Re: [Samba] samba as a time server (newby question): time not updated

2006-06-20 Thread David Landgren
On 6/20/06, Ivan Teliatnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleagues, I am trying to use my PDC as a time server. time server = yes upon login a group based scripts are executed. Scripts include line: net time \\samba.server /set /yes Time changes only if a user who logs was added Power Users

[Samba] smbd: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't contact LDAP server and Samba shares are dropped

2006-06-19 Thread David Landgren
List, I am encountering some really strange behaviour with Samba 3.0.20 and OpenLDAP 2.2.28. Everything in terms of PAM and NSS has been working correctly for a long time and have not been changed in months. This week it has started playing up, with NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE type errors. The

Re: [Samba] smbd: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't contact LDAP server and Samba shares are dropped

2006-06-19 Thread David Landgren
On 6/19/06, Michael Cassaniti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I Believe that this could be a corrupted secrets.tdb file that may be losing your ldap password. Please note that this is only a guess. I really can't offer you too much in the way of help. If that were the case, then once it was

Re: [Samba] Can gencache.tdb be deletely at will?

2006-02-23 Thread David Landgren
On 2/22/06, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, David Landgren wrote: When I look at the client smbd log file, I see that the printer server is trying to open a connection to the IP address that corresponds

[Samba] Can gencache.tdb be deletely at will?

2006-02-22 Thread David Landgren
List, I have a client PC that is able to connect to my network via a VPN tunnel. When the client PC comes back to the mother ship, it acquires an ordinary network address via DHCP. In this situation, the PC is currently having problems viewing Samba printers... the printer folder takes several

[Samba] login scripts not being run at session startup

2005-11-10 Thread David Landgren
List, I have a weird problem on a 3.0.20 PDC. My users can log on correctly (user credentials is in LDAP) to the domain but the login.bat file is not always run. For some people, it is always run. For other people, it is never run. For a final group, sometimes it runs, sometimes it doesn't.

Re: [Samba] Password Generator

2005-03-18 Thread David Landgren
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:45:05 +0100 (CET), Tony Earnshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron J. Zirbes: Are you suggesting you wish to generate easily crackable passwords for all your users? I would strongly advise against this. How soon do you want your systems broken into? I would

Re: [Samba] CUPS error with 3.0.11

2005-03-18 Thread David Landgren
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:57:32 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from Samba 3.0.2a to Samba 3.0.11. I didn't change anything in my smb.conf file. But Now, when a user logs on to my Linux server and access a Samba share, in the log file for that machine

Re: [Samba] joining a domain without having Windows admin privileges

2005-03-07 Thread David Landgren
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:06:10 -0600, J Raynor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to use security = domain for a samba server, but the only way I've found to do that is to issue the command net rpc join -U admin%password where admin is a Windows user that has the authority to create machine

[Samba] Copying printer drivers across many servers

2005-03-07 Thread David Landgren
List, I am deploying a number of Samba servers across a WAN. To date I have manually uploaded printer drivers from an XP client to the Samba server. But it's slow, and I systematically upload the same drivers over and over again. I'm not quite sure of the recipe, but I'm sure there must be a way

[Samba] Still having trouble with slow opening of printer properties

2005-03-02 Thread David Landgren
List, I asked a while back about problems with very slow openings of printer properties windows. This afternoon our main internet link was upgraded to 6Mb (symmetric) and so I thought I might see some improvements in response. But no change. I really don't think it's the pipe that's at fault,

[Samba] Excessive file traffic when viewing Printer Properties with 3.0.11

2005-02-23 Thread David Landgren
List, I have a printer on a BDC at the other end of a VPN tunnel, and updating the printer properties (such as loading additional driver files or configuring the paper size) of a printer that is installed on it is very slow, on the order of half an hour for basic operations. Just opening the

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.11rc1 Available for Download

2005-02-02 Thread David Landgren
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:47:22 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Landgren wrote: | # time smbclient //jersey/dsvi -U david%foobar -c 'exit' | creating lame upcase table | creating lame lowcase table | Domain=[BPINET

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.11rc1 Available for Download

2005-02-01 Thread David Landgren
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:31:28 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Landgren wrote: | Not sure where those lame tables are coming from, but whatever. This | is on a machine with no-one else online, debug level set to zero

Re: [Samba] reload configuration without a stop ?

2005-01-31 Thread David Landgren
You can send all the processes a HUP and they will reload the config. Ordinarily this should not affect them (unless the config change is, for instance, the suppression of a share they happen to be using). smbstatus -p | tail +5 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -HUP The above should do the trick.

[Samba] What's the deal with connecting back to the client on port 445?

