Four years ago, I migrated our network from Windows NT based servers to
Linux, Samba+LDAP based setups. This setup has worked fine. Last year,
we replaced our Exchange 5.5 server - the last real Windows server -
with Scalix. This last decision has come back to bite me.
Several new thingys
I've got a Samba (3.0.14a) controlled domain that contains 1 Windows
2003 Server as a member server. I've been thinking about using Terminal
Services from that machine to allow roaming users (ie, those outside of
the office) to connect to our network and get work done.
My only concern at this
Is there a way - without killing off Samba - to force a rebuild of the WINS
database that Samba is maintaining?
I've got a couple of completely bogus entries in WINS and I need to get rid of
them, but I can't take the Samba server down to do it. I'm hoping that I can
issue a couple of
Over the last three days I've been upgrading my Samba infrastructure. This
involved moving from Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 (Samba 3.0.9) to Ubuntu 5.10(Samba
3.0.14) and some new hardware. For the most part things went well. But I do
have some unresolved issues that I would like to get some
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:27 PM
To: Collins, Kevin
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Replacing a Samba+CUPS Print Server
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 09:06 -0500, Collins, Kevin wrote:
I've had
I've had a Samba print server in my network for nearly 4 years now. The time
has come for me to replace it with a more powerful machine. I have nearly 50
client machines (Windows 2000 and XP) attached to the printers that the
existing server has and I don't want to have to touch them during
-
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:11 PM
To: Collins, Kevin
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.9 == 3.0.14a migration LDIF problem
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:52 -0500, Collins, Kevin wrote:
I'm trying to migrate my
I'm in the middle of Samba 3.0.9 == 3.0.14a migration testing. Because I'm
using newer tools, I am also using a newer verions of the Samba LDAP Tools.
My older version, 0.8.4, used the 'mkntpwd' utility to generate NT passwords.
The new version, 0.9.1 defaults to using (what looks like) a
I'm trying to migrate my existing RedHat ES Samba PDC to Ubuntu. The RedHat
version of Samba is 3.0.9 and the Ubuntu version is 3.0.14a. Everything was
going fine until I tried to import the LDIF of the existing LDAP directory.
The LDIF actually imports all of the structure (OU and Group
I'm trying to migrate my existing RedHat ES Samba PDC to Ubuntu. The RedHat
version of Samba is 3.0.9 and the Ubuntu version is 3.0.14a. Everything was
going fine until I tried to import the LDIF of the existing LDAP directory.
The LDIF actually imports all of the structure (OU and Group
Gregory,
I am the System Manager for a 45 person Consulting Engineering firm that is
spread across three locations. We use Samba to provide file/print and
authentication services for the entire company. I have one PDC and two BDCs
tied together over three VPNs to make it all work. We still
Since we're on the subject of Samba over the WAN
(BTW, I'm running three offices with a Samba 3.0.9 PDC and two Samba 3.0.9 BDCs
over an FreeSwan based WAN and it works just fine. The WINS server is a must
in my book though.)
Last Thursday and Friday, one of the remove office's WAN lines
Yesterday I started to build a test network to evaulate our planned move to
Samba 3.0.14 and Debian. I started off by duplicating our LDAP directory.
On the exisiting Samba PDC/LDAP master machine, I did:
slapcat -v -l old.ldif
I put the 'old.ldif' file onto a floppy disk, went to the lab's
My question is this: My existing LDAP directory doesn't have thais
definition and I'm able to use the Administrator account
without problems.
So, why am I getting this error? Additionally, what impact
will this
change have (if any)?
Are you running the same version of ldap
I may be able to help on this one...we were having a similar problem and
just last week cured it. (I hope!)
I had to do two things:
1). On the clients having this problem, edit this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\GoOff
lineOnSlowLink. If
I don't know if this is your problem, but I had a similar problem with Samba
2.2.8 + LDAP. It turns out that my server was running out of file handles.
The culprit was NSCD. I killed it off and things have been fine ever since.
Good luck.
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Stéphane
This weekend I'm planning on replacing my exisiting Print Server with shiny
new hardware. (YEA!!!)
But I'm concerned about the 50+ users that I have connected to the 10
printers this machine shares. Is there anything I need to do to make this a
quick/easy/painless process? I know I'll have to
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Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:36 AM
To: Collins, Kevin
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.9 doesn't remove printjobs ?
