projects/jcifs/ indicates that this is an open source/GPL project. Like most projects of this type, they aren't owned by anyone specifically. The code belongs to the community, meaning we all own the code. IMO, it would be highly unusual to find a GPL project that required devs to sign a statement before submitting code. I think would be of tremendous value for you to read the GPL. One of the nice things about this license is that it's written in plain english. You don't need to have a degree is law to understand it. In my experience, people not used to working with GPL projects tend to really mis-understand what the GPL means and how it effects a project. For example, one of the commonly mis-understood aspects of the GPL is it's viral nature. That is, the license essentially spreads to all code that is in any way attached to other GPL code. This aspect of the GPL somewhat addresses your concern about devs sighing a statement prior to submitting code. If devs are making code changes to jCIFS, then there changes are all GPL unless these changes are 100% stand alone (i.e., they can run w/o any jcifs code). Simple as that Very nice for a community of volunteers who want to spend their time writing code and not collecting statements. ;) Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Group mapping, Samba 3.0.7, and Win 2k SP4
I'm running Samba 3.0.7 as a PDC on a Redhat 7.3 box and have setup group mapping on the required domain groups to local unix groups. All seems fine here. When I log in to the samba domain with a Win XP client or Win2x client pre SP 4, all is fine. The user comes in as a member of what ever mapped domain group they've been assigned. However, if I log in on Win 2k SP4, the user comes in as a member of the default windows guest group. For some reason Win2k SP 4 doesn't seem to be pulling the domain group information from Samba. Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions? Thanks. Greg -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 Voice 541-683-8383Fax 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Locating the MACHINE.SID fil
Robert, Have a look at the following, section 7.5 http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/cvs_current/docs/htmldocs/samba-bdc.html -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-683-8383 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Re: Samba 2.2.3a and W2k Sp3
Same problem here, Francesco... on ONE of the computers (out of a dozen or so). Odd, no? What not upgrade, no? That's a pretty old version of Samba. -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-683-8383 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Opposite of Samba (Anti-Samba?)
Is there a package to do the opposite of Samba? I.e. I want to use (mount) Win filesystems from a Unix client. Yes, the samba client does this (i.e. smbclient). Depending on what exactly you want to do, you may also find winbind useful. Have a read in the various docs that come with the Samba source and I think you'll find exactly what you are looking for. -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-683-8383 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Anyone using antivirus software?
Brian Payst wrote: We've been looking at RAV anti-virus as well (www.ravantivirus.com). It does real-time scanning. It does have some system limitations (won't run on RH 6.2 without an additional kernel module, does work on RH 7.2 and I'm assuming other 2.4 kernel based distros): I'm running RAV on my Mitel SME 5.x server (2.2.19 kernel). SME is a customized version of RedHat. I beleve that although I'm running on an older kernel, many of the packages have been updated to current redhat. -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-683-8383 541-683-8144 www.leiinc.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
