Re: [Samba] Problems with Samba and ACLs

2007-11-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
I'll have to see if I can dig up my notes, but I saw this as well and was able to fix it. Can you post your smb.conf? Aaron Kincer On Nov 5, 2007 10:30 AM, Bruno Pirajá Moyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, i have use samba (3.0) as a PDC in my company. The file tree was growing so

Re: [Samba] Joining a Linux Machine to a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron Kincer
I was getting that message when the name of my computer didn't match that of what I set in my SMB.conf for server string parameter. Not knowing any details of your smb.conf and your system, that is my shot in the dark gotcha. On 10/29/07, C. Peterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm

Re: [Samba] Joining a Linux Machine to a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron Kincer
Is your server string your real machine name (i.e. it's what you get when you type hostname at a command prompt)? If not, try making your server string the same as your hostname. On 10/29/07, C. Peterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah sorry, here is my smb.conf Begin smb.conf [global] #

Re: [Samba] Q: how to collect user/group-names

2007-09-24 Thread Aaron Kincer
I'm not entirely sure I follow. Do you mean to say you are you saying you want to be able to get a list of users and groups that are listed in the ACL entries on a file server? I'm guess this is conceptually a way to get a snapshot of all users and groups that are being used in some form or

Re: [Samba] FW: Slow opening files on Samba Version 3.0.22 (UPDATED)

2007-08-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
Other people (me included) have seen that. Now that I've moved us to 3.0.24 (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Server), I'm not seeing that kind of behavior. I can't be completely sure if it was the upgrade or some changes to my smb.conf required by the upgrade that did it. Do you have a test environment to

[Samba] AD group membership script

2007-07-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
GROUPFILE $username; close(GROUPFILE); } } $j += 1; } } } #End Script Let me know if you have any questions. Aaron Kincer -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] One file open or locked way too many times. How to fix?

2007-06-28 Thread Aaron Kincer
I saw similar behavior with Access. The issue is now gone and it just so happened to coincide with when I fixed some ACL and DOS attribute issues. I did this by turning off the map archive, map hidden, map read only, and map system settings and used nt acl support, ea support and store dos

Re: [Samba] Multiple problems: installing SWAT, no longer access to a restored (after deletion) share, ACL inheritance

2007-06-14 Thread Aaron Kincer
in there. Aaron Kincer Any None wrote: I'm a job trainee, very new to Linux and Samba and was asked to set up a server based on OpenSUSE and Samba. The idea is not to make a production server but to investigate how and how well this works (the company is Windows exclusive at the moment) I got as far

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-14 Thread Aaron Kincer
this issue. http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id350945 Jonathan Johnson Sutinen Consulting, Inc. www.sutinen.com Aaron Kincer wrote: Also, as others have mentioned, Windows and its applications can have long memories about servers contacted

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
My first question would be does this happen with other applications or strictly Office? Do you get the same behavior if you attempt to open a .doc file with Open Office? Second, have you watched your samba logs in real time (example: tail -f /var/log/samba/your_pc_log) as you try to open a

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
. For example, the list of recently opened files. I doubt this would have an effect, but just for giggles you could flush the dns cache (ipconfig /flushdns) Berend Tober wrote: Berend Tober wrote: Aaron Kincer wrote: ... Do you get the same behavior if you attempt to open a .doc file with Open

Re: [Samba] slow with one transfer, fast with multiple

2007-06-12 Thread Aaron Kincer
I run Samba on Ubuntu in an Active Directory environment and don't (any longer) see strange slowness. Can you sanitize and post your smb.conf for starters? David Olsson wrote: Running samba with Ubuntu, default configuration, one share, samba running as daemons rather from inetd. Copying

Re: [Samba] AD Integrated authentication

2007-06-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
-09cdfc4509f08e6891f5f5a750b28a32218c592e Hope that helps. Aaron Kincer Michael Cleghorn wrote: Hello list, i'm going to try very hard not to rant here, but i've been trying to get Samba working for 3 days, and it's just not happening. Let me start from the beginning. i'm just a lowly Windows admin

Re: [Samba] AD Integrated authentication

2007-06-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
I've been running the latest Ubuntu (3.0.24) packages on Feisty for a few weeks and only have seen issues with acls and extended attributes. After I figured out the recipe to get over that hump, it runs fine integrated into native AD on Server 2003. What seems to be your problem? Miguel

