Re: [Samba] windows 7 machine account fails to authenticate against samba PDC

2013-09-10 Thread Fabio Muzzi
On 06/22/2011 12:31 AM, mrArcabuz wrote: Hi, it's been a while since the original message appeared, but here's my experience in case someone finds it useful: [...] I changed the machine account name to uppercase in the passwd & shadow files and the message does not appear anymore in the log

[Samba] Unix Extensions and "force create mode"?

2009-04-05 Thread Fabio Muzzi
It seems that when the clients (and the server) use Unix extensions, the "force create mode" (and maybe "force directory mode"?) setting is completely ignored. I have a Samba 3.2.5 server that is accessed from Windows and Linux. One share is configured as follows: [foto] comment = Gall

[Samba] Error: Rejecting auth request from client MAILBKP1 machine account MAILBKP1$

2009-03-31 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have a Samba 3.3.2 member server, named mailbkp1, which I joined to a Samba 3.3.2 domain controller. At joining time, I got two errors on the domain controller, which I report here: [2009/03/31 14:08:47, 0] rpc_server/srv_netlog_nt.c:_netr_ServerAuthenticate2(546) _netr_ServerAuthenticate2:

[Samba] Proper use of tdbbackup

2009-03-31 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have googled a lot, but I have found no examples of the correct use of the tdbbackup program. I am looking for some advice on how to use tdbbackup. I mean, I know I can simply run "tdbbackup *.tdb", but I was looking for in-depth information on when and how to use it, about best practices on u

[Samba] Vampire ends with a NT_STATUS_SYNCHRONIZATION_REQUIRED error

2009-03-16 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I am quite desperate. I have been trying to migrate a NT4 PDC to Samba. At the first try, I have used samba 3.2.5, which seemed to complete the vampire process but then I have found that there is a bug that prevents password from being migrated properly (and in fact passwords were not migrated p

[Samba] Grant or deny internet access based on Samba domain logon?

2008-06-03 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I am looking for some way to grant or deny internet access (that is, changing iptables rules) based on Samba domain logon. When a user logs on, I would like to run a script that modifies firewall rules based on the group that the user belongs to (this determines if he has internet access or not)

Re: [Samba] Impossible to change Primary group

2007-01-29 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Gerald, Monday, January 29, 2007, 2:50:54 PM, you wrote: >> d> pdbedit -r gad -G 514 -d0 >> d> I cann't change primary group. [...] >> Running Samba 3.0.23d with tdbsam GJC> The primary group is based on the real Unix primary group. Ah, ok... so now it's impossible by design to chang

Re: [Samba] Impossible to change Primary group

2007-01-17 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello drweb, Saturday, November 25, 2006, 4:32:17 PM, you wrote: d> By command: d> pdbedit -r gad -G 514 -d0 d> I cann't change primary group. I was looking through the list archives and found your post. I have the same issue. Any solutions yet? Running Samba 3.0.23d with tdbsam --

Re[2]: [Samba] Default Posix ACLs are ignored when copying files between two directories using Windows (XP)

2006-04-23 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Jeffrey, Saturday, April 8, 2006, 1:50:53 AM, you wrote: JML> I'm seeing this exact same behavior on my Samba server. For what it's JML> worth, I also see this same behavior with shares/folders on a Windows JML> NT system. It seems Samba/Linux and Windows NT behave the same in JML> thi

[Samba] Default Posix ACLs are ignored when copying files between two directories using Windows (XP)

2006-03-31 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have tried to read the documentation, but I was not able to find a clear solution to my problem. I run Samba 3.0.14a on a Debian system with Posix ACLs. I have a share on a file system that uses Posix ACLs, and I have two directories in that share. Both directories have default ACLs set,

Re: [Samba] Shares get disconnected and cannot reconnect over VPN

2005-08-08 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I reply to myself to add some information: I have think that I have traced it down to a name resolving issue. I don't know why but sometimes the client asks the wrong WINS server (I have two: one on the locally connected LAN an another one on the other side of the VPN) to resolve th

[Samba] Shares get disconnected and cannot reconnect over VPN

2005-08-08 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello samba, I have an issue with OpenVPN 2.0 and Samba 3.0.14a. My setup consists in a routed VPN (thus server and clients are on different subnets) between a linux OpenVPN 2.0 server and some Windows 2000 VPN clients. Samba is the PDC and is a WINS server. The VPN clients w

[Samba] "guest account = XXX" not working in Samba 3.0.14a?