Collins, Kevin wrote:
We just upgraded to Samba 3.0.9 (RedHat Enterprise 3
packages
We just upgraded to Samba 3.0.9 (RedHat Enterprise 3 packages) this weekend
and are now seeing similar issues on our workstations. I do not see any
printing related errors in our logs however. I do however see these backed
up print queues on every workstation. We run a mix of Windows 2000 (SP4)
To: Collins, Kevin
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.9 doesn't remove printjobs ?
Collins, Kevin wrote:
We just upgraded to Samba 3.0.9 (RedHat Enterprise 3 packages) this
weekend and are now seeing similar issues on our workstations. I do
not see
Lueck, Micheal wrote:
Collins, Kevin wrote:
My network is
controlled by a Red Hat ES 3 server running Samba 3.0.2...
Samba 3.0.2 IS pretty old these days... I'd suggest taking the time to get
up to 3.0.9 and then seeing where you stand. Remember to test on non
production servers when
I'm contemplating the upgrade for my production network from (Red Hat
Enterprises') version 3.0.2 to 3.0.7 (which is the latest from Red Hat).
So I start to peruse the changelog and I see this:
Syntax errors in the OpenLDAP schema file (samba.schema).
as one of 4 bullet items at the top of the
I have three users that are having trouble with my Samba network. This
trouble is composed of two (possibly distinct) issues. My network is
controlled by a Red Hat ES 3 server running Samba 3.0.2 with an LDAP
backend.
Issue 1: Laptop users, with Offline Files that are made of their My
Has anyone got this setup running? Can you point me to a HOWTO?
I'm stuck with a problem in smbldap_tools.pm when I do any kind of basic
thing. I keep getting this error:
==
vulcan root # smbldap-usershow.pl
I've been able to get PAM/NSS/LDAP working properly - silly typo. Still
failing on the smbldap-tools use though. :(
Kevin
Has anyone got this setup running? Can you point me to a HOWTO?
I'm stuck with a problem in smbldap_tools.pm when I do any
kind of basic thing. I keep getting
I've had a Samba 3.0.2 Print Server running for nearly 7 months now without
too much of a hitch on RedHat Enterprise ES 3.0. Late last week, RedHat
issued an Errata that moved Samba from the 3.0.2 base to the 3.0.4 base. So
when I did the up2date this weekend as part of my normal maintenance,
: Collins, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 July 2004 12:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Samba] Samba, CUPS and Windows Printer Queue
I've had a Samba 3.0.2 Print Server running for nearly 7
months now without too much of a hitch on RedHat Enterprise
ES 3.0. Late last week, RedHat
-Original Message-
From: Collins, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 July 2004 12:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Samba] Samba, CUPS and Windows Printer Queue
I've had a Samba 3.0.2 Print Server running for nearly 7
months now
without too much
Maybe :-)
This is from eventid.net:
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=3224source=netlogon
It points us to this Knowledgebase article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259736
#appliesto
If you got time, can you test the solution described there
Hi,
HEY! I may not going to be able to help, but I want to chime in here and
let you know that you're not alone. :(
Maybe with both your information and mine, something will pop-out in the
Coder's mind or someone else who has been having the same issue.
I got a problem using Samba 3.0.2a w
I have a Samba 3.0.2 LDAP-based domain that controls my company's three
offices. Outside of some minor hiccups (which we are working through -
thanks, John Terpstra) I'm only having one real difficulty. At random
times, a group of my users are loosing connection to their home folders.
A bit
I'm in the middle of a migration from Samba 2.2.7a to 3.0. I'm trying to
create an LDAP enabled back-end like I had in 2.2.7a.
During my testing, I've discovered that I no longer can use the user account
information in the LDAP directory to gain Unix shell access as I had
previously. This may
About two weeks ago, I posted a message to the list describing an error that
I've been getting with Word 2000 documents. The subject line of that mail
was: Samba 2.2.7a and Word 2000 = Corrupted (?) files; I submitted it on
10/15/03.
I've not heard from anyone with a response to that inquiry, so
I have a Samba 2.2.7a PDC (with an OpenLDAP backend) that seems to be giving
me trouble. Here's the scoop:
I have Windows 2000 Pro clients running Word 2000. Over the past several
days, a lot of them have had trouble with their documents - most of the time
during a save.
The most critical of
Hi,
I hope I'm not showing my ignorance here, but I'm not following you on this
one.
Could be a little more specific?
