Re: [Samba] Make CIFS look like NFS

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I'm trying to run an IMAP mail server (Dovecot) in a virtual machine. However, I do not want the messages stored within the virtual disk. So - the question was how the virtual machine could access those files. Dovecot has been setup and tested with NFS. However, when I

Re: [Samba] Make CIFS look like NFS

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Michal Dobroczynski wrote: Hi Daniel, Can you specify what NFS features are important to you in such case? (in other words please define look like NFS) Regards, Michal Oh - you want me to be specific? What fun would that be? ;-) Ok, specifics... I'm trying to run an IMAP mail server

[Samba] Make CIFS look like NFS

2009-06-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is it possible to make CIFS look like NFS via some configuration/mount options? What I mean is, from a client point of view, will the mounted share behave EXACTLY like NFS will? -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

[Samba] Postscript parameter

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I've seen some references to a postscript setting in smb.conf, but the current version doesn't recognize it. Has this been replaced? -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

[Samba] Fsync directories

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Does Samba/smbfs/cifs support fsync'ing of directories? Are there particular smb.conf settings to adjust for this? -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] File permissions

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel L. Miller
John H Terpstra wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:38:25 Daniel L. Miller wrote: Is it possible to define file rights, such that - The file is owned by root, with full privleges on the Linux server. The file is shared by a group users. The shared file should be available for read and write

[Samba] File permissions

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is it possible to define file rights, such that - The file is owned by root, with full privleges on the Linux server. The file is shared by a group users. The shared file should be available for read and write access. That part's easy - but now Deny delete, overwrite, or rename access to

Re: [Samba] Problems with accessing samba printer from Windows

2008-11-15 Thread Daniel L. Miller
command = lprm -P'%p' %j [backups] comment = Backup Disk 1 path = /back1 read only = No guest ok = Yes -- -- Daniel L. Miller, VP - Engineering, SET AM Fire Electronic Services, Inc. [AMFES] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Samba] Access Denied to Printers / Same thing here

2008-11-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Hi! Trying to trace down a problem with printer sharing. I don't see anything glaringly obvious with my smb.conf. I am using LDAP and CUPS. Using a Windoze client, accessing a printer I receive the friendly Access denied, unable

[Samba] Access Denied to Printers

2008-11-07 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Hi! Trying to trace down a problem with printer sharing. I don't see anything glaringly obvious with my smb.conf. I am using LDAP and CUPS. Using a Windoze client, accessing a printer I receive the friendly Access denied, unable to connect. Checking the Samba logs, I find: [2008/11/07

Re: [Samba] [ANNOUNCE] Samba 3.2.2 Available for Download

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Since all I saw were bugfixes, no feature changes - do we need to *gently* press the Debian team to use 3.2.2, instead of 3.2.1? -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Configuring Samba with NIS

2008-08-07 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Harvey, Edward wrote: Hey all. I have a bunch of linux servers, all using NIS to maintain username/password/UID/GID information. I'm trying to make the filesystems browsable from Windows XP, while maintaining correct UID/GID info. It seems this would be really simple, just let the user

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.0 in Debian lenny

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Ryan Novosielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Seems to me they should have been a lot more reluctant to freeze on a point zero release rather than reluctant at this point. I would be willing to bet that there are a lot of serious problems that would appear with any

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.0 in Debian lenny

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Jason A. Nunnelley wrote: I'm probably wrong (I usually am) - but my understanding is if there is a problem with a released package, and the distro team doesn't want to upgrade to a new upstream version, the responsibility for repairing those problems lies with the packagers. Based on the

Re: [Samba] Setting up PDC w/ LDAP

2008-05-29 Thread Daniel L. Miller
John H Terpstra wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 05:45:24 pm Daniel L. Miller wrote: OK, payment in advance: :-) :-) :-) Wait a minute, let me change currencies Awe .. forget it! ;-) I'm assuming my last payment still has me covered - if you need more retainer please let me

