[Samba] Roaming Profiles Annoyances

Hello, I've finally managed to get roaming profiles working (kindof). However some issues (after lots of googling) remain unresolved. Here's a summary of what I've done to date: 1) Setup samba shares according to gentoo-wiki.org (there were some problems with permissions

Re: [Samba] samba permissions

Scott Mayo wrote: There was another tech coordinator that asked the following on our list: > Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to give students read/write permissions to a certain drive letter without giving them the ability to delete other (or thier own) files. Currently I hav

Re: [Samba] Samba+MySQL+Apache Authentication = possible?

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 08:56 +0200, (C)ollen wrote: > Hmm, must be do-able, > > there are several modules for apache available. > mod_ntlm for example.. lets you authenticate against a PDC (pref. samba) > nomather what backend you use. I strongly recommend against the use of mod_ntlm (and likewise

RE: [Samba] Windows offline files synchronization failure for mounted Samba drive.

Its not a ownership issue Im pretty sure Ive checked that. Im now thinking the problem could be due to the older verison of samba im still using 2.7 ? perhaps their are some issues understandably bt that verison and win xp sp2. I think ill upgrade to the current verison and then see. Thanks for

[Samba] Permissions Problem (?)

Hello, I'm an inexperienced Linux / Samba user attempting to get some simple networking going with various versions of Windows. Running Samba 3.0.14a-2 on a 'freebie magazine' fedora install. I appear to have a what I think is a permissions problem, but could(?) be username or password related.

[Samba] Wbinfo -Y couldn't work with idmap_rid for BUILTIN groups

Here is a patch for BUILTIN group sid/gid mapping in idmap_rid. It works to me. #>cd samba-3.0.14a/source/sam #>diff -C3 idmap_rid.c idmap_rid.c_new *** idmap_rid.c Fri Mar 11 05:47:05 2005 --- idmap_rid.c_new Mon Aug 29 15:42:50 2005 *** *** 459,466 fstring sid_string

[Samba] Question regarding SWAT

I have the "xinetd dead but pid exists " problem, but no solution is posted. Do yo have the answer? Vickie McCullough CSIS Systems Analyst 760 744 1150 X2502 1140 W. Mission Rd San Marcos, CA 92069 Office: B9-A -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

[Samba] samba permissions

There was another tech coordinator that asked the following on our list: > Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to give students read/write permissions to a certain drive letter without giving them the ability to delete other (or thier own) files. Currently I have chmod 1770 permis

[Samba] Re: On the fly Machine accounts

First off, thanks you to all who replied. I am using CentOS 4.1 on the server side XP PRO sp2 on the workstation side. I started out by adding the %u to the end of my Machine add script. add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -s /bin/false -d /dev/null %u That still didnt work, so i

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

:-) or automount with nis in combination with ldap and autofs &maps things ;) Am Montag, 29. August 2005 18:43 schrieb Jeff Saxton: > How about nfs/cifs mounhted home directories, that's worked for quite some > time :) > > Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>> but then,

[Samba] Problems printing to remote windows shared printer with 3.0.20

Have just upgraded from 3.0.13 to 3.0.20 on our Solaris domain controller. Machine is also print server running CUPS-1.1.23. We have a RICOH network printer that we print to via Samba (the printer seems to have a builtin Windows PC). smbspool is linked to /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb and the approp

Re: [Samba] Username Case Sensitivity vs. Lower Casing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Ziswiler wrote: | So I upgraded to latest Samba 3.0.20 and indeed the | compatibility issues with 2k3sp1 went away, but another | thing I noticed is that winbind seems to have | reverted back to pre 3.0.8 case sensitive username behavior. | I

Re: [Samba] Cannot upload >2Gb file to samba server

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 12:11 -0600, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 08:50, Andrey V. Romanchev wrote: > > I use samba on my embedded Linux-2.4.24 (uclibc-0.9.27, samba - 3.0.11) > > box and meet subj problem. I try to uploade files via windows explorer > > and Linux mount -t smbfs

[Samba] Character translation problem

Hi all, I have a file that samba does not know how to access. The file is located on a w2k server. The samba box is a member of the w2k domain (ADS). When I try to access the file via nfs I get "no such file or directory". In the logs I get the following error: ug 29 03:38:04 bfs kernel: smb_ope

Re: [Samba] Logon scripts

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:10:40PM -0500, Paul Gienger wrote: > > Here we generate the login script on the fly on the server using the root > preexec parameter whenever someone connects to the netlogon share. A perl > script runs on the server that pulls data from LDAP and checks against all > th

[Samba] Username Case Sensitivity vs. Lower Casing

Hi there The Release Notes for Samba 3.0.8 from Nov 7, 2004 stated the following: === Change in Winbindd Behavior === All usernames returned by winbindd are now converted to lower case for better consistency. This means any winbind installation re

