[Samba] Strange error message when a user can't change password

2002-09-23 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Hello, I'm trying to set up samba as a PDC. The current version of samba is samba-server-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk from Mandrake 9.0 RC3. I want password sync'ing between smbpasswd and shadow. I've set it up so that password rules are enforced (i.e. the new password must not be in a dictionary), and

[Samba] Config files of Samba Server - what else

2002-09-23 Thread Philipp Prause
Hi, I want to have a second "backup" installation of a samba server on the same machine for testing purposes (on a different partition). Samba 2.2.5 on SuSE 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18-4GB standard SuSE), Samba being domain controller & master browser for WinNT 4.0 clients. When System1 worked, I wante

[Samba] Path is too deep

2002-09-23 Thread Kristyan Osborne
Hi, Has anyone any idea why when i'm trying to copy a file to a samba share it takes a long time and finally says 'Path is too deep'? Thanks for any suggestions - Kristyan Osborne IT Technician Longhill High School 01273 391672 -- Computers are like airconditioners: They stop

[Samba] Continuence on that strange loglevel-bug.

2002-09-23 Thread webb-ie
In addition to my last mail, sent yesterday. I stumbled across that bug today again, it seems like I can read fine from the disks on the machine with samba but not write with it. In my log (loglevel 10) this appeared when I tried copying a file from a windows box to a samba share: [2002/09/23

Re: [Samba] Path is too deep

2002-09-23 Thread Frank Matthieß
Montag den 23.09.2002 um 11:06 CEST +0200, schrieb Kristyan Osborne: > Hi, > > Has anyone any idea why when i'm trying to copy a file to a samba > share it takes a long time and finally says 'Path is too deep'? DOS? Internal limit by 64chars. Frank. -- Frank Matthieß

[Samba] Samba-LDAP with custom object class

2002-09-23 Thread Matthieu Turpault
Hello, First, excuse me if this messages is not in the right mailing list: I have not found a samba-ldap forum. I try to use Samba-LDAP with my own object class but I cannot manage using an other attribute than 'uid' for the user ID. Here is my objectClass:

Re: [Samba] Problems Using SAMBA as Fileserver

2002-09-23 Thread Oliver Six
Martin Elshuber wrote: > Hi! > > I've set up Samba 2.2.5 as Fileserver, using w2k clients, and all works well, nearly! > But there is one Problem! > > I cannot work with mp3-files! > I can play a mp3; I can copy a mp3; I can even delete a mp3; But it is not possible >to rename a mp3 or change t

[Samba] Trouble with Samba/RH 7.3

2002-09-23 Thread Anthony Abby
I'm having trouble connecting to a share I created on my Redhat 7.3 box, from my Windows XP workstation. I had set it up earlier on a FreeBSD 4.6 server and was able to connect to it from a Windows 2000 workstation, but can not seem to get it right here at home. Here's my smb.conf file. # S

[Samba] Re: Another printing problem...

2002-09-23 Thread Dominic Deferia
Andrew, Try to check the machine log. if it says printing.tdb bad magic etc. then your printing.tdb is corrupt.You can also use smbclient to verify if you can print to your printer. Can you print using lpr directly to the printer ? I have this case before, "access denied" but this is due to a c

[Samba] smbmount question

2002-09-23 Thread John Anderson
Hi, I seem to be missing something. I've got a remote server with a directory I need to share to my local (win98) machines. Due to some poor planning that server and my local machines are not on the same network. I bridged that gap with a linux server where I've dual homed that server and ins

Re: [Samba] I have problem with winbindd in 2.2.6pre2

2002-09-23 Thread Gerald Carter
On 21 Sep 2002, Nathan R. Valentine wrote: > I have been having the same problem with what sounds like a very similar > setup. I attempted to find the root of the problem and, as near as I can > tell, there might be a bug winbindd's name cache. Unfortunately, I don't > have any answers for you.

