Re: [Samba] Q: Samba Proxy or SAMBA Cluster?

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Heydon
Jason Haar wrote: Michael Heydon wrote: Hi, The main samba server holds all files and all user information. The CIFS Proxy in the remote location have a copy of all files and a copy of the user database. What about just using Samba as a front-end to a shared NFS backend? I kno

Re: [Samba] Q: Samba Proxy or SAMBA Cluster?

2007-03-08 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:28:57PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > What about just using Samba as a front-end to a shared NFS backend? I > know that under Linux at least Samba and NFS can both ack locks due to > the "kernel oplocks" option. This is exactly the same as discussed a couple of weeks ago: P

Re: [Samba] Q: Samba Proxy or SAMBA Cluster?

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Haar
Michael Heydon wrote: > Hi, > >> >> The main samba server holds all files and all user information. The >> CIFS Proxy in the remote location have a copy of all files and a copy >> of the user database. >> >> If a user open a file the file will be locked on all servers (main >> server and all cifs p

Re: [Samba] samba profiles and homes

2007-03-08 Thread Cleber P. de Souza
What you need is Windows folder redirection. http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Windows_Profiles On 3/6/07, Chechu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, I like my homes and profiles don't do roam

Re: [Samba] ldap

2007-03-08 Thread Cleber P. de Souza
Using samba+ldap you could create a central LDAP Server with all your teachers/students accounts and set permissions accordingly your needs. On each samba server you could set the 'passdb backend' to your LDAP Server. These references should help you: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_LDAP

Re: [Samba] recommended filesystems with NT/Posix ACL's ?

2007-03-08 Thread Cybionet
Greeting IP Guy, You can choose EXT, ReiserFS, XFS or JFS. All this filesystem have advantages or cons. But a point interesting, it's the number of entries you can use with the ACL(EA). - EXT2/3 have a maximum of 32 entries with only 28 usable. - ReiserFS3/4 and JFS have a maximum of 8191 e

Re: [Samba] Q: Samba Proxy or SAMBA Cluster?

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Heydon
Hi, The main samba server holds all files and all user information. The CIFS Proxy in the remote location have a copy of all files and a copy of the user database. If a user open a file the file will be locked on all servers (main server and all cifs proxy). If the user write a file (new f

Re: [Samba] Workstation SID Variability in Samba-Controlled Domains

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Heydon
Hi Vincent, Does SAMBA regularly re-negotiate SID identity with member workstations. If so, can this feature be disabled? I do not believe any server will change the SIDs however NT clients on a domain will change their machine account password. This is a function of the clients not the ser

Re: [Samba] Winbindd has still bottlenecks when used with interdomain trusts.

2007-03-08 Thread Harald Strack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am already making tests with samba 3.0.25pre1 but because of this core dump problem, I tell you more about my stuff concerning the older samba versions, because I think there is a main design problem in winbindd. > > So you basically want the ap

[Samba] Samba Debian Vmware Vista problem

2007-03-08 Thread Abu Mats
I know the subject reads like a recipe for desaster :-) I run debian within a vmware virtual machine on an xp system, with samba, and all is fine. I am now trying to replicate this setup on a new machine I bought, that came with Vista. I have no idea whether Vista has anything to do with it, bu

Re: [Samba] recommended filesystems with NT/Posix ACL's ?

2007-03-08 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:16:10PM +0100, mourik jan heupink wrote: > > >>i'm about to upgrade from samba 2.x to a samba 3.x domain member > >>server and > >>wanted to fact ACL support into the equation. > >>what is the recommended ACL file system for samba ? > > I use xfs everywhere, I've recen

Re: [Samba] Unable to follow dfs referral - still a problem for smbclient & also freebsd smbfs

2007-03-08 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:43:39AM +0100, werner maes wrote: > At 20:46 7/03/2007, Jeremy Allison wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:56:56PM +0100, werner maes wrote: > >> > >> hello > >> > >> I'm also interested to know whether this patch has made it to smbclient. > > > >I've just merged t

Re: [Samba] Share problem between Windows and Linux

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
When a Windows (XP SP2 with automatic updates) user create a file on a SMB share I can read it, but if I (Linux Slackware 11.0 with updates applied) create a new file or overwrite an existing one, then the Windows user can not access the file anymore. Is this a known problem ? I asked Google, to

[Samba] Share problem between Windows and Linux

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Linder
Hi list, When a Windows (XP SP2 with automatic updates) user create a file on a SMB share I can read it, but if I (Linux Slackware 11.0 with updates applied) create a new file or overwrite an existing one, then the Windows user can not access the file anymore. Is this a known problem ? I aske

[Samba] Local and Roaming profiles

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
We're trying to implement a mixed environment with both roaming and local profiles. To differentiate between local and roaming profiles, we use the documented logon path = path for local accounts and logon path = /some/path for roaming accounts. for the logon path to be different, we

Re: [Samba] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765

2007-03-08 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:41:57AM -0500, Scott Armstrong wrote: > I don't mean to ruffle any feathers, but has this been properly resolved? > It shows that a patch has been submitted to allow connections over > TLS, and that the bug has been closed, but the solution supplied > doesn't actually add

