[Samba] odd Not listening on called name behavior

2007-07-19 Thread Matthew Easton
After migrating from RHEL 3 to Fedora Core 6 I get the following error message repeatedly libsmb/cliconnect.c:cli_start_connection(1445) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name) : 15 Time(s) What is *SMBSERVER? I don't have anything with that name on the

[Samba] Error in logs, is it a bug or a misconfiguration?

2007-06-02 Thread Matthew Easton
I have a samba installation that's been running since 1997 or so. Over that time we've upgraded samba a few times, upgraded hardware, and changed operating systems from RHEL to Fedora Core 6. The Fedora Core 6 migration happened a couple of weeks ago, including running samba from RPM

Re: [Samba] Samba share question

2006-05-20 Thread Matthew Easton
On May 20, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Wesley Hobbie wrote: I have the following Samba share: [Programs] writable = yes path = /home/wes/Download I want myself to have write access, and everyone else to have read- only access. The write access works fine when I authenticate, but anyone that does

Re: [Samba] About join domain in different subnet.

2006-02-08 Thread Matthew Easton
Someone else on the list may correct me, but I think the problem is that the computer joining the domain is discovering the domain controller by broadcast -- and broadcasts don't cross the router. I suppose this might help you understand what you are dealing with:

Re: [Samba] Windows machines won't join Samba Domain...

2006-02-07 Thread Matthew Easton
On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Paul Matthews wrote: Although i'm sure after googleing for a few days now you've already found out that you have to make a machine account ending in '$' for any machine your going to add to your domain and then run the command smbpasswd -m machinename$ Is it

Re: [Samba] Windows machines won't join Samba Domain...

2006-02-07 Thread Matthew Easton
Silly me, didn't read your entire post. When i replied to the other reply. On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:09 PM, George Diamantopoulos wrote: I tried using security = domain, which would result in an error message about SRV entries. I thought that some SRV entries for ldap and kerberos in bind were

Re: [Samba] Samba works only with ROOT Samba Client can't access Windows XP Shares

2006-01-03 Thread Matthew Easton
Perhaps the problem is that samba doesn't know about the ordinary user accounts? At the command line on the samba server, you may add an account to samba with: smbpasswd -a your_unix_account_name You will be prompted for a password twice. If that isn't the issue, then I would

Re: [Samba] SAMBA PDC for Windows and Mac clients questions

2005-12-27 Thread Matthew Easton
On Dec 26, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Justin Pearce wrote: In the interest of better compatibility for file stores and authentication, we are trying to implement a Linux machine as a primary domain controller using SAMBA and LDAP. The goal is to have both Windows XP computers and Mac OS X

Re: [Samba] netlogon problems

2005-12-07 Thread Matthew Easton
Pardon me if I misunderstand your post... I think you want to present a logon script to the user based on her/ his group membership. In other words, ( I surmise ) currently Fred gets an invitation to logon to finsvcs, but it will necessarily fail unless he is a member of the finance group.

Re: [Samba] Re: Have to love MS, Was: - Re: w32time and Samba PDC Domains

2005-11-13 Thread Matthew Easton
On Nov 13, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Michael Lueck wrote: Matthew Easton wrote: There is a security policy setting you must change. You want to give Authenticated Users the right to adjust the time. Actually I don't want to give that out. The w32time service would run as system (aka root) thus

Re: [Samba] Have to love MS, Was: - Re: w32time and Samba PDC Domains

2005-11-12 Thread Matthew Easton
On Nov 10, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Michael Lueck wrote: Michael Lueck wrote: So close to working that this is annoying. Upon looking into the Windows DHCP client, one can request specific DHCP options be mapped to specific places in the registry, so I cooked up the following: REGEDIT4

Re: [Samba] Fax modems and Samba

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Easton
Hylafax is the way to go. There are a number of windows clients, including w2hfax, whfc (rather old) article with a word macro to enable print-to-fax http://www.linux.com/howtos/Windows-LAN-Server- HOWTO-5.shtml), cypheus, salsafax, and several commercial clients. Aside from getting

Re: AW: AW: AW: [Samba] Migration to Samba using external LDAPserver(CLARIFICATION NEEDED)

