Re: [Samba] Samba Intermittent Browsing Issue from Windows 2008 R2 box

2010-12-05 Thread Hamish McCullough
Hi Volker Can you point me in the direction of a binary based download for the later versions of samba? Kind Regards Hamish -Original Message- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] Sent: Monday, 29 November 2010 11:18 p.m. To: Hamish McCullough Cc: samba

Re: [Samba] Samba Intermittent Browsing Issue from Windows 2008 R2 box

2010-11-29 Thread Hamish McCullough
directly that way as opposed to sitting in server authentication mode? If this is the case then perhaps that will be a better way to fix my issue for starters before upgrading samba? Kind Regards Hamish -Original Message- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] Sent: Monday

[Samba] Samba Intermittent Browsing Issue from Windows 2008 R2 box

2010-11-28 Thread Hamish McCullough
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%U log level = 2 max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY local master = no domain master = no preferred master = no dns proxy = no Kind Regards Hamish -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

[Samba] Strange winbind behavior with netbios name, perfect with ip address

2005-07-08 Thread Hamish
-SUSE Cheers, Hamish pgpgUsgXcORhl.pgp Description: PGP signature -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Problems after changing security = domain to security = ads

2005-06-07 Thread Hamish
On Monday 06 June 2005 13:22, Hamish wrote: Hello all I have a samba domain member authenticating to a w2k3 server, after installing SP1, there were problems, and a solution I found was to change to security = ads. This seemed to work fine, but today no-one can get their home drives, and some

[Samba] Browsing [homes] fine with smbclient/konqueror, fails with XP sp2

2005-06-07 Thread Hamish
Hi all Samba Server: SuSE 9.0 Version 3.0.14a-SUSE security = ads (w2k3 AD server with sp1) After much head scratching, I have found this: My linux client (SuSE 9.2, Samba Version 3.0.15pre2-0.1-SUSE) can view the home share perfectly, with `smbclient -L smbserver`, and with smb:/[EMAIL

Re: [Samba] Browsing [homes] fine with smbclient/konqueror, fails with XP sp2

2005-06-07 Thread Hamish
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:42, Hamish wrote: Hi all Samba Server: SuSE 9.0 Version 3.0.14a-SUSE security = ads (w2k3 AD server with sp1) After much head scratching, I have found this: My linux client (SuSE 9.2, Samba Version 3.0.15pre2-0.1-SUSE) can view the home share perfectly

Re: [Samba] Browsing [homes] fine with smbclient/konqueror, fails with XP sp2

2005-06-07 Thread Hamish
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 17:51, Hamish wrote: Update: After more googling, i have found that others have experienced similar problems: I can also use the ip instead of the dns/nmb name, and it works fine.. \\www.xxx.yyy.zzz\username

[Samba] Problems after changing security = domain to security = ads

2005-06-06 Thread Hamish
Hello all I have a samba domain member authenticating to a w2k3 server, after installing SP1, there were problems, and a solution I found was to change to security = ads. This seemed to work fine, but today no-one can get their home drives, and some people are denied access to shares where the

Re: [Samba] Samba w/o local users on Samba server?

2005-06-06 Thread Hamish
On Monday 06 June 2005 16:37, Robert Schuettler wrote: Hi everyone, is it possible to have a Samba server without creating local accounts for users on that server? Share level security doesn't count though. ;-) The idea is not to need to create and update users on the Samba server itself

Re: [Samba] Problems after changing security = domain to security = ads

2005-06-06 Thread Hamish
On Monday 06 June 2005 13:22, Hamish wrote: Hello all I have a samba domain member authenticating to a w2k3 server, after installing SP1, there were problems, and a solution I found was to change to security = ads. This seemed to work fine, but today no-one can get their home drives, and some

Re: [Samba] Problems after changing security = domain to security = ads

2005-06-06 Thread Hamish
On Monday 06 June 2005 13:22, Hamish wrote: Hello all I have a samba domain member authenticating to a w2k3 server, after installing SP1, there were problems, and a solution I found was to change to security = ads. This seemed to work fine, but today no-one can get their home drives, and some

