[Samba] fail-over, redundancy, bdc, multi-dc-domain

2013-01-22 Thread Gregory Sloop
I'm aware of, at least generally, how one would have done a BDC/Redundant server under OpenLDAP Samba3. However, rolling your own multi-domain-controller was fairly daunting [for me] under Samba3 / OpenLDAP. I've been very interested in Samba4 for the more integrated nature of having

[Samba] Ubuntu compile/install location

2013-01-23 Thread Gregory Sloop
install to to avoid issues later. And as long as we're on the subject - any advice to make my long term experience better, having compiled my own vs. a package install? TIA -Greg -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting 503.251.0452 x82 Voice | 503.251.0452 Fax www.sloop.net

[Samba] domain provision error

2013-01-24 Thread Gregory Sloop
. Suggestions? -Greg -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting 503.251.0452 x121 Voice | 503.251.0452 Fax www.sloop.net mailto:gr...@sloop.net -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] domain provision error

2013-01-24 Thread Gregory Sloop
GK it's not only your file system supporting ACL's - also some GK devel packages must be around during the build. GK See https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4/OS_Requirements Thanks, but I do have all the ACL packages etc, described in the reqs. [I followed, exactly, the Deb/Ubuntu

Re: [Samba] domain provision error

2013-01-24 Thread Gregory Sloop
GK it's not only your file system supporting ACL's - also some GK devel packages must be around during the build. GK See https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4/OS_Requirements GS Thanks, but I do have all the ACL packages etc, described in the reqs. GS [I followed, exactly, the Deb/Ubuntu

[Samba] domain provision error

2013-01-27 Thread Gregory Sloop
[I sent this back on Friday AM, but it claimed it was being held, yet I've not seen it show up, so I'm reposting both to update the thread, as well as for others who might be having the same issue. My apologies if it eventually shows up twice.] --- As was posted initially, I got a whole set of

Re: [Samba] migrating samba shares to a netapp filer?

2013-01-31 Thread Gregory Sloop
LO Al 31/01/13 16:09, En/na John P Arends ha escrit: If I were you I'd connect to both shares using a Windows machine and run robocopy to copy all the permissions. LO I thought about that but I'd prefer a Linux solution (if possible). If you want the least hassle and all the permissions etc,

Re: [Samba] about samba4 and external ldap and dns

2013-02-07 Thread Gregory Sloop
AVH thanks, AVH there is any documentation for using samba4 with an external bind9? https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Bind_9.8.0_or_newer [There's a problem with the Wiki - it's only accepting HTTPS connections today - just a heads-up for whomever in the Samba crew might be

[Samba] Wiki link / Attn:samba dev team, web maint..

2013-02-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
The Wiki page has been SSL-only for a few days to a week or so. [perhaps this is by design, I don't know - but it is different than it was a week or more ago.] But the link to it from the main samba.org page is wrong and the suggested link doesn't get you to the wiki either. [It goes to

[Samba] Replication Ok, or not?

2013-02-12 Thread Gregory Sloop
Setup a DC using 4.0.3 - all appears to go fine... Setup a second DC and everything works fine to here...but I'm not sure if replication is actually working or not. Here's what I get from ./samba-tool drs showrepl I've also done. [./samba-tool drs kcc -Uadministrator dc2.samba.somedom.local] in

[Samba] Promoting a DC

2013-02-12 Thread Gregory Sloop
So, I'm wondering if anyone has a howto on promoting a non-master DC to FSMO/Operation master and making it the Primary DC? [I don't see it in the Wiki and searching doesn't produce anything for me.] In my particular case, I have a couple of test DC's I've setup. Rather than tear them down, I

[Samba] rsync'ing samba shares

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Sloop
I know this has come up a bit in the past, but consider this situation: Two Samba4 DC's - and I want to mirror the data shares to the backup DC in case we lose the primary DC and it's file shares. [A cheap, dirty, poor-mans semi-CTDB. How did you ever guess that Red Green was helping me?!] The

Re: [Samba] BIND9_DLZ CNAME Records Not Resolving from Windows Workstations

2013-02-14 Thread Gregory Sloop
-SNIP- TS Perfect! Now from the Windows workstation. C:\Users\Admin1ipconfig /flushdns TS Windows IP Configuration TS Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache. C:\Users\Admin1ping foo.internal.testdom.com TS Ping request could not find host foo.internal.testdom.com. Please check the TS name