2005-10-26 Thread Matthew Easton
On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Michael Gasch wrote: # a similar command exists that will set the user id of a directory chmod u+s $directory not at all :) you have to use force user or inherit owner via samba Oops. of course you are right. Funny how I distinctly remember doing this, and

Re: [Samba] When trying to Samba (SMBD) it says not found

2005-10-26 Thread Matthew Easton
On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Edouard Ades wrote: Hi All, I tried to start the samba service (Smbd) but it tells me Not found no error number or permission denied. There was no update made on the box. I logged on as root I went to good directory, usr/local/samba/sbin/ and typed smbd

Re: AW: AW: AW: [Samba] Migration to Samba using external LDAPserver(CLARIFICATION NEEDED)

2005-10-25 Thread Matthew Easton
PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Matthew Easton Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 03:54 An: Pseudomizer Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [Samba] Migration to Samba using external LDAPserver(CLARIFICATION NEEDED) On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Pseudomizer wrote: If we would copy the data

Re: [Samba] usrmgr: group not found.

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Easton
On Oct 24, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Koenraad Lelong wrote: I tried more things. I found that adding users made them member of a number of Linux-groups (defined by /etc/default/useradd). snip If I remove the extra groups, leaving just the primary group of the new user (in Linux) then if I double

Re: AW: AW: [Samba] Migration to Samba using external LDAP server(CLARIFICATION NEEDED)

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Easton
On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Pseudomizer wrote: If we would copy the data with simple xcopy or robocopy using e.g. an admin account from the domain, then the files which will be created have which owner? Will the permissions still remain? Other poster mentioned rsync. That or tar can

Re: [Samba] recv failure for 4: error = connection reset by peer

2005-08-13 Thread Matthew Easton
On Saturday 13 August 2005 06:16, Chris Lounsbury wrote: Hello list, I am looking for some help with an error message that keeps showing up in our log files. I searched the archive and found this error message mentioned a few times in regards to windows xp clients and setting the smb ports =

Re: [Samba] Samba server with Win XP clients: Problems.

2005-08-13 Thread Matthew Easton
On Saturday 13 August 2005 19:14, Steve Orbe wrote: == ERROR MESSAGE = Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received this information, which has been

Re: [Samba] one opinion about searching samba docs for answers

2005-08-05 Thread Matthew Easton
On Friday 05 August 2005 14:50, John H Terpstra wrote: It would take a rather large book to document all the error and warning messages from the Samba source code. In fact, that is a project I have often contemplated, but backed away until someone will provide funding to make it possible to

Re: [Samba] Proposal to allow owning group to edit ACLs.

2005-07-18 Thread Matthew Easton
On Monday 18 July 2005 15:47, Jeremy Allison wrote: Hi all, I've been spending some time with customers lately and I've discovered an interesting thing. Many IT departments completely delegate the settings on directory and file ACLs to the users who are interested in the data. SNIP

Re: [Samba] Unwanted Workgroup Names on WINS

2005-07-18 Thread Matthew Easton
On Monday 18 July 2005 06:41, Umut Arus wrote: Hello, There are many workgroup names on Microsoft Windows Network. Sometimes, users could wrong type the workgroups name on self computers, and creating new record on WINS server. I don't want showing the unwanted names to end users. Only two

Re: [Samba] A shared space between students and their teacher !!!

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Easton
On Saturday 09 July 2005 06:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Last week I implemented samba a sa file server and domain controller for more than 150 computers (Win 2000 and XP). Everything is working just fine. However, computer science faculty wanted a share for each course in which

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profile

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Easton
On Saturday 09 July 2005 15:56, Cleiton Luiz Siqueira wrote: Hi, I have my Samba Server setting as a PDC, but I wouldn't like that Windows XP store and retrieve profile from the server. Does anyone know how I can do it? Thanks, Cleiton

Re: [Samba] reverse veto files?

