[Samba] Group Mappings

2012-02-08 Thread Simon Faulkner
Any ideas where to look next? TIA Simon -- Simon Faulkner 01538 303 900 Staffordshire Moorlands -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

[Samba] Screenshot

2012-02-08 Thread Simon Faulkner
Any chance anyone can take a look at this screen shot of the Administrator group on a Domain PC I can't figure out why it is showing the SID rather than the name of the group? TIA Simon -- Simon Faulkner 01538 303 900 Staffordshire Moorlands -- To unsubscribe from this list go

[Samba] upgraded to 3.6.2

2012-02-06 Thread Simon Faulkner
with group mapping net groupmap list used to show the half dozen or so groups but now it doesn't Have I broken it or is it no longer done that way? Any tips on troubleshooting would be most helpful... TIA Simon -- Simon Faulkner 01538 303 900 Staffordshire Moorlands -- To unsubscribe from

[Samba] Vampire and Capital Letters

2007-04-30 Thread Simon Faulkner
I find Linux to be a nightmare if usernames have capital letters. Some old Windows PDCs that we are vampiring have usernames with capital letters. AFAIK you can't change a windows username Is there a way of telling the vampire to make all usernames lowercase as it imports them? Can I use

[Samba] Samba OpenLDAP Setup

2007-04-20 Thread Simon Faulkner
I am trying to follow http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/appendix.html#altldapcfg It says: It is also necessary to preload the well-known Windows NT Domain Groups, as they must have the correct SID so that they can be recognized as special NT Groups by the MS Windows clients.

[Samba] Administering Groups

2005-11-12 Thread Simon Faulkner
I have my Samba PDC running :-) How do I administer groups from the samba box? usrmgr.exe runs on the workstation but won't let me see groups samba 3.0.14a-2 with tdbsam TIA Simon -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Re: Administering Groups

2005-11-12 Thread Simon Faulkner
paul kölle wrote: Simon Faulkner wrote: I have my Samba PDC running :-) How do I administer groups from the samba box? usrmgr.exe runs on the workstation but won't let me see groups have you setup groupmapping? Err, not sure! I used the vampire to get the details from the NT4 PDC I am

Re: [Samba] Re: Administering Groups

2005-11-12 Thread Simon Faulkner
I am wondering where to look for groups etc! Hmmm, it all seems to be done with net groupmap list It's great, as you peer down into the murk you understand the next layer and you realise there are many more layers of voodoo to go! wish me luck... Sim -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

Re: [Samba] Re: Administering Groups

2005-11-12 Thread Simon Faulkner
net groupmap list ntgroup=Domain Admins Domain Admins (S-1-5-21-1065375514-2370838480-4047619883-512) - -1 Does this mean I have no group for Domain Admins? Do I need to map them to root? TIA -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

[Samba] groupmap

2005-11-12 Thread Simon Faulkner
Why would I have some NT domains more than once? Did I screp up my import with the Vampire? Should I delete the unmapped ones (Gulp!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# net groupmap list System Operators (S-1-5-32-549) - -1 Replicator (S-1-5-32-552) - Replicator Guests (S-1-5-32-546) - Guests Recipe

Re: [Samba] groupmap

2005-11-12 Thread Simon Faulkner
it does appear that there is a problem with your setup. At this point you should try a tdbdump of your tdb passdb to see what it looks like and if it is garbage, delete it and start all over. If it looks good, you can net setlocalsid and it should take but the results of the other commands I

[Samba] RID

2005-11-10 Thread Simon Faulkner
! Unable to add machine! (does it already exist?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# Any idea where I might be going wrong? :-( TIA Simon -- Simon Faulkner Dedicated Programmes 01538 303 900 07771 845 326 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https

[Samba] Roaming Profiles - the next step

2005-11-08 Thread Simon Faulkner
Thanks to the enthuiastic help of Mr. Dan Shearer and the excellent writings of John H. Terpstra (Samba-3 by Example) I have migrated an NT4 PDC to Samba 3.0.14a-2 on Fedora Core 4 (Cries of amazement) The clients (XP, NT4WS, Win2K, 98 and 95) didn't notice the switch (once I had made all the

Re: [Samba] nt migration concerns

2005-10-07 Thread Simon Faulkner
1. what are the catches or gotcha's that i have to anticipate? 2. what approach should i take before i take the leap? 3. do i need ldap for samba pdc? 4. it simpliest terms what does ldap do? 5. just in case can i make our current nt4.0 become bdc? 6. having samba pdc, is it possible to

[Samba] UK Samba Consultant Required

2005-10-05 Thread Simon Faulkner
Hi All, I would like to migrate a 10 user NT4 Domain to a new Samba server. I have had a practice run but am struggling to make the (mostly) XP machines login to the new server without creating a new profile. I am sure that I migrated the SID but obviously I didn't get something right! Are

Re: [Samba] UK Samba Consultant Required

2005-10-05 Thread Simon Faulkner
Your message caught my eye. We support Samba but as much as we would love the opportunity, we haven't yet migrated a Windows PDC. My advice to you is, if you have 10 years Samba experience, you probably know as much as most. Perhaps you might repost to the list, with some more detail (logs

[Samba] Overview help with SIDs

2005-07-13 Thread Simon Faulkner
Hi All, I am migrating an NT4 PDC with around 30 accounts to our new FC4 server Samba Version 3.0.14a-2 I have managed to get as far as the vampire grabbing the data but it can't make the accounts: snip Creating account: DanielW Could not create posix account info for 'DanielW' Creating

[Samba] Group Policy

2003-02-04 Thread Simon Faulkner
Hello All, I have 12 XP Pro clients logging into my Samba 2.2.7 PDC :-) Roving profiles run OK but I want to get a little more control over the users to stop some of the annoying issues. I have read around and understand that if it was a Win2K server I would use 'Group Policies' to control the

[Samba] Password Overview

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Faulkner
I wonder if anyone would mind explaining Samba Password organisation for the hard of Samba? I understand that we have/etc/passwd and /etc/samba/smbpassword I use /usr/sbin/adduser to add a new Linux user I use smbpasswd username:username to add a new Samba user In particular my questions are:

[Samba] XP oplock woes

2003-01-07 Thread Simon Faulkner
It seems that it is just one of the XP workstations that has the problem. Could there be a registry setting that causes this error maybe? Simon ERROR FOLLOWS I keep getting problems with XP word documents becoming read only during editing and this is a typical log entry for the event:

[Samba] oplock_break

2003-01-06 Thread Simon Faulkner
I keep getting problems with XP word documents becoming read only during editing and this is a typical log entry for the event: [2002/11/12 10:00:03, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(761) oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds. oplock_break failed for file Jane/Computers/041102

[Samba] Samba slow to Windows clients

2003-01-04 Thread Simon Faulkner
Hi All, I have just built a new P 4 1.8 RH8.0 Server rpmed up to Samba 2.2.7-2 It works GREAT for smbmounted shares on my linux boxes and ssso on my Windows clients (2K and 98) Specifically, moving a 15 Mb file over my 100 MBit network with one hub takes around 20 sec for the

RE: [Samba] Samba slow to Windows clients

2003-01-04 Thread Simon Faulkner
but WHY? Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Faulkner Sent: 04 January 2003 08:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Samba slow to Windows clients Hi All, I have just built a new P 4 1.8 RH8.0 Server rpmed up to Samba 2.2.7-2