[Samba] 3.0.24 -- Office read only issue, bizarre EAs and disappearing ACLs

2007-06-01 Thread Aaron Kincer
map archive = no map hidden = no map read only = no map system = no dos filemode = yes I hope this helps someone out there. Aaron Kincer -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman

Re: FW: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection

2007-05-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
! Will -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:21 PM To: Will Holmes Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection I see you don't have the server string set

Re: FW: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection

2007-05-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
= false minimum_uid = 0 debug = false } Thanks! Will -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:47 AM To: Will Holmes Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: FW: [Samba] Help

Re: FW: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection

2007-05-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
server. Thanks! Will -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:59 AM To: Will Holmes Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: FW: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection That's a pretty old

Re: FW: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection

2007-05-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
into other issues later on. Could I upgrade just Samba? How hard of a task is it to update samba? I don't know if I will need a special version since it is an IBM power version. Thanks! Will -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:17 AM

Re: [Samba] Help Please! - Copying files from Windows to Samba share loses connection

2007-05-29 Thread Aaron Kincer
I see you don't have the server string set. Have you tried to join this server to the domain with a net ads join command? Will Holmes wrote: Hello all, I haven't been able to solve an issue I am having when copying over data from a Windows box to a Samba share. I have found others

Re: [Samba] problem listing directories with AD permissions

2007-05-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
I've seen this problem when the Samba server clock is out of sync with the AD servers. Come to think of it, lots of problems happen because of that. Gianluca Culot wrote: Hello List I'm running Samba 3.0.24,1 on a freebsd 6 server I've joined the unix server to an active directory domain

Re: [Samba] 3.0.24 and disappearing ACL entries

2007-05-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
? Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago wrote: Hi, On 5/1/07, Aaron Kincer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working at this for a few days now and I can't figure out what is broken. Google turns up similar issues from years back, but I hope this is a bug resurfacing. ACL entries are being deleted when

Re: [Samba] share setup

2007-05-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
There may be another way, but POSIX ACLs will allow you to do what you want I believe. I use them that way now with one difference--I don't have shares defined underneath other shares. I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Kevin Gutch wrote: I would like to be able to setup shares i n the

Re: [Samba] smbmount

2007-05-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
No offense, but it sounds like you are venting about something that wasn't enabled for the packages in your particular distro of choice. If so, it seems to me that this is the wrong venue to vent. I would suggest contacting the vendor, distro maintainer and/or package maintainer with your

Re: [Samba] Joining an 2003 AD

2007-05-01 Thread Aaron Kincer
the entry's in both and didn't know it. Thanks for the info. I'm going to give it a try in the morning and let you know if it worked. Levi From: Don Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 4/30/2007 6:54 PM To: Aaron Kincer; Kemp, Levi Cc: samba

[Samba] 3.0.24 and disappearing ACL entries

2007-05-01 Thread Aaron Kincer
path = /share/test read only = No create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 guest ok = Yes map readonly = permissions nt acl support = yes inherit acls = yes Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Aaron Kincer

Re: [Samba] Joining an 2003 AD

2007-04-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
I saw this with Samba 3.0.24 on Ubuntu Feisty 7.04. Actually I've seen quite a bit different behavior from 3.0.22 on Edgy 6.10 with EAs and ACLs which I'm trying to figure out some workarounds. But that's off topic for this discussion. You must make sure that the hostname set in /etc/hostname

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.24 Available for Download

2007-02-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
Is this why the Explanation of each Parameter section of the on-line smb.conf documentation is jacked and shows only xi:include/xi:include? Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ==

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.24 Available for Download

2007-02-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
I missed that. Can't read all messages and get any work done :) Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Kincer wrote: Is this why the Explanation of each Parameter section of the on-line smb.conf documentation is jacked and shows only xi:include

Re: [Samba] cleaning up duplicate files on the file server

2007-02-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
Dealing with data duplication is not always particularly easy. What I would suggest is the following: 1) Identify the duplicates with the oldest modification date 2) Notify your users that you are making changes and to be on the lookout for any problems 3) Change the file permissions so that

Re: [Samba] Samba-3.0.23c kernel lock problems with new Redhat kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8

2007-02-02 Thread Aaron Kincer
If they are working great as PDC's, I wouldn't worry too much. As a file server in an Active Directory environment, the Red Hat version of Samba on RHEL4 is, in my opinion, unacceptably broken. It's little things like file locking not working right and strange other quirks that I can't

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba running slow

2007-02-01 Thread Aaron Kincer
In pure mathematical terms, the maximum throughput on 100MB ethernet is: 100Mb / 8 = 12.5 MegaBytes per second. That assumes, of course, a perfect world with a 100% efficient protocol. Of course, this doesn't exist. So in network design, if you have one 100MB link from the switch your server

Re: [Samba] SMB slow by design?