[Samba] smb.conf for Windows clients

2013-02-18 Thread Gregory Sloop
So, I'm trying to paw through the long set of smb.conf options - and it's rather daunting. I'm wondering what smb.conf options are most important/appropriate/common for mostly Windows XP/7/(possibly v8) clients. TIA -Greg -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-19 Thread Gregory Sloop
DS On 02/17/2013 6:02 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote: As most of you would have noticed, we have now had 3 CVE-nominated security issues for SWAT in the past couple of years. -SNIP- Therefore, it was suggested on a private list that we just drop SWAT. I want to start a public discussion on

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-20 Thread Gregory Sloop
-SNIP- However, for anyone looking for a web version of the smb.conf for 4.0.3 - see this wiki page. http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Documentation_Links/samba4-smb.conf SA Just curious what is the source of the smb.conf manual above. I think your question was answered in terms of S4 vs S3

Re: [Samba] samba_upgradeprovision and msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes / msDS-NcType

2013-02-20 Thread Gregory Sloop
DE Originally I had a Win 2003 DC. I added a samba 4.0.0 DC to the DE domain, allow full replication to take place and then transferred all DE the roles to the samba 4.0.0 dc. Finally I removed the Windows DC from DE the domain. DE Everything has been working well. Today I upgraded from samba

Re: [Samba] Samba4 Auto-start

2013-02-20 Thread Gregory Sloop
MR I'll cut to the chase -- several weeks ago, I thought I had an MR upstart configuration file that would start Samba4 when the VM was MR turned on; but it turns out I was wrong. At the time there was MR nothing on the wiki about it (the links were broken). MR The script I thought was working

Re: [Samba] Samba AD DC with BIND DNS on separate server

2013-02-25 Thread Gregory Sloop
LL I see from the documentation that it is possible to use BIND9 as LL a drop-in replacement for the internal SAMBA4 DNS service... LL However, I would like to know if I can keep the BIND9 DNS server LL on a seperate server from de one that SAMBA4 is running on (AD DC). LL If this is possible,

Re: [Samba] some DNS trouble ...

2013-02-26 Thread Gregory Sloop
mmgc Well … just found that the options mmgc server role mmgc dns recursive queries mmgc dns forwarders mmgc are ignored … hmmm … well … does anyone know how to achieve the mmgc desired behavior without these options ? Perhaps I don't understand what's going on - but are you sure your DNS

Re: [Samba] Synchronising password of some AD users with an external LDAP?

2013-02-26 Thread Gregory Sloop
PLJJ I know that if I were running a Windows AD, I could most likely PLJJ accomplish what I want with--if nothing else--the 389 DS by using PLJJ DS-provided Password Sync Service (see PLJJ

Re: [Samba] Synchronising password of some AD users with an external LDAP?

2013-02-26 Thread Gregory Sloop
PLJJ I know that if I were running a Windows AD, I could most likely PLJJ accomplish what I want with--if nothing else--the 389 DS by using PLJJ DS-provided Password Sync Service (see PLJJ

Re: [Samba] Samba 4 - smbd; can't parse the PAC: NT_STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error but only for a single domain user (Server 2008 R2 domain, Server 2008 functional level forest).

2013-02-27 Thread Gregory Sloop
I do so enjoy working with users who I can ask to 'put some code in' and who can handle this so well :-). TM Why thank you, kind Sir :-) TM I do so enjoy working with people who quite obviously really, REALLY, know their subject :-) TM In my case, evidence only of far too many years stuck

Re: [Samba] samba4 PDC to BDC file replication

2013-02-28 Thread Gregory Sloop
CW I have built two samba4 boxes, one as a PDC and the as a DC, all working CW perfectly. If I create a user through the mmc snapin then turn off the PDC, CW I can still login to the domain using the DC which is great. The problem is CW their files and ntfs permissions on BDC. CW I have assigned

Re: [Samba] samba4 PDC to BDC file replication

2013-03-01 Thread Gregory Sloop
any idea about the users/groups, since it's not replicating and of the DC data, right?)] Glad for any light you can shed - and thanks for letting me know it should work. I'll tinker with it when I'm to that point. -Greg JA On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:13:39PM -0800, Gregory Sloop wrote: I'm

Re: [Samba] Password Policy - how to reduce password complexity

2013-03-02 Thread Gregory Sloop
Windows cannot set the password for because: The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements. TS It's giving that error because you have a minimum length specified or TS complexity