[Samba] Setting up PDC w/ LDAP

2008-05-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I've almost got it. I swear I've almost got it (and I've been doing a lot of swearing lately). I re-built my PDC, starting from scratch. I'm not using the editposix extensions anymore - I'm using the smbldap tools as shown (I think) in the Samba by Example. I really really thought I did

Re: [Samba] Setting up PDC w/ LDAP

2008-05-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
John H Terpstra wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 02:22:15 pm Daniel L. Miller wrote: I've almost got it. I swear I've almost got it (and I've been doing a lot of swearing lately). Swearing does not help much. :-) It does too! I haven't broken a single keyboard! I re-built my PDC

Re: [Samba] Setting up PDC w/ LDAP

2008-05-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
OK, payment in advance: :-) :-) :-) Wait a minute, let me change currencies _.-'-._ .' _ _ '. / (o) (o) \ | | | \ / | \ '. .' / '. `'---'` .' '-._.-' _.-'-._ .' _ _ '.

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 + LDAP with multiple ou's

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Daniel Cristian Cruz wrote: I had a LDAP tree with this structure: dc=base + ou=unit1 + ou=People + ou=Groups + ou=Computers + ou=unit2 + ou=People + ou=Groups + ou=Computers + ou=unit3 + ou=People + ou=Groups + ou=Computers ... And I need people from unit1

Re: [Samba] Samba + LDAP - now with ldapsam extensions

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel L. Miller
John H Terpstra wrote: On Thursday 11 October 2007 22:57, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Are the IDEALX tools necessary for complete integration with LDAP? Or is the built-in support sufficiently advanced now? Daniel What does complete integration with LDAP mean to you? You

Re: [Samba] Samba + LDAP

2007-10-12 Thread Daniel L. Miller
John H Terpstra wrote: On Thursday 11 October 2007 22:57, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Are the IDEALX tools necessary for complete integration with LDAP? Or is the built-in support sufficiently advanced now? Daniel Daniel, What function do you believe the IDEALX tools serve? Why do you

Re: [Samba] SAMBA+LDAP-How to promote Administrator with all priviliges?

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Torsten wrote: Frank Van Damme schrieb: On 10/11/07, Torsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Van Damme schrieb: You problem is that the account does not have uid number 0. If it has, it has a root account on your unix box and you're all set. o.k, but uid 0 is reserved for root, isn't

[Samba] Samba + LDAP

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Are the IDEALX tools necessary for complete integration with LDAP? Or is the built-in support sufficiently advanced now? Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Samba performance tuning

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Andrew Sherlock-CF wrote: I wonder if tshark or netstat could be useful here I don't know the tools, which is why I was asking. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Samba performance tuning

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Hi all! I've seen a number of posts regarding Samba performance - either comments about perceived poor performance, or recommended parameter changes. Instead of some arbitrary buffer numbers, or play with it until it works, are there any analysis tools that can give quantitative answers ?

[Samba] Winbind and LDAP

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I've been having a miserable time trying to get Winbind working. All of the literature I've found seems to indicate it just works - which I'd love - but it hasn't gone that way for me. Because I'm already using LDAP, it seemed to make sense to use the LDAP support for Winbind. But Winbind

[Samba] Winbind usage

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
With only a Samba PDC, with everything defined in LDAP, is there any requirement for Winbind? -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Setting up new Samba domain (again)

2007-08-23 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Hi! I'm trying to get a Samba-based domain working properly. I'm using an LDAP backend. Right now all the users have been created, and machine accounts as well - but some things at the domain level aren't 100%. Adding new machines usually results in a error, which I get around and then

[Samba] Re: Setting up new Samba domain (again)

2007-08-23 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Daniel L. Miller wrote: Hi! I'm trying to get a Samba-based domain working properly. The again portion is because I had another Samba server, which I know was BADLY misconfigured and I wanted to start from scratch. So I created a new server, and copied all the entries to create a clean LDAP