[Samba] Will 3.3.x vs 3.2.x

2008-10-03 Thread Jim Shanks
Hi All, Just a quick question: Will 3.3.x replace 3.2.x as the production use branch? We're still using 3.0.28 and up on our systems and just want to know if evaluating 3.2 is the right step, or wait for 3.3. Thanks, Jim Shanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

Re: [Samba] Will 3.3.x vs 3.2.x

2008-10-03 Thread Jim Shanks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Shanks wrote: Hi All, Just a quick question: Will 3.3.x replace 3.2.x as the production use branch? We're still using 3.0.28 and up on our systems and just want to know if evaluating 3.2 is the right step, or wait for 3.3. We

Re: [Samba] security=server comment

2008-09-27 Thread Jim Shanks
It really didn't strike me at the time, but just tonight as I was in the process of setting up a new server as a new domain controller on a new domain, what are we supposed to use for a Samba primary domain controller if not security=server? Just use the default setting, which is

[Samba] security=server comment

2008-09-26 Thread Jim Shanks
Whoops, redo on this one, un-configured webmail client get my email address wrong. Sorry for the dupe. I was reading posts on the samba list recently and noticed a comment from Volker Lendecke. And as one of the top Samba developers, I'm sure Volker knows. For both security=domain and

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.3 as a PDC will not load profiles with Vista

2008-09-10 Thread Jim Shanks
Hi, I'm having a Samba 3.2.3 that is running has a PDC and it is working quite well with XP. When I try to login with Vista it can not load the profiles so I'm getting a message saying that I'm using a temporary profile and it will be lost on next reboot. My home drive is map, I have access

Re: [Samba] problem to join windows XP hosts to samba-ldap PDC

2008-03-12 Thread Jim Shanks
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:43:26 -0600 (CST), Jim Shanks wrote hi i have installed a PDC with SAMBA and LDAP but when i want to join my Windows XP hosts to SAMBA LDAP PDC i have the following error username or password unknown Any help in order to resolve this problem

Re: [Samba] problem to join windows XP hosts to samba-ldap PDC

2008-03-11 Thread Jim Shanks
hi i have installed a PDC with SAMBA and LDAP but when i want to join my Windows XP hosts to SAMBA LDAP PDC i have the following error username or password unknown Any help in order to resolve this problem will be appreciated --sam -- TRS - Technologies Reseaux Solutions

Re: [Samba] Printing samba, cups and legacy 16 bit applications

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Shanks
hello everybody, I have come to a dead end. I have successfully configured cups and samba to print from windows with automated drivers download. It works perfectly, but for one little problem, most of the printing here in my company are reports printed by the ERP software, which has been

Re: [Samba] Re: Windows C# unable to access Samba directories.

2008-02-27 Thread Jim Shanks
the sample code. All of the samba code is available via ftp at us3.samba.org/pub/samba/ Thank you ahead Avigdor *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Shanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

Re: [Samba] Windows doesn't show Samba group names, only SIDs

2008-01-09 Thread Jim Shanks
Hi, I have a problem with Samba / LDAP running on SLES-9. This has been running well for a while until this week - now Windows workstations don't show group names anymore (editing Access Rights, for example, shows a list of group SIDs instead). I checked whether some software was updated

Re: [Samba] Old Access Printing Issues

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Shanks
Fred, Here's a link to the documentation on how to set the printer devmode. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#prt-modeset Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred, Initialize the printer devmode as documented. Or just try

Re: [Samba] Machine account in smbpasswd is wrong

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Shanks
Christian, It looks to me that the machine account will work fine in either case. In your first example the machine account is created with no password, which is the way I would expect. In your second example, it is created with no LM password, but a LM2 password. Either way, it should work.

Re: [Samba] Windows XP and Samba 2.0.5a

2006-12-13 Thread Jim Shanks
Updating to a Samba 3 will provide better support for XP clients. That said, I used 2.2.7 for XP clients for about a year. All that was required was setting to 0 (zero) the Windows XP registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service\Netlogon\Parameters\requiresignorseal Then

Re: [Samba] add machine script -problem

2006-12-12 Thread Jim Shanks
This has been working for me since 3.0.10: add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g domaincomputers -s /bin/false -M %u;passwd -l %u Jim when i was trying to add (join) windows xp client(gari$) to samba pdc by using samba adminuser and passwd ,i got the error invalid username.In

Re: [Samba] I have no name! shown as username

2006-11-17 Thread Jim Shanks
Are you absolutely sure that the winbind daemon is running? Whenever I've had problems resolving user/group names from a member server, winbind was the problem. Jim Hello all, I have setup my gentoo samba server as a domain member server of a windows 2003 Active Directory Domain using

Re: [Samba] wrong colours when printing from Windows

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Shanks
I have a strange issue with Brother MFC-5440CN printer. When I print from Linux/CUPS, it prints colours fine. When I print from Windows, using Windows drivers (without Samba), it also prints fine. When I print from Windows through Samba/CUPS (drivers added using cupsaddsmb...), it gives me wrong

Re: [Samba] NT Group to single unix ID

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Shanks
Hello Samba Gurus, I have been searching for a week for a solution to this problem with no resolution thus far. I have a need to map an NT Group (a large group of NT users) to a single unix user ID. I guess I am asking for an example of the smb.conf and users.map file. We have hundreds of NT

Re: [samba] recycle not working as I expected

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Shanks
I have the following in my configuration file and recycle is working for the share but - versions is working as I expected - touch does not seem to be changing the time on the files to show me when they were deleted - keeptree does not work when there are multiple users within a share

RE: Same Problem.... RE: [Samba] Can see server, but can't see shares. Whazzup?

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Shanks
. because I never had this problems before CU Matthias -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Shanks Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Same Problem RE: [Samba] Can see server,but can't see

RE: Same Problem.... RE: [Samba] Can see server, but can't see shares. Whazzup?

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Shanks
I noticed a couple of things in you smb.conf that have given me problems in the past. You have the OS level at 32 which should cause this machine to win all elections as the master browser, but WINS support is not on, which means after it wins the election, it won't provide any name resolution

Re: [Samba] Samba (2.2.8a or 3.0.2a) + WinXP not updating roaming profiles on logout

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Shanks
= No [profiles] comment = Personal Profile Folder path = \\%L\%U\.profile\%a read only = No profile acls = Yes browseable = No Nope... still erroring out... Could you send me your complete smb.conf? On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 06:53, Jim Shanks wrote: I

Re: [Samba] Samba (2.2.8a or 3.0.2a) + WinXP not updating roaming profiles on logout

2004-04-06 Thread Jim Shanks
I have working 3.0.2a and 2.2.8a domain controllers. The only thing that I see that is significantly different in your conifguration to our configuration is that we have a [profiles] share. [profiles] comment = Personal Profile Folder path = \\%L\%U\profile read only = No

Re: [Samba] [OT] Fyodor terminates SCO nmap rights -- how about Samba?

2004-02-28 Thread Jim Shanks
software should actually be declared public domain? If that's so, doesn't allowing them to continue using the software under the GPL put the copyright at risk? Jim Shanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] SAMBA 3.0.2 doesn't see self

2004-02-26 Thread Jim Shanks
Hello, I updated samba package from version 3.0 to version 3.0.2 and server doesn't see self anymore in browse list, which is on it (server is master browser - see output smbclient -L). I can directly connect to shares from client, but I don't see server in network places (I see only other