2007-02-01 Thread Aaron Kincer
And it looks like I'll have to go update where I put that in a line in an Ubuntu wiki entry I made and take it out. Jeremy Allison wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:47:59AM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote: I don't know why, but I just tried this, removind the SNDBUF AND RCVBUF, and the file

Re: [Samba] Should samba be split between client server

2007-01-29 Thread Aaron Kincer
As an IT Manager, I personally have said we won't even begin _testing_ Vista until it hits SP1. Upper management was very enthusiastic about that approach. Perhaps your environment is different. It seems to me that until you can determine how clients are going to mix with your environment you

Re: [Samba] Samba Server Specifications

2007-01-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
Relatively speaking, not expensive at all. You can get a Dell PowerVault loaded with SAS 320GB 15K at ridiculously low prices if you catch them around the end of a business quarter. They practically give stuff away to boost sales numbers for quarterly reports. Charles Marcus wrote: Aaron

Re: [Samba] Samba Server Specifications

2007-01-26 Thread Aaron Kincer
Do you mean a review to detail the best performance? This is complicated question since budget clearly plays a role. But I'll give you what I think are the highest performance options without considering costs (and not including a RAM storage array). RAID: 0+1 (mirrored stripe sets) Drive

Re: [Samba] Samba Server Specifications

2007-01-26 Thread Aaron Kincer
That's what I meant the first time. Thanks for correcting me. Charles Marcus wrote: RAID: 0+1 (mirrored stripe sets) RAID 1+0 is much better - much less likely to fail, and rebuilds much faster: http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

Re: [Samba] Samba Server Specifications

2007-01-26 Thread Aaron Kincer
RAID 10 is very good, but does have the downside of requiring quite a few disks to achieve large amounts of storage. Scott Lockwood wrote: Charles Marcus wrote: RAID: 0+1 (mirrored stripe sets) RAID 1+0 is much better - much less likely to fail, and rebuilds much faster:

Re: [Samba] Samba v3.0.23a BROKE my network

2007-01-24 Thread Aaron Kincer
No offense, but making any software update or change to a production system without first testing it in a test environment is an administrative issue, not a software issue. It isn't terribly difficult to configure a test environment that would allow you to see if everything works as expected.

Re: [Samba] Samba v3.0.23a BROKE my network

2007-01-24 Thread Aaron Kincer
Not that I don't understand your frustration. I do. I guess it boils down to whether I would prefer the developers concentrate on fixing bugs and improving functionality or for them to expend energy on helping prevent me from doing something bad that goes against best practices. I

Re: [Samba] Slow samba transfer

2007-01-22 Thread Aaron Kincer
What environment are you doing this in? In other words, is this over a wireless connection to a remote site? Perhaps something else? As a general rule of thumb, SMB is a MUCH less efficient protocol than others such as FTP. In a near perfect world (i.e. a controlled real world setting), I've

Re: [Samba] Joining the Domain - How and Why

2007-01-10 Thread Aaron Kincer
Why part2: To share resources with Windows clients. Gary Dale wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: Can someone explain what's required to join a linux computer to the windows domain and what the benefits would be? Rick B. How: use pam_winbind (see the howtos on the samba.org site) Why: single

Re: [Samba] sharing word files

2007-01-09 Thread Aaron Kincer
Of Aaron Kincer Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:33 AM To: werner maes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] sharing word files This is standard behavior of Microsoft Word. werner maes wrote: hello I'm having the following problem: On a share I have a user with read-only access

Re: [Samba] sharing word files

2007-01-08 Thread Aaron Kincer
This is standard behavior of Microsoft Word. werner maes wrote: hello I'm having the following problem: On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files. Another user has read-write access to these files. When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-08 Thread Aaron Kincer
I've discovered something interesting. If the AD domain controller that holds the global catalog is offline, certain things will exhibit the behavior you are talking about. Most notably, if a PC is set to sync an offline folder. Microsoft Access also will peg the processor. Not sure if this

