Re: [Samba] Tearing my hair out:

2007-12-19 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood Botsford wrote: I have a samba 2.2.8a PDC, no windows servers at all. The local network works. Conan, the PDC also acts as a WINS server. Postie, the DHCP server sets: option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.241 ; option netbios-node-type 2 ; All clients have lmhosts file

[Samba] Tearing my hair out:

2007-12-12 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I have a samba 2.2.8a PDC, no windows servers at all. The local network works. Conan, the PDC also acts as a WINS server. Postie, the DHCP server sets: option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.241 ; option netbios-node-type 2 ; All clients have lmhosts file with: 192.168.1.241 conan #pre

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-23 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, We have an old Win98 box at work that is used for programming GALs and EEPROMs, however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box doesn't notice. This is rather annoying when you are iterating a design as you can imagine! One work around

Re: [Samba] Windows: Forcing a Guest Login.

2007-02-14 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Matthew Fowle wrote: There are two hacks for this issue: 1. demote to share level security, which windows consumes differently. 2. map to guest option to default failed logins to guest. These hacks have issues: #1 massively reduces the functionality of samba. #2 is viable, however i've found

[Samba] Win2K Lockdown: The master browser has received a server announcment...

2007-02-13 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I'm seeing errors like this in my event viewer on win2k clients: Source MRx Smb The master browser has received a server announcement that computer CONAN that believes it is the master browser for the domain ... The master brower is stoppong or an election is being forced. Event ID 8003 The

Re: [Samba] What is the difference between %u and %U

2007-02-11 Thread Sherwood Botsford
James A. Dinkel wrote: {munch From what Jerry says then, I should use %u, but I'm still a little curious as to what %U would be used for then. Ideas: Suppose that you have anonymous shares -- ones used as readonly software repositories. If you wanted to log them you could have a log

Re: [Samba] Domain logons and client IP broadcasts -- Resolved

2007-02-08 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Summary: I originally posted that I wanted to reduce broadcast traffic on my network so that a rogue machine got as little information as possible about other machines on my network. To do this I undertook 3 steps. 1. Turned off file and printer sharing in the network config. 2. Using a

[Samba] Best procedure for migration?

2007-02-08 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Looking in both Samba3 by example and in Samba HowTo has come up empty. There is a chapter in Howto on migrating from 2.2.8, but it mostly describes the changes in 3 from 2. Nothing on best practices on how to do it. I have two servers running samba 2.2.8a. on FreeBSD 4.5 I have two new

Re: [Samba] audit module

2007-02-07 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Sascha wrote: {munch} another question is: how can i tell samba to keep more versions of the log files? Now it only keeps a client.log and a client.log.old. One tack may be to write a script to rename any old files to a datestamped file. If you do this, you end up with

Re: [Samba] ntuser.dat

2007-02-07 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Keith Lynn wrote: What are the implications of locking the ntuser.dat file on the user's server profile? That is, if I make the ntuser.dat file read-only, what affects will that have on the client? The follwoing is worth what you paid for it. Maybe. The client machine will fuss when the user

Re: [Samba] Domain logons and client IP broadcasts

2007-02-07 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Sebastian Held wrote: I'm sorry, but I don't know the cause. You should make sure, that Lab-119 actually uses DHCP. Have a look at the blocked packets of the firewall and compare with Lab-101. I had the same error domain not available, but a different scenario... I think it was solved, by

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba running slow

2007-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Salman Moghal wrote: I should have kept reading through the samba archive online. There was a similar, very recent, reported problem: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_frm/thread/8bf6e9791ae9b3cd/0a038c363be7ba2a#0a038c363be7ba2a After adding these lines in smb.conf,

Re: [Samba] Monitor samba per user ?

2007-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Vladimir Strycek wrote: Hi all Is there a way to monitor samba per user ? Like what user downloaded/uploaded and when ... smbstatus does not provide this info... and after hours googling with no luck im posting here. Best regards Vladimir log level = 2 Now, making sense of this is

Re: [Samba] Multiple Filesystems on one path stmt in smb.conf

2007-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
M Azer wrote: can you hide symlinks from appearing to users with no access to certain folders? For example multi symlinks to IT, Fin, Marketing, Devel all under the share folder when a user from Devel group login the user will see the other 3 folders but won't have access to them. is there

Re: [Samba] Domain logons and client IP broadcasts

2007-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Sebastian Held wrote: Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2007 schrieb Sherwood Botsford: Why does stopping ip broadcasts break domain logons, but not browsing shares? Did you specify a WINS server for all clients (pointing to your PDC)? Network Properties - TCP/IP - Wins is set to use dhcp

Re: [Samba] Version control filessytem using Samba

2007-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Mario Fernandez wrote: I'm looking at implementing a version control filesystem and would like to know if it's possible to implement version control with Samba. Thanks Mario Take a look at the FUSE project. (File systems in user space) One of the FUSE implemented file systems does

Re: [Samba] Samba v3.0.23a BROKE my network

2007-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Mega Munch Here's the problem: Ideally in a production environment you set up a sandbox and test new stuff extensively before committing it. But on days when you want to put your face down on the photocopier and hit 10 copies to keep up with everything, this just doesn't happen. It's

[Samba] Domain logons and client IP broadcasts

2007-01-30 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Ok, I'm stumped. Last week domain logons worked. Now when I try to logon, I get a message, You could not logon because the SJSA domain is not available. I've had this happen before when the trust account between the client and server was out of sync (restored a disk image that had a

[Samba] Winbind set to only serve certain addresses?

2007-01-24 Thread Sherwood Botsford
After a bad week of internet worms, I want to setup my clients so they can't see eachother at all. Clients talk to servers. Full stop. Now part of this is easy. If I use the correct option in my dhcpd.conf file I tell the clients to use WINS mode 2 (use a server) give them a server