Re: [Samba] profile permissions

2013-08-22 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Michelangelo Rezzonico mrezzon...@ticino.com wrote: I have a working samba-pdc installation with version 3.0.28 The profile permissions in 3.0.28 (and all the files in this directory) are as follow: drwx--x--x 2 user1 ntuser 4096 Aug 22 12:36 profile I am

Re: [Samba] Samba-tool modify users info?

2013-04-11 Thread John Drescher
I'm wondering if there's a plan for including the possibility of modifying user attributes (must-change-at_next-login, profile-path, home-drive, home-directory, etc)? I use ldap-account-manager on my Samba 3.6 / openldap 2.3.43 based servers with samba domain controllers (PDC + 2 BDCs) and

Re: [Samba] Samba-tool modify users info?

2013-04-11 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:58 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if there's a plan for including the possibility of modifying user attributes (must-change-at_next-login, profile-path, home-drive, home-directory, etc)? I use ldap-account-manager on my Samba 3.6

Re: [Samba] Making Linux and domain users the same

2013-03-02 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:21 AM, org-sa...@freed.com wrote: I have a set of Linux boxes with (nearly) working Samba configurations. Windows users can get in and work with shares. My one problem is that the local user joe is not the same as the domain user that logs into Samba. And that

Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-09 Thread John Drescher
Thanks for the fast reply. That looks like exactly what I was looking for. I am about to test that with a few windows 7 machines I have. What would be the best way to automate the folder redirection, if that is even possible. I thought about just adding the directives to the users

Re: [Samba] difference between version 3.x and version 4

2012-12-19 Thread John Drescher
I want to make clear that, aside from changes like the removal of depreciated features like 'security=server' and 'security=share', essentially all the features of Samba 3.x are in Samba 4.0. We call the NT4-like domains that Samba 3.x supported 'classic' domains, and they continue to be

Re: [Samba] Samba 4 / DNS

2012-12-12 Thread John Drescher
The only other thing I can think of off hand is running a minimal DNS implementation on each client that forwards to either Samba or your company's DNS servers depending on the domain. As a programmer, I have thought about this option. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

[Samba] Fwd: Samba 4 / DNS

2012-12-12 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 4 / DNS To: Thomas Simmons twsn...@gmail.com If you have multi-homed systems, why can't you specify multiple DNS servers on the workstations (one from

[Samba] Samba 4 / DNS

2012-12-11 Thread John Drescher
Is there any way to have Samba 4 / AD servers not connected to the internet and still have DNS working on the windows clients? My samba 3 servers are not permitted to be connected to the company network / internet so I have 2 nics in each desktop. 1 connecting to the private gigabit network where

Re: [Samba] Samba 4 / DNS

2012-12-11 Thread John Drescher
Samba doesn't require internet connectivity, but yes, you will have to work out how to ensure that the desktops can both resolve the name of the AD DC and names elsewhere on the network. This would seem to be a challenge in your setup, but perhaps you can have another dual-homed box running

[Samba] Problem loading login.bat on a windows 7 machine

2012-11-27 Thread John Drescher
On 1 windows 7 workstation in my work samba 3 domain roaming profiles are not loading. The problem seems to be a failure in loading the login.bat Samba version 3.5.19 PID Username Group Machine --- 8078

Re: [Samba] window 7 loses connection to Samba 3.5.19

2012-11-23 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Gerardo Ramos gerardo.ram...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Samba list, I have probem with windows 7 loses connection to Samba version 3.5.19 regards I think you will have to give more information. I can tell you that this does not happen for me at work on any if the

[Samba] Fwd: window 7 loses connection to Samba 3.5.19

2012-11-23 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gerardo Ramos gerardo.ram...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] window 7 loses connection to Samba 3.5.19 To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com John I have a samba server update 3.5.19 on Centos 5, users connect

Re: [Samba] A device attached to the system is not functioning(samba 3.6.3 + OpenLDAP)

2012-10-29 Thread John Drescher
Today's morning I got *Domain not available* on all windows xp machines(domain logon working only for users with cached profiles) I tried to rejoin machine to domain, but when I try to join, error *A device attached to the system is not functioning* occurs Here is error log when I tried to

