Re: [Samba] config to use idmap (LDAP)

2003-09-05 Thread Mimic Mimicmike
hi, On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:49:01AM +, Mimic Mimicmike wrote: I config admin dn: like that,It work,and I can use ldap with samba for store account forusers computers groups but id map is still locate on /var/cache/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb my ldap is on passdb backend = ldap

[Samba] (no subject)

2003-09-05 Thread Mimic Mimicmike
hi, On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:49:01AM +, Mimic Mimicmike wrote: I config admin dn: like that,It work,and I can use ldap with samba for store account for users computers groups but id map is still locate on /var/cache/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb my ldap is on passdb backend = ldapsam, guest i

[Samba] winbind problem with mixed case Windows accounts

2003-09-05 Thread Carrie Coy
When we deployed winbind, we converted our mixed case NT accounts to lower case. At that time, smb.conf setting was "password server = PDC" and everything worked great. Subsequently we changed the setting to "password server = *". and discovered that the BDC remembers, somewhere, the old versi

[Samba] Runaway SMBD process

2003-09-05 Thread Jeffrey D. Means
I just updated my cvs sources and recompiled now when any windows box logs in my smbd daemon goes crazy. I am enclosing the top command I just ran on the server as well as the output from ps. At this time only one windows box has logged in (it was win xp sp1). I have more daemons running than I

Re: [Samba] samba3 - On-the-Fly Machine Accounts - domain admin group?

2003-09-05 Thread John H Terpstra
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Rauno Tuul wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone explain, why was parameter "domain admin group" removed from > samba3? > passdb/pdb_ldap got totally rewritten... but why remove an useful > variable... Because you now have something much more powerful that provides real NT Groups to

Re: [Samba] this might be a stupid question but how do you set permisions/security attributes on a share with samba3

2003-09-05 Thread John H Terpstra
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jeffrey D. Means wrote: > I am using samba3 latest cvs and now would like to start appling nt > security permissions to files and shares. Does anyone have a howto to > go about this yet?? Have you read Chapter 13 of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf that is shipped as part of th

[Samba] this might be a stupid question but how do you set permisions/security attributes on a share with samba3

2003-09-05 Thread Jeffrey D. Means
I am using samba3 latest cvs and now would like to start appling nt security permissions to files and shares. Does anyone have a howto to go about this yet?? Jeffrey D. Means CIO for MeansPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://ww

[Samba] Thank you! (2 Por política de seguridad y como medida precautoria de virus

2003-09-05 Thread webmail/Sedesol%SEDESOL
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Re: [Samba] cross-subnet domain join issue

2003-09-05 Thread D. Rick Anderson
Have you tried using 'remote announce' ? add: remote announce = 192.168.1.255/DOMAIN_NAME to the global section of your smb.conf file using your remote network and domain of course. If that doesn't work, then try enabling Wins support on your Samba server, and setting it as the primary wins res

[Samba] cross-subnet domain join issue

2003-09-05 Thread Sean Kellogg
So, I already sent this message once before (yesterday), but I can't seem to find it on the archives (and have received no responses), so I'm wondering if it got bounced. If it didn't and I'm just being ignore, then I'll just stay put over here in the corner... if it did, please take a read and s

RE: [Samba] samba3 - On-the-Fly Machine Accounts - domain admin group?

2003-09-05 Thread Jeffrey D. Means
Rauno: This was done as it is no longer needed under Samba3 check out the 'net' command for real nt style group management. Jeffrey D. Means CIO for MeansPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rauno Tuul Sent: Friday, Septem

[Samba] CVS compile errors

2003-09-05 Thread Jeffrey D. Means
What am I doing wrong here ?? -- clip [EMAIL PROTECTED] source]# make Using FLAGS = -g -O2 -I/usr/kerberos/include -Iinclude -I/var/local/compile/samba/source/include -I/var/local/compile/samba/source/ubiqx -I/var/local/compile/samba/source/smbwrapper -I. -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BI

[Samba] samba3 - On-the-Fly Machine Accounts - domain admin group?

