Re: [Samba] User home directories on a windows server question.

2009-03-16 Thread Derek Harkness
Ya that's not really an option, I don't control the AD servers, so no suf or schema extensions. But what I'm finding make it pretty clear there is no way to replace NFS with SMB for a large multiuser system. I find that very disappointing given the age of the samba project. I really figur

[Samba] User home directories on a windows server question.

2009-03-13 Thread Derek Harkness
Okay I've run out of cool ideas and am hoping that someone can offer a brilliant solution to this problem. I'm attempting to deploy a RHEL 5.3 server as a shared ssh servers, user home directories are coming off a Windows 2008 fileserver. I though autofs would be the winning solution but i

Re: [Samba] AD controller problems.

2008-12-09 Thread Derek Harkness
DCs? G. - Original Message - From: "Derek Harkness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "Samba List" Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:40 PM Subject: [Samba] AD controller problems. In my AD setup I have 3 domain controllers (dc1, dc2, dc3) when samba/ winbind are ta

Re: [Samba] template homedir question

2008-12-08 Thread Derek Harkness
2, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Harkness wrote: Hello All, I'm integrating an existing unix environment into an exist AD environment. I'm thinking of switching from nssldap to nss_winbind but have one problem. My

[Samba] AD controller problems.

2008-12-08 Thread Derek Harkness
In my AD setup I have 3 domain controllers (dc1, dc2, dc3) when samba/ winbind are talking to dc1 everything is great when talking to dc2 or dc3 I get this error "kinit succeeded but ads_sasl_spnego_krb5_bind failed: Strong(er) authentication required" and nothing works. I don't think its a

Re: [Samba] template homedir question

2008-12-02 Thread Derek Harkness
On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: No but this would be easy to implement. The nss_info API allows you to write a new plugin. if you code in C, I can point you right at what to do. Maybe an hour's work. Seems doing able. Point me where I need to go. Thanks! Derek -

[Samba] template homedir question

2008-12-02 Thread Derek Harkness
Hello All, I'm integrating an existing unix environment into an exist AD environment. I'm thinking of switching from nssldap to nss_winbind but have one problem. My user's home directories are in the format of /home/user/<$first letter>/<$second letter>/<$username> (/home/user/ d/h/dhakn

Re: [Samba] Print Operator Rights in AD environment

2008-12-01 Thread Derek Harkness
Cool thanks. -W did the trick. Derek On Dec 1, 2008, at 13:12 PM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Derek, Derek Harkness wrote: net sam addmember gives me "Adding local group member failed with NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_ALIAS".

Re: [Samba] Print Operator Rights in AD environment

2008-12-01 Thread Derek Harkness
OT:default = yes Oh and to confuse the matter a bit more, the AD is setup to use pass thru authentication to an external kerberos realm. Thanks, Derek On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Derek Harkness wrote: I am a

[Samba] Print Operator Rights in AD environment

2008-12-01 Thread Derek Harkness
I am attempting to set the SePrintOperatorPrivilege right on my RHEL 5.2 samba server and need some guidance. The samba box is currently joined to an AD forest in which I have a delegated OU, I do not have a Domain Admin account. Samba seems to want/need an Admin account in order to make

Re: [Samba] Secondary groups and Posix ACL

2008-02-11 Thread Derek Harkness
Okay I found the solution to this problem. It appears you shouldn't run winbindd on a samba PDC. Derek Harkness Data Security Analyst Senior University of Michigan-Dearborn (313) 593-5089 On Jan 31, 2008, at 08:08 AM, Derek Harkness wrote: I've got a very odd situation occ

[Samba] Secondary groups and Posix ACL

2008-01-31 Thread Derek Harkness
I've got a very odd situation occurring. I recently upgraded to Samba 2.0.26a and now secondary group membership doesn't work. On the filesystem I have this layout /derek /derek/Folder 1 /derek/Folder 2 derek has these ACLs # file: derek # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::r-x other

Re: [Samba] printer admin: deprecated?