Re: [Samba] mount.cifs: regular freezes with s3fs

2012-10-18 Thread John Drescher
through user login, freeze (twice) and user logout until the login prompt returned: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45150875/cifs-freeze2 When I click the above link I get: We can't find the page you're looking for. Check out our Help Center and forums for help, or head back to home. John -- To

Re: [Samba] Windows 8 Pro no domain logon possible

2012-09-20 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:47 AM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu mo...@monyo.com wrote: Daniel Müller muel...@tropenklinik.de wrote on 20.09.2012 12:50:30: By the way, the only success to join a windows 8 pro to a domain was to set up samba4 ads and join it successfully. I did not succeed in any way else.

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC: Admin tools?

2012-08-25 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Alberto Moreno ports...@gmail.com wrote: Guys. I have use smbldap-tools to handle my accounts for my PDC with samba+openldap. Now, I ask here because a lot of people have PDC running on their networks, what tools do u use to manage your openldap db for

Re: [Samba] Samba rejecting Machine account auth requests

2012-08-21 Thread John Drescher
I have a samba domain with over 100 machines in it. For some reason every 30-35 days, 2 of the machines fail the trust relationship at login and need to be removed from the domain and rejoined. In the logs I see the following: [2012/08/21 07:55:52.981302, 0]

Re: [Samba] Making Happy Users ... I need to understand...

2012-08-11 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Marco Ciampa ciam...@libero.it wrote: If OT someone could please point me to the right mailing list? This is the correct mailing list. It's just that people do not always have time to offer free advice. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following

Re: [Samba] password change problem and no logon servers available

2012-08-08 Thread John Drescher
we are using SAMBA 3.6.1-1 (updating this archlinux machine is tooo ugly) and 3.6.6-1 on archlinux with the LDAP (Server version is 2.4.26-3) backend and manage the users, groups and computer by using the smbldap-tools. Currently we are experiencing the following problems: 1. changing the

Re: [Samba] Samba4: 2DC domain. Which ldap:// address do I use, DC1 or DC2?

2012-07-29 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, steve st...@steve-ss.com wrote: 2 Samb4 DC's joined and replicating great. Hi I'm running some Linux scripts on DC2 which I copied from DC1. I changed the ldap://address for a script which I copied to DC2 to that of DC2. If I now deliberately failover DC1,

Re: [Samba] Win7 Joining Domain, LDAP Profile Created but Join Fails

2012-07-28 Thread John Drescher
I am back with yet another issue. I am currently running a Samba 3.5.10-125 PDC on RHEL 6.2. My backend is LDAP, and I am using the smbldap scripts for dealing with ldap profiles related to my samba instance. Currently I am able to fully browse all shares, and ID's for the users are mapped

Re: [Samba] Samba4: how to build on Virtualbox

2012-07-23 Thread John Drescher
VB with openSUSE 12.1 guest and host, guest with 512Mb RAM. Samba4 takes over 6 hours to build on the guest. The host does it in around 30 minutes even when the guest is fired up. I tried to rsync a build from the host to the guest but that takes forever too. Any tips? I usually give a

Re: [Samba] s3fs vs. zfs

2012-07-03 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chris Weiss cwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Luiz Gustavo dos S. Costa luizgust...@mundounix.com.br wrote: Hi all.. Is possible use the s3fs with ZFS (freebsd) ? how ? as I understand it, s3fs isn't a filesystem, it's a file server.

Re: [Samba] A device attached to the system is not functioning

2012-07-02 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alan Holt berber...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I was looking a lot around of Internet, but still did not find some solution for my problem. I have SAMBA and domain with ldap, everything have been fine until today. Like usually I did create new user in domain

Re: [Samba] A device attached to the system is not functioning

2012-07-02 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Alan Holt berber...@gmail.com wrote: What does it mean? This is name of my domain: # vi /etc/smbldap-tools/smbldap.conf suffix=dc=mydomaine,dc=com I am talking about the workgroup setting in smb.conf This should not contain a . John -- To

Re: [Samba] Yet another Win7 failing to join the domain...

