Re: samba question

2005-04-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
P for them to see this printer on Linux attached locally to a USB port. I can see and print to it in Linux. I know there have been volums written on Samba, but it seems to me sharing a printer should be simple. It is, at least to Win2K hosts (I don't have XP running here yet). If the pro

samba question

2005-04-08 Thread smertz
cally to a USB port. I can see and print to it in Linux. I know there have been volums written on Samba, but it seems to me sharing a printer should be simple. I just want XP users to use their own driver and use the guest account for printing. Fro win XP I can see the Linux box, but can'

RE: Delete /home/shared Samba directory; need better SSH solution!

2005-02-10 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:38 PM 2/10/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote: Thanks. Your advice makes sense, but allow me to give a bit more detail of the current setup. 1. Those users for whom I do have an account set up (example: gagan) have their own username/password. 2. FTP and Telnet has been disabled, so SSH is the only

RE: Delete /home/shared Samba directory; need better SSH solution!

2005-02-10 Thread Eve Atley
Thanks. Your advice makes sense, but allow me to give a bit more detail of the current setup. 1. Those users for whom I do have an account set up (example: gagan) have their own username/password. 2. FTP and Telnet has been disabled, so SSH is the only way they can access our US server currently

Re: Delete /home/shared Samba directory; need better SSH solution!

2005-02-09 Thread Ray Olszewski
ccess to the folders for which they had permission (having set up groups and put each user into a group). Yesterday, I ended up deleting our Samba shares directory (/home/shared) because I was attempting to get rid of a user; Linux prompted me if I wanted to get rid of that user's files, an

Delete /home/shared Samba directory; need better SSH solution!

2005-02-09 Thread Eve Atley
y had permission (having set up groups and put each user into a group). Yesterday, I ended up deleting our Samba shares directory (/home/shared) because I was attempting to get rid of a user; Linux prompted me if I wanted to get rid of that user's files, and I hit ok without thinking, thereby wiping o

Re: Samba

2004-01-26 Thread beolach
newbies, but I think it is the best way to > learn linux because it really forced me to learn new things. > My opinion exactly. I started the same way back Slackware 7.1. > My question: Can you recommend any books that deal more with networking, I > am having troubles trying to set u

Re: Samba

2004-01-26 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
the best way to > learn linux because it really forced me to learn new things. > > My question: Can you recommend any books that deal more with networking, I > am having troubles trying to set up a Samba server? I also want to be able > to set up Apache and BIND? OH, and one more, doe

Re: Samba

2004-01-25 Thread caszonyi
k administrator guide and System administrator guide > am having troubles trying to set up a Samba server? I also want to be able > to set up Apache and BIND? OH, and one more, does anyone have a good text on > using a good linux server to serve a lot of thin clients? > > thanks for your time &

Samba

2004-01-25 Thread Josh Lamb
best way to learn linux because it really forced me to learn new things. My question: Can you recommend any books that deal more with networking, I am having troubles trying to set up a Samba server? I also want to be able to set up Apache and BIND? OH, and one more, does anyone have a good te

Listing Windows PDC with SAMBA.

2003-09-25 Thread Ricardo Gomez
I want to join into a Windows NT Domain with SAMBA but I'm not the network admin, I'm just a simple mortal here: Is there any way to know which is my the Primary Domain Controller? TKS, for your help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie&qu

Re: problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA | Apache solved.

2003-06-20 Thread Alan Bort
; > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > > RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb) TX bytes

Re: problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA | Apache solved.

2003-06-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
uses to access the Internet). Since both interfaces use private (RFC1918 non-routable) IP addresses, it would help to know which is your external, which your internal interface.I could infer this from your routing table ("netstat -nr" is one way to list it), but you didn't in

Re: problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA | Apache solved.

