[Samba] quota disk sizes

2005-08-23 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1-p14 and samba-3.0.14a_1,1 from ports. I have quotas set on the shared disks and compiled Samba 'with quotas'. Problem is that windows (98/2000/xp) displays the disk size as twice the set size. The used size is also twice the actual size. Is this a bug? Is there

[Samba] users on W2k

2005-02-16 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya I'm using Samba as my PDC, and this is fine for desktops since most of them are still Win98. However, the bosses laptop has W2k and used to work fine under the Novell client. ie there was one user on the laptop and those setting were used when logged into Novell and when not connected to

Re: [Samba] Any danger in having two shares with same name?

2005-01-27 Thread DA Forsyth
On 26 Jan 2005 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about [Samba] Any danger in having two shares with same: Hi, Don't ask why I'm posing this question -- actually, I WILL explain below -- but is there any danger in having two shares in Samba with the same name? probably. I *DO* know that

[Samba] XP Home logon scripts

2004-12-09 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya Yesterday I had to face the XP Home logon script monster and came up with something that appears to work ok. Issue is the XP Home will not do a domain login and therefore not run the logon script, nor map the home drive using 'net use h: /home' My solution is to put a batch file into

Re: [Samba] Re: netlogin scripts

2004-12-02 Thread DA Forsyth
On 1 Dec 2004 , Michael Lueck entreated about [Samba] Re: netlogin scripts: You do not get vars set in DOS with things like the server name, so alas it must be hard coded into LOGON.BAT. You could set an EnvVar at the top of the bat file and use it throughout the drive mappings. well, you

[Samba] more 'Quota/disk space display in windows'

2004-11-12 Thread DA Forsyth
See my note from yesterday about quota size displays for reference I have just been looking at the source code. (long time since I did C, so forgive me if I stuff something up royally) in source/smbd/ntquotas.c there is code that corrects for block sizes other than 1024, which would work

[Samba] Quota/disk space display in windows

2004-11-11 Thread DA Forsyth
Hi all I have just noticed that Windows (98 and 2000) are not displaying the correct figure for disk space on any of my shares. FreeBSD 5.2.1-R Samba 3.0.7 from ports quotas enabled on the ufs2 filesystems samba compiled '--with-quotas' ok, a user gets a quota set like this edquota -e

[Samba] getting aache to auth against the samba tdb

2004-10-20 Thread DA Forsyth
hi all I'm new to all the multitude of authentication schemes in *nix systems, and therefore have a question. My users will be using Samba tdb authentication for their normal login process. On the same server we will be hosting various web content that should not really be freely accessible.

[Samba] SWAT weirdness

2004-09-23 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya Just noticed a weird thing in swat I called upt he [netlogon] share and set a username in the 'write list' field. committed that, restarted smbd. tried to write to the share, no dice, go back to swat and the 'write list' is GONE no entry, nothing now I click 'advanced' and

Re: [Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom needed

2004-09-22 Thread DA Forsyth
On 21 Sep 2004 , Misty Stanley-Jones entreated about [Samba] Upgrade Novell 4.11 to Samba 3.0.7 wisdom: } Has anybody done such a thing as this? I'm looking to make this } transition as smooth as possible. I have the new fileserver up and I'm busy replacing a Netware 3.12 box with FreeBSD

Re: [Samba] which version to install/???

2004-09-15 Thread DA Forsyth
On 14 Sep 2004 , DA Forsyth entreated about [Samba] which version to install/???: } I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and have the options in the ports tree of } 2.2.11 and 3.0.6 and now 3.0.7 thanks Andrew and Craig, 3.x it will be -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal

[Samba] which version to install/???

2004-09-14 Thread DA Forsyth
Hello all now that I have finally got CyrusSASL to authenticate next up is installing Samba I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and have the options in the ports tree of 2.2.11 and 3.0.6 In my test server intall I used 2.2.8 with success, and it is still running at home on a P166 as a PDC but

Re: [Samba] Printing an extra blank page all the time.

2004-09-08 Thread DA Forsyth
On 7 Sep 2004 , Craig Hammond entreated about [Samba] Printing an extra blank page all the time: } Hi, } I'm trying out using samba as a print server for the first time, and it } works ok, but I have this problem where everytime I print anything, a } additional blank page comes out of the

Re: [Samba] encrypted passwords and /etc/passwd

2004-09-01 Thread DA Forsyth
On 31 Aug 2004 , Karel Kulhavy entreated about [Samba] encrypted passwords and /etc/passwd: } Isn't it possible to tell Samba server that on the way between a } client and the server, the passwords sould be encrypted, and after } decryption, they will be checked against /etc/passwd and not }

[Samba] logging in to PDC with Win98

2004-07-20 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya I've got FreeBSD and Samba 2.2 running quite nicely on a server I ma using for web page development. This is on a 3 PC network at home using fixed IP addresses 192.168.0.x etc. However, last night I tried to make it into a PDC following the PDC Howto document. all seemed well till I