2012-06-06 Thread John Drescher
I just installed a Windows 7 Pro workstation and failed to join our domain (latest samba 3.0.33 from CentOS 5.8). I tried the 2 lanmanWorkstation registry keys from the wiki and Windows keeps saying that he cannot find the domain. I see NOTHING in samba logs... no failure message... almost

Re: [Samba] PDC How to change workstation setting?

2012-05-28 Thread John Drescher
Got it, I will give a try, thanks!!! One easy way to do that is Ldap account manager. http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/changelog John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] Linux to Windows Interoperability

2012-05-24 Thread John Drescher
Curious to know if Samba is able to support communication (read/write) with external media formatted EXT3 (Linux volume) from within the MS Windows environment? I am not sure samba works on a windows machine. I mean you would have to disable the Server service and probably a few more since

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. Is this a known problem? I have never ever had

Re: [Samba] trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

2012-04-10 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:43 AM, clinton propst clintonpro...@yahoo.com wrote: Samba shares work for windows 7 and Server 2008, but XP and Server 2000 recieve the following error when trying to map samba shares: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

Re: [Samba] trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

2012-04-10 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:46 AM, clinton propst clintonpro...@yahoo.comwrote: Thannks for the reply. Set the the reg key below and rebooted. Issue still not resolved. From reading that post it looks like that was a fix for windows 7. Our windows 7 workstations and server 2008 can access

Re: [Samba] trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

2012-04-10 Thread John Drescher
Still not working after readding machines to the domain.  Errors are the same as originally posted in /var/log/messages. Please forget my advice. I thought you had a different problem. I should not reply to posts while distracted.. I do not know how to solve your issue. John -- To

Re: [Samba] Chown

2012-04-02 Thread John Drescher
Hello list, i did try to assign permission to folder for some users in samba4 as BDC, for example chown sandy Temp/ chown: invalid user: `sandy' when sandy is a users create in active directory, why sayme that sandy is invalid users It sounds like you do not have your nsswitch setup

Re: [Samba] windows 7 roaming profiles

2012-03-29 Thread John Drescher
Of the three you mention above, which one corresponds to 'always read the profle from the server and store nothing on the local disk'? None... Isn't there a way with group policies to have the client delete the roaming profile after the user logs out. I think that would solve the OP''s

[Samba] Fwd: windows 7 roaming profiles

2012-03-29 Thread John Drescher
Isn't there a way with group policies to have the client delete the roaming profile after the user logs out. I think that would solve the OP''s problem. Yes, there's a way to do that. But it doesn't solve the problem of having to transfer maybe hundreds of megabytes or even worse each time

Re: [Samba] Cifs mount in samba

2012-03-19 Thread John Drescher
Hi people! Help me please with a cifs mount in samba. When I mount a cifs resource to a folder which is a part of samba share, users get all folders in it as zero files. They press F5 or refresh, and folders become ordinary ones. The issue repeats with all folders inside it. How to resolv

Re: [Samba] Ignoring unknown parameter hosts equiv

2012-01-19 Thread John Drescher
I tried to remove everything related to printing and didnt change a thing. Can still print from every pc directly via lan and that error message keeps filling up my logs. What did I miss?        hosts equiv = 10.0.0.1/24 Remove the above line. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] Rejecting auth request from client xxx machine account, win7,

2012-01-17 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:59 AM, ESGLinux esggru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a strange problem with my SAMBA server as PDC. I have some win7 machines joined to my domain but when I try to access some folders on the server I get  messages like these: Authentication for user

[Samba] Fwd: Newbie question but an Easy one

2012-01-11 Thread John Drescher
Please send all questions to the list as well. I can not always answer in a timely fashion. -- Forwarded message -- From: Craig Ham mrc...@wsa.net Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Newbie question but an Easy one To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com John

Re: [Samba] Samba not working

2011-11-30 Thread John Drescher
Samba will only work if I give 777 permissions on the share directory. Obviously this is less than ideal since I do not want write permissions open to everyone.  Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Please post ls -al on your share folder and your smb.conf share definition. John --

Re: [Samba] Newbie question but an Easy one

2011-11-22 Thread John Drescher
Our school needs to replace our Novell server. We have a collection of XP Pro computers and a few XP Home, Win98, Win95 and Win2000 computers. All we need is file sharing. Can Samba be setup so that all these computers can access a file share (F:\ or G:\)  and run the program on the client

