RE: [Samba] Slow performance with lots of files in one directory

2003-01-10 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Have you read the XFS tuning recommendations? The XFS developers bitch because people don't tune their volumes, then they don't understand bad performance... notes from Gentoo install: Note: You may want to add a couple of additional flags to the mkfs.xfs command: -d agcount=3 -l size=32m. Th

[Samba] Samba 2.2.7 Session setup fails with NetApp filer (F850).

2003-01-10 Thread Stanley Hopcroft
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I would dearly like to access CIFs directories on a NetApp filer (850) with Linux/*ix SMB clients. Unfortunately, smbclient from Samba 2.2.7 fails with a session setup request tsitc> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient //cbrnas01/Stan3$ -U stan3% added interface ip=10.0

[Samba] among 60 pc only one pc accessed from samba server

2003-01-10 Thread Nirav Joshi - iCubix
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[Samba] Samba 2.2.7 on Red Hat 8.0 and Windows 2000

2003-01-10 Thread Jose Medrano
I'm traying to access my Red Hat 8.0 box from windows 2000 professional. I'm using samba 2.2.7a and I can see the linux box on the windows 2000 network , but when I click on it I get the message 'System error 53 can't find the netwok path... can some one help me please I don't have any proble

Re: [Samba] Can samba refres the connection to the PDC?

2003-01-10 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:05, Mikko Rautiainen wrote: > Hi again =) > > If I have got this right? When a samba is in a domain security mode and > loses the connection to the PDC example NT4, it drops from security = > domain to security = server mode. Is this information correct? No, this is inc

Re: [Samba] user mount problems

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Post the output of: ls -al smbmnt Joel On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:19:09AM +0100, Viktor Pirard wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:12:20 -0500 > Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but do you give configure an option then? or do you simple, as you said change >the permissions on the sm

[Samba] Exchange data with NT Wins server

2003-01-10 Thread Beast
Hi all, Is there any way to exchange data with wins server (nt)? i have 4 separate subnet over wan (with dedicated connection), my subnet was use samba act as wins server and other are (still) using nt wins. i know samba wins can not participate in replication, but can we tell samba to query other

[Samba] SMBmount in daemon mode slow to write

2003-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Chen
Title: SMBmount in daemon mode slow to write Hi, We have a linux server which has the samba client running in daemon mode (smb shares auto-mounted via fstab).  The source smb share is on a W2K box, and both machines are on the same 100MB ethernet LAN.  Whenever we try to copy a file from th

RE: [Samba] Samba Authentication against NT domain

2003-01-10 Thread Beast
At 06:51 AM 1/10/2003 -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote: >No, not in my experience. > >Since Samba (in "domain" mode) will forward all authentication requests to Correct, in fact we can have blank smbpasswd as long as account already in /etc/passwd. however, problem with this "forward" model is we need

[Samba] Can samba refres the connection to the PDC?

2003-01-10 Thread Mikko Rautiainen
Hi again =) If I have got this right? When a samba is in a domain security mode and loses the connection to the PDC example NT4, it drops from security = domain to security = server mode. Is this information correct? And if this is true is there any way to get it automaticaly get back to domai

[Samba] Can't add print drivers for existing printers

2003-01-10 Thread Ian Eure
I've just upgraded from Samba 2.0 (Debian 2.2 "potato") to Samba 2.2 (Debian 3.0 "woody"), and I'm trying to get the print driver functionality working. My test server is a Debian 3.0r1 system running Samba 2.2.3a. My test client is running Windows 2000 Professional SP1. I'm following the proce

[Samba] Problem to access sambaserver from another subnet.

2003-01-10 Thread Mikko Rautiainen
Hi, I have a network that has a NT4 PDC and 2 NT4 BDC plus one linux samba server. Then there is a "VPN"subnet routed over ADSL to the main network. The problem is that I can't connect to the samba sever from the VPN with either W98 or W2k I can log on to the domain, can ping the servers, can

Re: [Samba] user mount problems

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, like the man says, install smbmnt suid root. chmod +s smbmnt (where ever smbmnt is) might work. man chmod has more detail. You may have to fool with your fstab file, too. Joel On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:29:32PM +0100, Viktor Pirard wrote: > Hi, i'm trying to get samba read write to work on

[Samba] Domain Users cannot use quickbooks

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Hillyer
Hi all; the other day we tried to get ambitious and get the office onto a samba domain. Things were fine, but our quickbooks users could not use quickbooks because they were domain restricted users and needed to be domain standard users. Anyone have any help on how to get the users in question t

