Hello samba,
I have just installed Samba 3.0.2a (debian packages from samba.org) and
I have found that the recycle vfs module does not work.
This is my setup for a share with recycle enabled:
[dis_imp]
comment = Disegni Impianti
path = /ud0/dis_imp
read only = No
I have just found a simple (yet not so elegant) workaround for the
recycle VFS module permissions issue. Recycled directory is always
created with a 0700 permission, not allowing the use of the recycle bin
in a share that should be group-writeable.
The simple workaround is
Hello rruegner,
Monday, February 23, 2004, 12:11:18 AM, you wrote:
r i just tested this and it doesnt work
r is a special vfs version needed?
No, I'm running samba 3.0.2a, installed from the debian binary packages
found on samnba.org.
The complete share configuration is:
[discone]
Hello John,
Thursday, February 26, 2004, 3:30:21 AM, you wrote:
JHT You should run the tdbbackup tool every time Samba (smbd) is shut down.
JHT Please refer to the man page for further information. The use of tdbbackup
JHT is a very important step to prevention of catastrophic problems with
I'd like to set up my samba 2.2.8a server to serve printer drivers to
clients when needed. I have set up the print$ share, in which I still
have no drivers. Tried adding drivers from a win2000 workstation by
using server properties command, I can't add anything since all
buttons are
Hello Andreas,
This is the EXACT problem I had. Haven't fixed it either if I have 10
printers upload all the drivers.. for all the OS's... how do I tell
which drivers go with which printer?
A You use the setdriver command, it seems. What I wanted to know is if this
A is expected or
Hello Andrew,
Friday, June 27, 2003, 8:31:12 AM, you wrote:
AB Make sure you have no mapped drives to the server before you join the
AB domain. In particular, don't have any drives open as a different user
AB to the one you use to join the domain (usually root).
Also, do NOT try to go from a
Hello Adrian,
Monday, June 30, 2003, 3:15:54 AM, you wrote:
AC the gid and uid of the file) Mine worked as if it is always created as a
AC root user.I thought the file should have the uid and gid or the person
AC who created the file (respect to the /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the
AC
I am currently planning half a migration (and half a new configuration)
from NT to Samba PDC, and I would like to have some help. I have read the
howto and I have understood something useful, but I also understood that I
don't know enough of Samba domain internals to be sure not to make
Hello Megat0N,
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 2:01:23 PM, you wrote:
M With xp sp2 (and 2003) i have to repeat various times the join phase
M before get success from the PDC, and, during each failed join, i get the
M error:
M user unknown or incorrect password
This does not seem
Hello Marek,
Monday, May 23, 2005, 2:04:21 PM, you wrote:
MC I've been trying to tackle this for some time and so far did not
MC find a way to do this. The problem is simple - as I don't enable
MC printing through Samba I'd like to disable it in such fashion that
MC user would not even see the
Hello Ricky,
Monday, May 23, 2005, 2:41:50 PM, you wrote:
FR include = /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.tpub02
FR I would appreciate any help with fixing this problem.
Maybe if the netbios alias is uppercase, also the file should be
smb.conf.TPUB02 instead of tpub02. have you tried
Hello Jorge,
Monday, May 23, 2005, 6:51:59 PM, you wrote:
JF Someone told me to insert domain admin group = group I want or
JF domain admin user = users I want in my smb.conf file, but it didn't
JF worked (looks like that was for older versions of samba).
JF Can someone help?
Try this command:
Hello Josef,
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 8:39:27 AM, you wrote:
JFlc We encounter following problem. If somebody on the network writes
JFlc big files from windows clients to a samba shared directory, the
JFlc performance of the server will be as much degraded, that, using top,
JFlc on all
I have installed lots of samba 3 servers as PDCs for little networks
serving 10 users or so. I have always set up the user root as the domain
administrator, by setting its group SID to domainSID-512 with pdbedit.
My root user has usually a user SID of domainSID-1000 since it is the
first
Hello Stéphane,
Saturday, June 4, 2005, 2:02:28 PM, you wrote:
SP For joining a machine to domain, you must have a user with uid = 0.
SP But, begin with samba 3.0.11, the privileges can be used for use a other
SP user than root (uid = 0)
SP You can read more information in this pages :
SP
Hello samba,
I have a samba 3.0.9 server that shares printers using SPOOLSS and
hosting the drivers. Everything works, but accessing the printers from
Win XP is very slow and I get an error in the log that says:
couldn't find service::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d}
I have read (I suppose) all of the documentation about Samba, but I have
not found a detailed description of the contents of the various tdb files.
It should be useful to know what information goes in each file, and
eventually which file can be safely deleted and rebuilt.
For example, I
Hello Stephan,
Monday, June 13, 2005, 12:58:54 PM, you wrote:
SH I am struggeling around with the permissions of the recycle-vfs-module.
SH While working mostly good( placing deleted files inside the .recycle-
SH folder), the touch-option does not work.
