[Samba] After host name change: Failed to add user ... with error: The account's primary group is invalid

2010-12-01 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, I've got Samba 3.5.6 (SerNet .deb packages) running as a standalone file server on Debian Lenny. User information is stored in LDAP via ldapsam:editposix. I had to change both the host name and the workgroup name as I had to move the host to a new internal subnet. I noticed that a new

[Samba] After host name change: Failed to add user ... with error: The account's primary group is invalid

2010-11-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, I've got Samba 3.5.6 (SerNet packages) running on Debian Lenny. User information is stored in LDAP via ldapsam:editposix. I changed both the host name and the workgroup name as I had to move the host to a new internal subnet. I noticed that a new sambaDomainName entry was created

Re: [Samba] Samba Transfer Efficiency (undocumented perf hint for Win7 gives 10X write speeds)

2010-06-21 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Linda, thanks a lot for sharing your params; IMHO it's very useful to them in combination (Win registry, Samba config, Linux sysctls). Would you mind telling us a bit about your client and server HW, the Samba server OS and version you use so that your test results obtained with dd appear in

Re: [Samba] Samba Transfer Efficiency

2010-06-20 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Linda, On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Linda W wrote: [...] Make sure your tcp stack is tuned on your linux server. My distro had set my max TCP window size and memory usage set way lower than needed for good Gigabit performance. Could you please share your parameters (sysctl values, etc.) for

[Samba] [OT] Adding InetOrgPerson schema when using ldapsam:editposix module

2010-06-15 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, I admit that this is OT, at least slightly. While I've successfully used the ldapsam:editposix module in conjunction with the net sam and net rpc toolchain, which provides me with both the POSIX and the Samba account info for each account stored centrally in an LDAP DIT, I would like to have

[Samba] ldapsam:editposix: Which samba.schema attributes are modified when using smbpasswd -a?

2009-10-26 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, I'm using Samba 3.2.5 on Debian Lenny in conjunction with MIT Kerberos. LDAP user accounts have already been added prior to the Samba installation using the ldapscripts package (also included in Debian). I understand that I have to run smbpasswd -a as root on the Samba server for each user

[Samba] Ldapsam:editposix: How to continue once it's setup

2009-10-21 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi to everybody, I managed to setup ldapsam:editposix for Debian Lenny as described here: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ldapsam_Editposix and had the impression that in order to add a Samba Unix client, it would be best to continue here: