The add printer command example ...

2002-09-30 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, I added an example 'add printer command' script to the documentation that is printer_driver2.[sh][gt]ml ... I was wondering if anyone had any feedback? Regards - Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passdb interface design

2002-09-30 Thread Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
At 15:59 30.09.2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >*** PGP Signature Status: bad >*** Signer: Volker Lendecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Invalid) >*** Signed: 30.09.2002 15:59:49 >*** Verified: 30.09.2002 16:10:33 >*** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** > > >Hi! > > >Recently I have done some work on the

Re: Samba 3.0 A2 LDAP

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Dennis Lattka wrote: > There seems to be an issue with WINS as well as it does not seem to be > able to contact the ldap server. (Making it difficult to do much of > anything.) For the developement team, I am more than happy to run > whatever tests you may wish and look forwa

Re: Running smbd and nmbd using daemontools!!

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Handler
Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to run samba using the combination of daemontools and > > Anyone know where the daemontools patch is at ? I've been meaning to look > at getting it in one of these days. I was the one who generated the patch initially. As luck would have

Re: --wuth-tdbsam ?

2002-09-30 Thread Andrew Bartlett
Volker Lendecke wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:02:06AM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote: > > be raised. There may be no bugs, but we need more people using :-) > > > > I'll start up a server here later today > > BTW, all my tests for net rpc vampire were done with tdbsam. There seems to be

Re: Developer docs

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On 30 Sep 2002, Anu Engineer wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > I am trying to find this doc I cannot find it , can you please point me > to the correct location . Broken link. SWore I tested this. Sorry. The link is fixed now. give the mirrors a little bit to update. cheers, jerry ---

Re: Developer docs

2002-09-30 Thread Glen Gibb
Hi Jerry, I just tried taking a look at the document mentioned below and I'm afraid it's not there... at least not yet.. Glen Gibb On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Gerald Carter wrote: > Thanks to Jelmer we mow have a good framework for adding > Developer specific documentation. See > > http://www.samba.

Developer docs

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
Thanks to Jelmer we mow have a good framework for adding Developer specific documentation. See http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba-Developer-Guide.[pdf|html] for the current contents. I would really like to encourage developers to document the semantics of modules, interfaces, etc...

Re: nmbd cldap patch

2002-09-30 Thread Jim McDonough
>Why is the GUID a secret? Can't it be a configuration file option? Really, >it should be retrieved from the directory, but I appreciate that this is >difficult with the existing SAMBA architecture. It's not a secret. Just a matter of programming convenience at the prototype stage...it wasn't me

Re: nmbd cldap patch

2002-09-30 Thread Luke Howard
Why is the GUID a secret? Can't it be a configuration file option? Really, it should be retrieved from the directory, but I appreciate that this is difficult with the existing SAMBA architecture. -- Luke >From: "Jim McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: nmbd cldap patch >To: Gerald Carte

RE: DatabaseFS VFS module

2002-09-30 Thread Green, Paul
Perhaps you (Eric) would consider submitting this as an example? I would hate to see Samba link to a directory that will disappear if/when you move on. Or is that what you meant when you said you'd add a note, Jerry? PG -Original Message- From: Gerald Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: nmbd cldap patch

2002-09-30 Thread Jim McDonough
>> Here's a link to the patch that aliguori wrote and I cleaned up to respond >> to the connectionless ldap v3 requests for netlogon info. >> http://www-124.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/patches/?patch_id=540 > >Can we just check it in and surround if by an #ifdef ? Or is the code too >stre

RE: Sequence of buffers for reply_write

2002-09-30 Thread Green, Paul
We've had similar issues on the Stratus VOS system. This isn't a Samba issue; Samba is just passing along the behavior of the top-level clients (Winword, WordPad, Excel, and so forth). The Microsoft clients presume the ability to position to anywhere in the file and write data, and they don't rest

Re: DatabaseFS VFS module

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
Sounds interestingI'm going to add a note about it in the examples/VFS directory. cheers, jerry On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Eric Lorimer wrote: > Hello, > > I have created a VFS module which implements a fairly complete read-only > filesystem. It presents information from a database as a file

Re: --wuth-tdbsam ?

2002-09-30 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:02:06AM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote: > be raised. There may be no bugs, but we need more people using :-) > > I'll start up a server here later today BTW, all my tests for net rpc vampire were done with tdbsam. There seems to be an issue if you look at a user with

Re: --wuth-tdbsam ?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On 27 Sep 2002, Simo Sorce wrote: > I know of users using tdbsam, simply because they _do not_ want to use > ldap, but need the extended functionality of tdbsam, like setting per > user home directories, profile paths, expiration times, etc ... I agree. So this is my proposal. smbpasswd is sti

Re: --wuth-tdbsam ?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > I honestly doubt tdbsam is sufficiently stable for use as a default. I > think we need that kind of backend, but given it's extremly limited > testing, it worries me. Yes, this is circular dependency. I know we originally talked about tdbsam being

[PATCH] give add printer command the printer comment

2002-09-30 Thread Kurt Pfeifle
"metze" wrote on samba-digest: > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:14:17 +0200 > To: Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PATCH] give add printer command the printer comment > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi Jerry, > > her

