Re: [Samba] Has anyone ever ported SMBCLIENT to WATTCP?

2005-01-14 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Mike Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And are there any other (free) DOS-based SMB clients without the huge lower (640K) memory requirements. Bart has GREAT tools/info/downloads on this... http://nu2.nu/ I have been using his ideas/programs for years. I can't say enough great things about the

Re: [Samba] %S not resolving in smb.conf file

2004-05-04 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Tim Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any thoughts why %S is not resolving? is there anyway to echo these variables (other than putting them in a comment = %S in a share) I have this line in the GLOBAL section of my smb.conf: exec = /home/netlogon/smbvars %m %M %I %a %D %u %H %g %U %G

Re: [Samba] Help ! Logon script doesn't work on XP

2004-04-09 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Thomas Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, M. Vancl wrote: copy /b z:\logon.bat %TEMP%\logon.bat %TEMP%\logon.bat Are you 100% sure TEMP is set before this script is ran? I was also doing some experimenting, and I had incorrectly redefined the TEMP variable! Try adding

Re: [Samba] Small problem with XP client

2004-03-29 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Alex Sharaz A.Sharaz-at-hull.ac.uk |Samba| [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, got a small problem with a windows XP client when logging onto a 2.7 samba server. While the user can log on o.k., every time they do, notepad fires up and opens desktop.ini for editing. Can anyone suggest

Re: [Samba] simple migration 2.8 - 3.02; simple test cases fail

2004-03-15 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Linda W: ---snip--- I'm running a version for Suse90 pointed to off of their support pages so shadow passwords are enabled by default -- so I don't think they'd build a suse release w/o support for shadow pw's. I am running SuSE 9.0 Pro (2.4.21-192-default) with samba-2.2.8a-107,

Re: [Samba] smb.conf

2004-03-11 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Kent L. Nasveschuk kent-at-wareham.k12.ma.us |Samba| [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is just a quick question, what is the difference between + and @ when using groups for say valid users or write list ex valid users = +staff valid users = @staff Per

Re: [Samba] getlogon.pl script problem

2004-03-10 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Sundaram Ramasamy Hi, I want to generate the logon script on the fly. I want to map user home directory into H: drive. Genlogon.pl script executes three times for single user, each time its getting diffract argument value. Here is my configuration root preexec

Re: [Samba] Samba3

2004-03-10 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Delagarza, Gilbert I have created a homes share on our samba server here. Why does it not map root to the users home directory when I run a net use H: \\server_name\homes ? It just maps a drive to the root of homes and not the users directory. The users directory is in there. The

Re: [Samba] 2nd printer won't print

2004-03-09 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Gregory W. Eckrich flinchlock wrote: Quoting Gregory W. Eckrich Good morning, Good Evening! Good Morning!! ---snip--- Ah... do don't have a tmp share. :-o Mike Hi Mike, Thanks for your response. I have corrected the tmp share issue

Re: [Samba] upgrade samba-2.2.8 to samba-3.0.2a (umlauts)

2004-03-09 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Götz Reinicke Hi, maybe a stupid question, but how do I find out, which codepage is the current?? # testparm -s | grep code client code page = 850 code page directory = /usr/share/samba/codepages HTH Mike -- SuSE 9.0 Pro (2.4.21-192-default) with samba-2.2.8a-107 -- To

Re: [Samba] 2nd printer won't print

2004-03-08 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Gregory W. Eckrich Good morning, Good Evening! I would appreciate some help. SAMBA is new turf. I am working out of a John Blair Book SAMBA: Integrating UNIX and Windows 1998 This is also a VERY good book... http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html Using Samba,

Re: [Samba] Windows XP with Samba Ldap.

2004-03-08 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Marcone Luis Theisen My Ldap Admin password is correct in secrets.tdb and I can logon in Win 9x, but not in Win XP. The option RequireSignOrSeal= dword: is ok. The RequireSignOrSeal tweak has not been required since 2.2.8a. See

Re: [Samba] Samba: Linux and Windows

2004-03-08 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Gurkan Aslan ---snip--- There is my smb.conf file; (windows machines usernames aren't same as GNU/Linux machine) [global] workgroup = HAZARAJANS printcap name = cups printing = cups security = share #if i set security = user then the windows

Re: [Samba] Samba + Win2k

2004-03-05 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Craig White On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 12:34, John H Terpstra wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Guylerme Velasco wrote: How can i get a trust relationship betwen Samba Domain and Win2k ? I´ve tried many ways like, change win2k register, changig some security directives, etc.

Re: [Samba] how to create NTConfig.POL?