[Samba] ldap

2007-03-08 Thread Pascal Legrand
hello in first i made a test with a single machine with samba and ldap authentication, everything works fine. my qestion is the following : we have 2 samba server (pdc 2domains), one for the teachers population, and another for the students/teachers population. i dont know how to do to make i

[Samba] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765

2007-03-08 Thread Scott Armstrong
I don't mean to ruffle any feathers, but has this been properly resolved? It shows that a patch has been submitted to allow connections over TLS, and that the bug has been closed, but the solution supplied doesn't actually address the problem - running Samba in ads mode in a domain with ldap signi

[Samba] Lost trust relationship with domain controller

2007-03-08 Thread Kris Donate
Hi all, Not less than 3 months ago we had our Solaris 9 samba server working happily. This is with samba 3.0.24 without ads support. The pertinent sections of the smb.conf file follow: [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: MIDEARTH workgroup = mydomain security =

Re: [Samba] winbind fails "getent passwd eknuds"

2007-03-08 Thread Jonathan C. Detert
* Eric Knudstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070307 20:16]: > Now I'm trying to make it so the Samba accounts can be used for user > logins as well. Unfortunately I'm having a bit of trouble with winbind. > Whenever I try to do a "getent passwd eknuds", it find the entry in the > ldap sam, but the winb

[Samba] Vanishing options in hp printer drivers

2007-03-08 Thread Martin Bene
We're using a couple of HP printers (2200, 4200, 3390) using the HP PCL 6 printer driver. Printer drivers are installed on the samba (3.0.24) box, connecting, driver installation and printing work OK. Problem: using the same driver version with the printer shared by a windows box gives some addit

[Samba] Q: Samba Proxy or SAMBA Cluster?

2007-03-08 Thread Otmar Spoettel
Hello, we have here a SAMBA Server with Shares for worldwide Projects. Now the problem is the slow access from some branches. We have now the idea to use a CIFS Proxy or a Cluster to provide the files localy. The Idea: The main samba server holds all files and all user information. The CIFS

[Samba] chown/chgrp for winbind users doesn`t work

2007-03-08 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hello, I have two Samba Domains and each trust each other (PDCs run 3.0.22). Also I have a samba member server (3.0.24) that runs winbind. When I use wbinfo I can see the user and groups of both domains. I also can chown/chgrp files with users of the domain the server is member of. But I can`t cho

Re: [Samba] CUPS errors when not using CUPS - Breaks printing

2007-03-08 Thread Mac
>Any attempt to connect to a printer (e.g. Start|Run|\\server\printer ) >results in an XP error message 'Incorrect Function'. > We believe (as best as we can tell) that this _has_ worked on 3.0.24 (since we upgraded from 3.0.22) Can anyoune suggest what we need to do to make this work? We think

[Samba] CUPS errors when not using CUPS - Breaks printing

2007-03-08 Thread Mac
Hi All, We appear to have a CUPS problem that is breaking our (LPRng) based printing. We now have loads of errors of the form:_ [2007/03/08 12:21:36, 0, pid=23877] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused filling up

Re: [Samba] Shares losing group entries

2007-03-08 Thread Mostro Mostro
Hello, The getent issue has been resolved by adding winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes in smb.conf... Thank you, On 3/7/07, Mostro Mostro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Felipe, A1. Samba is setup as a domain member server. It will be used as a file server in a Windows 200

[Samba] WG: Samba Version 3.0.24 and 3.0.25 Winbind lost connection (Connection reset by peer) to W2K3-DC on Port 445 \lsarpc failure

2007-03-08 Thread Markus PASCHINGER
Hello ! I have the following problem running Samba 3.0.24 under AIX 5.3 : It seems that the pipe winbind to \lsarpc breaks The Error Message in the Winbindd log is the following: read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Connection reset by peer. [2007/03/07 14:49:52, 0] rpc_clien

Re: [Samba] recommended filesystems with NT/Posix ACL's ?

2007-03-08 Thread mourik jan heupink
i'm about to upgrade from samba 2.x to a samba 3.x domain member server and wanted to fact ACL support into the equation. what is the recommended ACL file system for samba ? I use xfs everywhere, I've recently tried reiserfs, but am less happy with it. In future I'll stick with xfs again. It

[Samba] Workstation SID Variability in Samba-Controlled Domains

2007-03-08 Thread Vincent Callanan
Hi, Does SAMBA regularly re-negotiate SID identity with member workstations. If so, can this feature be disabled? I am given to understand that Microsoft domain controllers "regularly" re-negotiate SID updates with member workstations. There is an understandable security premise for doing this, h

[Samba] smbldap-tools problem

2007-03-08 Thread Chechu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey , I installed smbldap tools for have sync linux and win passwd, and it worked. But today i did some modifies to the script smbldap-passwd and it doesn't work. I check that win when try to change the password don't use it now...i try to reinstall a

Re: [Samba] Unable to follow dfs referral - still a problem for smbclient & also freebsd smbfs

2007-03-08 Thread werner maes
At 20:46 7/03/2007, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:56:56PM +0100, werner maes wrote: > > hello > > I'm also interested to know whether this patch has made it to smbclient. I've just merged this from SAMBA_3_0 to SAMBA_3_0_25 and in simple testing it works following the DF