Re: [Samba] Strange error message when a user can't change password

2002-09-23 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
> > However, if a user selects a password that is too short, > he/she will get a misleading error message saying that > the _old_ password is wrong. > > This occurs both when the user is on a w2k machine or > on a win95 machine. > > How do I set it up so that the user is given > a better error

Re: [Samba] Strange error message when a user can't change password

2002-09-23 Thread abartlet
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:14:01AM -0400, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: > > > > However, if a user selects a password that is too short, > > he/she will get a misleading error message saying that > > the _old_ password is wrong. > > > > This occurs both when the user is on a w2k machine or > > on

Re: [Samba] Samba-LDAP with custom object class

2002-09-23 Thread Gerald Carter
Given the context of you questions, they appear to more related to PADL's pam_ldap module. I suggest you repost there. > First, excuse me if this messages is not in the right mailing list: I > have not found a samba-ldap forum. try to use Samba-LDAP with my own > object class but I cannot manage

Re: [Samba] Strange error message when a user can't change password

2002-09-23 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: >>However, if a user selects a password that is too short, >>he/she will get a misleading error message saying that >>the _old_ password is wrong. >> >>This occurs both when the user is on a w2k machine or >>on a win95 machine. >> >>How do I set it up so that the user i

[Samba] windows nt4 sp6 crashes when logging in

2002-09-23 Thread r . hauke
hello list, i am running samba 2.2.5 (compiled with --with-ldapsam) with ldapsam backend (openldap 2.0.23) as pdc under debian testing distribution. joining the domain works fine! when i login win nt tells me that it only found a low bandwith network connection (although it's 100mbit) and ask

Re: [Samba] Trouble with Samba/RH 7.3

2002-09-23 Thread James S. Martin
Good way to debug is to first do a smbclient -L 192.168.1.100 That will give you a list of shares on the host. If that doesn't return anything, you probably forgot to restart your daemon or are having other networking issues. James Anthony Abby wrote: > I'm having trouble connecting to a s

[Samba] samba internal error ... panic ...

2002-09-23 Thread Martin Müßler
Hi, i have a big problem with my samba installation. After a few days of work the samba crashed and it won't be able to login into the console. The only way is to reboot the machine. My Samba logfile prints out the following messages. [2002/09/17 17:14:47, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39) INTERN

Re: [Samba] Another printing problem...

2002-09-23 Thread Jeff Shipman
I haven't really received a response to this yet. The lpr program works fine with %p and I removed my .tdb files pertinent to my printer. Nothing helped. Again, I can print just fine, but the spool doesn't open. I get a "Failed to open, retrying" message. When I try to connect to the printer to re

[Samba] Tracking WINS Problems

2002-09-23 Thread Phil Gregory
I'm having some problems with (I think) WINS here and am hoping for some pointers to tools that will help me track down what's going on. Really, I'd like to be able to get a big dump of all of the names registered on a WINS server. (The WINS server in question is a NT box to which I don't have d

Re: [Samba] samba internal error ... panic ...

2002-09-23 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:09:36PM +0200, Martin Müßler wrote: > Hi, i have a big problem with my samba installation. After a few days of > work the samba crashed and it won't be able to login into the console. The > only way is to reboot the machine. My Samba logfile prints out the following > me

[Samba] ugly messages in log.smbd

2002-09-23 Thread Francesc Guasch
Hi. I have a samba server SunOS 5.6 This is samba-2.2.2, some times some users get slow responses from the server,and the other day we had to restart the computer. I found this in the logs. Any hints about what is happening ? I'm starting to prepare an upgrade, but its a bare server and it'll be

[Samba] Oplock break state

2002-09-23 Thread werner maes
Hello, We encounter some problems with Samba 2.2.5 & M$ Office: When a client starts up Word or any other Office component, the software won't load. In our samba logs these messages occur: [2002/09/23 17:26:41, 2] smbd/process.c:switch_message(695) switch_message: queueing message

[Samba] How best to get ACL support?