2005-11-28 Thread Derek Harkness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:37 AM, Fabio wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:53 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: If "printer admin" is deprecated, what option replace it? I'm not sure, I was wondering this same question myself. printer admin is still val

Re: [Samba] samba domain vs linux network security

2005-11-11 Thread Derek Harkness
We use AFS/Kerberos/LDAP to provide home directories to our Linux/ Unix/OSX users, our Windows users connect into our Samba domain. Samba has pretty good AFS support for gatewaying SMB <-> AFS requests, at a minor weakening of filesystem security. I'm hoping Samba4 will allow me to use Ker

[Samba] Samba 3.0.14a AFS funkyness

2005-10-18 Thread Derek Harkness
I've been using Samba as an AFS gateway since December 04 and it's been working great but I recently deployed a 3.0.14a server and now samba isn't honoring AFS acls. It is enforcing unix mode permissions which is completely the wrong behavior in this case. For example I have a directory wi

Re: [Samba] LDAP PDC question

2005-10-05 Thread Derek Harkness
The cool thing is, I didn't either I simply forgot to comment one out. But hey I'll certainly make use of it. Derek On Oct 4, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Marcel de Riedmatten wrote: Le mar 04/10/2005 à 14:57, Derek Harkness a écrit : Thanks! I was doing some testing this morning and fou

Re: [Samba] LDAP PDC question

2005-10-04 Thread Derek Harkness
time. Thanks again, Derek On Oct 4, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Marcel de Riedmatten wrote: Le ven 30/09/2005 à 15:37, Derek Harkness a écrit : When setting up an LDAP PDC do I have to have both user and machines in the ou=People container? Here's what I've got. LDAP Tree ou=People,o=umd.um

[Samba] LDAP PDC question

2005-09-30 Thread Derek Harkness
When setting up an LDAP PDC do I have to have both user and machines in the ou=People container? Here's what I've got. LDAP Tree ou=People,o=umd.umich.edu ou=NIS,ou=Groups,o=umd.umich.eud ou=machines,ou=Samba,ou=Services,o=umd.umich.edu ou=Idmap,ou=Samba,ou=Services,o=umd.umich.edu smb.conf

[Samba] Samba(4) + AFS

2005-09-28 Thread Derek Harkness
This maybe more appropriate on the developers list but I'll ask here first. Anybody know if any improved support for AFS is being added to either samba 3 or 4? We currently share all user home directories, shared files, web sites, etc. etc. from AFS using Samba. This setup is working gr

Re: [Samba] Print configuration question?

2005-08-30 Thread Derek Harkness
wrote: Derek Harkness wrote: Is it better to setup lots of small print servers or one big print server? I've currently got 1 print server serving up about 55 printers. All the server does is Samba and CUPS the box has 2 2.8gig P4 xeon, 2 gigs of RAM and a load average of 3. Which i

[Samba] Print configuration question?

2005-07-21 Thread Derek Harkness
Is it better to setup lots of small print servers or one big print server? I've currently got 1 print server serving up about 55 printers. All the server does is Samba and CUPS the box has 2 2.8gig P4 xeon, 2 gigs of RAM and a load average of 3. Which is way to high since users are comp

[Samba] Samba + CUPS + Collation problems

2005-06-28 Thread Derek Harkness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been moving printers from lpd printing to samba print queues. Drive installs, point-n-print, and everything else is working well but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make print job collate. I've been searching on how to corre

[Samba] Wins questions

2005-04-11 Thread Derek Harkness
Does anyone have any recommendations or possibly patches to allow WINS replications from a Samba PDC to a Samba BDC? Thanks! Derek My lack of knowledge is only exceeded by my lack of concern. --Anonymous GE Engineer PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe

[Samba] Windows logon restrictions

2005-03-27 Thread Derek Harkness
Is it possible to limit where a user can logon? I would like to limit which users can logon to which workstations. I've found an application called Userlock but was wondering if anyone had a more open source solution. Thanks! Derek Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsof

[Samba] Dynamic home mapping

2005-03-10 Thread Derek Harkness
Does anybody have a way of dynamically selecting which server a user's home drive get mapped to? I have two servers sharing the same AFS file space, and I want to load balance home drive mappings between them. I'm hoping for something I can put in the smb.conf as opposed to mapping in the logo

[Samba] Access 2003 printing?

2005-01-26 Thread Derek Harkness
Has anybody found a fix for the Access 2003 printing? I've got a couple of work arounds but neither is a good long term solution. 1) Set the default printer to something other then a Samba print queue. 2) Map the Samba print queue to a dos LPT port. Thanks, Derek To boldly go where I surely don'

Re: [Samba] Visual Studio/Samba Compile from Shares issue

2005-01-26 Thread Derek Harkness
Try turning off the pre-compiled header all together. Under Project->Settings then the C/C++ tab and the Precompiled Headers pull down. Derek On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Kelly S. Smelser wrote: I've tried setting dos filetimes = yes and dos filetime resolution = yes, but this brought no chang

[Samba] SMB/AFS

2004-12-10 Thread Derek Harkness
Okay I've recently started have some problems with the Samba AFS code. If I'm doing mass data operations, deleting 14 GB of data (lots of files), copying lots of files, etc. I'll get access denied error at random times. If I let everything sit for a few minutes then I can continue the operati

[Samba] AFS?