Re: [Samba] Urgent help please: Samba constantly giving INTERNALERROR

2003-01-10 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 05:25, Patel, Pravin K (MED, GEMS-IT) wrote: > Happy New Year Samba Team, > > Please help me withthe following error. On one particular SUN E420 > sharing a directory constantly giving INTERNAL ERROR. > It was working OK before and is working OK on other E420. > >

Re: [Samba] samba errror

2003-01-10 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 09:05, Dilip X. Patel wrote: > Hi All > I able to compile samba 2.2.7a source code on Sloaris 4 without any error > and able create a package. I installed samba package > also successfully. Start the smbd and nmbd saemon aswell. Then successfully > joined to the domain by smbp

[Samba] samba errror

2003-01-10 Thread Dilip X. Patel
Hi All I able to compile samba 2.2.7a source code on Sloaris 4 without any error and able create a package. I installed samba package also successfully. Start the smbd and nmbd saemon aswell. Then successfully joined to the domain by smbpasswd command. Now the problem is when goto window and see th

[Samba] Directly smbmounting share folder (a la w2k)

2003-01-10 Thread John D Siirola
Hello: Is it possible to directly mount a folder within a windows share using smbmount? For example: smbmount //server/share/folder1 /mnt/folder1 This is do-able with a win2k client, but I can not get it to work with Samba. Here's my situation: I have a communal Linux system that is o

Re: [Samba] Message Command

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Hammer
man smb.conf Then search for preexec and root preexec and postexec. for example, this should do it: /preexec Press n to repeat the search. This is part of samba. It allows samba to invoke commands when a user logs in or logs out of the share. It is very handy. Joel On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:35:4

[Samba] user mount problems

2003-01-10 Thread Viktor Pirard
Hi, i'm trying to get samba read write to work on my computer. I can write as root, but when i added this to my fsab //PLAYER/UPLOAD /home/ftpa/upload2 smbfs user,rw,username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0 and try to do a mount //PLAYER/UPLOAD i get. smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user

[Samba] Re: Here is that sample

2003-01-10 Thread big
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RE: [Samba] Win98 Samba Login Script Errors

2003-01-10 Thread Barry, Christopher
LFNs (Long FileNames) in NT and 98 use a different algorithm when shortening them to 8.3 convention. Change your batch filenames to maintain the 8.3 (eight chars in the name max, and 3 chars in the extension), and I think you'll see this error go away. -Christopher -Original Message- Fr

[Samba] Win98 Samba Login Script Errors

2003-01-10 Thread mshaw
Hello, Can anybody please help me with the following errors. Whenever a user from the group "accounting" logs in the the PDC, a login box pops up and the following message appears "Accessed Denied - Accou~!n.bat". The problems seems to ly with people who belong to the accounting group and a

RE: [Samba] Default domain for winbindd?

2003-01-10 Thread daniel . jarboe
> Should have put in a real entry instead of assuming people > would read a man page ... ;) Actually, looking back now, he did reference the winbindd man page in his first post, and looked through logs. Maybe just ran out of steam at that stage of the process? > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/

Re: [Samba] smbclient thinks passwordless account is anonymous

2003-01-10 Thread John Tyner
> > This sounds like our bug. Do you have a patch? If not, it will > > be al ittle while before I get caught up and can look into it. > > I took a quick look at this. To use an account with no password > try > > smbclient -L host -Uname%"" Here is the output: $ smbclient -L refresco -Ujohn%""

RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming

2003-01-10 Thread A Cline
Bob and all: Here is what I ended up doing and it worked well in most cases. *Create the new UNIX account and Samba account on the Linux box *Log into the Client computer with the existing local profile as an account in the Admin List *Right-Click on my computer, pick the User Profiles tab, se

[Samba] Re: samba (2.2.7a) + openldap (2.0.x)

2003-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
Buchan Milne wrote: > C.Lee Taylor wrote: > > OK, I stayed a bit late, waiting for things to finish compiling etc ... > and did some tests. It seems to work. What I did was just point the > production DC at a slave server, and then > > 1)try and change my password > a)while both ldap servers were

[Samba] add printer

2003-01-10 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I have a couple of Intel NetPro Print Servers and would like to integrate them into Samba. May I ask if I should setup them up as Windows print servers then use Samba (CUPS) to add them into Samba? What's the proper way of doing this? This is different from JetDirect right? Regards, Norman -

[Samba] Deleting hosts

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Black
How does one delete machines from the WINS list when samba is the WINS server? They seem to hang around forever. Even temporary machines that plug into our network leave their own domain names and host names hanging around. Michael D. Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csi-inc.com/ http://www.csi

[Samba] Please help! Updated to Redhat 8.0, now can't get samba to work

2003-01-10 Thread A. Rosina Bignall
I just installed Redhat 8.0, got the errata samba packages, but I still can't get Samba to work. I have gone through the Diagnosis.txt file with the following results: Test 1: everything appears OK Test 2: pings work both ways Test 3: OK Test 4: # nmblookup -B lion __SAMBA__ querying __SAMBA__