2005-08-06 Thread Fabio Muzzi
This is my first try at setting up a "guest ok" share. I have created an user named "guest" in Linux (since I don't want to use the default "nobody") that has group "users". Now, it seems that the "map to guest" directive is completely ignored. I have created the same user in samba (don't kno

[Samba] A workaround for printer drivers that crash with an exception error after uploading to Samba

2005-07-25 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have just run into two printer drivers (Brother 1870N and HP Deskjet 890cxi) that seem to crash windows explorer as soon as they are uploaded to the samba server. I have tried using "default devmode=yes" with no success for both drivers. I have found an horrible workaround that maybe sho

Re[2]: [Samba] Serious Slowness Issues with Printing

2005-06-27 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Jeremy, Friday, June 17, 2005, 6:39:50 PM, you wrote: >> The biggest problem is the time it takes Office to open up with a Samba >> printer set as default on the PC. If a fake local printer is installed >> and set as default, Office opens up quickly, but when the end user has >> to pri

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.14a vs. 2.0.7, is "include =" recursive?

2005-06-14 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Steve, Tuesday, June 14, 2005, 12:44:21 PM, you wrote: SW> I upgraded a mid-sized samba install (+-150 pc's) from Samba 2.0.7 to SW> 3.0.14a last night. It is acting as a PDC and the upgrade went smooth SW> except for one thing. I don't have an answer, but a question: what were the cri

Re[2]: [Samba] recycle with debian-package of sambe 3.0.10

2005-06-14 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Jeremy, Monday, June 13, 2005, 6:52:34 PM, you wrote: JA> Not true (that "the recycle VSF module is of quite no interest"), it's just that JA> the squeeky wheel tends to get the grease. You've squeeked, and I'm not applying JA> grease :-). Really thanks for the prompt answer and the

Re: [Samba] File owner / group

2005-06-14 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello ljerem, Monday, June 13, 2005, 6:34:03 PM, you wrote: lfua> The problem is that, for example, when I create a file (or modify it with lfua> Word or Exel) in the Finances subdirectory, the file has my primary group lfua> as GID (Technology, in this case). lfua> What I need to do is to force

[Samba] Codepage conversion between 2.2.8 and 3.0.14 - what's 2.2.8 default charset on disk?

2005-06-13 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have to upgrade a 2.2.8a (Debian) installation to 3.0.14a (Debian too). I have quite everything clear but I am afraid I will get into trouble with the filename encoding on disk. The current samba installation has no explicit codepage declared for the file system, and running

Re: [Samba] recycle with debian-package of sambe 3.0.10

2005-06-13 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Stephan, Monday, June 13, 2005, 12:58:54 PM, you wrote: SH> I am struggeling around with the permissions of the recycle-vfs-module. SH> While working mostly good( placing deleted files inside the .recycle- SH> folder), the touch-option does not work. I am experiencing the same problem. Th

[Samba] A suggestion for the documentation

2005-06-13 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have read (I suppose) all of the documentation about Samba, but I have not found a detailed description of the contents of the various tdb files. It should be useful to know what information goes in each file, and eventually which file can be safely deleted and rebuilt. For example, I

[Samba] What's service 2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d?

2005-06-06 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello samba, I have a samba 3.0.9 server that shares printers using SPOOLSS and hosting the drivers. Everything works, but accessing the printers from Win XP is very slow and I get an error in the log that says: couldn't find service::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d} ev

Re[2]: [Samba] UID of the windows Domain Administrator user?

2005-06-04 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Stéphane, Saturday, June 4, 2005, 2:02:28 PM, you wrote: SP> For joining a machine to domain, you must have a user with uid = 0. SP> But, begin with samba 3.0.11, the privileges can be used for use a other SP> user than root (uid = 0) SP> You can read more information in this pages : SP

[Samba] UID of the windows Domain Administrator user?

2005-06-04 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have installed lots of samba 3 servers as PDCs for little networks serving 10 users or so. I have always set up the user "root" as the domain administrator, by setting its group SID to -512 with pdbedit. My "root" user has usually a user SID of -1000 since it is the first user I add

Re: [Samba] Performance problem when writing large files!

