Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-13 Thread Linda Walsh
Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? I

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 + Samba 3.5.6 = abject misery...

2013-05-20 Thread Linda Walsh
Stev e Holdoway wrote: The problem is that I'm descending further into the mire. Can't log on to the PC as local administrator account is disabled, can't log on in safe mode without arriving at the domain login screen, can't seem to find anything on the server side to fix this.

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 + Samba 3.5.6 = abject misery...

2013-05-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Chris Rowson wrote: On 19 May 2013 23:13, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: Can anyone help with this? I set it all up a few months ago, the samba side being standard upgrades via debian - configured as a PDC, and the windows 7 clients being clean installs, with the standard

Re: [Samba] Practicality of fixing samba's case mangling problems?

2011-12-28 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher R. Hertel wrote: Linda, If you have filed a bugzilla report, DateTitle 2011-07-27 *Bug 8325* https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8325 - WINS should no longer be changing 'case' on hostnames'

[Samba] Practicality of fixing samba's case mangling problems?

2011-12-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Samba has multiple areas of case mangling problems that cause incompatibilities when used with windows or linux clients. How viable is the idea of fixing the problems? Would the sky fall in if it preserved case, but either 'ignored it', or gave preference to matches that included the case

[Samba] Can't find domain (but domain logins for joined WS and roaming profile works! ; -/ !

2011-11-12 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm trying to join a 2nd workstation to my domain -- but it can't find the domain name. It's a Win7 machine (same as 1st)...all settings are the same and wireshark shows the problem is the DC is claiming it can't find the domain name (that it is the DC for!?)... um... Lets see: wbinfo

Re: [Samba] winbind nsswitch resolving names issue

2011-10-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Alessio Tomelleri - ARPAV Dipartimento di Belluno wrote: Is not clear to me why if I query my user, randomly it doesn't show mine Domain Local Group, only Global Group... I underline this happen randomly, it seems to me... Finally I would ask some clarification about option compat in

Re: [Samba] samba-3.4.7 access to share from win7

2011-10-31 Thread Linda Walsh
viktor ruhle wrote: Hello list, I have tried rather much (forums, google) and trying this as the last option. The problem is that one is not able to access group samba shares from windows 7 machines, everything ok from win-ts-2003 xp machines. Every user belongs to his primary group

[Samba] Dual interfaced computer...2 addrs for same hostname -- samba doesn't seem to like this?

2011-10-25 Thread Linda Walsh
To support reliability, I have 2 network connections from my win7 client to my home server. Both the server and the client have 2 **internal** 192.168.3.XXX addressses... Doing a reverse DNS lookup, on either of the interfaces will return the same hostname. Doing a forward DNS lookup on

[Samba] smbd: PANIC (pid xxxxx): internal error -- ? causes?

2011-10-02 Thread Linda Walsh
I have a bunch of these in my log... Was wondering if anyone had seen them before and what the cause might be? Thanks... Oct 1 03:25:15 Ishtar smbd[23925]: [2011/10/01 03:25:15, 0] lib/util.c:1468(smb_panic) Oct 1 03:25:15 Ishtar smbd[23925]: PANIC (pid 23925): internal error Oct

Re: [Samba] can't turn on wide links in homedir

2011-09-15 Thread Linda Walsh
simo wrote: On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 18:16 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Jeremy Allison wrote: I didn't like re-enabling the feature as it re-introduces something that was widely regarded as a security hole, People widely regarded the earth as flat and ... well sometime ago

Re: [Samba] can't turn on wide links in homedir

2011-09-14 Thread Linda Walsh
Jeremy Allison wrote: We needed to make it impossible to configure Samba insecurely. At the time this was proposed, it was posted to the list and no dissenting voices were heard. --- Not exactly true -- as soon as this feature was available for testing in a downloadable package, there

Re: [Samba] can't turn on wide links in homedir

2011-09-14 Thread Linda Walsh
Jeremy Allison wrote: I didn't like re-enabling the feature as it re-introduces something that was widely regarded as a security hole, People widely regarded the earth as flat and ... well sometime ago, as in some areas, as only 6000 years old... but recognised the need some sites have

Re: [Samba] Can't add users to well known groups...