Re: [Samba] Problem with wbinfo

2005-03-30 Thread Hamish
Have you joined the box the domain? Sorry. I didn't understand! Have you run the following command? net join -U Administrator pgpkSmPiQdHnT.pgp Description: PGP signature -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] A small question on Winbind

2005-03-29 Thread Hamish
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:29, Phibee NOC wrote: Hi it's possible with wbinfo that get a information: 1- Get all users of one Active Directory Group this can be done with getent passwd {groupname} - not sure how to do it with wbinfo 2- Get all groups of one username ? Not 100% sure

Re: [Samba] Windows XP greyed-out Guest user password prompt

2005-03-29 Thread Hamish
On Monday 28 March 2005 20:07, Jules Agee wrote: updates]         comment = Software Updates         path = /var/local/fileshare/admin/updates         browsable = no         create mask = 774         group = SystemAdmin         directory mask = 0775         nt acl support = no    

Re: [Samba] Problem with wbinfo

2005-03-29 Thread Hamish
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 13:13, Ricardo Maciel wrote: Hello, I'm using a Samba client to access a Samba Server. The smbclient tool is ok, both at the client as at the server. I'm having trouble with the wbinfo command (winbind service) at the client, as you can see below. Can anybody help

Re: [Samba] Printer (PDF) Problem

2005-03-16 Thread Hamish
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:33 +, Nick Gushlow wrote: Hi guys, I've got a PDF printer setup on one of my Samba boxes that has been running fine for months; however I'm now having problems with it despite that fact that I've made no changes to Samba and performed no upgrades. I'm thinking

Re: [Samba] can print test page in the redhat, but can't print through the samba share print,why?

2005-03-02 Thread Hamish
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:24 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can print test page in the redhat, but when i use the samba shared printer to print test page, it is said test page failed to print why? I had this recently, try to follow your samba log file (tail -f

Re: [Samba] ACL Access Denied from Windows XP workstation-2nd try

2005-02-19 Thread Hamish
On Saturday 19 February 2005 17:20, Steve OBrien wrote: However when I manage the samba server through Windows XP MMC and attempt to change permissions on the security tab of the finance share I get Access is Denied. What is the acl on the directory? (you can get it with `getfacl

Re: [Samba] Copying/migrating profiles

2005-02-19 Thread Hamish
On Saturday 19 February 2005 14:59, Colin E. McDonald wrote: What is the best way to copy or get the original user profile without having to manually copy all of the contents of the original profile? Not sure of any automatic way of doing it, but you can use the windows profile copier. Once

[Samba] Mount 2k3 hidden share

2005-02-14 Thread Hamish
Hello everyone Sorry, I know this has been asked before, but according to my searches, has been answered in as many different ways, I have tried a couple of them and failed: Basics: I can browse the share fine using konqueror (smb:/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/statdata$) I am using SuSE rpms - Version

Re: [Samba] Doubt

2005-02-11 Thread Hamish
On Thursday 10 February 2005 22:33, Jorge Bastos wrote: Howdy people, How can i resolv a little thing that i have here. Why findsmb doesn't show me the computer if it is using the SP2 (win xp) ? I use findsmb alot. Jorge Bastos I think its probably the firewall - disable it on the xp

Re: [Samba] Doubt

2005-02-11 Thread Hamish
On Friday 11 February 2005 10:41, Jorge Bastos wrote: Of course it's not the firewall, i'm not that dumb, firewall's disabled. I can do a nmblookup machine_name I was trying to help by giving info that I though was useful, sorry it didnt work out. If I turn off my firewalls or configure them

Re: [Samba] samba - log

2005-02-09 Thread Hamish
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:04, n r wrote: hi, When I consult the logs of samba, I have files like: @ip of a station.log name of the station.log log.smbd nmbd.log smbd.log log.smbd Why do I have this redundancy? In /etc/samba/smb.conf, I have: log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log log

Re: [Samba] Active Directory + Samba 3.0.10 - how to deal with owners and permissions

