Re: [Samba] Correct method to Join Domain ????
And that should work for XP clients too ??? Even if I don't go with Samba / Linux I am gonna have to figure out how to work w/. another domain, Thanks Julian Pilfold-Bagwell wrote: Mike Rushton wrote: I am testing w/ a PC loaded w/ Centos 5 and Samba (whatever version it came with) I have not had any luck with connecting WinXP clients to it (or anything for that matter) I think my problems stem from not joining the domain correctly. What is the proper method for Win XP or WIn 2K . When I get a chance I am gonna connect a PC to my test network. To join a domain, you would need (at least for NT) Name of Domain Admin account Password for admin account A unique Network Name for the PC. And you typically (at least thru XP) right click on the Computer Icon, Properties Network and Join the domain or change machine name to get on. What do you do for Limux / Samba ??? You need, root account, ??? root password ??? Uniique machine name ??? Do you try to join domain is same manner or is there a config file you got to edit ??? Any help or advice is welcome. Hiya, You need this document: http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#wdcsdm There's also additional info in the samba docs at samba.org. Particularly useful are Samba 3 by example and the Samba 3 Howto. Cheers, jools -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
re : [Samba] Migrating from NT4 PDC to Windows 2003 ADS; Samba as member server
I want to do something simmlar but I don't know how - we have a Win NT 4.0 PDC and a Win NT 4.0 BDC. We got a server - I can not get Linux / Samba to work, and we may use windoze 2k3, but anyway, we have an old domain NT 4.0. Call it OLDDOMAIN . I want to start a new Domain, either Windoze 2K3 or Linux / Samba and slowly move people over. I think my problems stem from not joining the new Linux / Samba Domain properly. I want to start a new Domain on the nework, call it CORPORATE. I want to move the users over to the new domain and of course the data to that server. When I get everyone moved over, I want to shut off the OLDDOMAIN PDC. Is this a viable plan or am I barking up the wrong tree ??? We have a simple environment - under 100 PC's and we never did anyting with Active Directory. All our users are screwed up on the NT machine - when people would leave the company they would just disable the account, so we don't want to bring over these dead accounts -we want to create the good ones on the new machine.In NT if you retire a use you could never use it again, so when John Jones left the company and we retired the account, when we hired Tom Jones, we could not create another user named jones. All screwed up but I want to fix it. Jonathan Johnson wrote: Here's the situation. We've got an old NT4 domain (not a Samba domain in NT 4 mode) which we'll call CRUSTY. There is of course an NT4 PDC and several NT4 BDCs. We have some Linux/Samba file servers (Samba 3.0.1) that are member servers (security = domain) of the NT4 domain. We also have several NT4 BDCs and about 200 workstations of varying vintage (2000, XP) in several facilities around the world on a WAN. We are *migrating* to a new Active Directory 2003 domain called SHINY (I am assuming this will imply security = ADS). We don't wish to *upgrade* the NT4 domain. We would like to do the migration a little at a time rather than all at once in order to preserve our sanity. How can we establish a domain trust so that a Samba server that is joined to the CRUSTY domain will allow access for users that are authenticated against the SHINY domain? Is there a better way? (I can RTFM, but I need to know where to look.) -Jonathan Johnson Sutinen Consulting, Inc. www.sutinen.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Correct method to Join Domain ????
I am testing w/ a PC loaded w/ Centos 5 and Samba (whatever version it came with) I have not had any luck with connecting WinXP clients to it (or anything for that matter) I think my problems stem from not joining the domain correctly. What is the proper method for Win XP or WIn 2K . When I get a chance I am gonna connect a PC to my test network. To join a domain, you would need (at least for NT) Name of Domain Admin account Password for admin account A unique Network Name for the PC. And you typically (at least thru XP) right click on the Computer Icon, Properties Network and Join the domain or change machine name to get on. What do you do for Limux / Samba ??? You need, root account, ??? root password ??? Uniique machine name ??? Do you try to join domain is same manner or is there a config file you got to edit ??? Any help or advice is welcome. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Abnormal Windows behaviour with Samba
Redirecting a folder is a matter of changing a registry setting - this is what I am aiming to do. I think both XPP and XPH would let you do this ... I may be wrong. James Lockie wrote: Erebus wrote: Hello all, I am using Samba v3.0.24 on an Ubuntu Server system as a fileserver for 30 pcs. Samba is working nice but I face a problem that I can't tell if it is because of Samba or Windows. Let me explain: On the Windows terminals (XP SP2) I have changed the special folders settings in registry, so as to redirect them to samba shares instead of local folders. Among the folders I have changed is the desktop folder, the start menu and the startup folder, which now point to i.e. \\server\share\folder. XP Professional or XP Home? I don't even know if you can do that with only Windows. I doubt XP Home but maybe XP Pro. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Newbie User Migration Questions
OK, As I plan and plot this migration . This is what I think I wanna try to do. What do you thing of this - Our old NT server, has a Domain called Engineering. We were not retiring users, because in NT, if you retire a user you can never use it again. So when we retired jones for Susie Jones, when Tom Jones was hired we could not use jones as a user again. So we had to make user like tjones or jonest or jones1. When someone would leave we would just disable the account. We really never got into the roaming profiles or groups for that matter. I see that there are migration tools, but if we have 50 users that must authenticate, that is a high estimate. What I want to do is get the Linux/Samba box running, and maybe make a new domain, lets say Corporate. Because the users are all screwed up and I don't want to import all of them, I guess I could create them on this new machine. From what I read, I would have to add the user to unix, add the user to Samba, and if the machine is Win2k or XP, add the machine to the domain. Then I would move everyone over to this new domain. The old NT PDC has DHCP on it, excluding likethe first 75 ip's for the servers. I would have to set up DHCP the same way on the new server and disable it on the old one. Does this sound logical ??? We have a real, fussy application running on the old server, that I really can not change, nor change the client on the workstations - all of the stuff is written into the registry - we don't have support so I want to leave it on the old server until we can convert. We just may be able to pull this off.I never liked Microsoft's support.We may be better off on Linux or Unix. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Newbie Question - can users create directory on thier own from Win Client ???