2002-09-23 Thread Sytsma, Richard
My Dell server was preloaded with Redhat 7.2 , Linux 2.4.7-10, gccv2.96 with Ext3 file system. I want to install the machine into my company W2k domain using winbind but my Linux kernel does not support the needed ACls. I Does the latest Linux kernel come with ACL support and if so should

Re: [Samba] Book on using Samba

2002-09-23 Thread Jay Ts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I could like to get the a book which is suitable for me to > learn Samba and its application on Microsoft OS like Win NT and WIn 2K > .Kindly recommend me and where can I purchase one ? Thanks. I'll start off the discussion, and hopefully, someone else will

[Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Darin Bawden
Good afternoon, This is my first post, so please be gentle ;) Anyway, here's my questionI've recently put together a Linux Server for our company, replacing an old Novel server. I have the box set up with Samba, as a PDC on our network. So far, just about everything is working correctly.

RE: [Samba] How best to get ACL support?

2002-09-23 Thread Konkol, Josh
When I researched it I found an article where they said that the version for 2.4.7 was buggy. The recommendation was to upgrade. I've successfully done this for use with Samba, so I know it works. You can still download the older versions, there's a link off the site to them. Josh Konkol, CNE

[Samba] Weird problem all of a sudden

2002-09-23 Thread simon
Hi, We have been using Samba for a couple of years without too many problems :-) However this morning about 11 out of 65 machines wouldn't access one of our three servers with the error message "\\Deepspace is not accessible. The computer or sharename could not be found. Make sure you typed it

[Samba] Windows NT Domain Support for Samba Shares

2002-09-23 Thread Hetman, Greg (CSC)
I am looking for assistance in configuring Samba to support shares in a Windows NT Domain. I believe I have everything configured properly, however I am unable to get a Windows NT Domain userid to work in a Samba share. In my smb.conf, I have the following options [global] workgroup = resdom

[Samba] Trouble with Windows 2000 sp3

2002-09-23 Thread Joshua Pollak
Hello, I work in a development shop where we write code for both Linux and Windows, and develop on both OS's on a codebase stored on a Linux drive with Samba shares. Ever since I 'upgraded' my Windows 2000 system to service pack 3, I have been having trouble compiling my code with Visual Studi

[Samba] [ntdom] permission in the registry

2002-09-23 Thread Renato Lins
I setup samba to respond as domain controller, every thing goes fine, but when I switch to a normal user in the XP work stations many installed programs for example corel, homesite, starts to give a message sayd the they don't have permission in the registry, the read the their information. I

RE: [OT] [Samba] [ntdom] permission in the registry

2002-09-23 Thread Malte Starostik
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Renato Lins >Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:26 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Samba] [ntdom] permission in the registry > > >I setup samba to respond as domain controller, every thing goes fine

[Samba] interesting WINS resolution problem iwth 2.2.5 PDC

2002-09-23 Thread Dan Bongert
I'm running a Samba PDC at home (v2.2.5, recently upgraded from v2.2.3 in an attempt to solve this problem) on RedHat 7.3. I have domain logon, printing and all that good stuff working just fine to a couple of XP and 2000 clients. But, I want to mount a couple shares from the domain clients to t

Re: [Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:40, Darin Bawden wrote: > Good afternoon, > This is my first post, so please be gentle ;) > Anyway, here's my questionI've recently put together a Linux Server for > our company, replacing an old Novel server. I have the box set up with > Samba, as a PDC on our net

[Samba] passwords for Samba mounts in /etc/fstab

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Marano
I am trying to create a samba mount to be mounted automatically on a Redhat 7.2 machine. I can mount the drive from the command line, but would like to have the drive mount on boot. I have added it to /etc/fstab, and get prompted for a password when I run mount on it from the command line.

[Samba] Slow Spool speed!