I am experiencing the same problem. The
I have to upgrade a 2.2.8a (Debian) installation to 3.0.14a (Debian
too). I have quite everything clear but I am afraid I will get into
trouble with the filename encoding on disk.
The current samba installation has no explicit codepage declared for the
file system, and
Hello ljerem,
Monday, June 13, 2005, 6:34:03 PM, you wrote:
lfua The problem is that, for example, when I create a file (or modify it with
lfua Word or Exel) in the Finances subdirectory, the file has my primary group
lfua as GID (Technology, in this case).
lfua What I need to do is to force
Hello Jeremy,
Monday, June 13, 2005, 6:52:34 PM, you wrote:
JA Not true (that the recycle VSF module is of quite no interest), it's just
that
JA the squeeky wheel tends to get the grease. You've squeeked, and I'm not
applying
JA grease :-).
Really thanks for the prompt answer and the fix.
Hello Steve,
Tuesday, June 14, 2005, 12:44:21 PM, you wrote:
SW I upgraded a mid-sized samba install (+-150 pc's) from Samba 2.0.7 to
SW 3.0.14a last night. It is acting as a PDC and the upgrade went smooth
SW except for one thing.
I don't have an answer, but a question: what were the
Hello Jeremy,
Friday, June 17, 2005, 6:39:50 PM, you wrote:
The biggest problem is the time it takes Office to open up with a Samba
printer set as default on the PC. If a fake local printer is installed
and set as default, Office opens up quickly, but when the end user has
to print,
I have just run into two printer drivers (Brother 1870N and HP Deskjet
890cxi) that seem to crash windows explorer as soon as they are uploaded
to the samba server.
I have tried using default devmode=yes with no success for both drivers.
I have found an horrible workaround that maybe
This is my first try at setting up a guest ok share.
I have created an user named guest in Linux (since I don't want to use
the default nobody) that has group users. Now, it seems that the map
to guest directive is completely ignored.
I have created the same user in samba (don't know if I
Hello samba,
I have an issue with OpenVPN 2.0 and Samba 3.0.14a.
My setup consists in a routed VPN (thus server and clients are on
different subnets) between a linux OpenVPN 2.0 server and some Windows
2000 VPN clients. Samba is the PDC and is a WINS server.
The VPN clients
I reply to myself to add some information: I have think that I have traced
it down to a name resolving issue. I don't know why but sometimes the
client asks the wrong WINS server (I have two: one on the locally
connected LAN an another one on the other side of the VPN) to resolve
Hello drweb,
Saturday, November 25, 2006, 4:32:17 PM, you wrote:
d By command:
d pdbedit -r gad -G 514 -d0
d I cann't change primary group.
I was looking through the list archives and found your post. I have the
same issue. Any solutions yet?
Running Samba 3.0.23d with tdbsam
--
Hello Gerald,
Monday, January 29, 2007, 2:50:54 PM, you wrote:
d pdbedit -r gad -G 514 -d0
d I cann't change primary group.
[...]
Running Samba 3.0.23d with tdbsam
GJC The primary group is based on the real Unix primary group.
Ah, ok... so now it's impossible by design to change the
Hello Jeffrey,
Saturday, April 8, 2006, 1:50:53 AM, you wrote:
JML I'm seeing this exact same behavior on my Samba server. For what it's
JML worth, I also see this same behavior with shares/folders on a Windows
JML NT system. It seems Samba/Linux and Windows NT behave the same in
JML this
I am looking for some way to grant or deny internet access (that is,
changing iptables rules) based on Samba domain logon.
When a user logs on, I would like to run a script that modifies firewall
rules based on the group that the user belongs to (this determines if he
has internet access or
I am quite desperate.
I have been trying to migrate a NT4 PDC to Samba.
At the first try, I have used samba 3.2.5, which seemed to complete the
vampire process but then I have found that there is a bug that prevents
password from being migrated properly (and in fact passwords were not
migrated
I have googled a lot, but I have found no examples of the correct use of
the tdbbackup program.
I am looking for some advice on how to use tdbbackup. I mean, I know I
can simply run tdbbackup *.tdb, but I was looking for in-depth
information on when and how to use it, about best practices on
I have a Samba 3.3.2 member server, named mailbkp1, which I joined to a
Samba 3.3.2 domain controller.
At joining time, I got two errors on the domain controller, which I
report here:
[2009/03/31 14:08:47, 0]
rpc_server/srv_netlog_nt.c:_netr_ServerAuthenticate2(546)
It seems that when the clients (and the server) use Unix extensions, the
force create mode (and maybe force directory mode?) setting is
completely ignored.
I have a Samba 3.2.5 server that is accessed from Windows and Linux.
One share is configured as follows:
[foto]
comment =
On 06/22/2011 12:31 AM, mrArcabuz wrote:
Hi, it's been a while since the original message appeared, but here's my
experience in case someone finds it useful:
[...]
I changed the machine account name to uppercase in the passwd shadow
files and the message does not appear anymore in the
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