2005-06-03 Thread Matthew Easton
On Thursday 02 June 2005 21:14, Guido Lorenzutti wrote: I know how veto files works, but there is anyway to have some valid files like the valid users to ONLY allow files with some extension and not have to restrict one by one on the veto files? tnxs in advance. the veto files directive

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profile Mix-Up Between Users

2005-06-03 Thread Matthew Easton
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:39, Robert Schetterer wrote: Marian Steinbach schrieb: We have both WinXP and Win2000 workstations. Users where able to use their roaming profile on both systems back when we used the NT PDC and we would like them to so with the Samba PDC. We hold user data in

Re: [Samba] File Deletion

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Easton
On Monday 11 April 2005 19:52, Gerald Cenir wrote: Hello all! Is there any way to prevent certain users from deleting a file or files? Thanks! On the unix side of things, you can set the sticky bit on the directory. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/22_06.html --

Re: [Samba] Joining domain across subnet

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Easton
On Thursday 07 April 2005 18:06, Ephi Dror wrote: Hi All, If I have domain controller on a different subnet than the samba server and I would like to join that domain controller in an environment without WINS, meaning only DNS available. This section will show you what you are asking for

Re: [Samba] macintosh file clutter on samba filesystems.

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Easton
On Sunday 03 April 2005 15:50, Matt Pruett wrote: I have a client who has a bunch of macs accessing some samba shares, and they write these ._filename and .DS_STORE files all over the place, he would perfer it to not write these files at all. Anyone ran into this issue? what would be the

Re: [Samba] Samba - wireless - PDC

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Easton
On Sunday 03 April 2005 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I wonder how I could get my linux box to serve logins to a Windows Me box. At the moment samba is running but I cannot access home dirs (No user log on). Since ME (wireless card DWL+G520) accesses an AP (DI 624 - 192.168.0.1 +

Re: [Samba] Windows file permission abilities?

2005-03-09 Thread Matthew Easton
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 19:48, S Clark wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:08 pm, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: [...] SNIPS To be honest, I'm still not sure what good it does - if you can WRITE to a file, you can effectively delete it. (Overwrite it with a different file and rename it.

Re: [Samba] mac osx : files automatically renamed

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Easton
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 01:24, Stéphane VERGNAUD wrote: Hi, On a Linux server (Mandrake 10 distribution), I installed Samba server 3.0.10. The clients are all Mac OS X 10.3 Word files are automatically renamed when the user save the file. Does someone already heard about this weirdness ?

Re: [Samba] Any ideas on splitting my profiles directory

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Easton
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 13:05, Richmond Dyes wrote: I have 2 250gig drives in my machine and one has 50 gig on it and the other with my profiles directory in it has 219 gig. Is there a way to split my profiles directory. These are ide drives and I will not be mirroring them. My entry in

Re: [Samba] profile not loading properly

2005-02-27 Thread Matthew Easton
On Friday 25 February 2005 15:11, abs pathak wrote: Hello, I installed samba3.0 on my debian machine to act as a PDC. Everything seems to be working. The only problem is that I get errors reading and writing back to the profile. When I log in or log out, it gives me an error saying some

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-22 Thread Matthew Easton
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 21:30, Steve Cohen wrote: I have a little home network, with a wireless router. The main box on the ntwk runs RedHat 9.0 and Samba 2.2.7a. SNIP I have a Win2K laptop provided to me by my employer with all the typical corporate security constraints. SNIP I can take

Re: [Samba] cached credentials local login -- notebook domain members

2005-02-16 Thread Matthew Easton
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:02, Martin wrote: I have tested both win2k and winXP with both local and roaming profiles with the same results: once disconnected the users can't login. I'm using samba 3.0.10 with LDAP. I'm presuming that you haven't applied a security policy that sets

Re: [Samba] Windows share bridge

2005-02-16 Thread Matthew Easton
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:27, Sebastian Schaetz wrote: a samba bridge - a seperate machine that connects to the windows xp home machine, mounts the shares and serves them itself to the rest of the network. I made a little picture... A fun hack, but I don't understand what your boss

Re: [Samba] Samba and Netatalk Problem

2005-02-15 Thread Matthew Easton
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:47, Grieve, Shane wrote: I have a large number of Mac clients currently severed by windows NT 4 servers I am looking to replace the with samba / netatalk the problem I have is there are a large number of files that contain forward slashes e.g. a pages 2/18