2005-01-28 Thread Hamish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've a running samba system that works with a ADS auth. All looks like to work. I can get the list of Domain users and groups (wbinfo -u, wbinfo -g), and getent passwd works too. Now I want to share a directory(or volume) and that the DOMAIN/Administrator be the owner

Re: [Samba] Active Directory + Samba 3.0.10 - how to deal with ownersand permissions

2005-01-28 Thread Hamish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would just leave the filesystem to sort that out: mkdir mydirectory chown DOMAIN/Administrator mydirectory (be aware of winbind seperator =) add the share to samba normally Now when users browse to it (if they have permission) they will be able to see the owner is

Re: [Samba] Any danger in having two shares with same name?

2005-01-27 Thread Hamish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Don't ask why I'm posing this question -- actually, I WILL explain below -- but is there any danger in having two shares in Samba with the same name? Here's our situation. We have a bunch of production machines out in the field. On those machines, we are

Re: [Samba] SWAT status page

2005-01-24 Thread Hamish
Hamish wrote: Hello everyone I have not used SWAT for quite a while, and there have been upgrades since last using it (currently running on 3.0.10-SUSE on a SuSE 9.0 i386 box). It logs on fine, but it displays the status of smbd incorrectly: even though it is running, it displays not running

[Samba] SWAT status page

2005-01-20 Thread Hamish
Hello everyone I have not used SWAT for quite a while, and there have been upgrades since last using it (currently running on 3.0.10-SUSE on a SuSE 9.0 i386 box). It logs on fine, but it displays the status of smbd incorrectly: even though it is running, it displays not running. All the

Re: [Samba] Moving fileserver

2005-01-19 Thread Hamish
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I'm having a problem here I'm not sure how to solve, so I hope someone else have done the same (and succeeded :) I have an old smb server ('tux') which is ancient (both in software and hardware) and can't handle the load. This machine is running version 2.2.3a-14.1 (Debian

Re: [Samba] Windows passwords change (again)

2005-01-13 Thread Hamish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i will like my pass words I love my passwords as well! Sometimes when I'm feeling down, I just think of my passwords, and I'm happy again. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] sharing Outlook Contacts Calendar

2005-01-11 Thread Hamish
Dear Sirs, what can You advice on sharing MS Outlook Conatacs Calendar for samba domain ? (I did some investigation on this subject, but I didn't find any beautiful solution at all) Cheers, Ilia Chipitsine -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Where are Windows file permissions stored and how to change them?

2005-01-11 Thread Hamish
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi there, well, im not really sure about what im going to say, but i think you must add users to samba with smbpasswd or import them from an existing users table. anyone else can give some light? adding the users is not the problem. If I added them and then just cp the

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-08 Thread Hamish
Mitch (WebCob) wrote: The problem of the connectivity error seems to have been persistant for the duration of the windows login - so whatever I had screwed up I think I must have fixed, but I still have concerns... (and oodles of ideas - I could use this same process to create a fax gateway

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Hamish
just happens to invoke a script that does the -pdf-mail thing rather than submitting it to an actual print queue. This is what I use, it is a simple script called from smb.conf. I have saved the script in /usr/bin and made it executable. #!/bin/bash # Made by Hamish # Simple script using

Re: [Samba] netlogin scripts

2004-12-01 Thread Hamish
3. Does anyone have a good example of a netlogin script to simply map drives, that I could see? Give kixtart a try, it is very flexible, and easy for mapping drives etc http://www.kixtart.org/ You will also find a big selection of demo scripts to hack for your own pleasure. Here is the

Re: [Samba] netlogin scripts

2004-12-01 Thread Hamish
isn't that easier with the commands that are already with Windows? net use X: \\server\share /user:username\domainname password-in-plain Tomek A lot easier, but I could not find a way to check group membership, get the current user name or modify registry settings with the available windows

Re: [Samba] Question about samba 3.0.9

2004-11-30 Thread Hamish
Richmond Dyes wrote: I have been setting up my domain server using FC2 and samba 3.0.9. First thing, for your information: In the notations in several sources, it tells you to user logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u this is wrong. It should be, logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U. Now that I spent 5