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
. -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:00 AM To: James A. Dinkel Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly I just watched the top for a bit and did some testing and I see brief spikes on my

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
of RAM assigned to this vm. It's the only vm running on this ESX server. Also top doesn't show a user smbd process maxing out the processor, it's the root smbd process. -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:00 AM To: James A. Dinkel Cc: samba@lists.samba.org

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
James, I'm running Samba 3.0.22 on Ubuntu 6.10 with VMWare 3.0.1 build-32039 (vmware -v from command line) and I'm not having that problem. What versions are you running? Make sure you aren't running your virtual machine from the same data store where the VMWare server lives. That's a design

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
I just watched the top for a bit and did some testing and I see brief spikes on my system where each domain user has their own smbd process that grabs resources. This seems to happen when first opening a directory. It would seem that whatever resources Samba needs to complete this operation,

Re: [Samba] Mount smbfs

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
mount -t smbfs //server/share/ /mnt/folder -o username=username,password=password Try that. Jason Zondor wrote: Hello, I've got a FreeBSD 5.5 box running Samba 3.0.21 and every-time I try to do a mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //server/share /mnt/folder I get the

Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-08 Thread Aaron Kincer
:* Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:43 PM *To:* James A. Dinkel *Cc:* samba@lists.samba.org *Subject:* Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!? I had some problems with authentication on a Red Hat server due to corrupted .tdb files

Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-08 Thread Aaron Kincer
Congratulations! I stand corrected. I said I thought upgrading wasn't the route, but I guess you were right all along. Curious that I don't see that behavior. Who knows what gremlins were biting you and not me despite us having the same OS, Samba version and AD environment. Hopefully Feisty

Re: [Samba] Samba + Win2k works, Win2003 fails

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
I use 3.0.22 with Windows 2003 with no issues. Read this Ubuntu forum post and see if you can draw some useful information that might help crack the case. The information in here should be fairly universal I believe, but don't bet your job on it:

Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Kincer
things that I though might do something. For the life of me, I can not get nested groups to work on this server. James Dinkel -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer James, You are correct--I don't have windbind nested groups = yes set in my smb.conf. Yes, default 3.0.22. I followed

Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-06 Thread Aaron Kincer
James, You are correct--I don't have windbind nested groups = yes set in my smb.conf. Yes, default 3.0.22. I followed the Ubuntu configuration instructions to the letter found in the Ubuntu forums that I've posted before with only the changes you've seen in my smb.conf. Here is the link to

Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-06 Thread Aaron Kincer
Right. That guide gets you in the door. The additional acl and extended dos attributes stuff is separate. James A. Dinkel wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-91510.html That guide also does not say anything about adding acl and user_xattr to the mount options of the

Re: [Samba] what OS do you use for Samba?

2006-12-06 Thread Aaron Kincer
Since you and I are using the same version of Ubuntu and both have our servers integrated into Active Directory, you would expect similar behavior configurations notwithstanding. As we've discussed earlier, I have no problems with nested groups. I think you're barking up the wrong tree

Re: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
I just simulated your scenario and I have no problems. 1) User testing member of: group1 2) group1 member of group 2 3) group2 has rights to folderA 4) User testing can successfully open folderA. 5) Removing group2 rights from folderA results in access denied. James A. Dinkel wrote:

Re: [Samba] Windows XP refresh Problem

2006-11-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
I get the same behavior on Ubuntu 6.06 with Samba 3.0.22 so it isn't just you. I notice that when an XP client first connects, the share behaves as it should with file and folder deletions showing up immediately. If left sitting with a share open for a few minutes, the behavior starts. You can

Re: [Samba] Windows XP refresh Problem

2006-11-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
In theory, the server should notify the client that a change has occurred on the folder being viewed and then the client refreshes as opposed to a constant refresh going on. If you look in the smb.conf documentation, the change notify setting defaults to every 60 seconds. You could move it out

Re: [Samba] Windows XP refresh Problem

2006-11-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
suspicions are correct, I think it is better to call it a bug in Windows that Samba would have to work around. John Drescher wrote: On 11/30/06, *Aaron Kincer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory, the server should notify the client that a change has occurred