Re: [Samba] access to all home directories for all users

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Easton
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:03, Thomas Kreft wrote: [homes] valid users = @users write list = @%g browseable = No create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 Now the question is: How do I provide the users with an easy way to access the

Re: [Samba] Disk Space Error

2005-01-28 Thread Matthew Easton
On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:39, Michael Gargiullo wrote: No matter if I connect from my Linux laptop, or my WinXP desktop I receive the error stating Not Enough Free disk space (From the windows macine), and cp: writing `public-share/gmp-4.1.4.tar.gz': No space left on device from the

Re: [Samba] Problems with Browse List

2005-01-28 Thread Matthew Easton
On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:07, Marvin Bonilla wrote: Unable to resolve my problem after long time of reading and searching I decide to ask for help to the experts. The problems is that there is no browse list even thought everything works fine. I can share files with others machines but

Re: [Samba] Samba No Network Browsing

2005-01-28 Thread Matthew Easton
On Friday 28 January 2005 12:38, Marvin Bonilla wrote: The problems is that there is no browse list even thought everything works fine. I can share files with others machines but don't see anything on network neighborhood. Can you give specific example of how you connect your windows client

Re: [Samba] IP address versus Hostname

2005-01-22 Thread Matthew Easton
On Saturday 22 January 2005 22:18, Michael Vega wrote: I am using: SuSE 8 and Samba 3 and kernel 2.4. SAMBA has joined the Windows ADS environment correctly. But here is my issue. If I enter the HostName of the SAMBA server from a Windows 2000 PC I get the Incorret Password or Unknown

Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Easton
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 18:19, Alex Satrapa wrote: On 9 Dec 2004, at 12:07, Michael Lueck wrote: The main disadvantage of the Microsoft Windows approach is the bandwidth wasted while people log in and out. In my experience, samba networks also have more problem with profiles becoming

[Samba] Re: XP fails to cache Domain Credentials --SOLVED

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Easton
On Saturday 04 December 2004 11:04, Matthew Easton wrote: My win2000 laptop caches the domain credentials so I can log into the computer when disconnected from the network. However, Windows XP SP2 laptops cannot. I get a domain unavailable error even though the local security profile

[Samba] XP fails to cache Domain Credentials

2004-12-04 Thread Matthew Easton
My win2000 laptop caches the domain credentials so I can log into the computer when disconnected from the network. However, Windows XP SP2 laptops cannot. I get a domain unavailable error even though the local security profile on the laptop is set to allow domain credential caching. My other

[Samba] Domain Unavailable, XP and Samba 3.0.8

2004-11-30 Thread Matthew Easton
400MHz Dell Poweredge server with Debian and Samba 3.0.8 from the .deb files at samba.org. 40 WinXP Acer workstations connected via ethernet are joined to the domain and working fine. Profiles are local. However, new P4 Toshiba laptops(XP Service Pack 2, 256MB RAM) are unable to cache

Re: [Samba] [Off Topic] Managed desktop virus scanner in Samba 3 Enviroment

2004-11-27 Thread Matthew Easton
On Friday 26 November 2004 03:38, Gil Freund wrote: Hi, As we are moving away from an NT based enviroment to SAMBA we are looking for a managed virus scanner for our desktops. Managed means: 1. Remote deployment 2. Updates from a local repository 3. Notification and reporting. The

Re: [Samba] Roaming profiles on a small network

2004-03-15 Thread Matthew Easton
On Sunday 14 March 2004 05:20, Matt Janes wrote: Im having great diffiuculty synching the data, email, etc on my laptop and desktop, so I thought I might configure samba to act as a DC and use roaming profiles to make sure that my data is always synched. My question is this: is it worth the

[Samba] error messages -- what does it mean?

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Easton
. Is that related to this error? -- Matthew Easton Sublunar Networks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] error in logs after upgrade to 3.0.1

2003-12-25 Thread Matthew Easton
! get_domain_user_groups: You should fix it, NT doesn't like that I'm guessing that my user's primary group smbusers should be something that Windows 2000 expects. But what? Thank you. -- Matthew Easton Sublunar Networks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http