2003-09-05 Thread Rauno Tuul
Hi, Could someone explain, why was parameter "domain admin group" removed from samba3? passdb/pdb_ldap got totally rewritten... but why remove an useful variable... # Removed Parameters (order alphabetically): # * domain admin group In 2.2.8 (with LDAP backend) I defined domain admin gr

[Samba] Problem to have access samba in subnets

2003-09-05 Thread Rogério Oliveira Naressi
Still I continue with a problem that I told these days in the list, but now obtained to identify better. My server with samba this functioning and my clients correctly makes access normally, after some days my clients stops to deny access samba. Only clients with IP in subnets off samba access s

[Samba] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-09-05 Thread PUNEMAIL/TCSPUNE/TCS
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[Samba] RE: Re: Details (verification)

2003-09-05 Thread Ray Rasmussen
Hi, Your message for me, Ray Rasmussen, has been sent to a screening program because I've been getting about 100 spams per day and sticking vodoo pins into cans of spam hasn't helped. If you want to reach me, it's easy. For this one time only - to verify that you are who you say you are., follow

[Samba] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-09-05 Thread PUNEMAIL/TCSPUNE/TCS
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[Samba] Quotes for release :-).

2003-09-05 Thread Jeremy Allison
Hi all, It's that time again ! :-). You may have noticed that we're gearing up for a major new release of Samba, Samba 3. We don't do these very often and I like to write a nice press release style of release note to go on the Web page and to send to friendly journalists. How can the Samb

[Samba] Re: Details

2003-09-05 Thread DOnotReply
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[Samba] Mandrake packages of RC2

2003-09-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Packages of RC2 are available for Mandrake 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1. Please beware these have not been tested very much (as I have been working more on the packages for the upcoming 9.2 - which also explains why they are so late ...). As always, samba3 packag

RE: [Samba] Samba 3.0.0 RC1: Unable to find a suitable server

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > > > Added domain MYGROUP > > > ads_connect for domain MYGROUP failed: No such file or directory > > > scanning trusted domain list > > > > Patch attached. > > This patch is incomplete. Hold

Re: [Samba] wbinfo fails with disable netbios = yes

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Adrian Chung wrote: > I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this one. Ever since beta3 > I've been unable to get wbinfo to work properly. I finally worked > around it today, and it seems that with the disable netbios = yes >

[Samba] logfile timestamps are wrong

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Hammond
The samba log files all are -4 hours from the rest of my computer - putting my samba in Alaska, while I'm in Toronto. Any ideas why? (I'm using a standard distro R.H. 7.2, Samba is 2.2.1a) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/

RE: [Samba] Samba 3.0.0 RC1: Unable to find a suitable server

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Axel Suppantschitsch wrote: > > > Just updated and recompiled my cvs version. "net ads join" is working > > now, the samba ser

RE: [Samba] Samba 3.0.0 RC1: Unable to find a suitable server

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Axel Suppantschitsch wrote: > Just updated and recompiled my cvs version. "net ads join" is working > now, the samba server is added to "Active Directory Users and Computers" > without any error. Anyway, I didn't get any Kerberos c

[Samba] Re: domain join - no sambaSamAccount created

2003-09-05 Thread U. Dettmer
Hi, thanks for your quick answer, Bjorn ! > - first make a machine-account _ONLY_ in PosixAccount. Yes, I used /usr/bin/cpu useradd machine$ -d /dev/null -f /etc/samba/scripts/machadd.cfg -F machine$ -L machine$ -g 511 -p xxx to create a valid Unix user ( User object with posixAccount auxilliary

[Samba] Login into Active Directory

2003-09-05 Thread Juan Pablo Sales Gonzales
Hello I'd like to login from my Linux box into a Windows 2000 Active Directory. Can it be done with Samba? If so, where can I find information? Juan Pablo Sales Gonzalez Admin. Unix Contax S.A. Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instr

Re: [Samba] Testing Samba 3.0.0rc2....

2003-09-05 Thread claudio
Anyway i have found a little workaround. now my smb.conf is : comment = Home Directories path= %H/samba browseable = no writable = yes valid users = %s and works correcty Claudio. Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, cl

Re: [Samba] Testing Samba 3.0.0rc2....