Re: [Samba] Windows XP refresh Problem

2006-11-30 Thread Aaron Kincer
Like I said, Microsoft fixed an identical sounding problem in support article 823291. This fix was added to XP SP2. Hint: This code change wasn't added to Windows 2000. So based on the evidence at hand, the problem seems to have been caused by Microsoft. Chris Smith wrote: On Wednesday 29

Re: [Samba] to AD or not to AD

2006-11-28 Thread Aaron Kincer
I am not sure if you are using Samba for DC duties as you don't explicitly say, but I can give you some general things to be aware of: -Windows NT SP3 and Windows 95 clients have issues in native 2003 domains due to SMB packet signing (if that's what you are moving to). You can address that

Re: [Samba] Preference of local or domain profile

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
. Does that answer your question? Aaron Kincer Douglas Phillipson wrote: Douglas Phillipson wrote: With Samba v3.x and WinXP, if there is a local profile on the users PC when the user logs on while hooked to a Samba DC, should the PC check for the DC profiles password prior to checking

Re: [Samba] Logging to MySQL

2006-11-17 Thread Aaron Kincer
Funny, just 15 minutes ago I was thinking I need to setup logging to dump into a database. I'll check it out soon and give it a test run. Thanks for answering my thoughts. Quim Rovira wrote: I've written down a simple yet a bit obfuscated perl script to put samba logs on a MySQL database,

Re: [Samba] Samba - Linux copies fine, Samba - Windows hangs all existing connections

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Kincer
Without posting any logs, it's rather difficult to guess. Denis wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I'm running Samba 3.0.23c on Debian-arm (unstable), kernel 2.6.18. I can copy files from the Samba server just fine, when I do it from a Linux machine. When I want to copy files from the Samba

Re: [Samba] AutoCad and ArcView

2006-11-15 Thread Aaron Kincer
Can you be more specific than burned through? What brand of hardware are you running? I am unconvinced that your OS and/or Samba are the cause of your hardware issues. I've seen data intensive servers running RAID 5 run for many years with no problems. I would be more inclined to believe

Re: [Samba] AutoCad and ArcView

2006-11-15 Thread Aaron Kincer
James McLaughlin wrote: Out of curiosity--what is the same slot in your array that suffered the failed drive? Magic Number is 4 JM So what you are saying is that it is the SAME slot in which both drives died? I'd call you hardware vendor if you still have a warranty and let them know

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 2003 Active Directory

2006-11-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
.shtm http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/ch-samba.html If you are going to stick with RHEL, read these documents especially if you are still using the Red Hat packages. You'll want to follow their docs. Good luck. Aaron Kincer Michael Casale wrote: Hi all

Re: [Samba] Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

2006-11-12 Thread Aaron Kincer
arrangements contrary to the license by which it is provided. I hope you regain some sense about you. Sincerely, Aaron Kincer IT Manager On 11/12/06, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 2003 Active Directory

2006-11-12 Thread Aaron Kincer
lose their support for those packages. Nice delimma, huh? Good luck. Aaron Kincer On 11/12/06, Michael Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Thanks is advance for any help you can offer - I just inherited a Samba file server in my new position, and am familiar with Samba, but no genius

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 2003 Active Directory

2006-11-12 Thread Aaron Kincer
-Guide/unixclients.html#ch9-adsdc and if he wanted to upgrade to the latest version of samba, he could install from kde-redhat repository since Rex has the packages for updating samba for RHEL http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ Craig On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 23:53 -0500, Aaron Kincer wrote: If you

Re: [Samba] Newbie looking to move from Netware to Linux/Samba

2006-11-09 Thread Aaron Kincer
. Aaron Kincer Boaz Bezborodko wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Boaz Bezborodko wrote: I'm looking to move my companies server from an old Netware 5.0 file server to a Linux/Samba server on new hardware. Since my companies' systems are not mission critical (I can afford to be down for a few hours

Re: [Samba] ADS help

2006-10-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
I would be a bit more helpful if you include your configuration files and be a bit more clear about what you are trying to accomplish with your Samba server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm trying to setup a samba 3.0.23c on a network with a Windows 2003 AD. I've followed the guide at

Re: [Samba] Home Directories on the fly?

