Re: [Samba] User submitted job
On 02/18/11 14:14, Christ Schlacta wrote: On 2/18/2011 05:49, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there a way for a user to run a job on the server? In particular, I want to implement a 'one click' backup using rsync. An icon on the desktop would do something (in a batch script maybe or some canned program) that would run a job under their ID that would rsync their home directory to a backup directory. magic files. In my experience, if you leave backups to users you're in big trouble because it doesn't matter how easy you make the backup it isn't going to get done. DeltaCopy is what you are after: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp -- Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Eficient method to run [net time \\server] on logon script with winxp+domain ?
Bruno La Torre wrote: hamacker ha scritto: I can not find any element inside gpedit to change that. Do you know, what element I can change that ? hamacker ha scritto: Any eficient method to run [net time \\server] on logon script with winxp+domain ? configuration computer windows settings protection settings local settings set right user set change time sorry for my traslation. By co-incidence I've just been looking into this myself. I found this article most helpful: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/02/11/371474.aspx If I use INTERACTIVE as suggested, my netlogon script is able to sync the time to the samba server. Non-privledged users are not able to set the time at the toolbar clock, though. Jeff Ross -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Large Backups to Windows
Justin Pittman wrote: Hi, This is a kind of scenario question for best practices -- within limits. I've inherited a less than ideal backup situation: backups are transferred from Samba to Windows. I can't get out of this situation without major re-engineering and the only problem is the time it takes to do full backups. Specifically: -200GiB is taking a few days to backup -Cpio is doing the backup across cifs Here are optimizations I've tried so far: +switch from smbfs to cifs -- yes this is an old-ish system but Samba 3.0.10 +mount local noatime +installed 1G more memory -- almost 1.5G is cached +verified low processor & vm usage -- data i/o doesn't +appear to be spreading to other subsystems configure Windows for larger +FS cache These Samba and Windows hosts are on the same network (and the same, Gig switch as far as I can tell). What scares me is the latency of backups (because it's really no longer a Saturday backup) and the time to restore. Anyone tried cpio & smbd blocking factors? Or what other networking suggestions are there? The only kind of tweaking I've done is for tape backups but that was local to a host ... Justin rsync? DeltaCopy has a windows rsync client that works great to push files out to a samba server. There is an rsync server as well, but I've not yet had to use it. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Integrating Misys into existing Samba network
Hi, I do the networking for a smallish medical clinic here. They have decided to go with the Misys MyWay Electronic Medical Records system. The engineers from Mysis about freaked out when the found out that I'm running Samba on OpenBSD, and had all kinds of issues they were worried about--whether their Windows Server 2003 system with Active Domain would integrate with Samba was the biggest, how SQL Serve would integrate was next and so on. I'm not using Active Domain for the samba server, and never have, so I couldn't really address their concerns. My question, then, is two fold: has anyone out there integrated Misys into a Samba network, and if not, can anyone see a reason why I can't just drop their server into the network? As I understand it, and believe me, I know not much about Misys at all yet, each client has to authenticate against the Misys server. I fail to see why this is a problem but if you've ever had a bad experience integrating some sort of middleware like this into an existing network I'd sure like to hear about it. The sooner the better--their Misys server is scheduled to be installed on Wednesday, 2/27/2008. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Duplicate Desktop Icons...
Hi,
I posted this problem a while back but wasn't able to resolve the issue.
It's gotten worse--now almost all of my users in the network have the
duplicate icon problem.
I'm recently upgraded to samba-3.0.23d from 3.0.21 on an OpenBSD 4.0
server. I'm using folder redirection to redirect the Application Data,
Desktop, My Documents, and Favorites folders off to
%LOGONSERVER%\profiles\%USERNAME%\ on the server by changing the
appropriate values in the registry with regedt32. Additionally, I've
used mmc to make these changes to use local profiles with folder
redirection.
Local Computer Policy->Administrative Templates->System->User Profiles
Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Enabled
Delete cached copies of roaming profilesDisabled
Prevent roaming profile changes from propagatingEnabled
Only allow local user profiles Enabled
User Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->User Profiles
Exclude directories in roaming profile Enabled
Directories Excluded
Application Data;Desktop;My Documents;Favorites
Most of my users now have duplicate icons on their desktops. For
example, if there is a file named test.doc in the
/profiles/username/Desktop directory on the server, their desktop will
actually display two icons for the file. The properties on either icon
show its location to be \\SAMBA\profiles\username\Desktop, and deleting
one of the icons will make the other also go away when the desktop is
refreshed.