2011-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
François Legal wrote: Not sure if this is relevant, but if (first case shown down here) Domain Admins is not so much a group but a map to unix group, I'm not surprised that you can't add users to this using sambe. I would rather use /etc/group or whatever to add users to the unix group

Re: [Samba] Can't add users to well known groups...

2011-09-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Harry Jede wrote: On 15:48:09 wrote Linda Walsh: I created the well known group Domain Admins pointing to a local group, but I am not able to add users to the group -- it claims I can only add users to local or global groups... But I only see local, domain ,well-known, builtin

Re: [Samba] Can't add users to well known groups...

2011-09-10 Thread Linda Walsh
One of the more 'interesting commands (haven't done any tracing back yet)...' net usersidlist # net usersidlist root S-1-5-21-3-7-3-500 S-1-1-0 S-1-5-2 S-1-5-11 S-1-22-2-0 S-1-22-2-1 S-1-22-2-5 S-1-22-2-8 S-1-22-2-10 S-1-22-2-14 S-1-22-2-15 S-1-22-2-16 S-1-22-2-17 S-1-22-2-18

[Samba] Bash completion file(s) for samba utils...

2011-09-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I was wondering if anyone already had completion files for samba utils like 'net' wbinfo...etc... I can never remember all the params, I keep wanting to hit tab to autocomplete for options like I can on many other sys utils. So I started looking at examples of existing completion files and

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.11 shares and downloads with IE9 on Windows 7

2011-09-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Thomas Bork wrote: On 11.09.2011 01:41, Linda W wrote: This sounds like https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8412. I don't think, it's the same problem. I already tried without oplocks and smb2 isn't activated here. Anyway - I could test a patch for 3.5.11. Don't know if

Re: [Samba] Can't add users to well known groups...code patch (quick hack/commented out problem code seems to fix)...

2011-09-09 Thread Linda Walsh
tried to add them to my domain, they all became unlistable and unusable. Color me confused? -linda Linda Walsh wrote: I created the well known group Domain Admins pointing to a local group, but I am not able to add users to the group -- it claims I can only add users to local or global groups

[Samba] Can't add users to well known groups...

2011-09-08 Thread Linda Walsh
I created the well known group Domain Admins pointing to a local group, but I am not able to add users to the group -- it claims I can only add users to local or global groups... But I only see local, domain ,well-known, builtin. There are no global groups unless one would include all groups

[Samba] Not crazy...really! Domain!=DOMAIN (win7 showing both versions of my dom)...

2011-09-06 Thread Linda Walsh
Hah! Caught it in the act!... Filed it with a bug report talking about the problem... Shows me being offered a choice between two icon types (anyone know what those are? for 'BLISS' (the newly mangled samba name) and 'Bliss' (the original name)...

Re: [Samba] Bug in 3.6.0 saving files.

2011-08-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Yes... more than one person has noticed it... I think it has to do with SMB2 keeping multiple descriptors open in, perhaps, a cache, to the same file... When Windows writes 'many' (not all), files out, it will first 'create' the 'name' of the new file to verify access in the target

Re: [Samba] winbind wbcGetpwnam WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND

2011-08-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Shirish Pargaonkar wrote: A call to wbcGetpwnam() with BUILTIN\Administrators name (string) returns error 7 (WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND). I tried just Administrators and got the same error. Same error with user (string) Everyone also. I've noticed this problem as well... In

Re: [Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-08-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Michael Wood wrote: P.S. Sorry for the mostly off-topic post. If it's mostly not about samba, it's probably 'ok' t0 NOT cc the list..? :-) Turning off that param, BTW, did help -- some things that hadn't been working started, and then gave all sorts of new indications of problems. With

Re: [Samba] PDC forgot it was part of domain... official (ha!) samba hack around to fix...

2011-08-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 3 August 2011 08:59, Linda Walsh sa...@tlinx.org wrote: Among various problems since I upgraded to 3.6 (none of which got answered really, -- so I backgraded to 3.5.10 and started debugging from there, considering 3.6.0 too unstable/too incompatible

Re: [Samba] PDC forgot it was part of domain... official (ha!) samba hack around to fix...