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, claudio wrote: > [homes] >comment = Home Directories >path= /home/%U/samba > browseable = no >writable = yes > > and that is the result if i try to access into that share: > > smbclient '\\server\claudio' -U c

RE: [Samba] Laptop users as domain members; profiles

2003-09-05 Thread David Brodbeck
> -Original Message- > From: Scott Werschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sounds great. Thanks. But are you also confirming that I have to use > roaming profiles to use cached credentials? I have read some of the > possible scenarios where roaming profiles can cause loss of > informati

[Samba] samba and iPlanet servers running Solaris 9

2003-09-05 Thread Bob Gross
I am trying to mount a Windows file system on my iPlanet server running Solaris 9. I have samba installed on the Solaris box, but cannot get it to recognize the "smbfs" file system type for a nfs mount. Is this supported under Solaris 9? I know I can do it on a Linux box. Thanks, Bob G

[Samba] add user script question about -M %u and %m$

2003-09-05 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, I'm running samba (on debian woody) as PDC for Win2K,98 and XP clients. What is the difference between: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s /bin/false -M %u [ seen on p.399 in O'Reilly Samba Book ] and add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machine

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 - ntlm_auth ntlmssp failing

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 23:57, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Guenther Deschner wrote: > > > hi daniel, > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:42:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Andrew said it wasn't well documented yet

[Samba] Problems with 2 server and 2 domains

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Rati
I am trying to set up a windows Domain with Samba 2.2.8a and 2.2.7 on Debian and Redhat systems (respectively). This network has two subnets, so I have a samba server for each subnet, and they are configured to pass netbios traffic to each other so both networks can be seen in network neighbor

Re: [Samba] Findsmb manual page now lies because the output of smbclient -L changed?

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jay Fenlason wrote: > In 2.2.8a days, findsmb would print the OS and Server version of the > machines it found, like this: > The man page for findsmb in 3.0.0rc2 claims that findsmb will still do > so, but the actual output is

Re: [Samba] Winbindd -> winbindd_idmap.tdb deleted

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Michael Gasch wrote: > excuse me > > it was my fault: > winbindd creates a new mapping_db > > but it's not winbind_idmap.tdb > it's idmap.tdb :D you're running an old 3.0 version. This has since been fixed. You should upgr

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 - ntlm_auth ntlmssp failing

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Guenther Deschner wrote: > hi daniel, > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:42:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Andrew said it wasn't well documented yet, but the winbindd_priveledged > > pipe needed to be readable by squid. Chg

Re: [Samba] Password expires

2003-09-05 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My users get warnings about their passwordss expiring. > I dont want them to need to change password. I set the Accountpoliicy > for max. passwd age to 0 but that doesn't affect the expiration date. > Wha

RE: [Samba] Pocket PC 2003 lose stored password

2003-09-05 Thread Schoemer, Joerg
It's driving my crazy, here the attachment once again... Maybe a zip works Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 - ntlm_auth ntlmssp failing

2003-09-05 Thread Guenther Deschner
hi daniel, On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:03:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did not find that that was the case. On the taroon beta (RH EL AS 3 > beta) anyway, service winbind stop and start did not affect ownership of > /var/cache/samba/winbindd_privileged. absolutely right. i could have

RE: [Samba] Pocket PC 2003 lose stored password

2003-09-05 Thread Schoemer, Joerg
The attachment again! > -Original Message- > From: Schoemer, Joerg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] Pocket PC 2003 lose stored password > > > Hi all, > when accessing a samba server (2.2.8a) from a Pocket PC

[Samba] roaming profile

2003-09-05 Thread ashley
G'day, According to Chapter 4 of Using Samba setting up roaming profiles should be a no brainer. I have followed the notes from Using Samba for an XP client. However when I goto create the profile I get permission denide. However, as you see below, the permissions I'm using on /etc/samba/prof

[Samba] "Failed to resend packet" - OK?