Re: [Samba] Re: 3.0.9

2004-11-24 Thread Hamish
Christian Marx wrote: Hi, du you know any web sources about getting sage office line to work with samba? thanks, chris Not sure of any links Chris, it was a worry about getting it working, but it just worked with no trickery whatsoever. Our accounts dept is smallish, so there is a max of

[Samba] 3.0.9

2004-11-23 Thread Hamish
Just a quick thanks to everyone involved with samba3 dev, I upgraded last night from 3.0.7 to 3.0.9 and it went really smoothly - just had to reset the permissions on /var/spool/samba so that people could print again! (It seems to reset perms each upgrade, but at least I know this now!). We

Re: [Samba] Migration to Samba

2004-11-11 Thread Hamish
Dean Landry wrote: I'm migrating to Samba on about 50 desktops. After I join the domain (this is on Windows 2k or XP) I get a whole new set of settings (under documents and settings). Is there a way to tell Windows to use the old directory? It matches their username on samba if that helps.

[Samba] winbind use default domain

2004-11-10 Thread Hamish
Hello Everyone I have set winbind use default domain, but am getting this in the log: [2004/11/10 15:16:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(262) MYDOMAIN+Debbie closed file Sage10/ACCDATA/SALINDEX.DTA (numopen=1) [2004/11/10 15:16:34, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245) Debbie opened file

[Samba] Winbind type email

2004-11-02 Thread Hamish
Hello all Sorry to post this hugely off-topic, but i have no clue where to start. We are looking to replace an Exchange server with something with less licencing issues, is there a way to use windbind (or winbind-ish behaviour) for an email server (ie users authenticate through winbind to log

Re: [Samba] Network failure?

2004-11-02 Thread Hamish
Hi Darryl Could you post the part of your samba logs where it seems to stop? (it would normally be in /var/log/samba/log.smbd for suse i think) it might also be an idea to check all your tdb files with `tdbbackup -v /var/lib/samba/*.tdb` - these files should be in /var/lib/samba on suse I

Re: [Samba] Administrator

2004-11-01 Thread Hamish
If you add a user in the form DOMAIN\User you will be an administrator for that box. Maybe you just added the user as user - this will only work for local logins, to log in as a network user (on to the domain) add the user in the domain\user format, works perfectly here on xpsp2 and w2k. Alex

Re: [Samba] Missing folders when accessing via Samba ?

2004-10-11 Thread Hamish
A long shot, but maybe try `hide unreadable = no` and `hide unwriteable = no`? charlie wrote: I have the same trouble, but in my case is with Win XP machines and G5.The G5, lost some files in transfers of big number of files, and then this same files look like dissapear in the XP machine when

Re: [Samba] random errorsthe local drive name is already in use. This connection has not beenrestored.

2004-10-05 Thread Hamish
I think this is possibly a windows problem, I have had the same error in high usage workgroup situations with win2000. There is a relatively simple fix, I think if you search MS for the error message it is there. H Brad Otto wrote: Try using: net use * /delete /yes Before mapping any drives in

Re: [Samba] Switch profile from local to roaming?

2004-10-03 Thread Hamish
You could try this: on the local computer add an account, right click my computer manage Local Users and Groups rclick add user. Put your domain in and the user name (the user must be a domain user already) Make them a power user. Log off, log on as new user to domain, log off (this will

Re: [Samba] Re: [cups.general] Re: Windows Clients keep finished jobs in Queue

2004-09-30 Thread Hamish
Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:29, Ryan Suarez wrote: I'm also seeing this problem. We're running samba 3.0.7 with CUPS 1.1.20. The clients printing are WinXP Professional SP1. The jobs printed are still displayed in the Windows printer status window, even though

Re: [Samba] winbind stops responding

2004-09-29 Thread Hamish
Have you tried stopping nscd? I know it causes problems with winbind Borut Kurnik wrote: Hi! Windbind ocasionally stops responding. Both winbind processes are still there, but eig. wbinfo -u returns Error looking up domain users. I've got to restart winbindd to reactivate it again. Nothing in

Re: [Samba] smbmount curiosity - cant mount share in rc.local

2004-09-29 Thread Hamish
No idea if it would work, but have you tried putting it in /etc/fstab? Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Hello, I would like to mount a certain share when the server is booted. So I added the following line at the end of rc.local: /bin/mount -t smbfs -o guest //backup/archiwizacja$ /mnt/archiwizacja

Re: [Samba] WINBIND Problem.....