2011-08-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Michael Wood wrote: I didn't get the benefit of '*' added to my wbinfo... I don't understand what you mean by this. Just saw this note by Bendikt Schindler: Of course, as noted earlier, my wbinfo also doesn't seem to know about builtin SID's either .. so am having to add

Re: [Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
` Michael Wood wrote: Hi Linda Yeah...reported this a month ago... as well as other TDB/SID backend probs: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2011-July/078663.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2011-July/078826.html --- I wasn't sure if it was a 3.6 problem

Re: [Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
..Michael Wood wrote: Personally, reading through and replying to a message like this takes me a lot of time. As I said I can't speak for the Samba developers, but perhaps trying to keep your messages shorter will produce better responses? --- In some cases, certainly, in other cases,

Re: [Samba] SMB2 weird behavior with samba 3.6 PDC

2011-08-15 Thread Linda Walsh
` Mark Reidenbach wrote: I tried enabling SMB2 on our network after upgrading to samba 3.6 and experienced the following problems. Commenting out Max Protocol = SMB2 makes the windows7 and vista clients happy. - [homes] Trying to open a html file in notepad fails on Windows7 Pro SP1.

Re: [Samba] SMB2 weird behavior with samba 3.6 PDC

2011-08-15 Thread Linda Walsh
` Mark Reidenbach wrote: What I meant to say is that Thunderbird downloads every message every time it is launched when I have max protocol = smb2 enabled.� Without that line it checks the headers and is done.� Even if it's not efficient I don't mind it downloading and caching the message

Re: [Samba] Large file stream extended attribute support

2011-08-11 Thread Linda Walsh
T L wrote: Hi list, Does Samba support large extended attributes? By this I'm referring to attributes that are alternate streams attached to a file. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364404%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Seeing a problem when the referenced stream points to large files (sometimes

[Samba] difference between '%u' and '%U'?

2011-08-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I realized in looking at my smb.conf, I'm not using these in a consistent manner, and well I just don't understand what the differences are between them. Sure I can read the smb.conf page: %U session username (the username that the client wanted, not necessarily the

Re: [Samba] No admin privileges after upgrade from 3.5.8 to 3.6.0rc3

2011-08-04 Thread Linda Walsh
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: Hi, since I was bitten badly by this today, I take the additional time to report this issue here. After upgrading from samba 3.5.8 to 3.6.0rc3, Administrator on the xp clients (yes, still xp sp3, no vista, no win7 clients here) lost its admin privileges. My Samba

[Samba] PDC forgot it was part of domain... official (ha!) samba hack around to fix...

2011-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Among various problems since I upgraded to 3.6 (none of which got answered really, -- so I backgraded to 3.5.10 and started debugging from there, considering 3.6.0 too unstable/too incompatible for 'whatever' reason... One of the probs I had was 'root' couldn't use net rpc anything -- kept

[Samba] Why isn't Domain\User' = to User on PDC? Isn't it supposed to be?

2011-08-01 Thread Linda Walsh
When I access my PDC, via a unix service, from a Domain client with a domain login, the PDC attempts to validate Domain\User against the the authentication DB, but on a mounted file system, a user on the PDC = 'domain\user' ... (which is what I thought it should be). But if I use 'ssh Pdc', it

Re: [Samba] [SOLVED] Windows 7 client not mounting 'HOME' share.

2011-07-30 Thread Linda Walsh
Julien Celle wrote: it appears that the logon home parameter should be set to the following value : logon home = \\%L\%U instead of the one I was using : logon home = \\%L\homes\%U I don't really understand why. Anybody could explain ? I have noticed, (I use %D instead of %L),

[Samba] winbind - NT_STATUS_NONE_MAPPED ( auth probs)....related?

2011-07-29 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm seeing this for several lookups in winbind for items that I have not explicitly added. Should I add them? Could not find domain for Could not convert sid S-0-0: NT_STATUS_NONE_MAPPED Could not find domain for sid S-1-1-0 Could not convert sid S-1-1-0: NT_STATUS_NONE_MAPPED Could

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.4, Windows 7, Roaming profiles and Folder redirection

2011-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
John H Terpstra wrote: On 07/21/2011 10:07 AM, Tanuki uk wrote: Hello, I'm quite new to Samba administration and I've inherited a working samba setup with roaming profiles however the login and logout times for users has been growing and I'm starting to think it's time do something about

Re: [Samba] Win7 can't joint Samba domain?

