[Samba] Issue with SambaNTPassword not replicating

2008-12-09 Thread stephen mulcahy
has any input but didn't want to clutter this mail with excess detail. Thanks for any comment, -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy Applepie Solutions Ltd. http://www.aplpi.com Registered in Ireland, no. 289353 (5 Woodlands Avenue, Renmore, Galway) -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] Samba crashes and domain problems

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen Mulcahy
in the global section add: posix locking = No and in the share section add: csc policy = disable profile acls = yes nt acl support = no force security mode = 777 will fix your excel read only errors. Thanks - I'll give those a shot - I guess I figured the Excel errors were a

[Samba] Samba crashes and domain problems

2008-08-07 Thread Stephen Mulcahy
Hi, I have inherited a Samba PDC running on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.1 (the Samba version is 3.0.24-2.23-1296-SUSE-CODE10). The server has been giving problems for a few weeks including the following symptoms: 1. Users accessing a share are experiencing intermittent problems writing to

Re: [Samba] Automatic printer download

2007-05-04 Thread stephen mulcahy
things work! I have found many howtos - but they are too incomplete and fragmented. Thanks! Sincerly, Bjorn -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd., Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. +353.91.751262 http://www.aplpi.com Registered in Ireland

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-03-02 Thread stephen mulcahy
stephen mulcahy wrote: Does this mean I should include an SRV record on my DNS server for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.DUCK pointing at the PDCs A address? Or is this just noise generated by the fact that Samba 3 isn't an AD server? I've seen no mention of setting up SRV records in the HOWTOs so

Re: [Samba] password alignment with /etc/passwd

2007-02-28 Thread stephen mulcahy
backend (e.g. smbpasswd). I know that there is mksmbpasswd.sh but it resets all passwords and just aligns usernames with /etc/passwd. Is there a way to preserve also the passwords? Or is there maybe also a special backend for doing so? Thanks for help, Regards, Markus -- Stephen

Re: [Samba] password alignment with /etc/passwd

2007-02-28 Thread stephen mulcahy
/smbpasswd? As far as I know this isn't possible ... but I'm not a samba expert. I'd be delighted to find out otherwise. -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile:+353.87.2930252

Re: [Samba] logon message

2007-02-27 Thread stephen mulcahy
on Debian Etch. Thank You --To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-23 Thread stephen mulcahy
stephen mulcahy wrote: I'm unfamiliar with Windows UserEnv logging so this could all be normal but USERENV(280.5b4) 18:45:52:468 ProcessGPOs: The DC for domain DUCK is not available. aborting looks suspect to me. The domain I'm using is APLPI - not DUCK. DUCK is the PDC for the domain

[Samba] Simple Samba PDC on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (Etch)

2007-02-22 Thread stephen mulcahy
/ I'm hoping to document the basic of using policies and automatic installing printer drivers too at some stage in the future using some of the tips from this list ... but I'm still digesting the data :) Thanks, -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-22 Thread stephen mulcahy
this in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840669 - I'm not sure if its the same problem and I'm not sure I want to go chasing Microsoft support about this. Thanks for your help, -stephen stephen mulcahy wrote: stephen mulcahy wrote: In the interests of getting to the bottom of this I went

Re: [Samba] Tips/hints for Windows network management

2007-02-21 Thread stephen mulcahy
kinda left out in the cold a little on this one. Is anyone else using other approaches to this? -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile:+353.87.2930252 office:+353.91.751262

Re: [Samba] Tips/hints for Windows network management

2007-02-21 Thread stephen mulcahy
stephen mulcahy wrote: Unfortunately, I've also noticed that some of the settings I set in the NTConfig.POL using poledit.exe *are not applied* to the clients. A simple example would be the desktop Wallpaper. I'm trying to enforce a company wallpaper on all systems for consistency - its

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-20 Thread stephen mulcahy
stephen mulcahy wrote: In the interests of getting to the bottom of this I went and configured Samba on another system as a PDC for a second domain. I then joined yet another machine to this domain (of the same spec and configuration as the systems I'd previous experienced problems

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-13 Thread stephen mulcahy
to the bottom of this. Sorry if I wasted anyones time, hopefully someone can learn from my mistakes. -stephen stephen mulcahy wrote: Hi, While perusing the SAMBA HOWTOs I decided to try some of the validation steps including the wins test at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/secure.html

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-12 Thread stephen mulcahy
recommended documentation for configuring Samba with a tdbsam backend as a PDC? I'm wondering if further reading of some fine manual may help me in my quest. Thanks, -stephen stephen mulcahy wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. I tried adding the following to lmhosts as suggested, 10.1.2.3

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-12 Thread stephen mulcahy
only. 3. ping the samba server and I get unknown host error. Does this suggest my wins configuration is broken? I verified in this case that nmbd was running and the log.nmbd doesn't contain any obvious error messages. Thanks, -stephen stephen mulcahy wrote: Hi, In effort to resolve the 1054

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23d PDC

2007-02-08 Thread stephen mulcahy
with name resolution? Any suggestions on tools to diagnose this further would be appreciated. Thanks, -stephen stephen mulcahy wrote: Hi, I've recently reinstalled our Samba server with a view to getting it working as a PDC using the tdbsam backend. I've successfully connected a number of XP

Re: [Samba] Howto setup printing with Windows XP Clients, Cups and samba..

2007-02-08 Thread stephen mulcahy
-- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile:+353.87.2930252 office:+353.91.751262 http://www.aplpi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC

2007-02-08 Thread stephen mulcahy
Message- From: stephen mulcahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday 08 February 2007 10:29 To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name foryour computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23dPDC Hi, Further debugging

Re: [Samba] Howto setup printing with Windows XP Clients, Cups and samba..

2007-02-08 Thread stephen mulcahy
. /var/drivers /var/driver/W32X86 ... Hope that helps, Martin stephen mulcahy schrieb: Hi, I (unsuccessfully) tried to set this up about 12 months ago. To get the printer drivers I downloaded them from the printer vendor, extracted the downloaded driver package (or ran it to install

[Samba] Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network error on XP Pro SP2 clients for Samba 3.0.23d PDC

2007-02-07 Thread stephen mulcahy
., mkdir -p /var/lib/samba/profiles/maryo [Profiles] comment = Roaming Profile Share path = /var/lib/samba/profiles read only = No profile acls = Yes -- Stephen Mulcahy, Applepie Solutions Ltd, Innovation in Business Center, GMIT, Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland. http://www.aplpi.com