Re: Samba 3.0 A2 LDAP

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Mike Brady wrote: > This has been around for a while. A fix that seems to work (at least it > seems to for me) has been posted more than once to the list. I do not > know why it hasn't been applied. > > It is simple to fix. In utils/testparm.c file; Doing it now. ch

Re: LDAP schema updates: How to deal with?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Axel Thimm wrote: > I have been running LDAP based Samba PDCs since more than half a year > now with great success (Thanks Samba team!). > > There have been some changes in the LDAP schema for Samba (I think > mostly OID changes). > > Are there any special actions needed wh

Re: nmbd cldap patch

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Jim McDonough wrote: > Here's a link to the patch that aliguori wrote and I cleaned up to respond > to the connectionless ldap v3 requests for netlogon info. > http://www-124.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/patches/?patch_id=540 > > I'm not so sure this belongs in nmbd, b

passdb interface design

2002-09-30 Thread Volker . Lendecke
Hi! Recently I have done some work on the passdb interface in order to get it work with 'net rpc vampire'. The main problem with both of them playing together is the question of RIDs. When doing the 'net rpc vampire', the PDC dictates our RIDs, and the old 2.2 style algorithmic uid->RID translati

Re: CVS update for alpha release - update

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On 27 Sep 2002, James Bowes wrote: > documentation on the web site regarding CVS did not list > the 3_0 branch Added. cheers, jerry - Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team

Re: Samba and SNAP

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Irving Carrion wrote: > MYVERSIONS > Debian 3.0 > ii samba 2.2.3a-6 A LanManager like file and printer > server fo > ii samba-common 2.2.3a-6 Samba common files used by both the > server a Please retest against the latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs and report bac

Re: Server name being truncated in Winbindd

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am runing Samba-3.0-alpha18 winbindd and attempting to join a w2k > domain that has a 15 character server name.. as you can see from the log > below the name gets truncated to 14 characters which then results in the > NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAM

Re: IPC$ Problems with Metaframe

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scarff, Chris J Mr (Titan) 513th wrote: > I'm not sure the BEST way to report this, but I found a solution for a major > problem we were having with our Samba Home directory server and Metaframe > 1.8 on NT TSE 4.0. There is a registry key you can set to cause the Windows N

Re: Windbind and Samba, What do I do next?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
Gareth, Please post general use questions to the main [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This list is for Samba development discussions. cheers, jerry On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Gareth Davies wrote: > I am using SAMBA 2.2.5 and Debian 3.0. ... > > How do I create and get home directories working

Re: Samba Installation

2002-09-30 Thread Gerald Carter
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Titus Syengo wrote: > I am a newbie in Linux and I wish to install Samba but Red hat looks so > different from MS products that I have no idea how applications can be > installed in Linux. i have downloaded the .tar.gz samba file but now I > am stuck. How do i go about instal

Samba Installation

2002-09-30 Thread Titus Syengo
Hi Folks, I am a newbie in Linux and I wish to install Samba but Red hat looks so different from MS products that I have no idea how applications can be installed in Linux. i have downloaded the .tar.gz samba file but now I am stuck. How do i go about installing Samba? Thanks in advance, Titus S

Re: Samba for VMS

2002-09-30 Thread John E. Malmberg
Richard Sharpe wrote: > > I notice that the latest Samba for VMS (2.2.4) says that it requires > TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS (possibly means the old UCX). > > The older version of Samba for VMS was able to work with several other > TCP/IP packages, esp those with UCX emulation. In reality onl

[PATCH] give add printer command the printer comment

2002-09-30 Thread Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
Hi Jerry, here's a small patch to add the printer comment as parameter for the add printer command. It also fix that smbd reloads the printers right. what is left to do is send a notify to the client that the printer list is updated. But I'm not familiar with this stuff... metze ---

Newbie

2002-09-30 Thread rod
Dear All I'm am very new to Linux and Samba, and have been going through the book "SAMBA is 24 hours" , by Gerald Carter. I have found this book to be extremely helpful and would highly recommend it to anyone exploring the potentials of Samba. My reason for writing is because I was using SAMBA w

Parse a PRINTER_INFO_2 structure

2002-09-30 Thread Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
Hi Jerry, I was playing a bit with the addprinter command... I got this parameters: printer->info_2->printername = \smb-1\PRT02SW printer->info_2->sharename = PRT02SW Shouldn't it be: printer->info_2->printername = PRT02SW printer->info_2->sharename = \smb-1\PRT02SW maybe the PRINT

Re: [Samba] Another Winbind question...

2002-09-30 Thread dj
Hello Gareth, See below for my comments. On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Gareth Davies wrote: > Still having problems with Winbind. > > I'm using Samba 2.2.5 and Debian 3.0. > > It seems to be 95% running now but where the documentation runs out...I > can't seem to get it working. > > Samba is sharing f

Another Winbind question...

2002-09-30 Thread Gareth Davies
Still having problems with Winbind. I'm using Samba 2.2.5 and Debian 3.0.It seems to be 95% running now but where the documentation runs out...Ican't seem to get it working.Samba is sharing fine, I can get to Public and Temporary shares and sharethe printers (not that I have any).But when i