Re: [Samba] Recycle module... Stable?

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Bates
Michael Heydon wrote: Could the files have been moved rather than deleted? I find alot more users accidentally dragging when double clicking than I do accidentally deleting things. Well, I did a search on the entire set of folders we share on samba, and didn't find anything like what they said

Re: [Samba] Recycle module... Stable?

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Heydon
Tim Bates wrote: Hi. How stable and tested is the Recycle module? In particular, the version that's supplied with Debian Etch. I don't know about debian but samba 3.0.28's version (and 3.0.24 before that) have served me well. I have had a couple of issues with Office documents where multiple

[Samba] Recycle module... Stable?

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Bates
Hi. How stable and tested is the Recycle module? In particular, the version that's supplied with Debian Etch. The reason I ask is that some files have gone from one of our servers (so says a user, anyway). They were supposedly in a share that uses the recycle module, but there's no copy in t

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Stewart
Thanks Charles, I think you're right, what I'm trying to accomplish is probably better/easier with a Domain Controller. However, I'm surely brain-dead as I've tried to set the box up as a Domain Controller and although my Windows machine will login in to the domain it still won't run the scrip

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/19/2008, Mike Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had assumed that the smb.conf entry for "logon script = %U.bat" was all that would be needed and would pick up the user's name and password as they logged into the server (through a desktop shortcut) and run that script which would map the

[Samba] AddPrinterConnection returns ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER

2008-03-19 Thread mingj
I set up a Point-n-Print printer server with Samba3.0.28 and it works fine from XP, but when I try to connect and install the printer driver from Vista machines, it gives me 0x57 error, does anybody know why this is happening? I later found out it's AddPrinterConnection call failing, but I don't

Re: [Samba] LDAP Logon Script Management

2008-03-19 Thread Gémes Géza
Asier Baranguán írta: > El Martes, 18 de Marzo de 2008, Mark Rutherford escribió: > > >> What I have done, since users don't need individual scripts is tie a >> script to a group because different groups have different printers and >> such. I use Kixtart for this... so yes the scripts are elabor

Re: [Samba] CentOS 5 client in W2K3 AD Domain, getent only showslocal info

2008-03-19 Thread Lemire, David
I decided to start over on my configuration, and this time I used the GUI tools available in CentOS for configuring Samba, Winbind, etc. As a result I've made considerable progress. I can: - login using network credentials authenticated by the domain controller - automatically generate hom

[Samba] Domain Authentication Issue - Bug Found

2008-03-19 Thread Dalton Calford
Our company has many linux boxes, joined to our corporate domain controllers. Our users authenticate, via command line or via kdm against the windows domain controller. A few months ago, we discovered that new linux machines could not join the domain, but existing boxes had no problems. We perfor

Fwd: Re: [Samba] failed to add domain dn= sambaDomainName

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 your cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: > did you run smbldap-populate? > Ops...I figured put: for any strange reason the ldap schema was missing from the ldap configuration file. I guess it was a wrong update. Now the system is working. Thanks, Luca -- To unsubscri

Re: [Samba] smbclient transfer speed on solaris

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:43:59PM +0100, Karoly VEGH wrote: > > I am trying to transfer data from a win2003 (OS=[Windows Server 2003 > 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]) to a solaris 10 > (sun4v arch). smbclient version is 3.0.25a. > > Although this is a switched gigabit net

Re: [Samba] Mapped Samba drive slows Windows Explorer

2008-03-19 Thread Scott Lovenberg
Chris wrote: We have a DLink DNS-323 NAS box. It uses Samba internally. Whenever I map a drive to the NAS box using Windows Explorer, it gets intermittently slow to browse any drive. Even clicking in the c:\ drive will cause a pause of several seconds. If I unmap the drive the problem goes aw

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Stewart
Thanks Dennis, I should think that will all work OK but it's not what I expected at all :-( I had assumed that the smb.conf entry for "logon script = %U.bat" was all that would be needed and would pick up the user's name and password as they logged into the server (through a desktop shortcut) a

[Samba] smbclient transfer speed on solaris

2008-03-19 Thread Karoly VEGH
Hi, I am trying to transfer data from a win2003 (OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]) to a solaris 10 (sun4v arch). smbclient version is 3.0.25a. Although this is a switched gigabit network (no firewalls/routers inbetween), and even jumbo frames are se

RE: [Samba] how to add registry files to windows

2008-03-19 Thread Dennis McLeod
I have a batch file called reg.bat called from a logon script. Here's the contents of that file: @ECHO off regedit.exe /s q:\ts.reg >NUL regedit.exe /s q:\logonmessage.reg >NUL regedit.exe /s q:\logscripts.reg >NUL regedit.exe /s q:\forceguest.reg >NUL regedit.exe /s q:\nosearch.reg >NUL regedit.