Re: [Samba] Force group syntax for multiple groups

2011-10-07 Thread John Drescher
I have the situation here. I want to share a directory (vobstor) which has multiple subdirectories. These subdirectories are owned by different groups. How can I setup the correct permission here in samba so that each group can has the correct access to their files? Below are my smb.conf

Re: [Samba] Force group syntax for multiple groups

2011-10-07 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Le, Anh anh...@cognex.com wrote: Hi John, I'm not familiar with acls, and I thought it may be more complicated in samba config if filesystem using acls. Is it true? I believe it simplifies your samba config. Since there is no need to force anything.. John

Re: [Samba] Fwd: Win 7 Pro

2011-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Bartlett abart...@samba.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 13:51 -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM,  sa...@printflow.eu wrote: On 2011-10-03 19:40, John Drescher wrote: Is there anything else I may try ? Make sure you have

Re: [Samba] Fwd: Win 7 Pro

2011-10-04 Thread John Drescher
This led me to other question, I have two PDCs on my network for two companies. If I set both WINS server in DHCP setting may I expect it will work? Does w7 checks both of them? That one I can not help you with. I have 1 PDC and multiple BDCs on the same network and domain for the last

Re: [Samba] Fwd: Win 7 Pro

2011-10-03 Thread John Drescher
Is there anything else I may try ? Make sure you have your WINS settings in your windows 7 client so that the client can find the PDC. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] Fwd: Win 7 Pro

2011-10-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM, sa...@printflow.eu wrote: On 2011-10-03 19:40, John Drescher wrote: Is there anything else I may try ? Make sure you have your WINS settings in your windows 7 client so that the client can find the PDC. Any hint in this ? In ipconfig I see only WINS proxy

Re: [Samba] Did my email come through?

2011-09-22 Thread John Drescher
I sent an email to the list on Monday before I joined and it got held up in moderation (non-member to a members-only list).  I don't see my mail on the list archives but when I tried to remove it from the moderation queue it said it had already gone through. No the email from Monday did not

Re: [Samba] problem joining a samba PDC from WIN7 clients

2011-09-15 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, ESGLinux esggru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, thanks for your answer, one question, which samba version are you using? I have read the the min version that you can use is samba 3.3.5. I have 3.0.33 (that comes with RHEL5) Do I need to update my samba?

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 64 bits with Samba PDC (trust relationship problem)

2011-09-09 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Daniel Lopes de Carvalho dlcarva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I would like to know if anyone has success in making 64-bit Windows Seven work with a Samba PDC without any problems? Yes. I have been using windows 7 64 bit with my samba domain for 1.5 years. I have a

Re: [Samba] MSDFS working with IP address but not with name [SOLVED]

2011-08-31 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot nico...@ecarnot.net wrote: Le 24/08/2011 11:02, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit : Hi, - Server : Ubuntu server 11.04 - Samba 3.5.8 - (Likewise 6.0.0-2 if that can make sense... ? - Anyway : working fine; A.D. integration OK) - Client : windows XP

Re: [Samba] how to upgrade to samba 3.6.0

2011-08-11 Thread John Drescher
I sent a message out yesterday asking for help, but it has been ignored. Your message was confusing and you did not provide much details. How about a part of the samba log when it fails? I can assure you that windows 7 works with samba 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5. -- John M. Drescher -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect

2011-08-09 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Marc Fromm marc.fr...@wwu.edu wrote: I just set up my first windows 7 desktop. When I try to map a drive to the red hat linux samba share it complains that the server cannot perform the requested operation. Windows XP machines work with no problem. The linux

Re: [Samba] How to detect active users

2011-07-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Am 26.07.2011 18:31, schrieb Jeremy Allison: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:06:20AM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: Currently, I'm not even sure Samba preserves the kind of state information required to detect the usage

Re: [Samba] How to detect active users

2011-07-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Am 26.07.2011 18:42, schrieb Chris Weiss: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Currently, I'm not even sure Samba preserves the kind of state information required to detect the

Re: [Samba] PDC + BDC + Roaming Profiles

2011-07-14 Thread John Drescher
Whats the best method to keep the profiles in sync? Or should i use another FileServer for the profiles? I have always done that. There are no file shares on my PDC or BDCs. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] pdbedit password must change not following policy

2011-07-02 Thread John Drescher
At one time I used pdbedit to force a password change and that stopped working. Apparently it was deprecated in favor of net sam set pwdmustchangenow. I'm guessing the same thing happened to maximum password age. Try using net sam policy set maximum password age instead. He is using an

Re: [Samba] Win7 can't joint Samba domain?