2004-09-29 Thread Hamish
Sorry for obvious question, but have you made sure that you have write permission to the directory you are trying to write to? Travis Bullock wrote: Hello again. Still have not resolved this winbind issue, although it may not be winbind at all. The odd thing is, when I attempt to access a share

Re: [Samba] Too many handles on this pipe

2004-09-21 Thread Hamish
of these messages! I will report again tomorrow... Hamish wrote: Hi Jerry The samba server is 3.0.7-SuSE from suse rpms, running on suse 9.0. It is running in domain member mode, auth against w2k3 server with winbind. It is just a file/print server, with nothing too fancy about

Re: [Samba] Too many handles on this pipe

2004-09-20 Thread Hamish
Hi Jerry The samba server is 3.0.7-SuSE from suse rpms, running on suse 9.0. It is running in domain member mode, auth against w2k3 server with winbind. It is just a file/print server, with nothing too fancy about it. Is there a way to find out which client is causing it? Thanks, Hamish Gerald

Re: [Samba] wbinfo -g works, -u fails

2004-09-17 Thread Hamish
May sound stupid, but have you checked your nsswitch.conf? I made the mistake of forgetting to add winbind for group and had similar problems, also make sure nscd is not running Matt R wrote: Attempting to get Winbind to authenticate against a Windows 2000 Domain, I am having one odd issue.

Re: [Samba] Winbind - Getting W2K-User Names Problem

2004-09-14 Thread Hamish
Have you tried to put 'winbind use default domain = no' in your smb.conf? This seems like the behavior that setting =yes would cause. Hope that helps H Pallas Bernhard wrote: Hallo List, I have set up a SAMBA 3.0.7 as a ADS-Domain Member with Kerberos and/or rpc. Kerberos seems to work fine.

Re: [Samba] Browsing Sucks on VPN

2004-09-14 Thread Hamish
It looks like your client that is doing this, have you tried adding your wins/dns server to your vpn client setup? (In XP it is in properties tcp/ip properties advanced wins/dns of the vpn connection) Saad Ahmed wrote: Hi, I am using Samba on RH9 for providing namaing services. We were

Re: [Samba] Winbind - Getting W2K-User Names Problem

2004-09-14 Thread Hamish
Make sure nscd is off as well, you can do this with `/etc/init.d/nscd stop` most of the time, restart samba afterwards as well and you should be ok Pallas Bernhard wrote: Hallo Hamish and List yeah, this was the bug!! Thanks a lot. But now, I have another problem: getent passwd does not show

Re: [Samba] Giving Up On ADS

2004-09-02 Thread Hamish
This is quite simple, you will just have to add your windows users to the samba box for authentication (same as you would for a 2k/xp box) and set security = user A. Clausen wrote: Well, I've declared defeat, at least for the moment. I can't get kerberos to talk nicely with the Win2k DC. Not

[Samba] Home directories in samba 3.0.6

2004-08-24 Thread Hamish
Hello all Just in case anyone has similar problems: We have a kixtart script which maps folders for users, I am not sure where it happened, but I made a mistake with users home directories. A couple of users were not copied from our old 2000 server during the move to samba and so were created

Re: [Samba] Too many handles on this pipe

2004-08-16 Thread Hamish
is the only driver which it works with) Thanks, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hamish wrote: | I removed and reinstalled samba 3.0.3pre2-SuSE on a SuSE 9.0 | server in a failed attempt to upgrade to 3.0.5 (there | were many cryptic dependancy errors