2011-07-02 Thread Linda Walsh
Mike Eggleston wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011, John Drescher might have said: We've been trying to get a newly loaded Win7 (64-bin) box to join our internal Samba domain. The error that keeps appearing is the win7 box can't find the domain controller and is looking for the registry keys

[Samba] idmap backend defaults to tdb... but doesn't have entries for '*'...

2011-06-28 Thread Linda Walsh
I think this is one of my config problems. my tdb map backend is the default tdb with manually setup accounts after provisioning a new db to get the builtins. While it works for my domain, if some app requests '*' group/user enumeration (an app running on a domain-client (machine joined,

[Samba] cygwin 'QueryUserInfo' fails dueto samba error. Wazup?

2011-06-27 Thread Linda Walsh
I made progress in tracking down a problem on cygwin that's been bothering me for a while since Win7 and domain. when I do: mkpasswd -D mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning. A network trace shows that it's trying to get the home dir information from my main

Re: [Samba] cygwin 'QueryUserInfo' fails dueto samba error. Wazup?

2011-06-27 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm also seeing messages from nmbd saying (msgs reformatted/truncated for readability). wins...request: Name refresh for name BLISS00 IP 192.168.3.12 wins...request: Name BLISS00 group bit = True does not match group \ bit in WINS for this name. wins...request: Name refresh for

Re: [Samba] Problem getting Samba fully working

2011-06-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Moe, John wrote: Hello all, Relevant info up front: Gentoo PC, using 2.6.38 kernel and Samba 3.4.12. I'm trying to get a FreeRadius instance working for our Windows network. To do so, I need a Linux box running Samba. I've installed and configured Kerberos, Samba and FreeRadius, and can get

Re: [Samba] Different permissions displayed in security tab andadvanced tab

2011-06-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Dale Schroeder wrote: On 06/24/2011 12:11 AM, Linda W wrote: David was trying to view and change permissions on a user that was already listed on the security tab; he was not adding a user or group. I did this just now, changed it to full control for the one listed user and group

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Linda Walsh
On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. I would use

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice? (app-dependant, but I prefer xfs for larger files)

2011-06-24 Thread Linda Walsh
John Drescher wrote: � � � �I would use 'xfs'. �I believe samba was originally developed over xfs, so it's likely the ea-suppot and acl support has had the most testing there. �Especially if your file server is setup with a UPS, then I'd strongly recommend it. � If not, ext4 might be safer (with

Re: [Samba] howto cache 'root' password for net commands?

2011-06-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Volker Lendecke wrote: Try to start winbind, then wbinfo --ccache-save and net --use-ccache Haven't tested that for a while, so it might not work. But it's supposed to :-) Maybe the options were removed? or maybe needs special compile options for them to be included? wbinfo

Re: [Samba] howto cache 'root' password for net commands?

2011-06-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: Volker Lendecke wrote: Try to start winbind, then wbinfo --ccache-save and net --use-ccach Haven't tested that for a while, so it might not work. But it's supposed to :-) Maybe the options were removed? or maybe needs special compile options for them to be included

Re: [Samba] howto cache 'root' password for net commands?

2011-06-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Volker Lendecke wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:06:23PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Volker Lendecke wrote: Try to start winbind, then wbinfo --ccache-save and net --use-ccache Haven't tested that for a while, so it might not work. But it's supposed to :-) Maybe the options were

Re: [Samba] Sticky bit problem

2011-06-19 Thread Linda Walsh
David Aldrich wrote: Hi We are building a Linux app under Centos 5.3, using gnu make 3.81 and gcc 4.12. The working directory is on a remote machine and is either a Samba share or a Windows 7 share. We find that in the case of a Windows 7 share the resulting executable has the sticky bit

Re: [Samba] Sticky bit problem

2011-06-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: David Aldrich wrote: Hi We are building a Linux app under Centos 5.3, using gnu make 3.81 and gcc 4.12. The working directory is on a remote machine and is either a Samba share or a Windows 7 share. We find that in the case of a Windows 7 share the resulting executable

[Samba] howto cache 'root' password for net commands?