2006-10-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
rights to the /home folder. You MUST go back and configure permissions properly on this folder after creating a new account. You need to be diligent and consistent when choosing a global home share. Make sure you don't later try to map a drive to that letter. It won't work. HTH, Aaron Kincer

Re: [Samba] somewhat OT--windows logon script

2006-10-11 Thread Aaron Kincer
. Then the mappings are not made persistent. PS: If I remeber right, one time made persistent you must delete them all before try to map them with no persistence. Edmundo Valle Neto Aaron Kincer escreveu: Rory, I can't speak for anyone else, but in my logon scripts, I delete shares before mapping them

Re: [Samba] Authenticating Linux Against AD with Winbind

2006-10-10 Thread Aaron Kincer
There are how-tos out there that clearly highlight what you have to do in order to get authentication against Active Directory. You need to use Google (or some other search engine) effectively to find them. I can tell you that in order to have proper AD authentication, you must absolutely use:

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Samba] Authenticating Linux Against AD with Winbind]

2006-10-10 Thread Aaron Kincer
/10951_3502441_1 Dale Original Message Subject: Re: [Samba] Authenticating Linux Against AD with Winbind Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:43:11 -0400 From: Aaron Kincer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Rotunno [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: samba@lists.samba.org References: [EMAIL

Re: [Samba] somewhat OT--windows logon script

2006-10-10 Thread Aaron Kincer
I know why you are doing what you are doing, but try deleting by individual share: net use e: /delete net use e: \\server5\peachtree net use w: /delete net use w: \\server5\contract_maintenance net use t: /delete net use t: \\server5\fleet net use x: /delete net use x: \\server5\allusers

Re: [Samba] somewhat OT--windows logon script

2006-10-10 Thread Aaron Kincer
Rory, I can't speak for anyone else, but in my logon scripts, I delete shares before mapping them because Windows exhibits very strange behavior sometimes with shares. Anyone who has ever gotten the amusing error connection cannot be restored or whatever it says knows what I mean. Deleting and

Re: [Samba] XP/W2K on Samba 3

2006-10-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
:\Documents and Settings\username\.). Doing that creates even more headaches if you are concerned about security for user separation and would require quite a bit of work. Oh, and let's not forget the non-homogenous client issues. Doug VanLeuven wrote: Aaron Kincer wrote: I am having

Re: [Samba] Re: Horrible write performance from XP to Samba

2006-10-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
How about Windows client to Windows client speeds? I'm getting the feeling the problem might be the speed of the hard drives on your clients. Sebastian Held wrote: Hi, Am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2006 14:56 schrieb Peter Daum: maybe some people would be adventurous enough to just try it

Re: [Samba] Re: Horrible write performance from XP to Samba

2006-10-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
Have you shut down all other processes including anti-virus to make sure there isn't something else causing a wide variance? Sebastian Held wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2006 16:41 schrieben Sie: How about Windows client to Windows client speeds? I'm getting the feeling the problem

Re: [Samba] Researching possible windows solutions...

2006-10-04 Thread Aaron Kincer
The EULA for XP Home explicitly states a maximum of five (5) users to connect for file/print sharing services. XP Professional is ten (10). This is software independent. Installing a Windows version of Samba (if one exists now or in the future) would not provide you a legal way around this

Re: OT: Re: [Samba] Researching possible windows solutions...

2006-10-04 Thread Aaron Kincer
altogether, I can't fathom the potential impact as there are pet projects in data centers all over the place with Samba as it is now (based on anecdotal and non-scientific experience). Rashkae wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Aaron Kincer wrote: The EULA for XP Home explicitly states

Re: [Samba] XP/W2K on Samba 3

2006-10-04 Thread Aaron Kincer
I am having trouble envisioning a network where people are constantly signing onto different computers (outside of schools and libraries). If users move around that much, perhaps a VNC/Citrix/Terminal Services approach would be better. Roaming profiles are a solution to a problem that existed

Re: [Samba] XP/W2K on Samba 3

2006-10-03 Thread Aaron Kincer
I am not sure from Bernd's email what he is trying to accomplish, but there are things to consider if you are trying to do roaming profiles. With the volume of data often stored in today's profile, it is non-trivial to enable this option and I do not recommend doing so for the average user.

Re: [Samba] Transfer rates faster than 23MBps?