[Samba] winbind / ldap

2004-08-12 Thread Hamish
Hello Im not sure how to ask the question i need, but let me try: Background: SuSE 9.0 Samba from rpms: samba 3.0.3pre2-SuSE Role: domain member server (winbind) I am having a lot of trouble upgrading samba and I'm thinking of moving to another server. I have found that if I move the

Re: [Samba] winbind / ldap

2004-08-12 Thread Hamish
Thanks, I will have a read and let you know, any idea if there is a way to import/export idmaps? H Manfred Odenstein wrote: its on http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#ch6-ldifadd Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2004 11:19 schrieb Hamish: Hello Im not sure how to ask

[Samba] Refusing to create user that already exists

2004-08-12 Thread Hamish
Help! My Samba server keeps falling over with this in the winbind logs (USERNAME replaced): [2004/08/12 14:54:02, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_acct.c:winbindd_create_user(884) winbindd_create_user: Refusing to create user that already exists (USERNAME) Has anyone seen this? Thanks H -- To unsubscribe

[Samba] Too many handles on this pipe

2004-08-02 Thread Hamish
I removed and reinstalled samba 3.0.3pre2-SuSE on a SuSE 9.0 server in a failed attempt to upgrade to 3.0.5 (there were many cryptic dependancy errors, after a day with google, i gave up) Everything seemed to work ok after the install (from suse rpms) but the logs are full of: [datetime,0]

Re: [Samba] Upgrade question - please be gentle! - failed dependencies?

2004-07-30 Thread Hamish
wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:34, Hamish wrote: Thanks Craig, Will it work if I remove samba 3.0.3 completely (rpm -e) and then install 3.0.5? Craig White wrote: This is an act of pure desperation and nothing that I could ever in good conscience suggest to someone. Not charming doesn't

Re: [Samba] Read Write by everyone over network

2004-07-30 Thread Hamish
Hi Robin, Make sure that the directory /shared is writeable by the user you are connecting as: the easiest way to do this is `chmod 777 /shared` (not sure if there is a better permission to put on it, but it works) Hope that helps, H Robin Wilson wrote: Hi I have managed to successfully set

Re: [Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain

2004-07-30 Thread Hamish
` - this gives the world read, write and execute on the dir. PS. Try to respond via the samba list, this makes it possible for other people to search (so if someone else has the same problem, they can just search the list - reply all works!) Tim Barone wrote: Hamish, I feel like I'm getting

Re: [Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain

2004-07-29 Thread Hamish
Make sure winbind is running (have you edited nsswitch.conf to include winbind?) and that nscd is not running. You can stop nscd and restart all the samba services with `/etc/init.d/nscd stop` then `/etc/init.d/smb restart` `/etc/init.d/nmb restart` `/etc/init.d/winbind restart` Hope this

Re: [Samba] Upgrade question - please be gentle! - failed dependencies?

2004-07-29 Thread Hamish
problems with sernet suse samba packs after update relating to cups Regards Hamish schrieb: Hello I am planning to upgrade our production samba server (3.0.3pre2-SuSE on SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.6.5-10) tonight to 3.0.5. Is there anything I should know about things breaking during this upgrade? I will just

[Samba] move samba file and print shares

2004-07-29 Thread Hamish
Hello all Is this possible?: samba3.0.3pre2 running as domain member with winbind, acls on reiser providing file security this is all on a seperate disk mounted as 'data1' Could I take this disk, put it in a new box, mount it again as data1, then copy the old smb.conf over to the new box? (I

Re: [Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain

2004-07-29 Thread Hamish
strange things happening when my server started trying) you can do this by adding: local master = no and preferred master = no to your smb.conf Hopefully that should give you all you need to run ;) H Tim Barone wrote: Hamish, thanks so much for getting back to me! I made sure to follow all of your

Re: [Samba] Upgrade question - please be gentle! - failed dependencies?

2004-07-29 Thread Hamish
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 03:36, rruegner wrote: Hi, i updated my systems with the killing method rpm --nodeps --force i know this is not charming but it worked with the suse packs since samba 3.0 up to samba 3.04 but i strongly recommend to test this first on a test system Best Regards Hamish

[Samba] Upgrade question - please be gentle!