2003-06-20 Thread Alan Bort
0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:32791 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6010 *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:talk *:* udp0 0 *:sunrpc

Re: problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA

2003-06-19 Thread Alan Bort
I didn't mean to do a HUGE mail about this... so I made as short as possible. - Original Message - From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:27 PM Subject: Re: problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA > At

Re: problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA

2003-06-19 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:37 PM 6/19/2003 -0400, Alan Bort wrote: Ok... her is my problem: I have apache2, proftpd and samba on two machines. Though I have them configured correctly (at least I think so) I have the fopllowing problem. Machine A has access to internet trough machine B. From A I can

problems with Apache, FTP, SAMBA

2003-06-19 Thread Alan Bort
Ok... her is my problem: I have apache2, proftpd and samba on two machines. Though I have them configured correctly (at least I think so) I have the fopllowing problem. Machine A has access to internet trough machine B. From A I can see and use B's apache perfectly. BUT from

RE:Redhat 7.3 Samba Start at startup

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Todd
Originally to: Paul Kraus ->How can I set samba to start when the server starts. ->Every time I reboot the machine I have su, /sbin/service smb restart. Paul you have it set to start in your /etc/init.rc (or something similar) files? ...On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS S

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-18 Thread Ray Olszewski
ppropriate support in the kernel) rather than smbclient? I'm inexperienced in using client-side Samba on Linux, so I don't know if there is a real performance difference between the two methods, but you might want to look into it. Since smbclient runs in userspace rather than kernelspace, I w

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 17 March 2003 20:11, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > Copy files from Server to Client 402 MB > (avg file size 58kB) > Linux => 2.71 MB/sec > WinXP => 3.42 MB/sec > > Copy file from Server to Client 0.99 GB > (avg file size 86,630 kB) > Linux => 4.06 MB/sec > WinXP => 8.49 MB/sec > I would make a

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Abhijit Vijay
--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:07 AM 3/17/2003 -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I came to know from some of my labmates who did a > >performance test, that Linux Samba access is > >*significantly* slower (order of three t

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > Hi All, > > I came to know from some of my labmates who did a > performance test, that Linux Samba access is > *significantly* slower (order of three times) than > Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru > and can thi

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:07 AM 3/17/2003 -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote: Hi All, I came to know from some of my labmates who did a performance test, that Linux Samba access is *significantly* slower (order of three times) than Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru and can this problem be fixed at all

Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Abhijit Vijay
Hi All, I came to know from some of my labmates who did a performance test, that Linux Samba access is *significantly* slower (order of three times) than Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru and can this problem be fixed at all? Thanks in Advance, Abhijit

Re: ssh or samba causing network problems?

2003-03-12 Thread Yoni Kallay
Ray, Thanks for the response, you are always very helpful and prompt. However, you misread the "judgment passing" portion of my post in quite a severe light. You should observe that, bitching aside, the post indicated genuine concern about whether or not my host was causing problems for the

Re: ssh or samba causing network problems?

2003-03-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
uter, so if I want one at school I have to bring it in myself). What I wonder, though, is if there is some possibility that the computer is responsible for the network problems, which was just described to me as 'something creating so much network traffic as to bring the network down.' Fi

ssh or samba causing network problems?

2003-03-12 Thread Yoni Kallay
uter is responsible for the network problems, which was just described to me as 'something creating so much network traffic as to bring the network down.' First, the machine had been running Samba. The smbd settings relating to the machine acting as a Primary Domain Controller were

Re: Redhat 7.3 Samba Start at startup

2003-03-03 Thread Carl
At 09:34 03/03/2003 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: >How can I set samba to start when the server starts. >Every time I reboot the machine I have su, /sbin/service smb restart. > >Paul Kraus > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in &

Re: Redhat 7.3 Samba Start at startup

2003-03-03 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Paul , Try 'man chkconfig' , Then 'chkconfig samba' Hth , JimL On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Paul Kraus wrote: > How can I set samba to start when the server starts. > Every time I reboot the machine I have su, /sbin/service