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Harkness
Which version of openafs do I need to compile AFS support into samba. I tried compiling Samba 3.0.7 but get a setpag() undefined error, when building against OpenAFS 1.2.11. Thanks, Derek Isn't sanity just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all you get is that one trick, rational thinking, but w

Re: [Samba] Samba NT Domain Controller Help & Possible Walkthrough Please

2004-09-18 Thread Derek Harkness
The easiest solution here is WINS. wins support = yes in smb.conf. Then configure your workstations to use the new wins server, this can be set through dhcp if you're using dhcp. Other config options that might be useful. # This allow the workstation to create a machine account in the domain a

[Samba] Wins sync?

2004-09-03 Thread Derek Harkness
Has anyone gotten wins sync between samba server working? I've got two Samba 3.0 boxes (PDC and BDC) and I want to run a wins server on each and have the two sync up is this possible? Are there plans to make it possible? Derek Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious

Re: [Samba] Problem migrating PDC from one machine to another

2004-08-19 Thread Derek Harkness
On Aug 12, 2004, at 7:57 AM, Alex Sharaz wrote: 3). Copy smbpasswd, secrets.tdb and smbusers from old server/etc/samba to new server/etc/samba Don't copy the secrets.tdb, most of the information in secrets.tdb is server specific. The information piece of information in the file is the domain S

Re: [Samba] Samba automatically disabled?

2004-08-06 Thread Derek Harkness
I ran into a similar problem when the last field in the password file was LCT-. Derek On Aug 5, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Tim Tyler wrote: Samba experts, I am running samba 3.0.3-5 of Samba on Fedora core 2 (Red Hat). I am trying to use encrypted passwords. However, when a user tries to

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.05 pdc

2004-08-03 Thread Derek Harkness
I haven't seen that error before. But here is my PDC config, this is Samba 3 btw. [global] workgroup = SMBDOMAIN netbios name = PDC server string = %h server (Samba %v) nt status support = yes lanman auth = no wide links = no log level = 2

Re: [Samba] Samba3 GPO

2004-08-03 Thread Derek Harkness
I currently use Poledit to create an ntconfig.pol which works well. Of course poledit sucks major butt. So if you've got another suggestion I'd love to hear it. Derek On Aug 3, 2004, at 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi @all, I have some question I can't find a explanation. I have a stan

Re: [Samba] access denied with samba share

2004-08-01 Thread Derek Harkness
Are you using encrypted passwords? Derek On Aug 1, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Lupe Christoph wrote: On Sunday, 2004-08-01 at 10:26:49 -0700, chad work wrote: I can see the shares, I can map, for example, the J: drive to "shared", but cannot switch to it by typing: "J: enter". I'm having the same problem. Le

Re: [Samba] Help me in creating a domain...

2004-08-01 Thread Derek Harkness
quantum home # adduser -g machines -s /bin/false -d /dev/null quantumwin quantum home # passwd -l quantumwin When adding a machine account to the unix password file it needs to have a $ at the end of the name. Also the last time I checked the only user who could join a machine to the domain in

Re: [Samba] Redundancy in samba

2004-07-29 Thread Derek Harkness
I'm in the process of setting up a similar environment, I'm just working at it from the other side. I've got the Samba environment and I'm adding the kerberos/afs to it. Be sure to compile with the --with-afs option. Samba hand crafts AFS tokens on the users behalf, this means maintaining tw

Re: [Samba] samba PDC

2004-07-27 Thread Derek Harkness
Edit the smb.conf for you needs and "net rpc join -UAdministrator" should be the trick. Derek On Jul 23, 2004, at 1:30 AM, my diva wrote: hi...mailers i have s PDC server. and i have two client using windows and Linux. In windows client no problem but in Linux client i have the problem. so...ho

Re: [Samba] unable to join domain hosted by 3.0 PDC

2004-07-21 Thread Derek Harkness
I ran into a similar problem and finally determine that I didn't have the group mapping correct. Do a "net groupmap list" a verify the your "Domain Admins" group is mapped to the correct unix group and that whatever user you're using is in that group. I was having trouble mostly because of my

[Samba] Winbind?

