[Samba] samba vbscript login script blocked by windows

Hi, anyone else using a vbs script for a login script and getting it blocked by windows? more specifically, wscript.exe is what's getting blocked. I tried editing the Windows firewall, but that didn't seem to help. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list

[Samba] SambaSID's on PDC/BDC

I have a server acting as a PDC, and another server acting as a BDC. When I run 'net getlocalsid' on each, they return different numbers. If I run 'net getlocalsid domain_name' on the BDC, it returns the PDC's sid. Is it import for each machine to have the same SID? Thanks, Chris -- To unsubsc

Re: [Samba] How to use local profiles in samba PDC?

Kyle, You might also need to populate this setting: A) Only allowing local profiles and disabling roaming profiles: (start->run->gpedit.msc->Local Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->Administratrive Templates->System->User Profiles As a result, each user gets a profile created in C:\Documen

[Samba] couldn't find service netlogo

One of our winXP users intermittently can't process the login script. sometimes it works and maps his drives, sometimes it doesn't. I have the netlogon share configured correctly. Looking at the logs for the user in question, I see this when the user logs in: "couldn't find service netlogo" "c

[Samba] weird Windows profile creation

It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming prof

[Samba] User profile changes logging into domain

Hi, We have a bunch of users that have local profiles, and when the login to the domain they get a new profile created on their workstation. For example, a user like c:\documents and settings\rguyton changes to c:\documents and settings\rguyton.HMDCDOMAIN Is there a way to get this to use th

[Samba] builtin group, domain group, or local group

Hi, I'm using smbldap-groupadd to add groups for my PDC, and the default group type is domain group. The problem is, if I do an ldapsearch of groups created in this fashion, I don't see the memberUid's of the users that belong to this group. if I don't use the default, I can do an ldapsearch

[Samba] login scripts --what to use

Hi, We're setting up a PDC, and would like to have a login script to deliver the mapped drives to users in particular groups, and connect to printers. The printer drivers come from the [print$], share. Does anyone have any good resources for this? What's the easiest and simplest thing to get

[Samba] limit user connections to PDC

i work in a lab environment, and we'd like to prevent users from logging into 5 machines at once. I've looked through the smb.conf man page pretty thoroughly, but nothing appears to address this problem. Anyone have any ideas, how you can limit the amount of logins a user can have to teh domai

[Samba] shut off roaming profiles

is there a definitive way to shut up roaming profile squawking. i.e. Windows cannot copy roaming profile when logging in and out. I tried putting a null string in the netlogon share, but it still yaps: logon path = "" Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris -- To unsubscribe from

[Samba] home driectory mapping --drive letter Z:

I think it's great that samba maps the home directory for the user when they login, but where does hte letter Z come from? I'd like to set this to another letter. (?) is it possible? Thanks, c -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.sa

[Samba] ssh and samba using different ldap trees

Is it possible to have sshd and smb running on the same box accessing different trees? if we configure /etc/ldap.conf to point to one tree, and /etc/samba/smb.conf point to another tree, samba stops authenticating users and creating machine trust accounts. Is there a workaround for this? Than

[Samba] Samba users as local workstation admins?

Hi All, We have a problem, which is that several of our users are local admins on their own workstations. We'd like to let them retain these rights, but we're switching to a PDC. Is there a way to have them authenticate to the domain, and as a regular user, but on the Windows workstation have

[Samba] smbldap-useradd -w won't create machine account

I can't get smbldap-useradd to add the sambaSamAccount workstation attributes. For example: smbldap-useradd -w 'test_machine$' # test_machine$, People, desktop.hmdc.harvard.edu dn: uid=test_machine$,ou=People,dc=desktop,dc=hmdc,dc=harvard,dc=edu objectClass: top objectClass: account objectClas

[Samba] smbldap-useradd will not add sambaSamAccount objectClass

I'm having an issue adding a sambaSamAccount objectClass to my machine accounts when running smbldap-useradd -w "machine$" It doesn't create samba attributes, but will create the account. In the smbldaap-useradd code, sambaSamAccount is sambaSAMAccount, but I don't know if that's what's doing