Redhat 7.3 Samba Start at startup

2003-03-03 Thread Paul Kraus
How can I set samba to start when the server starts. Every time I reboot the machine I have su, /sbin/service smb restart. Paul Kraus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

samba authentication

2003-02-15 Thread Daniel Provin
Hi I've read a lot about setting up samba as a password server, and authenticating unix users against a samba server, but is there any way to authenticate samba users (like on logon) against the unix users and passwords (th users on the passwd and on the shadow files)? thanks Daniel

Re: samba -> some problems

2003-01-19 Thread Karl W. Weigel
a way with automounting, but I am not shure about this. For your remaining problems I can offer only little help. I have the impression, that you are setting up a samba server of your own, but I am not shure, whether you want or need to do this. For mounting remote filesystems this should not be nece

Re: samba -> some problems

2003-01-18 Thread Ray Olszewski
I am new to running Samba too, so these comments may be a bit off the mark. Also, I use Debian SId, while I'm guessing you use Woody, so our app versions will differ a bit. With those warnings ... 1. Needing to be root to mount filesystems is the default behavior of "mount".

samba -> some problems

2003-01-18 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, I'm running Debian (kernel 2.4.16) now for some time, but I don't manage to configure samba (2.2.3a) like it should (I guess). I'll try to explain as good as possible what my problems are... I want to get on a Windows NT intranetserver, to access some data but esp

Samba, Redhat 7.3, Windows xp - File Server woes

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Kraus
I just replaced one of our windows file servers with a redhat 7.3 samba server. I have the g (/home/advserver/g) share on the redhat box mapped to g (go figure) on to xp pro workstations. The map drive is being created on startup with this command. (both workstations use same login information to

Re: Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > > mdresser@monitor:~$ smbmount //mike/c test > Hmmm , My smbmount tool screams at me to use ... This is with > version 2.2.7 . Which is highly recomended due to a Security > issue . Don't know how far back in versions th

Re: Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mike , On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > > > Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am > > > only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to ano

Re: Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > > > Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am > > only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to another > > user. > > Just a side note, have you seen smbtar? Might be

Re: Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am > only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to another > user. Just a side note, have you seen smbtar? Might be easier than mounting a directory and copying it, and t

RE: Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Kraus
On a side note I don't want to run them with sudo. Is there another way? -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:19 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Samba mount not as root Have written some scripts that

Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Kraus
Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to another user. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice 216-267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Kraus;Paul FN:Pau

samba

2002-10-28 Thread Daniel Provin
Hi there I think I did this befre, but it isn't working is there any tag to the smb.conf file to authenticate users using the unix users, but without kerberos or ldap thanks Daniel Provin Lixux User #191271 EEL LABMETRO UFSC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbi

re: LVM, was RAID (was Samba something)

2002-10-09 Thread Brian P. Bilbrey
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:11, Alan Womack wrote: > I assume you are using them in a raid, are you using an IDE controller, > if so which one or are you using RAID within the kernel itself. e.g. > software only raid. No, actually. This is just a staging server - we backup from production solaris

re: RAID was: Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread Alan Womack
I assume you are using them in a raid, are you using an IDE controller, if so which one or are you using RAID within the kernel itself. e.g. software only raid. > (resolution note:) Instead, we got four of the 120G devices, and ended up spending $600 for for 480 G instead of $500 for 320 G. I

RE: Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread Brian P. Bilbrey
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:23, Paul Kraus wrote: > I noticed this in /var/log/messages. This is a brand new 180gb ide > drive. > > Log > > Oct 9 10:32:08 redhat-fax kernel: hde: status error: status=0x58 { > DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Paul, I don't know what brand of 180 Gig drive

Re: Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 20:05, Le, Paul [Contractor] wrote: > I am looking a Unix command which allow me search & replace a string a an > ascii file. sed Help can be found here; www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html > > Thanks, > Paul -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Kraus
Of Paul Kraus Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Samba Mount File Corruption Has anyone had any issues when copying a file from a samba/windows mounted drive (mount -t smbfs) to there Linux box? I had a 1 gig file I transferred that was a tar file. On the