2011-06-19 Thread Linda Walsh
I have a minorly complicated root password that is hard to type correctly, quicklyyet samba 'seems' to be encouraging me to create a simple one in order to do managagement on the server via 'net' I don't like to type the password more than once, the more times I type it, the more

Re: [Samba] Samba process throttled back?

2011-06-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Lang, Rich wrote: Hello, We are running Samba 3.0.33 on a 2-node Linux cluster running RedHat 5.6 ES. Its primary application is to serve out a single network drive to support our business (out 350GB in size). For several years, this solution has been running flawlessly. File access was

[Samba] RFE: Proposed fix for incompat introduced with 'unix extensions' and 'wide links'....in 3.4(?)..

2011-06-11 Thread Linda Walsh
After an upgrade, I got re-bitten by the 'unix-extensions and wide links' incompat. (They used to be compat but were made incompat in the 3.4.x timeframe due to security concerns). At the time it was suggested I write a patch complete with documentation to describe the fix. The below seems

[Samba] Prob found: (Re: missing symbols talloc_* (opensuse 11.4/samba 3.5.7-xxx))

2011-06-06 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: upgraded to opensuse 11.4. basic smbd is running mostly fine (some name res-errors, login server missing, (can't connect to Domain service). Notably nmbd won't start due to undefined symbols: /usr/sbin/nmbd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/nmbd: undefined symbol

Re: [Samba] missing symbols talloc_* (opensuse 11.4/samba 3.5.7-xxx)

2011-06-05 Thread Linda Walsh
simo wrote: Any ideas as to what library i'm missing? Looks like nmbd is not being linked against libtalloc. --- Sure looks like it, but shouldn't it be dynamically loaded? The libtalloc packages ARE installed. I must have something messed up for the standard distro-packages not

[Samba] upgrade prob; extension conflict-workaround or fix yet? (widelinks unix ext)

2011-06-05 Thread Linda Walsh
I just upgraded my samba to my dist's version: (3.5.7) and got a message: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 Ishtar smbd[8204]: Share 'IPC$' has wide links and unix extensions enabled. These parameters are incompatible. Wide links will be disabled

[Samba] missing symbols talloc_* (opensuse 11.4/samba 3.5.7-xxx)

2011-06-03 Thread Linda Walsh
I just recently upgraded to opensuse 11.4. basic smbd is running mostly fine (some name res-errors, login server missing, (can't connect to Domain service). Notably nmbd won't start due to undefined symbols: /usr/sbin/nmbd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/nmbd: undefined symbol:

Re: [Samba] Samba performance

2011-06-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Juan Pablo wrote: Thanks a lot for the advice. It will run these tests and try to find meaningfull information from them. I will post back results. Thanks Juan Pablo What type of speeds are you expecting? With a GB network, your limit is 125MB/s. I get that with

Re: [Samba] Samba performance

2011-06-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Alan Hodgson wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:02:56PM -0700, Juan Pablo wrote: - 4 Intel Gigagit ethernet NIC ports with 802.3ad bonding connected to a switch configured tu use 802.3ad - 8 2TB 7.2 krpm SATA disks with hardware RAID5 (RAID stripe size 1024 bytes, controller and disk cache

Re: [Samba] Samba Tuning to increase Throughput

2011-04-07 Thread Linda Walsh
vijay vijay wrote: Hi All, I have gone through threads related to throughput issue in this list. Found few similar issue, but could not get the solution. So looking for some advice from group. I am trying to use the samba to access a USB disk connected to our evaluation board which has

Re: [Samba] samba howto: sticky bit on directories

2011-04-01 Thread Linda Walsh
Daniel Müller wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:24:17 -0700, Linda Walsh sa...@tlinx.org wrote: Daniel MCller wrote: This is working with samba sernet newest release: This is setting the bit for the group even with msoffice-files correctly directory mask=2770 force directory mode

Re: [Samba] samba howto: sticky bit on directories

2011-03-28 Thread Linda Walsh
Daniel MCller wrote: This is working with samba sernet newest release: This is setting the bit for the group even with msoffice-files correctly directory mask=2770 force directory mode=2770 create mask = 2770 force create mode=2770 force security mode=2770