2004-07-13 Thread Derek Harkness
I've been fighting with winbind for several months now have yet to get it to work according to the documentation. I've got a Samba 3.0.4 PDC, named PDC, running on a Debian linux box, and I'm trying to add a second linux box, FCSPRTSRV. I can successful join the domain using net rpc join -U dh

Re: [Samba] Basics of folder re-direction

2004-07-06 Thread Derek Harkness
There is a registry setting that can be used to redirect the My Documents and AppData folders. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\She ll Folders\Personal HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\She ll Folders\AppData Have fun! Der

Re: [Samba] Netlogon

2004-07-06 Thread Derek Harkness
Just found a solution to that this morning. Here is the script I've been testing, replace ServerName and PrinterName '  VBScript.' Guy Thomas February 2004. '  http://computerperformance.co.uk '  Purpose of script to create a local printer ' ** Dim net Set net = Cr

[Samba] General setup questions?

2004-07-06 Thread Derek Harkness
I have a Samba 3.0.4 PDC and several domain member servers and for the most part everything appears to be working. Do I need to manually sync domain group maps? net groupmap list on a member server indicates that no maps have been established. net groupmap list on the PDC has the correct mapp

[Samba] Windows policies question

2004-07-02 Thread Derek Harkness
I'm wondering how other samba admins are dealing with system policies. I've been use the System Policy Editor but it's VERY limited and extremely inflexible. Are there any better tools for creating .pol files? Thanks, Derek Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft produc

[Samba] Re: XP Joining domain

2004-06-09 Thread Derek Harkness
g to join the domain. Good luck-- Sam Barasch Computer Systems Support Dept. of Biostatistics University of Wisconsin in Madison -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Harkness Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: [Samba] XP Joining domain

2004-06-08 Thread Derek Harkness
other things. You might want to think about migrating to the tdb password backend instead. It's more reliable. Jason -Original Message- From: Derek Harkness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:00 PM To: Jason Gray Subject: Re: [Samba] XP Joining domain More

Re: [Samba] XP Joining domain

2004-06-08 Thread Derek Harkness
think about migrating to the tdb password backend instead. It's more reliable. Jason -----Original Message- From: Derek Harkness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:00 PM To: Jason Gray Subject: Re: [Samba] XP Joining domain More details... I'm not using lda

[Samba] XP Joining domain

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Harkness
I'm attempting to join a Samba 3.0.4 domain on a Debian linux box, with a Windows XP client. Problems 1) Can only get the join to work if I use the root account. On Win2k I can use any account in the Domain Admins group. 2) The join succeeds, the unix account and the smb account are created bu

Re: [Samba] Security question

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Harkness
Samba 2.2 currently but I will be upgrading it to Samba 3. Thanks, Derek On Jun 7, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Hamish wrote: What is your PDC running? Derek Harkness wrote: Thanks! In my environment we have a small department that manages servers and the network, but we leave end user support to each

Re: [Samba] Security question

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Harkness
o supply their own usernames etc for joining If you are using a samba PDC i remember there are some tools for GPO type stuff... Sorry a bit vague but it might help :) Derek Harkness wrote: I've been googling for a while now and haven't found a decent answer to this question. How do I a

Re: [Samba] Winbind problem?

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Harkness
ase look in the description of bug report 1383 for more detail. Regards, Hans. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1383 -Original Message----- From: Derek Harkness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4. juni 2004 09:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Winbind problem? I've got a Samba PD

[Samba] Security question

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Harkness
I've been googling for a while now and haven't found a decent answer to this question. How do I allow users to join the domain without handing out a domain admin level account? Is there someway to limit what other domain features this account has access to? Thanks, Derek PGP.sig Description

[Samba] Winbind problem?

2004-06-04 Thread Derek Harkness
I've got a Samba PDC and a Samba domain member server. I successfully joined the domain, started winbind and run the wbinfo -p; wbinfo -t tests, both succeeded. But if I do a winbind -g I only get BUILDIN/group and if I do a wbinfo -u I get "Error looking up domain users". But ntlm_auth succ

[Samba] Samba Domain Problems?

2004-05-27 Thread Derek Harkness
I've got a Samba PDC running 2.2.8a. I'm attempting to add a domain member server. The member server is a linux box running Samba 3.0.4. PDC config [global] workgroup = UMD server string = %h server (Samba %v) status = yes netbios name = Samba lanman auth = no wide links = no

[Samba] fake-kaserver help

2004-04-21 Thread Derek Harkness
Okay got everything compiled and attempted to added my afs key to secrets.tdb and I'm getting the error. "Could not write keyfile to secrets.tdb" So can I get another clue on how to make this work. I'm using the command "net afskey afs.keytab umd.umich.edu". Does my cell name have to be the s

[Samba] Samba+Kerberos+OpenAFS

2004-04-19 Thread Derek Harkness
Okay I don't think what I want to do is possible but here goes. I want to deploy a samba domain for my windows clients, but I want samba to use AFS on the back end. But AFS requires kerberos to get tickets and tokens. So is there anyway to make this work. I personally don't care if samba ac