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: but then, no roaming profiles, right? well, one less thing to worry about :) Well, LINUX doesn't have anything like a roaming profile for better or worse. Current LINUX desktop environments don't much lend themselves to "management". What about a logon script whi

Re: [Samba] WINS Replication

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: | Hi, | | do we have a possibility to syncronise two SAMBA WINS servers? | We have a SAMBA PDC and a SAMBA BDC and both should have their own WINS Server. | Can we sync them via a wins hook script. | Can we use wrepld? | | B

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: | I was wondering, if it's possible to set up Samba as a sort of a domain | controller for Linux workstations? | | I'm thinking of benefits like roaming profiles, managing printers etc. | | | Or perhaps for Linux there are

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

How about nfs/cifs mounhted home directories, that's worked for quite some time :) Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but then, no roaming profiles, right? well, one less thing to worry about :) Well, LINUX doesn't have anything like a roaming profile for better or wors

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 13:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> but then, no roaming profiles, right? > >>> well, one less thing to worry about :) > >> Well, LINUX doesn't have anything like a roaming profile for better > >> or worse. Current LINUX desktop environments don't much lend > >> the

Re: [Samba] Renewing WINS entries

Hi, I may have answered my own question. I found a post (http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-June/036153.html) which says that Samba has trouble registering "INet~Services". What I see is the name apparently getting registered with WINS correctly on startup and then WINS no longer

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

you dont need samba. in this case use a ldap for authentification and mount the homes of each users per nfs. we use the smbldap tools from idealix to manage users in ldap. i have it in our firm so and it works quit nice. hope that helps ;-) Am Montag, 29. August 2005 11:30 schrieb Tomasz Chmiel

Re: [Samba] printing problems upgrading samba from 2.2.4 to 3.0.14

Sorry .. The problem has been solved .. The Configuration that I posted was OK, but I did not remember to connect the new printer share: A new raw printer created under cups. I used the old printer share, with a driver loaded into cups, so, when MSDOS printed something, exit was unformatted . W

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

If one were to standardize on a specific window manager/desktop environment, one could accomplish much of the same effect as 'windows domain control', including some control over the desktop environment/settings. Given the following example for kde: Typical Linux Desktop: /home mounted via NFS

Re: [Samba] Cannot upload >2Gb file to samba server

On Monday 29 August 2005 08:50, Andrey V. Romanchev wrote: > Hello. > I use samba on my embedded Linux-2.4.24 (uclibc-0.9.27, samba - 3.0.11) > box and meet subj problem. I try to uploade files via windows explorer > and Linux mount -t smbfs ability. > Creating large files is supported, i.e. dd if=

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

but then, no roaming profiles, right? well, one less thing to worry about :) Well, LINUX doesn't have anything like a roaming profile for better or worse. Current LINUX desktop environments don't much lend themselves to "management". What about a logon script which runs unison (http://www.cis.

[Samba] Trying to get idmap backend using ADS working...

Hi folks, I have been trying to use the ADS as the IDMAP backend but without success. I have followed the examples in the HOWTO and Samba-3 by example. While both of these docs describe using LDAP as the repository, I have not been able to make the info work for ADS. I do not want to use L

RE: [Samba] Logon scripts

> I have one SAMBA+LDAP+DNS+DHCP (DC) server running fine in a debian box, > my > problem now is that a need to have 2 different logon scripts, one is a > specific user only, let's say user1 when this user login in winxp client > machine the server send to it a script loginA.cmd, and when all user

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

Quoting Jeff Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What do laptops do when they are out of the office if using nfs/cifs mounted home directories? Will they use the same profile or will a new one be created? Although I have not tried it (I intend to do it next week, when I'm at the office again), using uni

Re: [Samba] Logon scripts

Edson Capitani wrote: Hi list! Need your advice! Im looking for a way to do this: I have one SAMBA+LDAP+DNS+DHCP (DC) server running fine in a debian box, my problem now is that a need to have 2 different logon scripts, one is a specific user only, let's say user1 when this user l

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but then, no roaming profiles, right? well, one less thing to worry about :) Well, LINUX doesn't have anything like a roaming profile for better or worse. Current LINUX desktop environments don't much lend themselves to "management". What about a logon script wh

[Samba] Logon scripts

Hi list! Need your advice! Im looking for a way to do this: I have one SAMBA+LDAP+DNS+DHCP (DC) server running fine in a debian box, my problem now is that a need to have 2 different logon scripts, one is a specific user only, let's say user1 when this user login in winxp client mac