[Samba] pam_winbind([sshd|su|...]:account): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND

2011-03-03 Thread Linda Walsh
I've been getting these in my log for some time and was wondering what I had to do to get 'pam_winbind' to 'work' with my samba 'DC'? In looking around the net, others w/this error message were having a problem with blocking login's and password changes, completely. In my case, I have the

Re: [Samba] pam_winbind([sshd|su|...]:account): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND

2011-03-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Bob Miller wrote: ... lotsa stuff... tnx, will have to do a bit of investigation at this point Thanks for the 'encouragement' (i.e. it works for you!) Gives me something to go on ... (though may take a while to verify all the nuts bolts...). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

Re: [Samba] Samba Share Access Delay !

2011-01-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Supriya Kher wrote: windows machine writes to \\Linux IPAddress\output. It has been observed consistently that accessing the shared folder from windows using UNC as \\LinuxIpAddress\output takes a very long time. Each access takes around 45 to 50 seconds ! though there are no network

[Samba] How to net group add 'group' (I scrod myself...can't figure out how descrod)

2010-05-04 Thread Linda Walsh
I have: interfaces = lo0, eth2 and: socket address = 192.168.3.1 socket address = 127.0.0.l in my smb.conf, but when I try to net group add anything (on server running samba 3.5.2, as a DC): asks for current log'ed in users's password mypwd Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1 Connection

Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7

2010-04-06 Thread Linda Walsh
John Drescher wrote: Also. They can NOT point to the same path. That was the point of having a .v2. Vista+ and XP profiles are not compatible with each other. What part is incompatible? Or is it known? This this is something that I ran into as well, but didn't have time to chase

[Samba] shadow_copy2 prob? FSCTL..GET..DATA: max_data_count(114) too small (118) bytes needed!

2010-02-06 Thread Linda Walsh
I have /home as a logical volume. I have snapshots: LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert 2010.02.05-01.26.19 Home swi-ao 10.00G lvol0 39.81 2010.02.06-02.37.52 Home swi-ao 5.00G lvol00.25 lvol0

Re: [Samba] shadow_copy2 prob? FSCTL..GET..DATA: max_data_count(114) too small (118) bytes needed!

2010-02-06 Thread Linda Walsh
Volker Lendecke wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:37:28AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: linw opened file mail/bind read=Yes write=No (numopen=3) [2010/02/06 03:23:41, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:1970(call_nt_transact_ioctl) FSCTL_GET_SHADOW_COPY_DATA: max_data_count(114) too small (118) bytes needed

[Samba] shadow_copy script example leads to system hang?

2010-02-04 Thread Linda Walsh
I don't know if this was present (maybe not?) when the script was written, but the script for taking a snapshot in the instructions for shadow_copy: that looks like this: xfs_freeze -f /home/ lvcreate -L10M -s -n $SNAPNAME /dev/Home/lvol0 xfs_freeze -u /home/ mkdir

Re: [Samba] single stream performance issue, Win2K, WinXP, Samba 3.2.5-4lenny7 (Debian Lenny)

2010-01-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Stan Hoeppner wrote: For raw bandwidth maximization, what port and protocol are used won't make much difference, if any. In fact it shouldn't make _any_ difference in raw b/w. Communications between the Samba server and Win2K client appear to be exclusively over TCP 139 at this point according

Re: [Samba] single stream performance issue, Win2K, WinXP, Samba 3.2.5-4lenny7 (Debian Lenny)

2010-01-23 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor wrote: I don't find it strange at all. Your computer is acting as a traffic proxy between two samba servers. If you have 100Mb network interface your bandwidth should split exactly in two. But he said he doesn't get a split in two when a win2k server is used (he gets 11Mbps).

[Samba] Win7 can and cannot join domain; speed issues? (tests to /dev/zero /dev/null?)

2010-01-15 Thread Linda Walsh
I've made some pseudo progress .. I deleted my DNS domain name from my client -- after that, I was able to get a message (Welcome to Bliss Domain) -- followed by 'Domain join failed, you will not be in the Domain. Reboot now to activate your new domain name. Upon reboot, it thinks I am in

[Samba] 0 length domain name SCHANNEL can't be used to fetch trust account password?

