Re: [Samba] Is it possible to change the root/Administrator user to another username?

2012-11-16 Thread Paul Griffith
On 11/15/2012 10:08 PM, Günter Kukkukk wrote: Am Freitag, 16. November 2012, 03:00:11 schrieb Andrew Bartlett: On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 08:44 -0500, Paul Griffith wrote: Hi Andrew, The 'username map' option isn't exactly what I am looking for. That doesn't solve my issue.

Re: [Samba] Is it possible to change the root/Administrator user to another username?

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Griffith
Galdes On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Paul Griffith mailto:pa...@cse.yorku.ca>> wrote: Greetings Samba users, In the process of setting up Samba, one of the item you need to need is add a root user to the samba password database. I was wondering if it is possible to c

[Samba] Is it possible to change the root/Administrator user to another username?

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings Samba users, In the process of setting up Samba, one of the item you need to need is add a root user to the samba password database. I was wondering if it is possible to change the name of the Samba root/Administrator user to another user, like smbroot ? I checked the 'username map'

[Samba] When do you End of Life older Samba versions ?

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, I was wondering if the Samba team has a End of Life statement on the web for the different versions of Samba out there. I know that the 3.0.x series is pretty much EOL, but what about 3.2.x and 3.3.x series ? I just want to know when I need to get the lead out and upgrade! ;) Cheers,

[Samba] KB957097 / MS08-068 - and Domain accounts - any known issues

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings Samba users, Have anyone encountered issues with Windows patch KB957097 (security bulletin MS08-068)? We started to experience workstations and DC trust issues with this patch insalled. I have seen a scattering of issues on the Internet, but nothing real concrete yet. I have u

[Samba] Copying (Samba -> WinXP SP2) MATLAB generated .jpg files very slow.

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, This is a interesting problem. One of our researchers uses MATLAB to generate jpg files as part of his vision research. When he copies these files from the file server, it is very slow. I tried 3.0.28a and I see the same problem as we have with 3.0.28. Here are some interestin

Re: [Samba] PHP/Samba Authentication w/ tdb files.

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Griffith
On Thu, 24 May 2007 13:48:58 -0400, Ryan Neufeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am working on a web based file system access solution for the company I work for. I need to authenticate users against samba's password database, I found a project called PEAR::File_SMBPasswd that works wit

[Samba] Samba 3.0.25 plugin changes

2007-05-15 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, Before I start digging into making our local passdb plugin work with Samba 3.0.25, is there any heads up I need to know about? I tried to compile the example plugin in samba-3.0.25/examples/pdb, but it fails. See below for a sample of the error messages. If I try to compile the

Re: [Samba] Sparc Solaris 10 samba issue -

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Griffith
cation * status * strip dot * total print jobs * use rhosts * valid chars * vfs options New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function): UNICODE and Character Sets -- * display charset * dos charset * unicode * unix charset -- Paul Griffith

[Samba] MacOS X ':' in password causes NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE error when printing

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, We have a user running MacOS X 10.4 and is password contained a special character ':'. This users could logon and map his home directory, but when he tried the print it would fail with the print queue window displaying the following message: "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will

[Samba] SOLVED: rpc command function failed! (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) trying to grant privileges - 3.0.23a

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Griffith
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:37:43PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Griffith wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I am in the process of testing Samba 3.0.23a with our own passdb > > plugin. > ... &

[Samba] troubleshooting a custom passdb module

2006-07-28 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, Is there any tips/docs on trouble shooting a custom passdb module? The module compiles and can be loaded without problems I can even access shares with my username and password. When I try to assign privilages so our tech members can join computer to the domain, I get a error message. E

Re: [Samba] rpc command function failed! (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) trying to grant privileges - 3.0.23a

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Griffith
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:37:43PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Griffith wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I am in the process of testing Samba 3.0.23a with our own passdb > > plugin. > ... &

[Samba] rpc command function failed! (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) trying to grant privileges - 3.0.23a

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, I am in the process of testing Samba 3.0.23a with our own passdb plugin. As part of mytesting I am trying to join the domin so here are the steps I take... 1 - get local sid /usr/local/samba/bin/net getlocalsid SID for domain JAZZY is: S-1-5-21-1016995387-3159270912-1426853295 2 - cr

[Samba] Samba 3.0.23 - smbd + custom passdb panics when there is no root user

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Griffith
mbd(svcctl_init_keys+0x34) [0xb7e49bc3] #8 ./smbd(init_registry+0xcd) [0xb7f7ae5d] #9 ./smbd(main+0x647) [0xb7f88591] #10 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd3) [0xb7bc0e23] #11 ./smbd [0xb7d95f79] [2006/07/13 11:08:44, 0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(173) dumping core in /usr/local/samba/

[Samba] updated samba-3.0.23/examples/pdb/test.c

2006-07-12 Thread Paul Griffith
See attached samba-3.0.23/examples/pdb/test.c which actually compiles. /* * Test password backend for samba * Copyright (C) Jelmer Vernooij 2002 * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under * the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

Re: [Samba] trouble printing from Win9x clients

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Griffith
Here is a long shot in the dark... Are you printers configured to print to spooler first then print ? What does your print command look like? Thanks Paul On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:11:03PM -0800, Patrick Carney wrote: > Hi, > > We are on an Windows based LAN using Samba file and print server

Re: [Samba] How does Samba handle unexpected disconnects?