Re: [Samba] tracking user activity - Active Directory

2013-03-07 Thread Gregory Sloop
Pardon me for butting in, and probably you've already considered this, but what the heck. Do you even know that the user actually logged in during the time in question? I suppose the logs will at least let you know *if* anyone did login, but if the trouble-maker used an already logged in station

Re: [Samba] samba4 provision password complexity error

2013-03-10 Thread Gregory Sloop
Known issue - see the wiki. [I don't think you can change the password complexity before provisioning, but perhaps you can.] #this sets the complexity req off. #(I do this after provisioning, but it may work before...) samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --complexity=off --- But you'll have

Re: [Samba] samba4 provision password complexity error

2013-03-10 Thread Gregory Sloop
after the error it is on !! GR Something is turning the complexity back on during the provision. BUG -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting Voice: 503.251.0452 x82 EMail: gr...@sloop.net http://www.sloop.net --- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] samba4 provision password complexity error

2013-03-10 Thread Gregory Sloop
GR Ok I finally gave up and made something really complex: Administrator1 GR Boy, we feel really secure now.:rolleyes: GR RANT: I wish people would stop all this complexity nonsense and GR just let people set their passwords how they want to GR set them. I really hope you're venting at

Re: [Samba] Weird behaviour of one Win7 user

2013-03-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
DHK Hello list, DHK I have a samba 3.5.6 running on a Debian squeeze machine. This box is running DHK since more than a year without any problems. DHK Since a couple of days we have the following problem. DHK One Win7 user doesn't get his user profile any more DHK The log file tells: DHK

Re: [Samba] Samba 4 AD DC and BIND

2013-03-13 Thread Gregory Sloop
If you are doing that, then I suggest you find a different way to operate - the AD DC is the security heart of the network, and should be more protected than that. GR My AD DC is not directly connected to the internet. It is GR behind an internet gateway router which has 53 open and GR

Re: [Samba] Making users local administrators

2013-03-20 Thread Gregory Sloop
policies for complete idiots TA maybe. -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting Voice: 503.251.0452 x82 EMail: gr...@sloop.net http://www.sloop.net --- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman

Re: [Samba] Making users local administrators

2013-03-20 Thread Gregory Sloop
The linky-thingy did have a way of doing so via a GPO. I've not tried it, but it certainly looks like it should work. While I've not done this via GPO - this looks like a reasonable way of doing so. http://www.expta.com/2011/02/adding-users-to-local-security-groups.html Try it. -Greg

Re: [Samba] Making users local administrators

2013-03-21 Thread Gregory Sloop
ML On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Terry Austin te...@crownhardware.com wrote: On 21 Mar 2013 at 10:29, L.P.H. van Belle wrote: DONT DO IT !! This is Administrators 1ste rule !! NEVER, but then NEVER giver users Administrator/PowerUser rights. I have no choice. There's too much stuff

Re: [Samba] SAMBA4: pdbedit not changing SID

2013-04-01 Thread Gregory Sloop
ssme If I could change the subject somewhat, I am also not clear on how to configure ssme SAMBA4 and the DNS server if my network has an existing DNS server on another ssme machine and I don't really want to move it. The DNS server is a stock install ssme of bind from the distro's repository:

[Samba] DDNS / DHCPd Internal DNS or BIND_DLZ

2013-04-08 Thread Gregory Sloop
be useful. http://blog.michael.kuron-germany.de/2011/02/isc-dhcpd-dynamic-dns-updates-against-secure-microsoft-dns/ --- Do I have that largely right? -Greg -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting 503.251.0452 x121 Voice | 503.251.0452 Fax www.sloop.net mailto:gr

Re: [Samba] NTP doesnt work for Win2000 clients + Samba 4.0.4 (see tcpdump)

2013-04-09 Thread Gregory Sloop
iM I am using Samba 4.0.4 as AD DC on my test environment and iM realized that all my W2k clients (default installation, no special iM setups made on the clients) cannot receive the correct time of my iM samba 4.0.4 AD domain controller. Windows XP and 7 work fine iM though. The problem occurs at

Re: [Samba] Fwd: The network path was not found.