2010-01-13 Thread Linda Walsh
I have a few errors I'm trying to chase down in an effort to get a Win7 client in my domain. WinXP works -- tested unjoining and rejoining today, and it can still join. I have the registry adds for DNSNameResolutionRequired=0 under LanmanServerClient/Params (put it in both places in attempt to

Re: [Samba] Issue Joining Win7 to Samba Domain (tried wiki instructions)

2009-12-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Moray Henderson wrote: The server string is Ishtar, but that is not the server name; you need to set netbios name for that. Wouldn't the hostname take care of that? That's the name of the machine. I don't recall ever adding that param before (remember, this does work on an XP

Re: [Samba] Issue Joining Win7 to Samba Domain ( tried wiki instructions)

2009-12-22 Thread Linda Walsh
David Southwell wrote: Just want to ask the obvious questions as I did not see it mentioned.. what version of Windows 7 is the client machine? --- Sorry, meant to include this... 64-bit, Final Release, Complete [marketed under buzzword 'Ultimate']. -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Samba] Issue Joining Win7 to Samba Domain (tried wiki instructions)

2009-12-21 Thread Linda Walsh
Moray Henderson wrote: Something to do with the name of the machine? --- SMB server name is 'ishtar', Domain 'Bliss' (Ha!, wishful thinking... it's a goal!)), and Win7 client is 'athenae'. All are in DNS domain 'sc.tlinx.org' (an internal domain name). Theoretically straightforward.

Re: [Samba] Issue Joining Win7 to Samba Domain (tried wiki instructions)

2009-12-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Moray Henderson wrote: Last time I saw something like this, it was because the client (Win XP) did not have a WINS server set, and couldn’t find the domain. Can you ping the server from the problem client - by IP address and by name? Is its firewall blocking any SMB ports? ---

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 won't authenticate

2009-12-17 Thread Linda Walsh
mickey harvey wrote: I am trying to access a samba share from windows 7. The samba version is 3.3.3 on FreeBSD 7.2, The samba daemons are running and I can see the server in my Network Places on the Windows client. When I try to login using the username spacebizall and password (the same as the

Re: [Samba] Problem Joining Win7 to Samba Domain (tried wiki instructions)

2009-12-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Ryan Casey wrote: I'm trying to join a Windows 7 client to a samba domain. We're running samba 3.3.9 from SerNet. I've changed the registry settings on the Win7 client per the wiki page (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7). Unfortunately, I'm still getting: The following error occurred

Re: [Samba] samba 3.4.2-1: ERROR! Out of file structures

2009-11-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Justin Piszcz wrote: When performing a lot of file I/O on a samba share, I see the following: Nov 15 16:01:47 l1 smbd[31472]: ERROR! Out of file structures Is the proper fix to, e.g.: ulimit -n 32768 before starting samba? Or is there a samba-specific option that should be used instead?

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.15 is working with Winows 7 !!!

2009-11-14 Thread Linda Walsh
Daniel M|ller wrote: After a lot of trying this is the solution for all with samba 3.2.15 installed. My Windows 7 client machine joins the domain on the fly with this registry hack. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Para meters]

[Samba] Samba assignment of privileges

2009-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Even though Samba doesn't use all of the NT privileges, does it allow assigning them to domain users or groups? I.e. this list: |Group Policy Name|Constant Name| |Access this computer from the network|SeNetworkLogonRight | |Access

[Samba] how does one edit a domain group

2009-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
After I mapped a local group to a domain group, I'm not longer able edit it with 'net sam'. Is there another tool I should use? How do I add users on other computers, in the domain to the group? I don't see a tool on a client station for allowing editing of domain groups?? I tried a

[Samba] progress! (just good news...no problems this post)!

2009-09-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Thanks to various inputs (and lots of reading/rereading of my books/manpages) and lots of experimentation...(and light bulbs turning on). I now have windows ACLS/permissions working on my samba shares and they are being automatically stored in the XFS xattrs. (I checked that they are being

[Samba] smb.conf(5) format meaning question

2009-09-17 Thread Linda Walsh
In the smb.conf manpage, there is a notation used, (G) or (S) for global or share. Does (S) mean it can only be used in a Share section (i.e. - will be ignored in the global section), or is that they *can* be applied at the share level, and, possibly set a default in the 'G'lobal section?

