[Samba] Samba4 and share quotas

2010-09-24 Thread Philip M. White
Hello, Does Samba4 support quotas? If so, how? I've not been able to get it to work. One idea I have is to use LVM to create a logical volume per shared directory, so that Linux rather than Samba caps the size. The downside is that if I want to cap each user individually, I must create an LV

Re: [Samba] Samba4, DNS, and joining clients

2010-09-12 Thread Philip M. White
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Michael Wood wrote: I think the first grant line is supposed to allow your clients to update their own A or records. Michael, you're absolutely right, and now I was able to get it to work. My debug level for BIND wasn't high enough to see that BIND

Re: [Samba] Samba4, DNS, and joining clients

2010-09-10 Thread Philip M. White
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:56:06PM +0200, Daniel Müller wrote: This is the same way with my samba4 domain. I dont think the dns_update_list is filled up with any ads client machines. Everything in my domain is workin as it should. I think the dns_update_list is there to make the start up named

Re: [Samba] Samba4, file permissions not respected

2010-09-10 Thread Philip M. White
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:51:42PM +0200, Daniel Müller wrote: from your windows client login to your domain as administrator. choose the share go to properties security advanced give the group and users permissions. It should work. Which permissions do you mean? Right now I have a file on my

Re: [Samba] Samba4, file permissions not respected

2010-09-10 Thread Philip M. White
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:01:17AM -0500, Philip M. White wrote: However, I can log in as Jane Doe, who is a Domain User but AFAIK not in the SYSTEM group, and modify that file. As Jane Doe I am not able to delete the file or change its permissions, however. Why is Jane Doe able to modify

Re: [Samba] Samba Windows 7 and logon scripts

2010-09-09 Thread Philip M. White
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:04:42AM +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: I'm trying to get Windows 7 to run a logon script which mounts a share at login. This works fine for Windows XP This doesn't address the logon scripts problem, but consider using Group Policy Preferences to map a drive at login.

Re: [Samba] Samba4 and Windows 7 password change

2010-09-09 Thread Philip M. White
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:22:37PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Perhaps it's a minimum password age? Can you tell me how I can check this or change this behavior? There isn't a group policy that sets a minimum password age, FWIW. -- Philip -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Samba4, DNS, and joining clients

2010-09-09 Thread Philip M. White
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:20:38PM +0200, Daniel Müller wrote: Did you add a client to your samba ads? This must work on the fly. You find the machine name in the ads directory. I see my clients in the Active Directory Users and Computers within MMC, if that's what you mean. I didn't add them

[Samba] Samba4, file permissions not respected

2010-09-09 Thread Philip M. White
Hi, all, I run the latest Samba4 with Windows 7 clients. I have a share that I created in smb.conf like so: [common] path = /home/pmw/installed/samba/common-share csc policy = manual read only = no Within it, I created a file using a regular user. That file has fine-looking security:

[Samba] Samba4, DNS, and joining clients

2010-09-08 Thread Philip M. White
Hi, all, With help from the Samba4/HOWTO and #samba, I was able to set up a Samba 4 domain controller with Bind 9.4.7. It seems to work for the most part. However, my Active Directory DNS never gets entries for any client machines. There is an A record for the DC, but never for any clients. I

[Samba] Samba4 and Windows 7 password change

2010-09-08 Thread Philip M. White
Hi, all, With the latest Samba4, I am not able to change a user's password via Windows 7. I was able to successfully set a password from within RSAT's Users while adding a new user, but that user cannot change his own password. When I try, Windows 7 tells me that the server rejected the