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Snyder
On starting Samba (2.2.7a, on RedHat Linux v9) I get the errors shown below. There doesn't seem to be any problems with runtime behavior, just these entries in the Samba log file. Maybe it's nothing to worry about, but I get concerned when I see "Failed" in the logs. Are these "Failed to rese

[Samba] Bugzilla Bug 232 on samba 3 rc2 - urgent

2003-09-05 Thread Jean-Marc Pouchoulon
Hi , We use redhat 8 . Samba is 3rc2 Smb.conf is workgroup = TEST server string = %h server (Samba %v) null passwords = Yes passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://X.X.X.X /,guest passwd program = /usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/samba/bin/ldapsync.pl %u passw

[Samba] samba+ldap passwd sync

2003-09-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I'm in trouble... I'm in the way of building a FreeBSD Samba server with LDAP support. So far, everything works great except password synchronization. It is the only thing I need left to do before my server goes into production, so I'm really looking for help. What I need is to be able to sy

[Samba] Problem joing domain with samba3

2003-09-05 Thread Jerome Tournier
Hello, i am actually working on samba 3.0rc2 (with OpenLDAP) and i have problems joigning a workstation to the domain. With samba 2.2, a user could be in the NT "Domain Admins" group if he was a member of the unix group that has a gid=512. This user could then join any windows workstation with his

[Samba] Problem with Samba 3 + Iplanet ldap and trusted domain

2003-09-05 Thread Jose Pedro Andres
Hi: I have 2 diferents domains ( one width windows NT 4 and other width samba 3 ), and i'm trying to establis a trusted relation. the problem is that when i create the trust in the samba machine, i only obtain this: Failed initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user dominio$. Failed to modify

[Samba] samba as pdc

2003-09-05 Thread DAS S
I am trying to connect my windows 2000 prof client to my solais 8 x86 system running samba 2.2.a I got the following error message "This account is not authorised to log from this station" Further i am unable to create workstation account maually as well as on the fly. I used the following synt

RE: [Samba] domain join - no sambaSamAccount created

2003-09-05 Thread bjorn . padding
Did you try to: - first make a machine-account _ONLY_ in PosixAccount. - then try to run the wizard from XP with a (or better to be sure, THE) root account. You need to have "add machine script" configed for this ofcourse. I had the same problem adding clients to the domain... but when I tried t

RE: [Samba] Samba 3 - ntlm_auth ntlmssp failing

2003-09-05 Thread daniel . jarboe
I did not find that that was the case. On the taroon beta (RH EL AS 3 beta) anyway, service winbind stop and start did not affect ownership of /var/cache/samba/winbindd_privileged. ~ Daniel On Friday, September 05, 2003 8:45 AM Guenther Deschner wrote: > > unfortunatly the new group-ownership wi

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 - ntlm_auth ntlmssp failing

2003-09-05 Thread Guenther Deschner
hi daniel, On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:42:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew said it wasn't well documented yet, but the winbindd_priveledged > pipe needed to be readable by squid. Chgrp'ing the winbindd_priveledged > directory (it was chmodded 750) to the squid group solved my problem,

[Samba] Problem with Win95 + DFS clients (fwd)

2003-09-05 Thread is
Hi, I've found a problem with samba when printing from a client running win95 + DFS. The print fails with a segmentation fault. The problem is that Win95 does not return the proper file_fsp( smb_vwv0) when doing an IOCTL request.This causes the file_fsp call in reply_ioctl (smbd/reply.c) to f

RE: [Samba] Samba 3 - ntlm_auth ntlmssp failing

2003-09-05 Thread daniel . jarboe
Andrew said it wasn't well documented yet, but the winbindd_priveledged pipe needed to be readable by squid. Chgrp'ing the winbindd_priveledged directory (it was chmodded 750) to the squid group solved my problem, it's now working great. ~ Daniel -

RE: [Samba] Samba 3.0.0 RC1: Unable to find a suitable server

2003-09-05 Thread Axel Suppantschitsch
Just updated and recompiled my cvs version. "net ads join" is working now, the samba server is added to "Active Directory Users and Computers" without any error. Anyway, I didn't get any Kerberos credentials during the join, so klist shows nothing afterwards. "smbclient -k" won't work, throwing "se

