Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-06 Thread Noob Centos Admin
I was back onsite and trying it again, in vain. Copied the conf from another site's working setup and dumped directly, recreated with the same names and all. No go. So again removed and install samba again, made a blank conf file, fire up SWAT and did the most basic config. Even chmod 777 the

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-06 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:46 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: I was back onsite and trying it again, in vain. Copied the conf from another site's working setup and dumped directly, recreated with the same names and all. No go. So again removed and install samba again, made a blank conf file,

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: I was back onsite and trying it again, in vain. Copied the conf from another site's working setup and dumped directly, recreated with the same names and all. No go. So again removed and install samba again, made a blank conf file, fire up SWAT and did the most basic

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-6-2009 1:46 AM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: I was back onsite and trying it again, in vain. Copied the conf from another site's working setup and dumped directly, recreated with the same names and all. No go. So again removed and install samba again, made a blank conf file,

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-06 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 14:53 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: on 3-6-2009 1:46 AM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: I was back onsite and trying it again, in vain. Copied the conf from another site's working setup and dumped directly, recreated with the same names and all. No go. So

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-23-2009 10:53 AM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various policies. So far, the easiest,

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-05 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: Learn to use a file editor and edit the configs yourself. That is the only way to have the best control. That's generally how I try to do things, except sometimes hand written doesn't work the way I expect it to. Then I'd

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-5-2009 12:03 PM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Scott Silva ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/w...@public.gmane.org wrote: Learn to use a file editor and edit the configs yourself. That is the only way to have the best control. That's generally how

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: I'm seriously befuddled by Samba now. I followed the good advice given and got the previous server set up nicely. I did the same thing on another one and it refuses to work. 1. useradd some users 2. gpasswd -a them to a staff group nd smbpasswd -a them 3. chmod

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-28 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if you want to do it the hard way, you probably have an Unfortunately I do want to do it the hard way. While the SME server would make things really easy, the lesson I learnt in the past with easy thing is that, once

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-28 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 02:44 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if you want to do it the hard way, you probably have an Unfortunately I do want to do it the hard way. While the SME server would make things really

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: But, if you want to do it the hard way, you probably have an Unfortunately I do want to do it the hard way. While the SME server would make things really easy, the lesson I learnt in the past with easy thing is that, once something break, I will really have no idea

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 02:44 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: you aren't too concerned about security, you can change this to 'security = share' and then you can browse before authenticating, and also have the option to authenticate as different users when connecting to different shares on

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-27 Thread Noob Centos Admin
I'm seriously befuddled by Samba now. I followed the good advice given and got the previous server set up nicely. I did the same thing on another one and it refuses to work. 1. useradd some users 2. gpasswd -a them to a staff group nd smbpasswd -a them 3. chmod g+s the staff directory 4. tested

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-27 Thread John Doe
From: Noob Centos Admin centos.ad...@gmail.com 8. tail -f samba logs but nothing happens, it's like samba never see the incoming request. Note that it doesn't log anything with smbclient -L either. Did you try to raise the log level (log level = 3)? I'm almost certain now that samba coder

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-27 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 17:59 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: I'm seriously befuddled by Samba now. I followed the good advice given and got the previous server set up nicely. I did the same thing on another one and it refuses to work. 1. useradd some users 2. gpasswd -a them to a staff

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-24 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a windows domain or AD in this picture somewhere? Not at all for all the usual Windows network migrations I've been setting up. Typically small offices with less than 20 people so they simply used workgroups

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a windows domain or AD in this picture somewhere? Not at all for all the usual Windows network migrations I've been setting up. Typically small offices with less than 20 people so

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: That makes it somewhat harder to use multiple machines since you end up having to create and maintain passwords on each. True, but the usual work behaviour here means that seldom happen. Even

[CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various policies. So far, the easiest, sureest and quickest method appears to be install WindowsXP into

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 02:53 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various policies. So far, the easiest,

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Ned Slider
Noob Centos Admin wrote: So far I've tried the following which all don't quite work. 1. CentOS's samba configuration tool - added users never show up on the share configuration so the only shares it could create was for public access. The samba configuration tool (system-config-samba)

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: probably not the answer you want to hear but... swat is supposed to be the tool for simple administration. I was afraid of that. By the time I gave up and completed the task manually, I was thinking maybe it might be

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: The samba configuration tool (system-config-samba) is finally fixed in 5.3 (due out soon) and will now correctly show added samba users :-) Honestly, I'm so glad to see this! Although I won't likely benefit from it until

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: probably not the answer you want to hear but... swat is supposed to be the tool for simple administration. I was afraid of that. By the time I gave up and completed the task manually, I was thinking maybe it might be easier to write my own script to