2005-05-24 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Josef, Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 8:39:27 AM, you wrote: JFlc> We encounter following problem. If somebody on the network writes JFlc> big files from windows clients to a samba shared directory, the JFlc> performance of the server will be as much degraded, that, using top, JFlc> on all

Re: [Samba] Samba Domain Administrator

2005-05-24 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Jorge, Monday, May 23, 2005, 6:51:59 PM, you wrote: JF> Someone told me to insert "domain admin group = group I want" or JF> "domain admin user = users I want" in my smb.conf file, but it didn't JF> worked (looks like that was for older versions of samba). JF> Can someone help? Try this co

Re: [Samba] Netbios Alias

2005-05-23 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Ricky, Monday, May 23, 2005, 2:41:50 PM, you wrote: FR> include = /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.tpub02 FR> I would appreciate any help with fixing this problem. Maybe if the netbios alias is uppercase, also the file should be smb.conf.TPUB02 instead of tpub02. have you tried upp

Re: [Samba] Disabling [printers] share

2005-05-23 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Marek, Monday, May 23, 2005, 2:04:21 PM, you wrote: MC> I've been trying to tackle this for some time and so far did not MC> find a way to do this. The problem is simple - as I don't enable MC> printing through Samba I'd like to disable it in such fashion that MC> user would not even see t

Re: [Samba] Strange intermittent join with XP SP2 and Samba 3.0.14a

2005-05-23 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Megat0N, Sunday, May 22, 2005, 2:01:23 PM, you wrote: M> With xp sp2 (and 2003) i have to repeat various times the join phase M> before get success from the PDC, and, during each failed join, i get the M> error: M> "user unknown or incorrect password" This does not se

[Samba] Help in performing a Half-Migration from NT to samba3.

2005-05-23 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I am currently planning "half a migration" (and half a new configuration) from NT to Samba PDC, and I would like to have some help. I have read the howto and I have understood something useful, but I also understood that I don't know enough of Samba domain internals to be sure not to mak

Re[2]: [Samba] 100% CPU eaten -- tdb_fetch failed

2004-02-26 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello John, Thursday, February 26, 2004, 3:30:21 AM, you wrote: JHT> You should run the tdbbackup tool every time Samba (smbd) is shut down. JHT> Please refer to the man page for further information. The use of tdbbackup JHT> is a very important step to prevention of catastrophic problems with t

Re[2]: [Samba] Recycle module permissions - a workaround

2004-02-23 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello rruegner, Monday, February 23, 2004, 12:11:18 AM, you wrote: r> i just tested this and it doesnt work r> is a special vfs version needed? No, I'm running samba 3.0.2a, installed from the debian binary packages found on samnba.org. The complete share configuration is: [discone]

[Samba] Recycle module permissions - a workaround

2004-02-22 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I have just found a simple (yet not so elegant) workaround for the recycle VFS module permissions issue. Recycled directory is always created with a 0700 permission, not allowing the use of the recycle bin in a share that should be group-writeable. The simple workaround is

[Samba] Recycle module malfunctioning in 3.0.2a?

2004-02-18 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello samba, I have just installed Samba 3.0.2a (debian packages from samba.org) and I have found that the recycle vfs module does not work. This is my setup for a share with recycle enabled: [dis_imp] comment = Disegni Impianti path = /ud0/dis_imp read only = No

Re: [Samba] Samba acls

2003-06-30 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Adrian, Monday, June 30, 2003, 3:15:54 AM, you wrote: AC> the gid and uid of the file) Mine worked as if it is always created as a AC> root user.I thought the file should have the uid and gid or the person AC> who created the file (respect to the /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the AC>

Re[2]: [Samba] W2K PDC Domain

2003-06-27 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Andrew, Friday, June 27, 2003, 8:31:12 AM, you wrote: AB> Make sure you have no mapped drives to the server before you join the AB> domain. In particular, don't have any drives open as a different user AB> to the one you use to join the domain (usually root). Also, do NOT try to go from

Re[2]: [Samba] 2.2.8a, printer driver download: need to use setdrive r

2003-06-26 Thread Fabio Muzzi
Hello Andreas, >> This is the EXACT problem I had. Haven't fixed it either if I have 10 >> printers upload all the drivers.. for all the OS's... how do I tell >> which drivers go with which printer? A> You use the setdriver command, it seems. What I wanted to know is if this A> is expec

[Samba] Printer drivers on a samba 2.2.8a server: how?

2003-06-25 Thread Fabio Muzzi
I'd like to set up my samba 2.2.8a server to serve printer drivers to clients when needed. I have set up the print$ share, in which I still have no drivers. Tried adding drivers from a win2000 workstation by using "server properties" command, I can't add anything since all buttons are