2011-07-01 Thread John Drescher
We've been trying to get a newly loaded Win7 (64-bin) box to join our internal Samba domain. The error that keeps appearing is the win7 box can't find the domain controller and is looking for the registry keys NetpLoadParameters DNSNameResolutionRequired. We've set these registry keys

Re: [Samba] Win7 can't joint Samba domain?

2011-07-01 Thread John Drescher
That link says the same registry keys we're trying to set. Attempting to join the Samba domain is still failing with an error those registry keys cannot be found. This same installation disk was used to install Win7 on another box and it worked just fine. I can't think of any changes. I don't

Re: [Samba] Fwd: Howto Backup Domain Controller (BDC) for the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) in Centos Openldap+samba 3.3 Please send to...

2011-06-27 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Muqtadir Kamal smkamal2...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Muqtadir Kamal smkamal2...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:57 PM Subject: Howto Backup Domain Controller (BDC) for the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) in Centos

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-27 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/27/2011 12:42 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote: just requires some special consideration.  I still install through apt-get install, and it works flawlessly.  it's much like a lot of driver packages where you still have

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread John Drescher
       I would use 'xfs'.  I believe samba was originally developed over xfs, so it's likely the ea-suppot and acl support has had the most testing there.  Especially if your file server is setup with a UPS, then I'd strongly recommend it.   If not, ext4 might be safer (with write through).  

Re: [Samba] Machines randomly kicks out of the domain

2011-06-21 Thread John Drescher
Sorry to ask here, but all googeling doesn't helped. We have several samba domains (samba 3.5.6) with ldap backed and windows 7 clients, which worked fine so far. Know we begin to see that random machines begin to kick out of the domain with the error: I have seen this happen if the user

[Samba] convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence

2011-06-20 Thread John Drescher
My users are having a lot of problems since I upgraded a samba domain member server from samba-3.0.37 to 3.5.X. The main issue seems to be a very long delay loading office files (sometimes minutes if the file loads at all) and a lot of read only errors and users not being able to save. I have

Re: [Samba] convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence

2011-06-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:23 PM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu mo...@monyo.com wrote: From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:07:19 -0400 My users are having a lot of problems since I upgraded a samba domain member server from samba-3.0.37 to 3.5.X. (snip) In the logs I

Re: [Samba] Samba process throttled back?

2011-06-17 Thread John Drescher
I've attached the smb.conf file for your reading pleasure.  I can attach the strace output file if that would be helpful. The list automatically throws away all attachments. Can you post that inline or on pastebin.com and link here or something similar? John -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [Samba] DFS root only works for more recent Windows clients

2011-06-09 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Bruce Richardson itsbr...@workshy.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:42:48PM +0200, Daniel Müller wrote: For me working without any trouble. Centos 5.5,5.4,5.6. Did you: host msdfs=yes??? That's the default setting for host msdfs, so there should be no need

Re: [Samba] DFS root only works for more recent Windows clients

2011-06-09 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Richardson itsbr...@workshy.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 09:14:39AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: Its working for me for years at work with (xp, xp64, and now windows7 64 bit). I as of a few months I am running samba-3.5.8 on the dfs root however I

Re: [Samba] Reshare of a Samba mount

2011-06-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM, will ryder wjry...@me.com wrote: Having a little bit of trouble understanding how my configuration might work. Having seen this : http://communities.netapp.com/thread/3616 Does this mean that the  DFS root is on the RHEL and NetApp is a leaf node ? That is

Re: [Samba] Single sign on nivana

2011-06-02 Thread John Drescher
Given that I have currently have 6 member servers, I think that amount of ldap replication would be over-kill. I was considering one ldap slave. I will consult the Docs that Louis pointed me to and look at the winbind config. You do not have to make every server an ldap server. John -- To

