Re: [Samba] Setting password expiration policy

2013-06-18 Thread Mike Howard
On 18/06/2013 12:07, Thomas Harold wrote: On 5/13/2013 11:23 AM, Gerry Reno wrote: Can I use samba-tool to globally set passwords to never expire like this: /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --max-pwd-age=0 Or do I have to set max age to some positive value

Re: [Samba] Fwd: correction - Frustrated with there are currently no logon servers available

2013-02-01 Thread Mike Howard
On 01/02/2013 15:59, Morgan Toal wrote: On 2/1/2013 8:54 AM, Morgan Toal wrote: OK I feel even dumber now... I pasted the wrong text into my email due to my frustration level. The error is: there are currently no logon servers available as opposed to: the network name is no longer

Re: [Samba] Group Policy Linux Machines

2013-02-01 Thread Mike Howard
On 01/02/2013 18:52, Michael Ray wrote: Hey all- So linux machines in my domain, served by a Samba4 PDC, show up in the Administrative Tools. I was testing GP to see if it would apply to linux machines -- a basic one, just trying to deny a user from logging in. It does nothing; though from

Re: [Samba] DNS updates working Windows only

2013-01-14 Thread Mike Howard
On 12/01/2013 19:36, Robert Moggach wrote: I'm using BIND9_FLATFILE and able to join windows machines and have DNS updates working but Linux machines join with DNS update errors. Is there additional configuration necessary on Linux for the machines' NICs to be seen as valid? As far as I'm

Re: [Samba] Samba4 DC replication

2012-06-26 Thread Mike Howard
On 26/06/2012 08:56, steve wrote: Hi We have just added a second DC to our existing domain. Replication is working fine. We have setup the second DC with bind DLZ and that too is working fine (except that the DNS partition is not replicated). So, we now have two DC's and so also two DNS

Re: [Samba] Samba4 Can we use two file-servers?

2012-06-26 Thread Mike Howard
On 26/06/2012 09:04, steve wrote: Hi We've just added a second DC to our domain, both DCs are Samba4 DC1 is also the s3fs file server. If that goes down then so does the file-server. IOW, we can still authenticate via DC2 but we cannot do any work! What are my options here? Is it possible

Re: [Samba] Samba4 Can we use two file-servers?

2012-06-26 Thread Mike Howard
On 26/06/2012 11:22, steve wrote: On 26/06/12 11:54, Mike Howard wrote: On 26/06/2012 09:04, steve wrote: Hi We've just added a second DC to our domain, both DCs are Samba4 DC1 is also the s3fs file server. If that goes down then so does the file-server. IOW, we can still authenticate via DC2

Re: [Samba] cross-compile samba4

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Howard
On 28/05/2012 23:07, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Great news! I'm pretty sure you are the first person to have cross-compiled Samba4, or if not, the first person to have done it in a long time. (The ability was there, but you know the difference between theory and practice). Could you write up in

Re: [Samba] cross-compile samba4

2012-05-28 Thread Mike Howard
On 18/05/2012 08:54, Kai Blin wrote: On 2012-05-18 09:45, Mike Howard wrote: Hi Mike, I have compiled natively on the dreamplug and it did take ~2hrs. In the past I've usually had to compile numerous times and time is money as they say :), so compiling on my desktop, at just under 5mins

[Samba] Samba 4 Re-provisioning

2012-05-24 Thread Mike Howard
What's best practice when it comes to changing a samba4 provision, without screwing current domain objects (users, computers, policy etc)? If, for example, I wanted to change the DNS from internal to external bind9, is it just a case of re-running 'provision' with the different command line

Re: [Samba] Samba4 DNS - Adding CNAME

2012-05-22 Thread Mike Howard
to work correctly. I may be doing this wrong, but at least this is how I got it to work. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Mike Howard m...@dewberryfields.co.uk mailto:m...@dewberryfields.co.uk wrote: On 19/05/2012 11:12, Michael Wood wrote: So, the question is; What am I doing wrong

Re: [Samba] cross-compile samba4

2012-05-20 Thread Mike Howard
On 18/05/2012 08:15, Kai Blin wrote: On 2012-05-17 14:06, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Hi Mike, I've CC'ed Kai, who is our expert on Samba4 on ARM. Hopefully he can help you out. I have to admit that so far I've resorted to building natively on the ARM hardware I run things on. You need a target

[Samba] Samba4 DNS - Adding CNAME

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, I'm using samba 4.0.0alpha21-GIT-UNKNOWN provisioned to use the internal dns server. I'm having a bit of trouble adding a CNAME entry, or more correctly, getting it to resolve after adding. Prior to adding the CNAME a query returns (the relevant record); Name=centos, Records=1,

Re: [Samba] Samba4 DNS - Adding CNAME

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
On 19/05/2012 10:34, Mike Howard wrote: Hi All, I'm using samba 4.0.0alpha21-GIT-UNKNOWN provisioned to use the internal dns server. I'm having a bit of trouble adding a CNAME entry, or more correctly, getting it to resolve after adding. Prior to adding the CNAME a query returns

Re: [Samba] Samba4 DNS - Adding CNAME

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
On 19/05/2012 10:41, Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 19 May 2012 11:34, Mike Howardm...@dewberryfields.co.uk wrote: Hi All, I'm using samba 4.0.0alpha21-GIT-UNKNOWN provisioned to use the internal dns server. I'm having a bit of trouble adding a CNAME entry, or more correctly, getting it to

Re: [Samba] Samba4 DNS - Adding CNAME

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
On 19/05/2012 11:12, Michael Wood wrote: So, the question is; What am I doing wrong? I haven't tried the above myself, but it seems you are adding it the wrong way around. i.e. it looks like you are saying that the canonical name of centos is debian instead of what you want (i.e. that the

Re: [Samba] Samba4 DNS - Adding CNAME

2012-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
On 19/05/2012 11:57, Mike Howard wrote: On 19/05/2012 11:12, Michael Wood wrote: So, the question is; What am I doing wrong? I haven't tried the above myself, but it seems you are adding it the wrong way around. i.e. it looks like you are saying that the canonical name of centos is debian

Re: [Samba] cross-compile samba4

2012-05-18 Thread Mike Howard
On 18/05/2012 08:15, Kai Blin wrote: On 2012-05-17 14:06, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Hi Mike, I've CC'ed Kai, who is our expert on Samba4 on ARM. Hopefully he can help you out. I have to admit that so far I've resorted to building natively on the ARM hardware I run things on. You need a target

[Samba] cross-compile samba4

2012-05-15 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, Are there any good, up-to-date hints out there for cross compiling Samba4 for Arm? I've looked at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Waf#cross-compiling but the info is a little dated it appears. I'm looking to build for the dreamplug and based on the info on the wiki I've installed

Re: [Samba] Offline Caching

2012-02-06 Thread Mike Howard
On 06/02/2012 06:43, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:47:49AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-02-04 10:33 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 02:54:13PM, Mike Howard wrote: I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything recent. Using Samba4

Re: [Samba] Offline Caching

2012-02-05 Thread Mike Howard
On 05/02/2012 15:47, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-02-04 10:33 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 02:54:13PM, Mike Howard wrote: I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything recent. Using Samba4 and windows clients, the client logs include lots off 'windows has

[Samba] Offline Caching

2012-02-04 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything recent. Using Samba4 and windows clients, the client logs include lots off 'windows has detected that offline caching is enabled on the roaming profile share...' messages. Is this an issue and if so, how do I sort it?

[Samba] samba4 user add - memberOf

2012-01-27 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, After adding a new user, using 'samba-tool user add', what would be the best way to make the new user a 'memberOf' a specific group, from the command line/script? I was thinking, the obvious way would be the ldb* tools, are they documented anywhere? Regards, Mike. -- Any question

Re: [Samba] samba4 user add - memberOf

2012-01-27 Thread Mike Howard
On 27/01/2012 11:15, Daniel Müller wrote: Look at: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba-tool-external --- Hi All, After adding a new user, using 'samba-tool user add', what would be the best way to make the new user a 'memberOf' a specific group,

[Samba] DNS update failed! - Samba 3 joining Samba 4 AD Domain

2011-12-28 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, I've got samba4 set up as AD domain controller (from latest git), works fine. I'm now attemptng to use a separate samba 3 box as the file server (as I'm assuming this is current best practice?) but when joining the domain (which succeeds) I get the message 'DNS update failed!'. I've

Re: [Samba] Fwd: DNS update failed! - Samba 3 joining Samba 4 AD Domain

2011-12-25 Thread Mike Howard
On 24/12/2011 10:21, David Roid wrote: Add following line to /etc/hosts client-IP client-hostname.domain-full-name Er, why would I want to do that? I'm using DHCP so if I have numerous linux clients that would be a royal pain. Can't try right now but are you saying that if I add a client to

Re: [Samba] Fwd: DNS update failed! - Samba 3 joining Samba 4 AD Domain

2011-12-24 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, I've got samba4 set up as AD domain controller (from latest git), works fine. I'm now attempting to use a separate samba3 box as the file server (as I'm assuming this is current best practice?) but when joining the domain (which succeeds) I get the message 'DNS update failed!'. I've

[Samba] Samba4 - Cannot get quick test to succeed

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Howard
Hi All, I'm currently using/testing samba-4.0.0alpha15. I downloaded the tar ball, followed the Samba4 HOWTO wiki at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO and got stuff working pretty well. I have experienced issues with GPOs and such and dynamic dns and so thought I'd try the current

Re: [Samba] Samba4 - Cannot get quick test to succeed

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Howard
On 10/07/2011 09:32, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 08:55 +0100, Mike Howard wrote: Hi All, I'm currently using/testing samba-4.0.0alpha15. I downloaded the tar ball, followed the Samba4 HOWTO wiki at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO and got stuff working pretty well