[Samba] how to view disk labels used by a user for his/her disk shares?

I have a samba pdc. I would like to automatically assign at next logon a disk share with a particular letter that is the same for a group of users (such as L:\). How can I see with samba and/or windows tools what are currently the disk labels used by this group of users so that I can choose accordi

[Samba] ntp policy example question

I would like to configure a linux ntp server on my lan as the ntp server for my windows xp clients I'm not able to come to an understandable solution (due probably to my lack in windows knowledge) I found this in samba archives: CLASS MACHINE CATEGORY !!Time POLICY !!NTPServer KE

[Samba] changing password only works the second time?

Env. is samba-3.0.9-1.3E.10 on CentOS 3.7 as PDC with WXP SP2 clients. Situation: 1) a user receives notification at logon that the password is expiring and that only few days remain to change it 2) he/she answers yes and puts old and new passwords and press ok 3) the system sends the error messag

[Samba] how to block a folder with password

I would like to prevent access to a whole folder and its contents with a password or something like that. Is it possible? This is for sensitive information and I would like to avoid to set up a password for each document contained inside this repository, present inside a user profile. From the li

[Samba] Re: Support of Samba on RHEL4?

On 9/20/06, Alex de Vaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Gianluca, The "rpm -q --changelog package" command was known to me, but the original Samba packages doesn't contain a changelog. Strange if it comes from RH. Also the initial release for RH 4, samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9.i386.rpm, contained a c

[Samba] RE: Setting Initial Passwords

it seems that it does work in this way: "echo -e '$password\n$password' | smbpasswd -s -a $login" instead of "smbpasswd -a $login -s $password" at least form commad line. I don't know from perl. Obviosuly you should first create the linux user. HIH, Gianluca -- To unsubscribe from this list

[Samba] samba 3 and acucobol vision files problem

I have a sort of legacy application based on Acucobol, that is using a samba 3 share for its application data files. I need to migrate it, going to release 6.2.0 of acucobol. In my tests it seems that I get some errors regarding files access: the program actually doesn't give particular errors, ne

[Samba] re: Support of Samba on RHEL4?

Alex, I could not agree more with you. BTW, perhaps you already know, but just in case: If you want to see the patches applied to a package during its history, and you don't need to dig into the sources themselves, you can query the changelog for an rpm package without having to download sources:

[Samba] how to change perimissions across a directory tree

Hello all, I have samba 3 with a share named shareA using these settings: [shareA] comment = Directory Amministrazione path = /col/shareA browseable = no valid users = @amm force group = amm public = no writable = yes create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 printable = no wh

[Samba] uaser added to a local group doesn't get permissions

I have a share like this [share_name] comment = share name path = /home/col/services browseable = no valid users = +servizi force group = servizi public = no writable = yes create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 printable = no In 2.2.5 as I added a user to the "servizi" gro

[Samba] passwd program example for parsing new password typed?

On Wed Sep 6 18:58:20 GMT 2006 Logan Shaw wrote: That's a little odd to have two sets of accounts that are kept identical between two different domains. But, maybe there is a reason for it. yes. The fact is that I inherited this situation with passwords never changed (and samba 2 on an old and

[Samba] passwd program example for parsing new password typed?

hello, I have two domains, one w2k3 and one with samba 3. The users log on to the samba domain and use outlook connected on exchange on w2k3 domain. pwd age for the two domains is aligned. On another samba 3.0.23c linux machine inside the w2k3 domain (ads security parameter set) I have set up a s

[Samba] number of days for password espiration warning setting

The number of days before password expiration a user gets the warning when he/she logs on the Win XP workstation. Is this a local setting on the workstation (key passwordexpirywarning in my case 14 days, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon) or is there a

[Samba] problems changing password in outlook 2003

hello all, my clients log on with a samba 3 PDC. They are using outlook 2003 against a exchange 2003 sp1 installed on a w2k3 machine. they are able to change their password via owa, but not via outlook client. The owa access is not enabled for all the users... How do I eventually implement the M

[Samba] [OT] ldapmodify options for changing AD attributes

t and accountExpires input file for mailNickname is dn: CN=Gianluca Cecchi,CN=Users,DC=companymail,DC=local changetype: modify replace: mailNickname mailNickname: gcecchi1 and it succeeds input file for pwdLastSet is dn: CN=Gianluca Cecchi,CN=Users,DC=companymail,DC=local changetype: modify re

[Samba] where winbindd has to be running?

If I have a samba 3 pdc and a samba 3 domain member. The latter has also ssh/telnet access through network. I want to authenticate smb connections for both and telenet for domain member against the pdc. Where has to be running winbindd? On pdc, domain member or both? Which kind of "security =" par

Re: [Samba] passdb.tdb not updated when changing passwords

thanks Simo > Questions: > 1) it seems passdb.tdb is read but not written based on its timestamp > Shouldn't it be modified with the new encrypted password? the same > happens if for example I change full name of a user... > Where are otherwise written these informations some kernels have a bug

[Samba] passdb.tdb not updated when changing passwords

I'm using samba on CentOS 3.7 (3.0.9 + rh patches) I had smbpasswd as backend and I'm testing migration to tdbsam. After exporting successfully to tdbsam and setting passdb backend = tdbsam in smb.conf if I change from inside a windows xp machine the password ot the user and then pdbedit-Lv user I

[Samba] Re: problems trusting a w2003 domain server from samba 3

ord and it succeeded How can I manage this and prevent outlook from asking password Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Gianluca On 8/11/06, Gianluca Cecchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have samba 3 PDC (SAMBA domain with hostname "pevpdc") on CentOS 3.7 (package is named samb

[Samba] problems trusting a w2003 domain server from samba 3

I have samba 3 PDC (SAMBA domain with hostname "pevpdc") on CentOS 3.7 (package is named samba-3.0.9-1.3E.7) and I have a w2k3 sp1 domain (W2003 domain with hostname "mailserver"). The last is in mixed mode and is an exchange server and the former is without winbind, using smbpasswd backend and "s

[Samba] Default "Domain Computers" group mapping with samba 3

Hello all, I'm using samba 3 as a pdc on CentOS 3.7 (package is samba-3.0.9-1.3E.7 based on 3.0.9 + rh patches) I would like to recevive some clarification about predefined "Domain Computers" group in Samba 3, as I didn't find complete information about this in various documents. It is stated as a