RE: [Samba] Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Hi, Thanks for this url, but I already digged all the macwindows.com before posting ;-) According to various reports on this issue, I can understand that it is reproducible with OS X 10.3 as a client (thus samba 3), and windows 2000, 2003 or samba 2.2 as a server (moving from 2.2 to 3.0 on the

Re: [Samba] 3.0.14a +ACL: unable to delete or rename folders

Sorry, Mike Duhm wrote: We are running samba 3.0.14a on Debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8-1-686-smp, xfs filesystem and have just noticed the following error: Only the owner is able to rename or to delete folders on our share although several groups have full access to them and to the parent folde

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

no, you get "roaming profiles" with nfs. just add a line in /etc/fstab for each client. or you can do it with smb_mount module from pam with ldap access. hm, about how many clients are we speaking? if you decide a terminal solution you should be thinking of a good network and that the servers

Re: [Samba] WINS Replication

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In addition to my first posting today: | | has anybody a running wrepld config? | Or can anybody tell how to configure wrepld? It's doesn't work. jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Com

Re: [Samba] Multiple instances of samba

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:50:31AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > "Ed" == Ed Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ed> I found instructions on how to start 2 instances of samba Ed> binding each instance to an individual ip address or interface Ed> on the server but it will only start the

RE: [Samba] General Samba Question

search the list, there is a complete package available with poledit usrmgr srvmgr some policy templates setup and howto's Louis >-Oorspronkelijk bericht- >Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Namens Neil Matthews >Verzonden: maandag 29 augustus 2005 16:59 >Aan: samba@li

[Samba] General Samba Question

I am only starting to look at Samba for installing on the computer network at my place of work. At the moment the users "my documents" folder automatically sychronises with a folder on the network. I was wondering if this can be done with Samba and how would i do it? Thanks for any information

[Samba] Cannot upload >2Gb file to samba server

Hello. I use samba on my embedded Linux-2.4.24 (uclibc-0.9.27, samba - 3.0.11) box and meet subj problem. I try to uploade files via windows explorer and Linux mount -t smbfs ability. Creating large files is supported, i.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile bs=1024 count=300 works correctly. Wh

Re: [Samba] Username.map works in 2.2.8a, doesn't work in 3.0.14a - SOLVED

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:26:23PM -0400, Boehm, Eric [GWRTP:CM21:EXCH] wrote: > "Eric" == Boehm, Eric [GWRTP:CM21:EXCH] writes: Eric> I'm a bit puzzled. I am able to map an account without any Eric> problem on Samba 2.2.8a (security=domain). However, access Eric> fails with Samba

Re: [Samba] Samba List

Chris Cejka wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to remove myself from the Samba list - how can I do this? check the footer of this mail? :) -- Tomek http://wpkg.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Samba] Problem Mappig Groups to shares

Kevin Brouelette escreveu: Try valid users = @grupoteste I think the + is what is breaking this. See 'man smb.conf' for the correct syntax of all samba directives. Be sure to run 'testparm' for syntax check etc. Kevin B On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 19:46 -0300, William Marques wrote: Hi list

[Samba] Samba List

Hello everyone, I would like to remove myself from the Samba list - how can I do this? Thankyou, Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] 3.0.14a +ACL: unable to delete or rename folders

Hi, We are running samba 3.0.14a on Debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8-1-686-smp, xfs filesystem and have just noticed the following error: Only the owner is able to rename or to delete folders on our share although several groups have full access to them and to the parent folder. Deleting or renami

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

you dont need samba. in this case use a ldap for authentification and mount the homes of each users per nfs. we use the smbldap tools from idealix to manage users in ldap. i have it in our firm so and it works quit nice. We do something similiar, our LINUX workstations and services authentica

[Samba] problem to delete directory in samba (on solaris 2.x)

Hello! I am use samba 2.2.2 on solaris8 and 2.2.11 on solaris9. My user can create directory and files. When they try delete a directory (create by theirself), give a message "accesso denied". If they connect directly on solaris and execute the command "rm -r", it´s work. What variable I must p

Re: [Samba] Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Guillaume Laurès schrieb: Thanks for your input. Unfortunately it does not solve the problem, which really is that "._*" files get locked until client disconnects, without reason and blocking the other clients. Still searching... Guillaume -Message d'origine- De : Martin Petersen [

[Samba] WINS Replication

In addition to my first posting today: has anybody a running wrepld config? Or can anybody tell how to configure wrepld? Benny -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Thanks for your input. Unfortunately it does not solve the problem, which really is that "._*" files get locked until client disconnects, without reason and blocking the other clients. Still searching... Guillaume -Message d'origine- De : Martin Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Env

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you dont need samba. in this case use a ldap for authentification and mount the homes of each users per nfs. we use the smbldap tools from idealix to manage users in ldap. i have it in our firm so and it works quit nice. but then, no roaming profiles, right? well, one

RE: [Samba] Windows offline files synchronization failure for mounted Samba drive.