RE: Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread Le, Paul [Contractor]
I am looking a Unix command which allow me search & replace a string a an ascii file. Thanks, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please re

Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Kraus
Has anyone had any issues when copying a file from a samba/windows mounted drive (mount -t smbfs) to there Linux box? I had a 1 gig file I transferred that was a tar file. On the Linux machine I then tried to untar it received errors and failed about half way through. The file size was correct. I

Re: LP - Cups - Samba - Print Command

2002-10-01 Thread Carl
> >*On a side note why can't I open Linux conf files with notepad? There >are strange characters. I have to open it with WordPad. I can not save >or edit using either notepad or WordPad because they seem to add strange >characters also. Just curious.* Its the Line Feed/Carriage Return problem.

RE: File in use Samba ( was Script as root)

2002-10-01 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:57 AM 10/1/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >I have written the script to tar up folders on my xp box. The script >works. I mount -t smbfs The folder I want. I then tar mnt/folder >The problem is that I get errors saying that the file changed as we read >it. Or text file busy. >None of the f

Re: LP - Cups - Samba - Print Command

2002-10-01 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:15 AM 10/1/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: [...] >*On a side note why can't I open Linux conf files with notepad? There >are strange characters. I have to open it with WordPad. I can not save >or edit using either notepad or WordPad because they seem to add strange >characters also. Just curiou

LP - Cups - Samba - Print Command

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Kraus
I have an Epson 880 on my windows workstation. I have this shared through cups using samba. This configuration works fine. I can print to the printer without any issues. The problem is that when I lp something the left margin is always cuts off the first character. Now I have found a work

RE: File in use Samba ( was Script as root)

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Kraus
umably you are using SAMBA to mount the drive from your XP box. In which case, you don't need to be root, provided that the mount point is owned by the user. For example, as user paulk, you could create a directory to use for the mount (mkdir ~/windows) and then you should be able to mount the sam

Cups / lp / Samba

2002-09-27 Thread Paul Kraus
In order to print to my windows shared printers I have setup cups to use samba. Test pages work and I can print documents to the windows workstations using lp. However when I use lp -dprinter the very left character of the printjob gets cut off. How can I increase the left margin to avoid this

How to remotely access Samba server over land-line phone with win9x client

2002-09-08 Thread Shaggy Im-erbtham
I am looking for a simple poor man's solution and not an elaborate big business set-up This is the situation: We have a Samba server (Slackware with kernel 2.2.17) which shares files including MS Office, graphics, mp3s, etc over several win9x clients in the office. This has been ru

re: SOLVED SAMBA unable to access the shares

2002-09-04 Thread Alan Womack
me of the share anyways an mixed case username was causing samba to look for alan instead of Alan, so I changed all my entries of Alan across the security files to alan I can now browse and open my shares on my windows box. I also see a nifty deal for changing the volume name of the share from

Re: SAMBA unable to access the shares

2002-09-04 Thread Carl Lawton
ines. >encrypt passwords = Yes > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/sambapasswd Are the users in the sambapasswd file with the same UID as /etc/passwd? >#Easier backups >syslog = 3 >#Level of logging to syslog. Keep this low >max log size = 1000 >

SAMBA unable to access the shares

2002-09-03 Thread Alan Womack
I am having trouble getting samba to let me access the share I put on my LFS 3.3 box. attached is the dialog I get in windows. the following is my smb.conf root@webby:log# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = FAMILY # Put your own in here. netbios name = WEBBY server

Samba and casual connections to ISDN-Provider

2001-03-07 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
I have two PC's (Linux and Win2000) connected with a server running Linux 7.0 and Samba. When booting the win-box but also on further ocasions I cannot define, the server starts connecting to ISDN ( dial on demand ) in spite of the fact that nobody wants a connection at this time. >From