2002-09-23 Thread Rodrigo Sirio Coelho
Hi, I am with a SUSE 8.0 with Samba 2.2.5, I am with about 20 computers with Windows 98 accessing the files and printers on the samba server! The file access is all OK, but the printer access is slow! when I send a printer job from the windows is takes about a 1 minute to transfer 3 MB spool file

Re: [Samba] passwords for Samba mounts in /etc/fstab

2002-09-23 Thread Joshua Pollak
> A subsidiary question about mounting a network drive on startup: Is the > init process smart enough to only mount network drives once the network is > up, which I beleive happens after the mounts? It should be, I'm most familar with Gentoo and Debian, but I use Red Hat at work. My machine wa

Re: [Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 15:42, Darin Bawden wrote: > Greetings Brad, > I have 2 pritners set up on a jet direct port/server/whatever. They are > setup as Paper1 and Color1. When we had our Novell server they program > pritned correctly. Since setting up the new server, it's printing out this >

Re: [Samba] interesting WINS resolution problem iwth 2.2.5 PDC

2002-09-23 Thread Phil Gregory
* Dan Bongert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-23 15:04 -0500]: > But, I want to mount a couple shares from the domain clients to the server, > and that works just fine except for one client. The problem is in the manner in which Samba is resolving the name "cybertron" to an IP address. > fuji

Re: [Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Thomas Bork
Hallo Bradley W. Langhorst, you wrote: > try adding a -o raw to the print command line... ^^ > that should tell lprng that this data is already formatted for the > printer and doesn't need to be ripped. I think, this is not nessasary with lprng. I cannot found such option in

[Samba] "Network Neighborhood" across subnets

2002-09-23 Thread Elijah Chancey
I've got a group of webdesigners that use Windows 2000 with public IPs. The webserver (also runs samba) has been moved to a colo facility. How can I setup samba so that it is accessible over the internet? Is there a secure (ssh?) way to do it? Thanks in advance. Elijah Chancey NetlinkIP Sysadmi

[Samba] samba file/service server authentication vs. a remote samba PDC

2002-09-23 Thread Grzegorz Kusnierz
Hi. We've got a following network topology: INTERNET | | ppp0 __|__ [__A__] linux samba PDC ("A") | | eth0 | | eth1 __ __ [HU

Re: [Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 16:30, Darin Bawden wrote: > that's the weird thing. Our Windows printers print fine, it's only DOS > that has a problem. In the Global and printers section I don't have > anything listed for the print command (As I said, I'm sorta new at all > this). It lists the line

[Samba] smbclient MS-DFS support

2002-09-23 Thread Benjamin, Devon
Is there a version of smbclient that supports traversing MS-DFS links? smbclient 2.0.7 and 2.2.0 both fail when trying to follow MS-DFS redirects. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 16:59, Darin Bawden wrote: > Just tried that. For a one-page document, it printed fine. For a > multi-page report, it printed out the following: > Y%-12345X > Y%-12345Z@PJL SET PAGEPROTECT=OFF > @PJL SET DENSITY=3 > @PJL SET IMAGEADAPT=AUTO > @PJL SET RET=MEDIUM > @PJL SET

[Samba] Read failure for 4. Error = connection reset by peer.

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Valenzuela
I am having a SERIOUS problem with our new 2.2.5 server. In fact I will probably be forced to move to a Windows 2000 Server platform, as the samba server is practically useless. Work on any files on the share cannot be done without major risk of losing data. I get these two errors all day: [2

Re: [Samba] Read failure for 4. Error = connection reset by peer.

2002-09-23 Thread abartlet
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:44:35PM -0400, Jason Valenzuela wrote: > I am having a SERIOUS problem with our new 2.2.5 server. In fact I will > probably be forced to move to a Windows 2000 Server platform, as the samba > server is practically useless. Work on any files on the share cannot be > d

Re: [Samba] Read failure for 4. Error = connection reset by peer.