[Samba] Fwd: windows7 can not log on samba domain

2011-05-24 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: salih riza salihr...@gmail.com Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] windows7 can not log on samba domain To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com yeah i did it. The error that win7 gives is The specified account already exists

Re: [Samba] The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

2011-05-23 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Andrew Spiers 7and...@gmail.com wrote: Samba 3.5.6 PDC, Windows 7 client. A user was unable to log on this morning with this error. The samba log for the machine is full of: [2011/02/10 09:09:50.145387,  0]

Re: [Samba] windows7 can not log on samba domain

2011-05-17 Thread John Drescher
by the way, my samba version is 3.2.5. client is windows 7 professional I am not sure if this is the problem but on that page you linked from the wiki it says: Support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 using Samba Domain Controllers has been added to the following versions: Samba 3.4 or

[Samba] Fwd: windows7 can not log on samba domain

2011-05-17 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: salih riza salihr...@gmail.com Date: 2011/5/17 Subject: Re: [Samba] windows7 can not log on samba domain To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com new version is 3.4.7 now. it is on ubuntu 10.4. but give me same error. The specified account already

Re: [Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to open or create

2011-05-10 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Doug Tucker tuck...@lyle.smu.edu wrote: Microsoft Outlook's personal folders (*.pst) react quite badly to oplocks. This statement got to me.  So I created a share on the local drive of the server and wallah..Outlook can write a .pst file.  So it has to do

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.8 / Windows error and system errors while mapping network drive on some PC's

2011-04-15 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Dodson, Eric (COT) ericn.dod...@ky.gov wrote: Problem: We have a share defined using Samba 3.5.8 on AIX 6.1. Several people can map a Windows Network Drive to the share and it works fine. Several other people get Windows errors or system errors when trying to

Re: [Samba] windows 7 logon problem

2011-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jeff Savastano savastano.j...@yahoo.com wrote: hi, i am able to join my domain with windows 7.  when i reboot i get a Unkown error has occurred.  when i check my event log i see that there is a netlogon 3210 error: This computer could not authenticate

Re: [Samba] Samba version 2.2.3a and Windows 7

2011-04-14 Thread John Drescher
I was wondering if anyone knew if Samba version 2.2.3a ran on Red Hat 7.3 will work with Windows 7. Currently even after editing the registry on the Windows system, I am able to connect but not log in. If you think that it will not work, is there a version of Samba that will work that is

Re: [Samba] compressed file VFS

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
I've had some good compression from lessfs ( http://www.lessfs.com/ ),  not samba specific but is quite transparent, and POSIX compliant. I thought that lessfs was about datadeduplication. Is there compression as well? John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: [Samba] compressed file VFS

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Moroder andreas.moro...@sb-brixen.it wrote: Hallo, we have a clinical system that generate lot of files that once written are never changed. This file consume lot of disk and tape space*, so my idea was to compress this files. The problem is that it

Re: [Samba] compressed file VFS

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr wrote: John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Moroder andreas.moro...@sb-brixen.it  wrote: Hallo, we have a clinical system that generate lot of files that once written are never changed

Re: [Samba] compressed file VFS

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr wrote: John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Moroder andreas.moro...@sb-brixen.it  wrote: Hallo, we have

Re: [Samba] Can't join Windows 7 Pro/XP to samba PDC

2011-03-24 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Andres Tarallo atara...@acm.org wrote: 2011/3/23 Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com: Did you try manually creating a unix user account for the samba machine?  Does getent passwd show that machine? Yes, I've created a user account with smbldap-passwd.

Re: [Samba] Can't join Windows 7 Pro/XP to samba PDC

2011-03-24 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Chris Weiss cwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Andres Tarallo atara...@acm.org wrote: 2011/3/23 Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com: Did you try manually

Re: [Samba] new created files belong to root instead samba user

2011-03-24 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Werner Durgarten wernerdurgar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi List, i just noticed, that files that are created by any samba user who is in the admin users list, belong to root in the unix filesystem. This is not what i want. Are there any other options to allow sb.