[Samba] strange printing problem

2003-01-10 Thread Gustav . Reutter
Hello, we have some trouble with printing via samba. Sometimes users get the windows error message that the "system couldn't find the file". sorry for bad translation from german to english. ;-) After klicking on "repeat" a lot of times printing works. Installed version is 2.2.7a. Following l

Re: [Samba] Windoz Browsing

2003-01-10 Thread Joseph Kezar
First of all get rid of the hosts allow directive. After you get everything working than you should put in security directives. Original Message - From: Michael Louis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: [Samba] Windoz Browsing Hello all,

RE: [Samba] Default domain for winbindd?

2003-01-10 Thread Chris Palmer
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > The reason why your line was badly formed was because it > sounds like you used the name of the paramater without specifying > any value... so the badly formed line gets ignored and the default > (= no) used instead. What you were looking for

RE: [Samba] Default domain for winbindd?

2003-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
> Message: 16 > Subject: RE: [Samba] Default domain for winbindd? > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:50:30 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The reason why your line was badly formed was because it sounds like you > used the name of the paramater without speci

[Samba] Windoz Browsing

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Louis
Hello all, I'm having a problem with browsing, I have SAMBA setup on a small home network, on the windows clients I can see the Samba server in the network neighborhood but if I try to connect or use "net view" or "net use" I get a error 53 the computer name specified in the network path ca

RE: [Samba] smbclient thinks passwordless account is anonymous

2003-01-10 Thread Ken Walker
set-up an account on the Linux machine, Then put null passwords = yes in the smb.conf file ( the global section) then do a smbpasswd -an username which will create a samba account with no password ( or a null password ). When the user logs on it will use his machine username should be se

Re: [Samba] The use of Samba

2003-01-10 Thread Gordon Pritchard
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 04:45, Ted Gervais wrote: > Now that I have Samba all set up and working well > Right now I can sit at any machine and access any others. > What more can I look forward to?? Or is this it?? Here are some thoughts, Ted. Mostly if you're bored :-) 1) Move Samba/

[Samba] Re: Movies

2003-01-10 Thread big
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[Samba] Windows XP and Samba 2.2.7a Print drivers--they upload fine, but driver list for printers is emtpy.

2003-01-10 Thread D. Aaron McCaleb
I am logged on as a domain admin and printer admin. I have created and assigned the correct rights to /srv/printers and have created W32X86 and WIN40 subdirectories. I was able to go into server properties and upload all the necessary drivers. When I right click on the printer and say "No." to "

[Samba] Keeping local Profiles in WinNT and W2K

2003-01-10 Thread Barzilai Spinak
Yesterday I moved my LAN domain from a W2K server to Samba and I have problems logging on to my WinNT 4 machine using local profiles. My boss's computer is a freshly installed W2K and it had no problem at all with the change. My computer is a WinNT4 SP 6 and when I tried to log on with my user it

RE: [Samba] Default domain for winbindd?

2003-01-10 Thread daniel . jarboe
The reason why your line was badly formed was because it sounds like you used the name of the paramater without specifying any value... so the badly formed line gets ignored and the default (= no) used instead. What you were looking for was 'winbind use default domain = yes' ... That being said, d

Re: [Samba] Re: samba (2.2.7a) + openldap (2.0.x)

2003-01-10 Thread C.Lee Taylor
(&(uid=machine_)(objectclass=sambaAccount)) where it should have been like this: (&(uid=machine$)(objectclass=sambaAccount)) This is the alpha_strcpy() stuff again trying to remove "unsafe" shell characters. I am sure, but I am sure that I did a Machine Account add with 2.2.7, is this a chan

Re: [Samba] Re: samba (2.2.7a) + openldap (2.0.x)

2003-01-10 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > (&(uid=machine_)(objectclass=sambaAccount)) > > where it should have been like this: > (&(uid=machine$)(objectclass=sambaAccount)) This is the alpha_strcpy() stuff again trying to remove "unsafe" shell char

RE: [Samba] Slow performance with lots of files in one directory

2003-01-10 Thread Gerald Drouillard
Unless you are a programmer, I am afraid the only thing you can do is to modify how the files are stored in that directory. I had the files on a ext3 RAID5 with lots of memory config and any type of access to that directory would bring smb to a crawl. I even tried putting the files on a separate

[Samba] Re: serious problem with W2K TS and 2.2.7 PDC

2003-01-10 Thread Drew . Zeller
Robert, Tomoki, With regards to the multipleusersonconnection Registry key value listed for WTS, this indeed does not work under the Windows 2000 version of terminal server. What I did to work around all the users getting the same SMB process was create different aliases to the samba file server