2002-09-23 Thread Bob Crandell
I'll offer this without asking what your setup is. In the Global section, add: oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no kernel oplocks = no Then killall -HUP smbd Then killall -HUP nmbd to force Samba to reread the config file. If you already did this then others will have to help. This fixed that pro

[Samba] hi

2002-09-23 Thread Jovert Sumagang
My name is jovert and i really want to know about samba. I have SuSe operating System on my computer and i want to set up a peer to peer network using Suse and Microsoft. I have been asking people around and they told me that i need to install samba. But, i dont know what samba is? Or im jus

Re: [Samba] DNS server and printing.

2002-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Don't know much about Dos printing, but: What format do the dos client drivers deliver the print job to samba in? Just saying use client drivers doesn't mean your server won't try to filter it if it goes to the wrong queue, I THINK. What type of queue is accepting the print jobs on the samba serve

Re: [Samba] Slow Spool speed!

2002-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Have you checked, with tcpdump or looking at your samba logs, that the transfer rate is really slow, not that there is a delay due to the windows clients holding the jobs before they send them? Does this happen will all printer queues? Could this be a specific printer driver problem? And, the de

Re: [Samba] Slow Spool speed!

2002-09-23 Thread Rodrigo Sirio Coelho
Yes! the transfer of the Spool only is really slow! the problem is with all printers. Maybe can be the LPD! there is a delay (about 10 seconds) when the linux is starting the service! (LPD). Thank you to answer me! > Have you checked, with tcpdump or looking at your samba logs, that > the transf

Re: [Samba] Book on using Samba

2002-09-23 Thread YIP_Chin_Loo
Hi Jay, Where can I buy this book in Singapore ? Any bookshop in particular ?Thanks. Rgds, yipcl Jay Ts

[Samba] Profiles and local profile copy

2002-09-23 Thread Aton
Hello. Whenever I attach a 2000 Pro workstation to a Samba server, a directory is created under the user's home directory called "profile", and the local profile syncs with this directory. Its not usually bothersome until someone leaves 2 GIG of data on their desktop and when they logoff, Wind

Re: [Samba] Slow Spool speed!

2002-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a thought, but, is this dos or a windows program doing the printing? Does this delay happen when you send print jobs directly from the samba server? You do have one odd think in your /etc/printcap. You are using the samba spool directory as the spool directory for the lprng. Is this a good

Re: [Samba] Read failure for 4. Error = connection reset by peer.

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Valenzuela
> >I'll offer this without asking what your setup is. Sorry, here's the run down Linux 2.4.19 all software compiled from source using gcc 2.95.3 glibc 2.2.5 samba 2.2.5 dual P3 500 MHz Intels(Dell Poweredge) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: h

[Samba] backup NT box to SAMBA box using xcopy, smbclient, robocopy, or DD command ???

2002-09-23 Thread Andy
What is the best way to backup my NT 4.0 Server box that is only 8GB to my NEW SAMBA file server that I have added to the domain? Xcopy? Smbclient? Robocopy? DD command in Linux? I found some good info. on Google about Robocopy that is supposed to be great and will paste the information belo

RE: [Samba] Profiles and local profile copy

2002-09-23 Thread Kristyan Osborne
Hi, Use poledit and set a profile limit of say 10MB. It comes in the resource kit i think. Cheers Kris - Kristyan Osborne IT Technician Longhill High School 01273 391672 -- Computers are like airconditioners: They stop working properly if you open windows. Win95: A 32-bi

Re: [Samba] Oplock break state

2002-09-23 Thread Miguel Angel Moreno
Hi!! I have the same problem, I'm running samba 2.2.3. If you find how to solve this, please, let me know. :) wm> When a client starts up Word or any other Office component, the software wm> won't load. wm> In our samba logs these messages occur: wm> [2002/09/23 17:26:41, 2] smbd/process.c:swit