Re: [Samba] smb.conf(5) format meaning question

2009-09-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Michael Wood wrote: S means it can be used in a share definition and also in the Global section: I've sorta got it in my head that most (S) switch that could make sense globally, could be used/set in the global section as a 'default' for all shares, but I don't find that documented in the

[Samba] Domain SID vs. Local SID on Domain Controller SID requirements

2009-09-15 Thread Linda Walsh
IF a samba server is setup to be a domain controller, should it's local SID = the domain SID? Also, what are the requirements of a SID? I usually see S-1-5-21-x-y-z, where x,y,z = 10 digits, but could x,y,z be 1,2,3 (for example)? I.e. do they have to be 10 digit numbers or can they be

Re: [Samba] Domain SID vs. Local SID on Domain Controller SID requirements

2009-09-15 Thread Linda Walsh
simo wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:42 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: IF a samba server is setup to be a domain controller, should it's local SID = the domain SID? yes the PDC exports the local SAM as the domain SAM (the SAM is the DB where user information is stored including SIDs

[Samba] doc examples bug regarding 'xattr' special switch need

2009-09-14 Thread Linda Walsh
This may already be fixed, but various places talk about the need for a 'user_xattr' switch on mounts to use extended attributes. I've never known 'xfs' to have such a switch -- if they are enabled in the kernel, they just work -- I tried it. I also tried adding the switch and verified it is not

[Samba] How to get Default builtins added?

2009-09-14 Thread Linda Walsh
I recently decided to upgrade to the tdbsam: backend, but I'm missing the built-security principles. Do I need to go back to the smbpasswd backend, and add them in the file *first* before converting? I had them there at one point, but I think I think I deleted them because they weren't working.

Re: [Samba] How to get Default builtins added?

2009-09-14 Thread Linda Walsh
FYI -- I tried adding then with pdbedit but it said they don't exist in /etc/passwd -- but they 'do'...just with not the same exact names. I was going to use the 'map' command to map the names from the tdbsam to the unix side, but I have to get them into the tdb sam first. Also, I really wasn't

[Samba] Re: nmbd: broadcast packet send FAILURE: Invalid argument.

2009-06-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Previously I wrote (abbreviated msg summary): nmbd: become_domain_master_browser_bcast: Attempting to become dom mast \ browser, wrkgrp BLISS, subnet 192.168.3.1; nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c: \ become_domain_master_browser_bcast(304) become_dom_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.3.1

[Samba] why is my nmbd confused about network interfaces?

2009-06-09 Thread Linda Walsh
The only thing related to 'addresses' in my /etc/samba/smb.conf file is a hosts allow: hosts allow = 192.168.3.0/24 127.1 I'm going to ignore the 'local hosts case, as if I solve the other, the localhost case may get solved by inference. I thought the 'hosts allow' would allow any host

[Samba] Re: 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
John Drescher wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote: Raid 5 is not a good setup for performance... Its not good for database performance and random small writes but it shines in large file operations. Either way a 3 disk raid5 (software or hardware)

[Samba] RFE: manpage smb.conf`

2009-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Under log level (debuglevel) there is nothing to indicate what the numbers mean, there is only the enumeration of debug-sections. While I wouldn't need what each number does in each debug area, I did note the following helpful behavior regarding use of numbers only (which I presume

Re: [Samba] Re: 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
John H Terpstra - Samba Team wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Especially since John Terpstra's home setup uses a 4-disk RAID and gets up to 90MB xfers over CIFS. (Is that with standard size network/TCP packetsizes? Or anything non-default for tuning on that?) :-) My TCP/IP is at default

Re: [Samba] Accent problem

2005-08-18 Thread Linda Walsh
use UTF-8 on your samba server (delete both the unix and display charset). Might check to see that your server is setup in UTF-8 as well, but I think this is the default in SuSE these days. (see /etc/sysconfig/language and related variables and manpages). That should pass through file-name