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Kristyan Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:56 PM
To: Collins, Kevin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE
the number of days for a password to live is the proper
way to go. But I don't know everything... :)
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Rauno Tuul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:07 PM
To: 'Collins, Kevin'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba + LDAP
I've got a Samba 2.2.7a domain with an LDAP backend. It's been working for
nearly 3 months now without much bother.
By the way: Great work and thanks for all of the effort!
I have been missing one minor thing from the setup since I moved away from
NT 4: Password Expiration. In the past I have
I have a problem on the two heaviest-used Samba servers in my company. They
both are exhibiting the same problem, just in different ways.
Stargazer is my Main File and LDAP directory server - it functions as the
PDC for my network. It's running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1, a
recompiled
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks like it's the Virus is forging my address now... :-( Jeesh.
What a waste. If the guys writing viruses would put their energies into
REAL code, we'd be so much farther ahead.
Later,
I've got a Red Hat Enterprise ES Linux Server running Samba 2.2.7a and
OpenLDAP 2.0.27 as my PDC in my main office.
I have on rare occasions gotten error messages from my users that seem to be
tied to MS Office 2000 files (Word in particular) similar this:
An error occurred while connecting P:
I have been searching a bit for documentation on the use of LDAP in
conjunction with winbindd. Can anyone please point me to further
documentation (if it exists) on the use of these two products together
in Samba 3 and what functionality they provide as a whole solution? I
know how winbind
I'm trying to definitely disable roaming profiles for my Windows 2000
clients. I've got a PDC with redhat 8 and samba-2.2.7a. To
achieve this I've commented out the line logon home logon path. When I
^
What you need to remember is that Samba _by_default_ will
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Collins, Kevin
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM
To: 'Karl Banasky'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Samba] Minor problem with CUPS printing.
Try printcap name = lpstat in the Global settings.
Karl-
Karl:
Tried that - no dice.
Anything else
I've gotta send a thinks out to Bob Crandell for this. For while he doesn't
know it, his smb.conf helped me fix my problem. His conf file had one extra
line in the [global] section concerning printers that mine did not.
I added disable spoolss = yes to my conf file and all is well - or at
least
Try printcap name = lpstat in the Global settings.
Karl-
Karl:
Tried that - no dice.
Anything else to try?
Kevin
I've got a Red hat 8.0 machine running the latest
up2date version of
Samba
(2.2.7 with Red Hat's patches) acting as a print server
using CUPS.
The
I have an NT4 PDC that I would like to replace with a Samba server. My
network also has a box running MS Exchange and Backoffice
(not the same box as the PDC).
What's the general roadmap for doing this?
Phil:
Funny you should ask :-) I'm two-thirds of the way down this path as I
I've got a Red hat 8.0 machine running the latest up2date version of Samba
(2.2.7 with Red Hat's patches) acting as a print server using CUPS.
The printing of documents is fine for the most part. But I have noticed one
thing that is really nothing more than an annoyance and was wondering if
I've got a Samba server that is acting as a member server in a Windows NT
Domain. I enabled CUPS printing yesterday and have shared the 4 printers to
the domain. I then added the printers onto a Windows 2000 client, and can
print just fine to any of them.
But I have two problems (read
On Wednesday, June 18, Seth Hollen wrote:
3ware makes great controllers, but you will be limited to the pci bus
bandwidth for the raid arrays.
instead of 8x40 I would look for the best cost/size ratio. I
think 120GB
hard drives can be found for around $100.00 (us)
I'd put 3 in a raid5 array
Hi All:
Stuff I'm using:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Samba 2.2.7
OpenLDAP 2.0.25
I followed the Idealx.org howto to build Samba+LDAP. I have a functioning,
replicating domain on my lab workbench right now. Then I began to explore
permissions on local shares, etc. when I discovered that to
Ok, after three more days of pulling my hair out, I'm still stuck. I've got
what I think is the problem, but I'm sure how to fix it.
I'm building a Samba PDC using the IDEALX.org HOWTO. I'm using samba 2.2.7
and openldap 2.0.27 that I compiled from the Red Hat Network. This is being
built on
On Friday, June 13, 2003 1:44 PM, Bruno Gimenes Pereti wrote:
Hi Kevin,
Hi Bruno, and thanks for responding...
Below are some files that I think are pertinent. The
/etc/openldap/ldap.conf, /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
/etc/samba/smb.conf, the
base.ldif that is from the IDEALX.org
Bruno,
As it turns out, all I had to do was enter this as my username when asked
for it during the join-domain process:
nesbitt.local\administrator
Up until now, I had just been using administrator. GEEESH, How
simplistic can it be? Something that small caused me days, no a WEEK of
grief!