2004-03-04 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Andreas On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:45:00PM +0100, Gémes Géza wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas írta: | Is there a way to create an NTConfig.POL file without having access to an | NT4, w2k or w2k3 server? | | Is there a way to do it in linux?

Re: [Samba] session user name

2004-03-03 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Pieter Vanmeerbeek Can anyone tell me how to fetch the session username of a request in the smb.conf file? Since I'm a newbie to Samba and I'm using Samba 2.2.8a, the following information will probably not be of any help to you. I put this in the Global section of my smb.conf: exec

Re: [Samba] session user name

2004-03-03 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Pieter Vanmeerbeek I forgot to mention, the simple script creates sharename.var files in the Unix username home dir as each share is connected to. There will even be a IPC_.vars created in /var/lib/nobody Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: [Samba] session user name

2004-03-03 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Pieter Vanmeerbeek This is our smb.conf file: ; The global setting for a RedHat default install ; Make sure and restart the server after making changes to this file, ex: [global] ; Public name server string = aXs GUARD Server exec = /ub/pkg/samba/bin/smbvars %m

Re: [Samba] Login-problem samba 3.0.2.a Win XP Prof

2004-03-02 Thread flinchlock
The domain-login ist ok in general. But when a user logs in, he gets an editor-window with a desktop.ini. content: [.ShellClassInfo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,-21787 ) i think, this ist desktop.ini in //%L/profiles/%u/startmenu/autostart. Do you have an idea how to ban this editor

[Samba] How to rejoin a client to a Samba 2.2.x domain?

2004-03-01 Thread flinchlock
How do I exactly have a client rejoin a Samba 2.2.x domain? Is is the correct way? 1) # smbpasswd -x -m xpclient 2) Rebuild failed XP client (again!) 3) # smbpasswd -a -m xpclient 4) Login to client, and join domain (No need to mess with /etc/passwd... right? THANKS, Mike P.S. Yes, I have

Re: [Samba] Adding computer account - username could not be found

2004-03-01 Thread flinchlock
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c machine account -s /bin/false -M %u This script must be failing. Andrew Bartlett For What It Is Worth, my SuSE 'useradd' does NOT have -M. I have seen LOTS of example add user script settings, and lots of them have -M

Re: [Samba] 'logon drive' questions

2004-02-29 Thread flinchlock
Quoting John H Terpstra On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, flinchlock wrote: logon home = \\%L\%u\.win_profiles\%m This has no real place in Windows NT/XP, it is used to set the profile directory for Windows 9x/Me clients. For what it is worth, I decided to not use/setup any W98 clients. :-) So

Re: [Samba] mix encrypted/non-encrypted password

2004-02-28 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Thomas Spuhler thomas-at-btspuhler.com |Samba| [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have lots of different MS boxes from W95 to XP I would like to move from non encrypted password to encrypted password over a certain time period (don want to work all weekend!) Is that possible and how. I didn't

Re: [Samba] mix encrypted/non-encrypted password

2004-02-28 Thread flinchlock
This is a convenience option to allow the change over to encrypted passwords to be made over a longer period. Thanks, I know this, but to reword my question, can you have encrypted and non encrypted password simultaneously? I'm not *exactly* sure, but I *assume* you can according to the

RE: [Samba] Samba Gigabit very very slow?

2004-02-28 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Anders Norrbring I´m having trubbles with the speed on my samba server, I just uppgraded to gigabit (Realtek 8169 NIC) at home when i copy stuff from the samba server i get around 5-6Mb/sec and if i use ftp to access the same file on the same server i get almost 30Mb/sec does

Re: [Samba] Persistant Z drive in XP

2004-02-26 Thread flinchlock
Then my Win98 users won't have roaming profiles, correct? My O'Reilly book defines logon home as setting the directory for all Windows Platforms, and to achieve roaming for 95/98/Me add the /.win_profile. Let me guess. I can't have my cake and eat it too..? There must be some crafty

Re: [Samba] Remote Windows registry read access from Linux?

