Re: [Samba] SAMBA: how do I tell SAMBA to not prompt for id/passwords when connecting from windows (vista)
If you don't want to be prompted for user names and passwords, one hint is to make sure you use the same username and password on both the samba boxes and the windows boxes, as windows will try to use your current account's username and password when connecting to a server, and will only prompt if that doesn't work. Sometimes I run into problems with this if the account in question has no password, so use one on both machines. If you don't want to be bothered logging in each time you start the windows box, type "control userpasswords2" at a command prompt in Windows and you can set the machine up to automatically log in at startup to an account which does have a password. (haven't tried this on Vista, works on Win2000 and winXP). Even if the accounts are different, if you map a network drive in Windows to the samba server, tell it to reconnect at logon, click the option that says use a different user name, tell it what the user name and password are, then the windows box will remember the samba account, and use that account for all connections to that samba server. On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:01 -0400, joseph collins wrote: > I have a linux box on my home network and it also has xp and win viata on the > same network. > It is all friendly - how do I drop the need for Id/pw (if I can't, how do I > set the id/pw > so what I type in win vista gets passed to samba cleanly and thus I get in. I > have tried > many things in smb.conf and cannot figure it out > TIA, > > Joe > > > > _ > You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298556/direct/01/-- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] files disappearing from Samba server
The files that are reported missing are missing if I log in an look via a shell, too. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Helmut Hullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, Robert, > > Du (rwickberg) meintest am 01.10.08: > > > I'm the tech coordinator for a high school. Last year, we had a file > > server kids could save work to that was a generic Celeron 800 PC with > > an IDE hard drive. It ran Debian Sarge, with whatever version of > > Samba ships with that. It was down to a couple of gig of free disk > > space by the end of the year, so this year I took an old Compaq > > Proliant server (ML360 or something like that) with a three drive > > RAID 5 SCSI array and installed Debian Etch on that with whatever > > version of Samba is shipped with that. School's been in session a > > month now, and I've had dozens of kids come up to me and claim that > > they've written files to their mapped shares (P: maps to their home > > directory when they log onto a Windows machine), and the files have > > disappeared. > > Strange. > I run a schoolserver (http://arktur.de) on many machines, in many > schools without these problems. > The servers use slackware - that's the only difference to your > configuration; Samba has versions from 3.0.22 to 3.2.3 (that differs > from school to school), there are at least two schools which run a > Compaq Proliant. Clients: from Windows 9x to Windows XP. > No such problems. > > Can you see the files under Linux on the server? > > Viele Gruesse! > Helmut > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] files disappearing from Samba server
I'm the tech coordinator for a high school. Last year, we had a file server kids could save work to that was a generic Celeron 800 PC with an IDE hard drive. It ran Debian Sarge, with whatever version of Samba ships with that. It was down to a couple of gig of free disk space by the end of the year, so this year I took an old Compaq Proliant server (ML360 or something like that) with a three drive RAID 5 SCSI array and installed Debian Etch on that with whatever version of Samba is shipped with that. School's been in session a month now, and I've had dozens of kids come up to me and claim that they've written files to their mapped shares (P: maps to their home directory when they log onto a Windows machine), and the files have disappeared. Teachers have confirmed that they've looked over the kids shoulders while they're saving files, and checked when they were done by accessing the drive via My Computer, and the files are there, but the next day they're gone. Sometimes they say a kid will write a file to the server, and not get any error message, but when they go to My Computer, the file's no where to be found. Needless to say, my credibility is taking quite a beating. Has anyone else experienced this, and have any ideas how to put a stop to it? On a slightly different subject, does anyone know how to get a linux file system to do what we used to be able to do with Netware, ie just launch some utility and see every file you've ever deleted that the file system hasn't yet overwritten, and recover them at will? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] can't log in to XP machines on the other side of an interdomain trust
I have two domains, and want to set up workstations so users can log into either domain. I'm using samba 3.0.20b-2 on two debian servers, each of which is a controller for it's own domain. I've set up the interdomain trust accounts. I join the Windows XP workstations to one domain (the add machine script works fine, I don't have to precreate the accounts for the computers when I join them to the domains), users from that domain can log in, the domains dropdown list on the login screen shows both domains, but users from the other domain cannot log in unless I first manually create a unix user on the domain controller for that domain. The smb.conf file does have an add user script entry, and in fact, SMBD will use it under one odd circumstance. I accidentally set the login script for domain B to map a drive to a share on domain A's server, and when the script attempted to make that map when I logged in a domain B user to a Windows 98 workstation, a unix account was automatically created for that user on the server for domain A. The servers won't autocreate accounts when trying to log into a domain B XP workstation with a domain A account, though. I searched the internet in vain for an answer to this problem on the 'net, though other folks have posted the same problem, so if you know the answer to this one, you'll probably be helping more than just me by posting it, when the answer hits the archives. . -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