Thak you for your response. This may work well. Do you know if thier is a version of SAMBA that works with SCO Unixware 7 ???I don't recall what is on that machine - I think in the past someone tried to get SAMBA or some sort of filesharing to work and could not.I have to get the machine to boot so I can see what is on it. This could work. Above all, I must follow the Prime Directive - DON'T SPEND ANY MONEY !!! Windows 2003 CALS cost an arm and a leg. I never was a real fan of NT 4.0 either. Gary Dale wrote: Silly question actually. :) Basically, if a Windows client can do it while connected to a Windows server, they can do it while connected to a Samba server. This is a basic permissions issue. If the client has permission to create a directory on the share, it should work. The easiest way to set Windows permissions is to log on from a Windows client with a Domain Administrator account and set the group permissions, etc. from there. Mike Rushton wrote: First some background - We got an old, tired PII, 233 server running NT 4.0 We have a Compaq Proliant that is a quad 550 Xeon CPU, 4 GB, 320 GB of HD, a tape drive etc. It formerly was an Oracle Server that had SCO UnixWare 7 on it. Currently it is having a problem - bad controller card, but we intend to get it fixed. (Not sure if UnixWare comes with Samba or what version to use, but we also can get out hands on Red Hat Enterprise Linux) The Idea is to put some sort of Unix / Linux on it and Samba, and replace the NT 4.0 machine. Although we have some work ahead of us, I was wondering, if you set up a shared directory on a machine, can user create a directory in it on their own from a client Windows machine If it is not easy for the users to work with, they will not like it. ... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Newbie User Migration Question
OK, As I plan and plot this migration . This is what I think I wanna try to do. What do you thing of this - Our old NT server, has a Domain called Engineering. We were not retiring users, because in NT, if you retire a user you can never use it again. So when we retired jones for Susie Jones, when Tom Jones was hired we could not use jones as a user again. So we had to make user like tjones or jonest or jones1. When someone would leave we would just disable the account. We really never got into the roaming profiles or groups for that matter. I see that there are migration tools, but if we have 50 users that must authenticate, that is a high estimate. What I want to do is get the Linux/Samba box running, and maybe make a new domain, lets say Corporate. Because the users are all screwed up and I don't want to import all of them, I guess I could create them on this new machine. From what I read, I would have to add the user to unix, add the user to Samba, and if the machine is Win2k or XP, add the machine to the domain. Then I would move everyone over to this new domain. The old NT PDC has DHCP on it, excluding likethe first 75 ip's for the servers. I would have to set up DHCP the same way on the new server and disable it on the old one. Does this sound logical ??? We have a real, fussy application running on the old server, that I really can not change, nor change the client on the workstations - all of the stuff is written into the registry - we don't have support so I want to leave it on the old server until we can convert. We just may be able to pull this off.I never liked Microsoft's support.We may be better off on Linux or Unix. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Newbie Question - can users create directory on thier own from Win Client ???
First some background - We got an old, tired PII, 233 server running NT 4.0 We have a Compaq Proliant that is a quad 550 Xeon CPU, 4 GB, 320 GB of HD, a tape drive etc. It formerly was an Oracle Server that had SCO UnixWare 7 on it. Currently it is having a problem - bad controller card, but we intend to get it fixed. (Not sure if UnixWare comes with Samba or what version to use, but we also can get out hands on Red Hat Enterprise Linux) The Idea is to put some sort of Unix / Linux on it and Samba, and replace the NT 4.0 machine. Although we have some work ahead of us, I was wondering, if you set up a shared directory on a machine, can user create a directory in it on their own from a client Windows machine If it is not easy for the users to work with, they will not like it. ... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