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Griffith
Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue. This issue has been a tough one to solve. On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:55 -0400, Paul Griffith wrote: > > I can reproduce this error like clock work! The network captu

Re: [Samba] How does Samba handle unexpected disconnects?

2005-10-27 Thread Paul Griffith
I can reproduce this error like clock work! The network capture should be in your mailbox. I can't tell if this is a network harware or software problem Thanks Paul On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:35:22AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:39 -0400, Paul Griffi

[Samba] How does Samba handle unexpected disconnects?

2005-10-26 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, I have been looking for infomation on how Samba handle rude disconnects. Here is the test #1 - Login to Samba hosted Domain #2 - Turn off the computer; Turn the computer back on #3 - goto to step #1 and repeat Now at some point my login should fail...right? If I try the above ste

[Samba] 3.0.20a nmbd/wins problems - can't find domain

2005-10-19 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, Our setup: Xeon 2x2.8Ghz/2GB RAM Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) Kernel 2.4.29 on an i686 multihomed - 5 subnets, samba operates only on 4 firewalled Samba: v3.0.20a Clients: Windows XP SP2 fully patched; MacOS X 10.3/10.4 We are having intermittent problems with nmbd/wins. At one

Re: [Samba] Domain cannot be contacted

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Griffith
Did you ever resolved your problem? On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:45:39PM +, Matt Pruett wrote: > I have setup two samba domain controllers, both have basicly the same > configs and use the same ldap database backend. Often however when > logging in users will get a "domain cannot be contacted" e

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba/Firewall issues?

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Griffith
The setting are local master = yes domain master = yes perferred master = yes One side affect I am seeing in users are getting "xxx" domain not available error messages. I am also going to try to pull smbd/nmbd out of xinetd and run them in standalone mode. We are also running a very old dist.

[Samba] Samba/Firewall issues?

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, I am running into *possible* Samba/Firewall issues. Our Samba v3.0.11 server is also running iptables. In our log.nmbd file we have noticed the following: [2005/09/27 15:43:41, 1] libsmb/cliconnect.c:cli_connect(1313) Error connecting to 130.xx.xx.xx (Connection refused) [2005/09/27

[Solved] Re: [Samba] Samba closing printer prematurely?

2005-09-26 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, In the driver settings page I set the option print directly to printer and *not* to spool the print jobs. Problem solved. Thanks Paul On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:09:19PM -0400, Paul Griffith wrote: > Greetings Samba Users, > > I have a strange issue. Adobe Reader can&#

[Samba] Samba closing printer prematurely?

2005-09-20 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings Samba Users, I have a strange issue. Adobe Reader can't print to a Samba printer. It would be funny except it is happening to me Adobe Reader can't print PDF files to a true Adobe PS3 printer but GhostView can print PDF files without any problems. The printer in question is a Ricoh

Re: [Samba] any known issue with printing from MS Access ?

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Griffith
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:20:07PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > |> MS Access is known to have issues with certain drivers > |> if they have not been initialized on the server properly. > |> > | > | so, MS Acce

[Samba] creating local Windows users with Samba username/passwords?

2005-06-06 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, I have a little project I am working on. I need to provide a IIS server hosting ASP.NET pages for a new course. Since users will be ftping their files to their web home on the IIS server I would like them to have the same Linux and Windows password. So the question is it possible to ex

Re: [Samba] Gigabit Throughput too low

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, Can you post more info on your setup, i.e - configuration of machine, etc I am also looking into Linux network stack tweaks. I have seen my tweaks posted for GigE, but you have to be careful. You may actually get a lower throughput. For example: sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mem='8388

Re: [Samba] Slow printing on Windows XP SP2 -- no solution?

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Griffith
Try the following. Thank you for choosing Online Support for your Microsoft Technical Support offering. My name is Amy and I will be assisting you with this service request. For your reference, the Case ID of this service request is SRxxx. In your case log, you've indicated that you have

Re: [Samba] Samba v3.0.11 assigning privileges with custom pdb plugin

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Griffith
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:08:31PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Griffith wrote: > | Greetings, > | > | We have home grown user management backend system, > | and I have ported our v2.2.x passdb over to v3 ty

[Samba] Samba v3.0.11 assigning privileges with custom pdb plugin

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Griffith
Greetings, We have home grown user management backend system, and I have ported our v2.2.x passdb over to v3 type plugin. I am able to access files and print using our backend. I am running into trouble joining PCs to the domain. I am assuming the primary problem is that our backend system doesn

Re: [Samba] Mysql Password Backend

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Griffith
Did you solve your password backend problem? I am an also having problems trying to load my own plug-in. It seems that Samba can't find the init function to initialize the plug-in. If you find anything please let me know. Thanks Paul On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:13:09PM +0800, Evan Oberholster wr