No new information my the last posting. I do not have nay issues for single user shares is I use the "force username" option in smb.conf to insure proper ownership. FYI: You can chmod g+s the shared folders to insure new files are created with the same permissions as the parent folders Log into

Re: [Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

you dont need samba. in this case use a ldap for authentification and mount the homes of each users per nfs. we use the smbldap tools from idealix to manage users in ldap. i have it in our firm so and it works quit nice. hope that helps ;-) Am Montag, 29. August 2005 11:30 schrieb Tomasz Chmiel

Re: [Samba] 3.0.20 crashes on startup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leen Toelen wrote: | Hi, | | after a problem last week with a kerberos | security update from microsoft and my samba version I | updated samba to 3.0.20. On most machines this works like | a charm, but on one of them smbd crashes on | startup. This is

Re: [Samba] Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Guillaume Laurès schrieb: Hello, I have a small amount of Mac OS X 10.3 workstations networked on a Windows 2000 server. The samba version on the Macs is 3.0.10. For each file stored on the Windows server, the Macs create a file beginning with "._" which contains some resources about the file

[Samba] 3.0.20 crashes on startup

Hi, after a problem last week with a kerberos security update from microsoft and my samba version I updated samba to 3.0.20. On most machines this works like a charm, but on one of them smbd crashes on startup. This is whet comes up in the logfile. [2005/08/29 13:35:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:

[Samba] Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Hello, I have a small amount of Mac OS X 10.3 workstations networked on a Windows 2000 server. The samba version on the Macs is 3.0.10. For each file stored on the Windows server, the Macs create a file beginning with "._" which contains some resources about the file. My problem is that, just

Re: [Samba] Windows offline files synchronization failure for mounted Samba drive.

Hi Pat, I was wondering whether you have found anything more out about your problem - as its fairly close to mine and could point me in the right direction. I am only syncing personal areas so all files are owned by the particular user - it seems to work fine for a while and then they start get

Re: [Samba] SAMBA Gone Wrong

Daniel Arrowsmith schrieb: I have just configured my smb.conf file (OS = Fedora Core 4)and have ensured that the NIC's have been trusted in the firewall, have run 'testparm', ensured all directroies exist and have restarted the smb service. However, when I attempt to join a computer to the domain

[Samba] WINS Replication

Hi, do we have a possibility to syncronise two SAMBA WINS servers? We have a SAMBA PDC and a SAMBA BDC and both should have their own WINS Server. Can we sync them via a wins hook script. Can we use wrepld? Benny -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instruct

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.20 on Solaris: problem with fileaccess in a automounted filesystem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Knut, The problem may well be related to locking problems between the samba server and the NFS server (Solaris 2.5.1). Isn't 2.5.1 unsupported now? Have you patched it up as much as you can? Yes, so I have been thinking myself, but when logging on to the Solaris

[Samba] SAMBA Gone Wrong

I have just configured my smb.conf file (OS = Fedora Core 4)and have ensured that the NIC's have been trusted in the firewall, have run 'testparm', ensured all directroies exist and have restarted the smb service. However, when I attempt to join a computer to the domain I get the error message 'dom

[Samba] find membership in group for users

Hi, my question is perhaps out of the list subject sorry. I have samba with LDAP backend, my goal is to write an interface in PHP to manage adding/deletings users in groups. But first of all : how does i do to show all the users in group 'group1' using ldapsearch ? And the other way rou

[Samba] Samba as a domain controller for Linux workstations?

I was wondering, if it's possible to set up Samba as a sort of a domain controller for Linux workstations? I'm thinking of benefits like roaming profiles, managing printers etc. Or perhaps for Linux there are better choices than Samba, when it comes to the office / school use (many users, man

Re: [Samba] Samba 4

Thank all of you for your answers. As Jerry suggested, I'll hook up with the samba-technical list to have more comments on the ongoing samba4 development. Cédric Gerald (Jerry) Carter a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farkas Levente wrote: Gerald (Jerry) Carter wro

RE: [Samba] Samba+MySQL+Apache Authentication = possible?

Hi, According to this http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbpasswd.5.html , the passwords are either DES or MD4, not MD5. Hopes this info helps you. Best regards, Bruno Guerreiro -Original Message- From: Martin Lefebvre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: segunda-feira, 29 de Agosto de 200

Re: [Samba] Samba+MySQL+Apache Authentication = possible?

Hmm, must be do-able, there are several modules for apache available. mod_ntlm for example.. lets you authenticate against a PDC (pref. samba) nomather what backend you use. there are also some PAM modules around, so you can setup apache to use PAM for authentication, and then you let PAM use t