RE: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-19 Thread Dennis McLeod
You can run it from anywhere, BUT, you'd have to have the drive mapped first if it's on a network share. You MAY be able to do a //server/share/logonscript.bat (I flipped the slashes on purpose...), but I haven't tried that. I copy a simple script (I have THAT as part of my logon script, too. Copy

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread James Pulver
Instead of discussing NFS too much, does anyone have a way to make this work with Samba, or am I out of luck, and do have to try a different filesystem? OT: Why can't mailing lists have reply go to the list? -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell Univer

[Samba] how to add registry files to windows

2008-03-19 Thread Hubert Choma
Hello I would like to add .reg file to all samba clients (windows xp) in quiet mode. How can I do it ? It is possible from eg netlogon?? ERROR! ... . bEZbłęDnY prOgrAm__o nowośĆiAcH w_ ŚwiEcie G_iER na.jNowSzy_OdcinEk_ : co $ZykujĄ twÓrcy

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Pat Riehecky wrote: Don't use NFS. It is trivial to compromise the security of NFS - you simply need root on something, set your IP and su as needed. If the tactic is not clear poke me off list. NFS is never the answer outside of the data center. Let's not unfairly slag

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> Don't use NFS. It is trivial to compromise the security of NFS - you > simply need root on something, set your IP and su as needed. If the > tactic is not clear poke me off list. NFS is never the answer outside > of the data center. I don't believe this is true. For one, NFS can squash root

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread Udo Rader
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 08:43 -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote: > Don't use NFS. It is trivial to compromise the security of NFS - you > simply need root on something, set your IP and su as needed. If the > tactic is not clear poke me off list. NFS is never the answer outside > of the data center. Huh?

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread Pat Riehecky
Don't use NFS. It is trivial to compromise the security of NFS - you simply need root on something, set your IP and su as needed. If the tactic is not clear poke me off list. NFS is never the answer outside of the data center. my $0.02, Pat On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 08:23 -0400, James Pulver wrot

[Samba] a bit OT: Windows XP clients & performance

2008-03-19 Thread Udo Rader
Hi, I am just setting up a samba installation that will finally be utilized by approx. 150 workstations, most of them WXP. Now after successfully installing & integrating samba into the existing W2K3 ADS structure, we started tuning the server by for example measuring network load. What currentl

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread James Pulver
Speaking to the kinit, maybe there's a free file manager for windows that would interop with MIT Leash for passing the ticket to samba? I'm able to get putty and WinSCP for instance to work with the Network Identity Manager... I'm debating dropping samba, and trying again for either a different f

Re: [Samba] Frontend cache VFS

2008-03-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/19/2008 6:58 AM, Nik wrote: The benefits I'm hoping to realise from this include: 1. The ability to virus-scan updated files on the frontend server before committing them to the central server. This allows for a reasonable compromise between the performance penalty of on-demand scanning,

[Samba] Samba is accepting student proposals for the Google Summer of Code now.

2008-03-19 Thread Kai Blin
Samba is again participating as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code[1]. If you are a student and interested in participating, check out our ideas list[2]. We would appreciate if you could drop by on the samba-technical mailing list or in #samba-technical on Freenode and have

[Samba] Problems with Samba - Domain not reachable

2008-03-19 Thread onkel_e
I'm very despaired. Trying to join a Domain I also get an error: "Domain not reachable". But to my mind the samba-configuration is ok. The logs give no hint to an error. testparm smb.conf works fine. I created a shortcut to logon on server, that works. (via ip and via name). But i cannot join th

[Samba] Frontend cache VFS

2008-03-19 Thread Nik
Hi Folks, I am considering implementing a frontend SAMBA fileserver in front of our central fileserver, and am wondering if there are any VFS modules that may already do some or all of what I want. The idea is that the frontend server implements a read-through cache to the central fileserver

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Stewart
Hi JJ, thanks for the response. Does this mean we create and store a script on the Windows PC ? We actually want to automatically run a script which resides on the Samba server - once the user has logged in we want to automatically to map drives etc. Regards Mike - Original Message

[Samba] Summary of yesterday's 3.2.0 Bugzilla Day

2008-03-19 Thread Karolin Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to all who reported and helped track down bugs in 3.2.0pre2 on yesterday's Bugzilla Day! I added a short summary of the day's work at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Bugzilla_Day (includes links to the list of 3.2.0 fixed bugs, open bugs and pl

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-19 Thread Jean-Jacques Moulis
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:46:58 + (GMT) Mike Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MS> Hello all, MS> We are trying to find a way to run login scripts for our users but all the How-To files seem rather complicated :-( MS> We have been using Samba for several years and all our users have Windows