2005-01-31 Thread David Landgren
hi list, I'm a bit of an old skool Samba user, have started using it back in the dark 0.9-ish days. To that end, the ports 137, 138 and 139 and burned deep into my neurons. I've just recently upgraded everything to 3.0.10 (the oldest Samba installation running was 2.2.3). I've seen a lot of

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.11rc1 Available for Download

2005-01-31 Thread David Landgren
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:15:07 -0600, Gerald Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a release candidate of the Samba 3.0.11 code base and is provided for testing only. While close to the final stable release, this snapshot is *not* intended for

[Samba] documentation patch for winbindd (3.0.11rc1)

2005-01-31 Thread David Landgren
Just spotted a minor typo in winbindd: s/privilage/privilege/ . The attached patch corrects this. David --- winbindd.8.orig 2005-01-31 23:02:11.67846 +0100 +++ winbindd.8 2005-01-31 23:02:46.803379000 +0100 @@ -289,8 +289,8 @@ The UNIX pipe over which clients communicate with the

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.11rc1 Available for Download

2005-01-31 Thread David Landgren
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:26:45 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Landgren wrote: |Common bugs fixed in 3.0.11rc1 include: | | | Light testing here appears to indicate that it has fixed the | bug of ever-increasing

Re: [Samba] Re: Best practices for long-running Samba server

2005-01-28 Thread David Landgren
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:14:46 -0800, Spike Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul David, Good points that I agree with but at least at three managers I've had want to the uptime get bigger bigger. Something about the 99.95% uptime industry standard. :-((( Ridiculous. They are wrong.

Re: [Samba] Re: Best practices for long-running Samba server

2005-01-27 Thread David Landgren
The client running our first Samba3 PDC production server had an uptime of 115 days, then the uptime got spoiled by them moving to a new building. I'm not quite sure what the fascination is with long uptimes. It's good to reboot the system from time to time, not because it needs it, but just

Re: [Samba] new printing patch for 3.0.10 may fix the 'failure to remove print jobs from queue list display'

2005-01-27 Thread David Landgren
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:25:35 +0100, Alex de Vaal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 5 Jan 2005, at 17:57, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: I've uploaded a new draft of the printing patch for 3.0.10 to http://www.samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.10/ The only change is a small fix to fix the

Re: [Samba] new printing patch for 3.0.10 may fix the 'failure to remove print jobs from queue list display'

2005-01-27 Thread David Landgren
| I'm using 3.0.11pre1 (compiled on the 18th) and looking at the source | it looks like the patch is in (printing.c is dated Jan 4 21:30). | Printing with cups. | | I am experiencing similar behaviour. I have 40 or so users | pounding on a number printers, and by the end of the day some |

[Samba] Re: Upgrading samba.schema post 3.0.6

2005-01-24 Thread David Landgren
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:01:00 +0100, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I upgraded to 3.0.10 the other day, and completely missed the fact that the samba.schema for openldap had to be upgraded as well. I learnt that this was the case when passwords could no longer be changed

[Samba] Upgrading samba.schema post 3.0.6

2005-01-21 Thread David Landgren
List, I upgraded to 3.0.10 the other day, and completely missed the fact that the samba.schema for openldap had to be upgraded as well. I learnt that this was the case when passwords could no longer be changed... Searching the web revealed that the only thing to do was to copy over samba.schema

Re: [Samba] Samba-3 PDC: Home directories in other machine

2005-01-20 Thread David Landgren
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:05:09 +0100, Juan José Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've a Samba-3 PDC LDAP Based and I want to put the home directories in other machine. It's impossible that this machine was a BDC; this machine only exports via NFS. My idea is mount via NFS this machine

Re: [Samba] samba(-3.0.10) + Excel(2003), file locking issue?

2005-01-13 Thread David Landgren
I open an excel file from a samba share, modify it, the *first* (and only first) time I save, Excel says: The file 'foo.xls' may have been changed by another user since you last saved it. In that case, what do you want: O Save a copy O Overwrite changes Any ideas what's

[Samba] Excel file may have been modified by another user since with Samba 3.0.10

2005-01-11 Thread David Landgren
Hello list, I am encountering a problem with Excel 2003 on Samba shares. If I open an Excel file, edit a cell and then try to save it, I get a dialog box with a file may have been modified by another user since message, with the option to save a new copy, or overwrite the current file. Subsequent

Re: [Samba] Excel file may have been modified by another user sincewith Samba 3.0.10

2005-01-11 Thread David Landgren
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:00 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may also want to read article 324491 at support.microsoft.com. It applies to Excel 2002, but may be pertinent. Oops, I got the exact message wrong, I'll restate it here so that web searches can find it:

Re: [Samba] Excel file may have been modified by another user sincewith Samba 3.0.10

2005-01-11 Thread David Landgren
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:29:50 -0800, Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:02:41PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:00 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may also want to read article 324491 at support.microsoft.com

Re: [Samba] need some assistance - Samba 3.09 on FreeBSD 4.5

2005-01-11 Thread David Landgren
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:10:12 -0800, Jon Starbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, You say you're running FreeBSD 4.5. That's a really *really* old version. And the 4.x series just doesn't do nsswitching. A consultant and I tried long and hard to get FreeBSD 4.8 or so to work just as Samba 3.0 was