2013-04-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
And IMO, trying to do this, while streaming the CIFS data and login via the unprotected and vast-vagaries of the open internet - well that just seems pretty crazy to me. H Is CIFS data unencrypted or unprotected, or have some other vulnerability I H should be aware of? I believe the

Re: [Samba] Samba4: W2k c­lients cannot set / sync ­time with samba4 AD DC

2013-04-25 Thread Gregory Sloop
iM Well, the NTP server on samba4 server is definitely (!) up and iM running. I can triple-check that by ps, netstat and of course by iM getting the time of all my other clients (winxp, win7, linux, unix) so iM NTP server is definitely running on samba4 host. Up and running doesn't mean it

Re: [Samba] re list

2013-05-06 Thread Gregory Sloop
C I am new here and am wondering if I have the correct list to subscibe to. C I am looking for a user forum; technical mutual help/tutorial type C list; would this be that type of thing? You're on the right list. However the varying level of technical complexity is very high. Some of us are

Re: [Samba] GPO replication?

2013-05-14 Thread Gregory Sloop
CR Some people have had success with scripting replication using rsync etc. I don't want this to sound like I'm arguing, because I'm not. I'm just not aware of ANYONE who has gotten rsync to work properly handling all the EA's and such in syncing any Samba4 AD filesystems between AD members.

Re: [Samba] User policy in samba

2013-05-22 Thread Gregory Sloop
P Is it possible to set User specific password policies in Samba4. P Say I wan to set the Password length of a particular user to be 7 where P as my domain policy is 10 P How to do this in samba4? The only way I can think of that would apply some policies to some users and a different policy to

Re: [Samba] Removing password complexity requirements under Samba4

2013-08-09 Thread Gregory Sloop
MF We had problems removing password complexity, and I noticed a lot of MF confusion on the list about exactly this topic. So I thought I would post MF our success. MF We're talking about a Samba4 PDC/AD here. Once we got Samba installed and MF provisioned, we used samba-tool from the

Re: [Samba] Network browsing in S4

2013-08-12 Thread Gregory Sloop
MM Am 12.08.2013 22:32, schrieb Gregory Sloop: So, if I understand things correctly, NMBD or network browsing isn't functional under S4 yet. [At least I don't believe it was in 4.03 - and I don't think that's changed.] MM Currently Samba still doesn't support network neighbourhood. Is nmbd

Re: [Samba] Disable password complexity does not work?

2013-09-02 Thread Gregory Sloop
. Is there something i forgot? On my old configuration with old (RIP) server it worked flawessly. Szymon -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/**mailman/options/sambahttps://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- Gregory Sloop

Re: [Samba] How to allow users to be local admin

2013-09-04 Thread Gregory Sloop
GRIK Am 02.09.13 18:20, schrieb Marc Muehlfeld: Hello Götz, Am 02.09.2013 14:43, schrieb Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator: it's some time that I had to touch our samba installation and may be somewon can point me to the right direction. We run a samba-3.6.9 PDC with ldap backend and

Re: [Samba] Sharing files while being member of an active directory

2013-09-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
You give almost no information about what's wrong or the details. What version of Samba? 4.0.? Did your install go flawlessly, and the new Samba box joined the domain fine? What Windows clients, Win7, XP, Vista, Win8, Win95? Are the windows clients members of the domain? What is holding the

Re: [Samba] samba-tool join domain fails

2013-09-25 Thread Gregory Sloop
a great pity... thanks for your support! A Axel -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network Computer Consulting Voice: 503.251.0452 x82 EMail: gr...@sloop.net http://www.sloop.net --- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org

Re: [Samba] Windows 2008 Standard SP2 cannot access samba share by hostname but ok with IP

2013-10-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
JY Rowland, JY I did see those from my searches as well. However, this samba JY configuration worked prior to migrating it to RHEL and into a more current JY samba. JY regards, JY j HI Jerome, '0x80070021' is a windows error and the most likely cause would seem to be trying to copy a

Re: [Samba] Samba 4.1.0 join Windows 2003 Server with BIND9_DLZ

2013-10-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
Wild guess: The errors I see all have to do with an account that doesn't have a password, the password is expired etc. Are you *sure* the account you're using to join with is valid, and works properly in other contexts? Do some google searches on: [SvcErr: DSID-031A0FC0, problem 5003

Re: [Samba] Multiple A records on my parent domain name are confusing hosts

2013-10-11 Thread Gregory Sloop
AB On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 10:23 -0700, Scott Goodwin wrote: I'm using Samba 4.0.9, Bind 9.9.4 w/ dlz My domain is example.com My Samba4 server is myserver.example.com myserver has two nics: 10.10.10.5 and 192.168.10.2 My externally hosted web site is www.example.com, and is hosted at