[newbie] Samba - question from a friend

2003-06-24 Thread Robin Turner
I was wondering if any Samba experts could help me out on this one Troy McKee (airshipjones) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you [meaning Sir Robin] said: I've never used W2K and don't know what an Active Directory, but I reckon your best bet is to set up a Samba server on

Re: [newbie] Samba - question from a friend

2003-06-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:09, Robin Turner wrote: I was wondering if any Samba experts could help me out on this one One of the best bets for this is to setup the system using SWAT and Webmin - this gives the linux administrator the ability to actually setup the linux box as not only a

Re: [newbie] Samba - question from a friend

2003-06-24 Thread Robin Turner
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:09, Robin Turner wrote: I was wondering if any Samba experts could help me out on this one One of the best bets for this is to setup the system using SWAT and Webmin - this gives the linux administrator the ability to actually setup the linux

[newbie] Samba question

2003-03-01 Thread Technoslick
My question deals with a current setup of two MDK 9.0 clients and one MDK 9.0 server running DHCP and Samba with winbind. The network is a mixture of Windows clients (presently Win 98 SE and Win 2K) and MDK 9 clients, all DHCP clients. The server is setup to be Master as well as Local Browser

[newbie] Samba Question (again)

2002-02-06 Thread RCN Mail
Well, I finally was able to connect to my Linux computer but I still have one question. When I connect this is what I see: NameComments ericMithrilhall's Linux Server homes Mithrilhall's Linux Server Printers and Faxes Show installed printers and

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-05 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Mithrilhall Sorry, I could have given more detail. Samba can have it's own password and user list as well Webmin is a https web browser based administration program which you can use from a win pc To use it point a web browser at https://your_server_ip_address:1 If it's not installed

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Lucas
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba Question On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:29, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux computer and it shows this: Name Folder Comment 192.168.1.3

[newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Mithrilhall2000
I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I have a user on the linux computer (Ex. login name: bob password: test) and I have the same user on my Windows XP computer with the same login name and password. When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Mithrilhall I know nothing of XP, but I am using Samba (via webmin). Do you have a samba user of the same name and password? In webmin it's easy, you tell it to convert all linux users to samba users. rgds max I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I have

RE: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Mithrilhall2000
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba Question Gidday Mithrilhall I know nothing of XP, but I am using Samba (via webmin). Do you have a samba user of the same name and password? In webmin it's easy, you tell it to convert all linux users to samba users. rgds max I'm setting up Samba

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:29, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux computer and it shows this: Name Folder Comment 192.168.1.3 unknown If I double-click the IP address shown above I get a login prompt and I type in

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Leone
- Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. NETBIOS name to IP resolutin is (or can be) done by a WINS server (which SAMBA will emulate, if you tell it to), or - optionally - from an LMHOSTS files (not LMHOSTS.SAM - that's a SAMple file). -

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
, network logon scripts, roving profiles, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Hi Michael

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:56:50 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Non domain windows machine authenticate every time they open a share. Domain controlled machines basically log in once, then have access to the resources allocated on a per user

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:11:14 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Password Encryption? as in is encryption turned on? as far as i know it is. is this a bad thing? -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Frank McKenna
Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post everyone. 1) Are the user accounts valid. smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser Have done this for all three users and there does not appear to be any error messages is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Heh, then the much simpler share level authentication is all you need. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:49 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
then you have your cake and icing... A thought. -JMS -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 8:48 PM To: 'Julian Opificius' Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Want to buy your Pack

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
are you trying to connect with? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:54 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:11:14 -0500 Jose M

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
- SEEING THE LIGHT with Samba - -- Snip --- I thought of it as a duh, an obvious feature, and that I was overlooking the obvious, but apparently not. The more I think about it, it demonstrates the philosophical difference between Microsoft (the KISS principle) and Unix (the long rope - you

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Julian Opificius
Um, thanks for the rant ... 1) I'm not badmouthing Linux, Samba, or anyone, Mr Sanchez. My comparison of KISS vs the rope was a recognition of the power of Linux, while acknowledging that it requires skill. The last letter of KISS stands for Stupid. The point is, as you eloquently pointed

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Julian Opificius
Thanks very much for taking the trouble to write, Dave. Yes, I understand what [homes] does, and I am using it for private directory structures. The problems with [homes] are that :- 1) It defines a directory mapping (and browse visibility) on a user basis, not a group basis, and gives the

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Michael Viron
and it doesn't like that one. i've even tried the Linux box's root passwd and _that_ doens't work either. the weird thing that got me going this direction was I opened the config file and commented out ALL of the global settings cause i wanted to see how things would react, then attempted

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Password Encryption? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 11:21 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible well, I found the file LMHOSTS.SAM on my windows

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Franki
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Thanks very much for taking the trouble to write, Dave. Yes, I understand what [homes] does, and I am using it for private directory structures. The problems with [homes] are that :- 1) It defines a directory mapping

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Franki
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2001 10:10 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:44:45 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I'm

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 December 2001 21:10, you wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:44:45 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I'm a little worried, as I said before, about the users mdw1982 and the alexhome in the valid users list in the above definition.

RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible I have a similar problem where I can see all three users of my Mandrake 8.0 box

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-15 Thread Frank McKenna
Hi Michael, To make things easier, you can set up your Linux box as a domain controller and therefore will only have to deal with username / passwords on the Linux side. If you want to pursue that, let me know. Could you please let me know how to do this and why it would be beneficial TIA

[newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Julian Opificius
With dexterous use of chmod and the smbpasswd file I can control access to various shares, but how do I prevent shares from even appearing for logins who are not permitted to access them? I'd rather those shares not even appear, so as to provide a simplified interface to some users (i.e. my

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:14, Julian Opificius wrote: With dexterous use of chmod and the smbpasswd file I can control access to various shares, but how do I prevent shares from even appearing for logins who are not permitted to access them? I'd rather those shares not even appear, so as to

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Admin
Hello: Have you tried the veto files command? I have not used it, but the book I have has a description for it, which you might find helpful: veto files: Contains a list of file and directory names that are marked by Samba as not visible and cannot be accessed by users. Entires in the list

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Julian Opificius
Thanks for the response Dexter. No, what I'm looking for is to have shares simply not show up in the network directory listing if the current user is not authorized to access them. I thought of it as a duh, an obvious feature, and that I was overlooking the obvious, but apparently not. The

Re: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Jim Dawson
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:44:01 -0600 Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Thanks for the response Dexter. No, what I'm looking for is to have shares simply not show up in the network directory listing if the current user is not authorized to access them

Re: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Julian Opificius
PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:44:01 -0600 Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Thanks for the response Dexter. No, what I'm looking for is to have shares simply not show up in the network directory listing if the current user is not authorized to access them. I thought

RE: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Franki
around to it. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian Opificius Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2001 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Just like browseable = no, right

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:55:41 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hi there, i've got a question about something. I've been following this thread and gleening some info from it. I've got the samba server running on my Linux machine and i'm trying to

Re: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Julian Opificius
.) -Original Message- From: Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:44:01 -0600 Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Thanks for the response Dexter. No, what I'm looking for is to have shares simply not show up

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-14 Thread Julian Opificius
Mark, The first thing is that you say that you're trying to get the Windows box to see the Linux box. The next thing is you talk about running smbclient, which is used for accessing the Windows box from the Linux box, so I'm a little confused. The smbclient log message? I'm guessing it's

Re: [newbie] samba question

2001-11-20 Thread tek1
don't know the answer to ur question, but u may want to try: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/ At 04:32 01/11/20 +1100, you wrote: Hello all, I have samba running ok (logon, file and print sharing)and when I run the 11 tests in diagnosis.txt, everthin works fine except.. 1. I can ping

[newbie] Samba question

2001-01-30 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have a Linux box(at school) on a peer-to-peer network with Win98 machines. How can I set up Samba to share files with them and also be able to see their shared drives? Thanks y'all! The Moose

[newbie] Samba question. HELP!

2000-11-23 Thread Orestes
Hi, I´m using Mandrake 7.2 and the incredible nice KDE2 with Konqueror. It´s all very good but I can´t manage to see other computers in my windows workgroup (I´m a stand alone linux user on my work, blá!!!). Does anyone knows how SAMBA works with konqueror? DATA: Workgroup: FADO My

[newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread J D
okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from windows. when i try to connect to it, it prompts for a password. however, i have not set a password for it. i've tried every password for my system, and even tried nothing. but it always tells me that it's an invalid

Re: [newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread Jeff Lee
I think your Windows network username (and password) has to be the same as a user name in Linux. At 01:17 AM 6/22/2000 +, you wrote: okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from windows. when i try to connect to it, it prompts for a password. however, i have

RE: [newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-- |From: J D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:17 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] samba question | | |okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from |windows. when i try to connect to it, it prompts for a password. |however, |i have not s

RE: [newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
ot; lines too. Often these are overlooked. Enjoy! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: J D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:17 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] samba question | | |okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from |win