Re: [Samba] XP not obeying Samba file perms

2011-03-13 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Rob Mason rob.ma...@acasta.co.uk wrote: Hi List, I have an unusual problem concerning the Windows  XP Rotate image explorer shell extension.  I have a share called Archives defined with a number of sub-directories.  Whilst I have read/write permission to all

Re: [Samba] PDC and BDC... what about de shared folders??

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Bayardo Rivas - Open Soluciones bayardo.ri...@opensoluciones.com wrote: Hi, i am new in the mailing list. I am trying to figure out my configuration. I have a Samba server authenticating with /etc/passwd. We are planing to move to LDAP and install a BDC

Re: [Samba] is possible change the PDC IP address without damage the domain?

2011-03-10 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:07 PM, kazabe kaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have a virtualized PDC, and now i need asign a dedicated server to that service. The problem is:  the IP on the virtualized server dont use the same range of the local network.  To add the new PDC server, we need use an

Re: [Samba] is possible change the PDC IP address without damage the domain?

2011-03-10 Thread John Drescher
Yes. Just make the change. If you use a DNS server make sure you update the pdc records in that. John I have the dns updating dinamically with the dhcp,  including the PTR registers. the trust relationship can be affected changing the IP? (i have stations with windows XP and 7) No it

Re: [Samba] Working simultaneously with the same user account

2011-03-01 Thread John Drescher
 However, my experience has been that you can not connect to two different shares on one server, each with a different credentials.  At least this is the case when connecting from an XP Pro client. E.g. net use x: \\server1\share1 /user:jsmith (that will work) net use y: \\server1\share2

Re: [Samba] Settings ACLS from Windows via member server

2011-02-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Dieterich m...@cs.brown.edu wrote: I have a purely samba domain: samba PDC, BDC, and a collection of clustered member servers that provide CIFS access to our underlying file system.  Things are working fine, with the exception of users being able to set

Re: [Samba] Settings ACLS from Windows via member server

2011-02-22 Thread John Drescher
Do you have acls set on the file system for the member servers? Winbind is for authentication purposes, not files system acls. Without winbind I did not get users names in the ACLs tab under windwows? Do you get these? John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: [Samba] Settings ACLS from Windows via member server

2011-02-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, t...@tms3.com wrote: Do you have acls set on the file system for the member servers? Winbind is for authentication purposes, not files system acls. Without winbind I did not get users names in the ACLs tab under windwows? Do you get these? BTW, for this

Re: [Samba] Settings ACLS from Windows via member server

2011-02-22 Thread John Drescher
While subscribers keep explaining what they believe, and keep giving advice based on their belief system, rather than on well reasoned fact, confusion will continue to exist and complaints regarding Samba documentation will continue also. Are you willing to take a brave step to explain your

Re: [Samba] Problem with trust relationship

2011-02-19 Thread John Drescher
Hi guys. I had to give a break to the samba debug cause my ldap base went crazy for a while after the upgrade, but it's ok now. Unfortunally, my samba PDC still isn't going quite well =( There is any other ideas that i could try? Before all this, eventually one or two machines had trust

Re: [Samba] call for a forum to replace the mailing list?

2011-02-18 Thread John Drescher
in other groups I'm in that do have forums, the regulars are only regulars because of the mailing list, as forums require forethought to go read and reply instead of it being dumped in your face as posted like email does.  Forums that have list integration, like FUDForum, are a decent

Re: [Samba] Problem with trust relationship

2011-02-12 Thread John Drescher
Hi everyone. Applying the registry patch and readding the machines in the domain seems to work on windows XP, but not for vista or 7. In fact, i cannot add the machine in the domain again with those versions of windows. it gives me that remote procedure call failed error. There is any new

Re: [Samba] Problem with trust relationship

2011-02-12 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Leonardo Carneiro chesterma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone. Applying the registry patch and readding the machines in the domain seems to work on windows XP, but not for vista or 7

Re: [Samba] Problem with trust relationship

2011-02-10 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Leonardo Carneiro chesterma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:36 PM,  t...@tms3.com wrote: Hi John and others, Tks for the feedback. I tried the configs you showed to me and unfortunally did not work. Also, there is a [small] number of windows xp

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