2006-09-29 Thread Aaron Kincer
Thought you might find this worth reading since it is on topic to this thread: http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/maxtor-diamondmax-11/index.x?pg=6 Mark Smith wrote: Mark Smith wrote: Actually, setting SNDBUF and RCVBUF to 65536 from the default of 8192 is what got me _TO_ 22MBps...

Re: [Samba] Cannot connect to a windows network

2006-09-28 Thread Aaron Kincer
on either end as well. Hope that helps. Aaron Kincer Nick Black wrote: Hello, I am trying to use Samba to let me mount windows network drives on an Ubuntu Dapper Server installation that I am using as a desktop. Using: testparm my smb.conf seems to be ok. Using smbclient -L GM.local -U username

Re: [Samba] Cannot connect to a windows network

2006-09-28 Thread Aaron Kincer
(had to resend this with the right email address for the list) Forgot to tell you to use sudo of you aren't using the root account. So append sudo in front of that as you have in your other command. One more thing--the lfs option enables files greater than 2GB. smbclient chokes on them if you

Re: [Samba] WINS over subnets

2006-09-28 Thread Aaron Kincer
Barry, Christopher wrote: For each host on 192.168.3.0/24, manually add in the WINS address of hgsserver in the wireless NIC configuration. Because WINS does not jump routers, you'll need to tell the client where to find this information. This is not entirely correct. Many routers can be

Re: [Samba] Cant correctly join windows 2K3 domain with Gentoo

2006-09-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
Have you performed a net ads join command yet? Guillermo Gutierrez wrote: Help me please, I am getting desparate. I have tried to the follow the following how-to for joining a Gentoo Linux samba server to a windows 2003 domain and cant seem to get the the getent passwd command to any domain

Re: [Samba] Cant correctly join windows 2K3 domain with Gentoo

2006-09-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
and a few minutes later I saw users and groups. Even though I can see domain info usingthe getent passwd command I still cannot log in as a domain user. -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:21 AM To: Guillermo Gutierrez Cc

Re: [Samba] Cant correctly join windows 2K3 domain with Gentoo

2006-09-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
couldn't get any domain users or groups to show. After that I started up winbind and a few minutes later I saw users and groups. Even though I can see domain info usingthe getent passwd command I still cannot log in as a domain user. -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Samba] Problem restricting the access of a particular workstation to a single user

2006-09-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
Is this strictly a Samba network or is it Windows Domain/Active Directory environment? Júlio Dutra Couto wrote: I have a problem restricting the access of a particular workstation to a single user. Is there a way of doing this? I couldn't find it anywhere, although it is trivial to do it the

Re: [Samba] samba ACL questions

2006-09-27 Thread Aaron Kincer
David, I think you'll find this document helpful. I do not know for certain if the permissions are the same on Linux, but it _should_ be. http://docs.hp.com/en/B8725-90101/ch03s04.html On 9/27/06, Graham, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I seem to have Samba+AD+ACL's working on a

Re: [Samba] Samba cannot

2006-09-26 Thread Aaron Kincer
With Samba 3.0.22, I created the computer account manually in Active Directory and then use the following command: net ads join -S domain.controller.computer.name -U active.directory.user.with.domain.admin.privileges To do this, make sure that in your smb.conf file, you have the option

Re: [Samba] can't access Samba share when clocks skew is too great

2006-09-22 Thread Aaron Kincer
It is pretty standard behavior for encrypted authentication schemes to reject authentication requests when the time deviation between the client and server are too far apart. This is by design. It is basically a timeout from Active Directory's perspective. You can use Active Directory GPOs to

Re: [Samba] Re: can't access Samba share when clocks skew is too great

2006-09-22 Thread Aaron Kincer
clients with incorrect clock can connect to Windows servers and can't connect to Samba. I thought Samba tried to emulate Windows file server as close as possible. In this particular case I thought Samba would fall back to NTLM auth. Maybe I misunderstand something. Thanks, Leonid Aaron Kincer

Re: [Samba] Support of Samba on RHEL4?

2006-09-20 Thread Aaron Kincer
luck, Aaron Kincer Alex de Vaal wrote: Hello Aaron, It is always good that people are thinking along and actually you ask right questions to me, which I asked myself too. To answer your questions: 1) No. 2) Yes 3) No, not yet. 4) They do that anyway ;) 5) YES! I have almost 100 Linux servers

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