[Samba] RE: Samba locking problems

2003-01-10 Thread Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1)
Hi Bernd, For now, we have backed down to 2.2.4. This seems to have solved our problems. This is frustrating, though, since we wanted to upgrade to at least 2.2.5+patches to possibly improve our situation with downloadable printer drivers. In my last post to the Samba mailing list, I mentioned

Re: [Samba] Message Command

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:54:49PM +1100, David Andrew Patterson wrote: > First, my question:- Does Samba do anything in particular with the standard > output of the program specified here? What would it take to have it > WinPopUp-ed back to the sender of the message? Have your message command r

RE: [Samba] The use of Samba

2003-01-10 Thread Bryan Brannigan
you can use samba as a domain controller and print server too... > -Original Message- > From: Ted Gervais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] The use of Samba > > > > Now that I have Samba all set up and working

RE: [Samba] Samba Authentication against NT domain

2003-01-10 Thread Troy.A Johnson
No, not in my experience. Since Samba (in "domain" mode) will forward all authentication requests to the PDC of the domain, it just has to join the domain (which causes the PDC to create a machine account for the Samba server automagically). >>> Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/09/03 20:20 PM >>> A

[Samba] The use of Samba

2003-01-10 Thread Ted Gervais
Now that I have Samba all set up and working well with all the machines I have - some linux, some Win98, some WinXP , what more can I do with Samba than just allow access to each of these machines. Right now I can sit at any machine and access any others. I can move files around I can play m

RE: [Samba] Linux platform for samba 2.2.7

2003-01-10 Thread naugaranch
Title: Message I had problems installing on RH 7.2  Reported back that files (I later found are parts of CUPS) were missing.  I was able to run Samba 2.2.5 on RH 7.2 (my server is currently running that way).   On the workstation, since I was going to upgrade RH (7.3 and 8.0 seem to be suppo

Re: [Samba] Message Command

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Hammer
If you want to run a command on the linux server, why not just use the exec parameter? Are you wanting to send a pop up message to a windows or linux client? Although I don't use it right now, there is a well defined mechanism for sending popup messages to windows clients. Joel On Fri, Jan 10,

[Samba] Message Command

2003-01-10 Thread David Andrew Patterson
From the smb.conf help document regarding the "message command" field:- You could make this command send mail, or whatever else takes your fancy. Please let us know of any really interesting ideas you have. First, my question:- Does Samba do anything in particular with the standard output of

[Samba] Re: samba (2.2.7a) + openldap (2.0.x)

2003-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
C.Lee Taylor wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: > >> OK, I stayed a bit late, waiting for things to finish compiling etc ... > > You should not work that hard ... ;-) Tell me about it, but we're on a tight schedule, and I have a day-job (if you call MSc.Eng thesis a job ...) > >> and did some te

[Samba] no access to passdb when domainlogin from xp client

2003-01-10 Thread Jessheim VGS. Avd Ullersmo
we have problems with the samba domaincontroller. Upon login of a win XP machine we get the error message: Can not open passdb.   What are the reasons for this? how to avoid the problem? User gets veryfied, but not password.   thanks a lot,   greetings berthold christukat

[Samba] rpcclient

2003-01-10 Thread Patrik Carlsson
Hi there! My name is Patrik Carlsson and I'm trying to set up a linux-box to be a printserver. We are using Redhat 8.0 and Samba 2.2.7a. For printing we are using LPRng. I wan't to upload drivers so that the users doesn't have to bother. I have read the Samba-HOWTO to set up Samba. Since we have

[Samba] RE: problems with inherit permissions (Armin Baumgaertner)

2003-01-10 Thread David Evans-Roberts
Armin wrote: > Hello, > > i'm using samba 2.0.7 with solaris 7 > > i would like to use the 'inherit permissions' - option. > > smb.conf > > [test] > comment = TEST > path = /test > writeable = Yes > inherit permissions = Yes > > > UNIX-FS: > > mkdir /test > chmod 777

AW: [Samba] Re: Poor performance and strange errors

2003-01-10 Thread Nova Nova
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Klaus Ethgen > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2003 22:21 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: [Samba] Re: Poor performance and strange errors > > > On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 14:20:25 +0100, Nova N

[Samba] Re: samba (2.2.7a) + openldap (2.0.x)

2003-01-10 Thread C.Lee Taylor
Buchan Milne wrote: OK, I stayed a bit late, waiting for things to finish compiling etc ... You should not work that hard ... ;-) and did some tests. It seems to work. What I did was just point the production DC at a slave server, and then Kewl ... 1)try and change my password a)while both