2004-02-26 Thread flinchlock
But I'm still in the market for a remote repository access solution... I can't help you with a *nix solution (how about perl for reg access?), but I can point you to a Windows program. http://www.kixtart.org This TINY program (241,664 bytes KIX32.EXE) is simply very easy to use... just simple

[Samba] NT poledit.* common.adm winnt.adm windows.adm

2004-02-26 Thread flinchlock
I've googled my brains out trying to find the latest NT 4.0 System Policy Editor files: POLEDIT.CNT POLEDIT.EXE POLEDIT.HLP COMMON.ADM (NT W9x) WINNT.ADM (NT) WINDOWS.ADM (W9x) I only have dialup access, and it will take me a zillion days to download SP6 for NT so I can extract the above

RE: [Samba] Persistant Z drive in XP - resolved

2004-02-26 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Moondance Foxmarnick As for the Z: drive... I just didn't realize that logon drive = was a necessity for XP. Can you explain why you thing that is true? I HAD a problem where Z: was also persistent. I fixed the problem by making sure logon.bat ended with an exit statement. After

Re: [Samba] 'logon drive' questions

2004-02-26 Thread flinchlock
Quoting John H Terpstra What is Samba-3.1.x? I am not aware that we have made any commitments to a 3.1.x release. We are planning a 3.0.3, however I should point out that 3.0.2a is looking good based on feedback so far. It will likely become known as a very stable reference release. Let me

Re: [Samba] 'logon drive' questions

2004-02-25 Thread flinchlock
I would like to ask the list to help me understand three Samba settings: 'logon path', 'logon drive', and 'logon home'. Please see my question at the bottom of this post. THANKS! --- My settings are: . . . logon path =

Re: [Samba] 'logon drive' questions

2004-02-25 Thread flinchlock
Quoting John H Terpstra Quoting flinchlock logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u\%m logon path sets the Windows XP environment variable %USERPROFILE% that pervades the Windows registry. OK, that helps ALOT!!! :-) logon drive = H: logon drive sets the drive letter

Re: [Samba] 'logon drive' questions

2004-02-24 Thread flinchlock
Quoting John H Terpstra On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, flinchlock wrote: Later, I changed 'logon path' to \\%L\profiles\%U\%m When 'logon path' is \\%L\%U\.msprofile and I click on Command Prompt, I get a command window that says: H:\ When 'logon path' is \\%L\profiles\%U\%m and I I click

Re: [Samba] Unix password sync

2004-02-24 Thread flinchlock
Quoting Ben Jensz So basically because it won't even work via smbpasswd from the machine as the unprivileged user, then changing from Windows won't (and doesn't) work either. I'm running SuSE 9.0 samab-2.2.8a, and the default settings for passwd program are NOT correct. I had to add %u

[Samba] 'logon drive' questions

2004-02-23 Thread flinchlock
=\ HOMESHARE=\\mutt\flinchlock --- HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\flinchlock -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] System error 66 has occured

2004-02-19 Thread flinchlock
I have been setting up a PDC with one XP client. After about three weeks of smb.conf changes, I understand/like my settings, and it *was* working great. (I've read a zillion times both O'Reilly Using Samba books (1st and 2nd editions), and John Blair's (Samba Team) Samba Integrating UNIX and

Re: [Samba] Location of SID in Samba 2.2.7a

2004-02-19 Thread flinchlock
These servers do not appear to have a MACHINE.SID file on them, my research into the topic has also turned up that the secrets.tdb file holds the SID. Would it be sufficient to copy this file from the old server to the new server? I have no clue on how to help you, but I did find three

Re: [Samba] Samba files

2004-02-18 Thread flinchlock
veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ found in the global parameters. I do not have the above in my smb.conf. This works for me... [homes] comment = %U's HOME directory valid users = %S read only = No hide dot files = No veto files =

RE: [Samba] Pop-up messages to domain members?

2004-02-13 Thread flinchlock
Well, I knew that.. But I need to do it from a linux server, not a Windows machine. I.e. from linux to all connected Win workstations. Anders. OK, I'll try again... Pls see /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/misc/wall.perl A perl script which allows you to announce whatever you

Re: [Samba] Pop-up messages to domain members?

2004-02-12 Thread flinchlock
Is it possible to send a pop-up message to all connected Windows stations in a whole domain via one command, or is it necessary to send one message per command to each station? PER HELP on Windows XP... Net send Sends messages to other users, computers, or messaging names on the network.

RE: [Samba] Pop-up messages to domain members?

2004-02-12 Thread flinchlock
Well, I knew that.. But I need to do it from a linux server, not a Windows machine. I.e. from linux to all connected Win workstations. Duuh! I must not had enough coffee today!! Of course you weren't asking about WinDoze. Sorry! :-o -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following

[Samba] Why does HOMEDRIVE not = H:?

2004-02-10 Thread flinchlock
\flinchlock --- HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\flinchlock QUESTION#1: How/what/where/why is there a difference in the results of click on Command Prompt? QUESTION#2: What EXACLTLY causes the HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and HOMESHARE variables? THANKS -- To unsubscribe from this list go