2004-07-28 Thread Hamish
Hello I am planning to upgrade our production samba server (3.0.3pre2-SuSE on SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.6.5-10) tonight to 3.0.5. Is there anything I should know about things breaking during this upgrade? I will just do it with `rpm -Uvh --repackage samba*` - I have tried this on a test server and it

Re: [Samba] Restricting file types

2004-07-09 Thread Hamish
This works well for file servers only, but there is a way round it which might be good to bear in mind - Say you have blocked /*.php/*.asp/ to prevent samba users making scripts on your web server (i am guessing that you have shared your webroot?) Now make a php file, rename it to file.txt and

[Samba] Adding printers

2004-07-06 Thread Hamish
Hello all Is there a way to make printers show up on a samba server for windows clients without restarting smbd and nmbd? Thanks, H -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Moving Profiles

2004-07-06 Thread Hamish
I guess there are not too many users to move over? (also that you are using win2k/xp) There is a way to move the profiles *after* they have been joined to the PDC. Log in to the machine with the new username, this will create a new profile, log out immediately. Log in as an admin account (but

Re: [Samba] on the fly access and privilege determination

2004-07-05 Thread Hamish
You could enable ACLs and set permissions with those, using the normal windows security dialog. There is a howto here: http://www.bluelightning.org/linux/samba_acl_howto/ Once ACLs are working, just set up permissions as you would on a windows file server. If you do not want to use ACLs you

Re: [Samba] Samba/win2k ??

2004-07-02 Thread Hamish
It depends on how they are authenticating, do they log on to a domain or is it just a workgroup? Sheakoski, Corey M (PKI) wrote: You could also use valid users = user1 user2 @group1 @group2 I was hoping to do it that way, but have so far been able to get it to work. Enter that into the config

Re: [Samba] The semaphore timeout period has expired

2004-06-25 Thread Hamish
work reliably, please let me know! Cheers, Hamish Aleksandrov, Oleg wrote: Hello Hamish. I found your message just googling for Suse and sk98lin. Did you solve your problem? I had the same case and only way to restore was to change NIS driver speed settings from AUTO to 10Mb. And it was not related

[Samba] NT Backup patch - BUG ID 1345

2004-06-25 Thread Hamish
against the samba server) is patchable. This is my problem. I am not proud. Please could someone point me in the right direction for patching my installation, bearing in mind that i have installed from rpms and that i am a bit of an idiot. Cheers, Hamish -- To unsubscribe from this list go

[Samba] Unjoin Domain

2004-06-16 Thread Hamish
Hello, I would like to rename my w3k AD domain (I am fine with this process) - one thing that worries me is how the samba 3.0.3pre2 Suse 9.0 server will handle it. Should I delete the computer account from AD? Is there an unjoin/rejoin domain procedure for samba? For the domain name change to

Re: [Samba] Erronous username character substitution ( %u )

2004-06-16 Thread Hamish
Have you tried with %U (not %u)? I have not tried this, but apparently it is the session username (ie requested username, not necessarily the given username). Jeroen Vogelpoel wrote: Good day, I'm having a few problems with Samba 3.0.2a, specifically involving the username character

Re: [Samba] Samba + ACL backup solution

2004-06-15 Thread Hamish
I did not know that webmin had a module to backup files as well as ACLs (all i could find was a dump module), could you give me a url to get the module from pls? Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 21:42, Hamish wrote: Hello all I am looking for a good backup solution for samba shares

Re: [Samba] Printer Drivers

2004-06-11 Thread Hamish
I am no expert but I struggled for a bit with this as well... What it looks like you need to do is add a raw print queue, this is fairly simple, you may need to edit some files as well. If you use CUPS, look for and uncomment #application/octet-... in the files: /etc/cups/mime.types and

Re: [Samba] detailed file permissions

2004-06-09 Thread Hamish
We have samba 3.0.3 using posix acls, it does not seem to allow the same functionality of nt acls though - they do map to the nt security dialog which is useful, but only using combinations of rwx. I do not think it is possible to set explicit delete permissions with posix acls. I would be