I have a small test environment setup with the following:
Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Samba 2.2.7 - built from source
OpenLDAP 2.0.27 - built from source
OpenSSL 0.96b - built from source
Note: All packages were downloaded from the Red Hat Network as Source RPMs
- as far as I know,
Ok, I've got a Samba/LDAP PDC built. I've got my groups added and even have
users in those groups. But now I have a few administrative questions.
If these questions have be simple answers, be gentle - I'm a newbie.
1). How do I/Can I script the installation of a generic password into these
Jim,
Try this combination:
mount -t smbfs //server/share /mount/point -o
username=domain\user,password=password
This works for me.
Thanks,
Kevin L. Collins, MCSE
Systems Manager
Nesbitt Engineering, Inc.
(859) 233-3111 x24
I'm running samba 2.2.5 on a RedHat 8 box. I need to mount a
Matt Kunze wrote:
Herb Lewis wrote:
winbind use default domain = yes
This is for 3.0 samba and may partially work in 2.2.x
Thanks, this works perfectly. Now I'm wondering if it is
possible to not
Do you mind me asking what version of Samba you're using? I would like to
add
Is the throughput reported by smbclient represented in kilobits per second
or kilobytes per second?
I think this figure is represented as kilobits because of the format of the
string. (i.e. 4269.23 kb/s) Because the letters are lowercase (kb) instead
of capitals (KB). Is this correct?
Thanks,
Hi All,
I've got a machine that is acting as my backup server which I call
Valykyrie. Up until this weekend, this machine was running RedHat 7.3 and
Samba 2.2.5. Because of some political issues, I was forced to rebuild
the machine with SuSE 8.1 Professional and Samba 2.2.5.
Since the time of
Seth:
HP sold openmail to Samsung. It's called Samsung Contact now. Here's a
link: http://www.samsungcontact.com/en/ Been looking at it for a couple of
months now - I'm contemplating an Exchange replacement and this might the
one.
Intrepid:
My $0.02 worth on the SAMBA issue, I'd look to
Hi Benjamin:
5) Before starting smbd, nmbd winbindd I run 'wbinfo -A admin%password
-here is the error I get:
I think this is your problem: I believe smbd, nmbd and winbindd all
need to be running for this work. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I hope that helps
Thanks,
Kevin L.
Lamanna [mailto:jamesl;appliedminds.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:31 PM
To: 'Collins, Kevin'
Subject: RE: [Samba] Problems authentication with NT PDCs in
security =
server (was sercurity = user)
Sure, that would be great.
Thanks a lot.
--James
-Original Message
Fred:
I don't know if this is it, but do you have a DNS server or a HOSTS file
on the Windows machine(s) pointing to the IP of the Linux box? If not,
here is what (I think) is happening: Windows 98 will try to contact a
DNS server to locate the network machine and fail with a time out (which
Andrew Barlett wrote:
Domain trusts (in terms of us being a PDC trusting other DCs) are
currenetly a work in progress. We hope to have it finished for Samba
3.0.
However, why do you need domain trusts? (There are lots of
good answers
to this question, but make sure you do have one of
Steven Langasek wrote:
Having one PDC and two BDCs also gives you greater
fault-tolerance than
having three domains with a single PDC each.
Samba+LDAP can give you this fault tolerance; it can't give you trust
relationships today, without a lot of finagling.
Steve Langasek
postmodern
Andrew Barlett wrote:
Domain trusts (in terms of us being a PDC trusting other DCs) are
currenetly a work in progress. We hope to have it finished for Samba
3.0.
However, why do you need domain trusts? (There are lots of
good answers
to this question, but make sure you do have one of
Steven Langasek wrote:
Having one PDC and two BDCs also gives you greater
fault-tolerance than
having three domains with a single PDC each.
Samba+LDAP can give you this fault tolerance; it can't give you trust
relationships today, without a lot of finagling.
Steve Langasek
postmodern
Hi All:
Excuse me for butting in here, but I'm planning a migration from WinNT 4
to Samba in the near future and this thread has caused me to worry a
little.
Take the case that I'm planning: 3 Domains each to its own LAN
(connected via 128k Frame Relay lines to form a WAN) Each domain
currently
give me a pointer here?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Collins, Kevin [mailto:KCollins;nesbittengineering.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:38 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [Samba] Samba Server in a WinNT 4 Domain
Greetings all:
I currently have three Windows
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