[Samba] 2.2.8a+Debian woody PDC share permission / print$ wizard does not work as it will

2003-09-05 Thread Massimo Crisantemo
Hy every body, I try to read all news in this channel before posting but none answer to my problem... Let show... Debian/Woody + samba 2.2.8a acting as PDC, some WinNT clients, roaming profiles disabled. The users are all with primary group 106, and are members of other group. They can log on corre

[Samba] pam_winbind verses pam_krb5

2003-09-05 Thread C.Lee Taylor
Greetings ... Have a question, was is the advantages of use pam_winbind verses pam_krb5 for Samba user authentaction? I mean, if I point my Linux box Kerberos to a Win2003 AD server, I am able to authenticate my users out of AD, but at the moment still having problems with winbind and ns

RE: [Samba] Pocket PC 2003 lose stored password

2003-09-05 Thread Schoemer, Joerg
I've made a tcp-dump and here is the dump-file. Packet no. 27 appears strange to me, I think this is the logon with the stored password, but ethereal couldn't decode the packet. [Malformed Packet: SMB]!!! Maybe the same problem for samba? Best regards Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this

[Samba] domain join - no sambaSamAccount created

2003-09-05 Thread U. Dettmer
Hi, we are using Samba 3 ( CVS checkout from 09/01 ) on a SuSE 8.2 box with all patches applied. The passdb backend is LDAP / eDirectory 8.7 on another machine. The Samba box is supposed to work as a stand alone domain controller, so I am testing to join a client machine to it's domain. This is my

Re: [Samba] config to use idmap (LDAP)

2003-09-05 Thread Mimic Mimicmike
I config admin dn: like that,It work,and I can use ldap with samba for store account for users computers groups but id map is still locate on /var/cache/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb my ldap is on passdb backend = ldapsam, guest and log file of winbind is [2003/09/03 09:27:37, 0] lib/module.c:smb_lo

Re: [Samba] Screen-saver turning with samba - policy?

2003-09-05 Thread corey mcguire
not quite sure what this has to do with samba, but one could write a logon.bat that merges a registry file with the settings you need... then, when said user logs on, they hit the bat, the bat merges the reg file, and the system is then configured to do as you wish... Did you set a policy that sta

Re: [Samba] Screen-saver turning with samba - policy?

2003-09-05 Thread Hegedus, Ervin
Hello, > Just do that manually for your users put the screensaver on for 3 min. of > inactivity and password lock it. I know that poledit feature is available > in win2k and xp but I am not sure if it will work from samba. thanks, sorry, but this is not solution for me - i mean (just i forgot to

RE: [Samba] Screen-saver turning with samba - policy?

2003-09-05 Thread Raj Saxena
Just do that manually for your users put the screensaver on for 3 min. of inactivity and password lock it. I know that poledit feature is available in win2k and xp but I am not sure if it will work from samba. Raj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behal

[Samba] Screen-saver turning with samba - policy?

2003-09-05 Thread Hegedus, Ervin
hello list, i would like to make a policy for the clients, with samba - like native w2k policy. the problem is: users turn on the machines, works, and goes to drink coffee... and stay windows on, with them mails, and other personal things. can i set up something, what turn on the windows screen-

[Samba] Pocket PC 2003 lose stored password

2003-09-05 Thread Schoemer, Joerg
Hi all, when accessing a samba server (2.2.8a) from a Pocket PC 2003 you can give a password and tell the Pocket PC to remember it. But, if you switch off the device or remove the LAN-card the stored password is lost (or send in a different way as Pocket PC 2002).   Maybe the procedure of sending t

Re: [Samba] Winbindd -> winbindd_idmap.tdb deleted

2003-09-05 Thread Michael Gasch
excuse me it was my fault: winbindd creates a new mapping_db but it's not winbind_idmap.tdb it's idmap.tdb :D sorry & thx greez Paul Eggleton wrote: Michael Gasch wrote on Friday, 5 September 2003 3:41 a.m.: i recently deleted the idmap file winbindd_idmap.tdb (i have a backup ;) ), because