[Samba] hide unreadable

2004-06-07 Thread Hamish
in) - is there something I need to do to make these shares hidden? Thanks, Hamish -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Security question

2004-06-07 Thread Hamish
be able to do anything in the domain, and direct access the smb.conf would be required. Thanks so much, Derek On Jun 7, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Hamish wrote: Not sure how you would do it with samba as PDC, but you can add a GPO in server2000 - allow users to join domain - userlist

Re: [Samba] Domain security, users still asked for login

2004-05-28 Thread Hamish
After installing 3.0.4 on suse, I had the same problem again, I figured it out this time! nscd was still running... stop nscd (on suse /etc/init.d/nscd stop) and it works fine! Sorry for the hassle! Hamish wrote: Hi Jerry Thanks for your patience, I have tried installing 3.0.3 again and it has

Re: [Samba] samba printpdf setup broken in later versions

2004-05-27 Thread Hamish
I have a script which emails the pdf if you like? (I have now modified this to just email a link to the pdf, but it can be changed back fairly easily) Im no scripting expert but it works, if you improve on it - please send me a copy! ---

Re: [Samba] Locked files stay locked - copy operation from XP to Samba fails

2004-05-27 Thread Hamish
I am having a very similar problem copying files from the old sbs server - I thought it might be the onboard nic (1gig on asus board) so I have installed an intel pro1000 (e1000 module) - this seemed to work but i have just had another crash (I am a relative newbie to linux so did not know how

[Samba] strange [homes] behavior

2004-05-26 Thread Hamish
with this is that they can also connect to anyone elses home directory. The only other alternative I can think of is to individually set permissions on each users home folder, which will take quite a while! Any suggestions? Thanks, Hamish -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

[Samba] user 'root' does not exist

2004-05-25 Thread Hamish
\administrator printer admin = MYADDOMAIN\administrator read only = No ea support = Yes hide unreadable = Yes store dos attributes = Yes dos filetimes = Yes Thanks! Hamish -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman

[Samba] The semaphore timeout period has expired

2004-05-19 Thread Hamish
Hello everyone I have samba 3.0.3pre2-SuSE running on SuSE 9.0 i386, this is from SuSE rpms not source. The box is joined to a 2k3 domain, wbinfo works fine, acls work and users are authenticated properly. I had a problem yesterday and cannot seem to find a solution: I have been copying data

Re: [Samba] SAGE Line 50

2004-05-19 Thread Hamish
entries in [global] or [share] steve downes wrote: Can't help there, Instant is single user Steve on Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:16:01PM +0100, Hamish wrote: Hi Steve Thanks for the help with that. I think we are doing the same thing at the moment: Mapped drive on client M:\ Sage installed on each

Re: [Samba] SAGE Line 50

2004-05-19 Thread Hamish
process followed as an accountant came in and id this install, I had to follow and make it work. regards Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ba.org] On Behalf Of Hamish Sent: 19 May 2004 12:19 To: steve downes Cc: Samba List Subject: Re: [Samba] SAGE

Re: [Samba] SAGE Line 50

2004-05-10 Thread Hamish
is locking of files etc. We have the possibility of around 10 simultaneous users although average will be closer to 3. Thanks again. Hamish steve downes wrote: I've been using sage instant this way for several years without problem. Just the data files on the server the program on the host. You

[Samba] copy NT permissions

2004-05-10 Thread Hamish
. (it seems to own the files from the user that connects to the share) Has anyone had any success in copying ACLs and permissions from an NT share? Thanks Hamish -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] RPC net start

2004-05-10 Thread Hamish
Have you looked at netcat, its been ported to NT, not sure how secure it is, but maybe theres a way to ssh to it? Nick 'Zaf' Clifford wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, First, as far as I can tell, this topic hasn't been mentioned in the mailing lists in awhile (atleast

[Samba] SAGE Line 50

2004-05-10 Thread Hamish
Hello everyone, Has anyone here hosted sage data files from samba? Any tips tricks or bewares? I am about to move sage ACCDATA share from an SBS server to samba 3.0.3. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

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