The My Documents folder does not display this double icon problem when I
open the folder, so I don't think the problem is specific to folder
redirection.
I didn't have any luck finding anything about this problem on Google, so
any insights would be greatly appreciated.
My smb.conf file is below.
Thanks,
Jeff Ross
[global]
workgroup = WYKIDS
netbios name = Samba
interfaces = em0
bind interfaces only = Yes
passdb backend = tdbsam
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*Password* %n\n *Re-enter*new*password*%n\n
*Password*changed*
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
unix password sync = Yes
debug timestamp = no
log level = 1
syslog only = yes
syslog = 3
smb ports = 139
name resolve order = wins bcast hosts
time server = Yes
#printcap name = CUPS
#show add printer wizard = No
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m '%u'
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u'
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g'
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g'
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G '%g' '%u'
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /tmp '%u'
;shutdown script = /var/lib/samba/scripts/shutdown.sh
preexec = sh -c 'echo \"Welcome to %S!\" |/usr/local/bin/smbclient
-M %m -I %I' &
abort shutdown script = /sbin/shutdown -c
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U
logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
logon script = scripts\logon.bat
domain logons = Yes
preferred master = Yes
wins support = Yes
utmp = Yes
map acl inherit = Yes
#printing = cups
#cups options = Raw
printing = bsd
veto files = /*.eml /*.nws/ *.{*}/
veto oplock files = /*.doc /*.xls /*.mdb /*.pdf /*.PST
passdb expand explicit = no
nt acl support = no
# Share Definitions
==
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
browseable = No
default case = lower
preserve case = no
short preserve case = no
mangled names = yes
case sensitive = no
writable = yes
[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /var/netlogon
writable = yes
browsable = yes
[Profiles]
path = /profiles
writable = yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
browsable = yes
acl check permissions = no
hide files = /desktop.ini/outlook*.lnk/*Briefcase*/Thumbs.db
# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
[Apps]
comment = Applications
path = /apps
read only = no
public = yes
create mask = 1775
directory mask = 1775
[Bookkeeping]
comment = Bookkeeping
path = /bookkeeping
read only = no
public = no
[archives]
comment = Archives
path = /archives
read only = yes
public = yes
[Shared]
comment = Shared
path = /shared
read only = no
public = yes
create mask = 1775
directory mask = 1775
[STARS]
comment = STARS
path = /stars
read only = no
public = yes
create mask = 1775
directory mask = 1775
[Backup]
[Samba] Duplicate Icons on Desktop after Upgrade
Hi, I'm recently upgraded to samba-3.0.23d from 3.0.21 on an OpenBSD 4.0 server. I'm using folder redirection to redirect the Application Data, Desktop, My Documents, and Favorites folders off to /profiles/username on the server. Two users now have duplicate file icons on their desktops. For example, if there is a file named test.doc in the /profiles/username/Desktop directory on the server, their desktop will actually display two icons for the file. The properties on either icon show its location to be \\SAMBA\profiles\username\Desktop, and deleting one of the icons will make the other also go away when the desktop is refreshed. For one user I've also switched from roaming profiles to a local profile but that hasn't made a difference. The My Documents folder does not display this double icon problem when I open the folder, so I don't think the problem is specific to folder redirection. I didn't have any luck finding anything about this problem on Google, so any insights would be greatly appreciated. My smb.conf file hasn't changed since the upgrade. It is available at http://www.openvistas.net/smb.conf Thanks, Jeff Ross -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Implications of the "-i" switch to s/nmbd ...
Hi, (3.0.21b, OpenBSD -current) I'm trying to get the smbd and nmbd processes to run under daemontools and to log to multilog. Using the -F -S switches should work, and is widely cited in google searches, but logging to multilog stops shortly after the daemons start. The last message that goes to multilog is standard input is not a socket, assuming -D and from then on logging goes to the standard samba log file. If I replace the -F -S switches in my daemontools run script with the -i (interactive) switch, both smbd and nmbd seem to work as I want under daemontools. The man pages suggest that this will be a big perfomance hit, but I wonder if anyone has any real world experience with this? Alternatively, does anyone have a real solution to getting the daemons to work correctly under daemontools? -- Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Excluding redirected directories causes file deletion on logout...(solved)
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi, Samba: samba-3.0.21 OS: OpenBSD I built a new WinXP (sp2 and fully updated) box with the the idea of making a Default User profile. I followed the directions in the "Making Happy Users" section of the Samba-3 By Example guide. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#redirfold Folder redirection is working, using the %LOGONSERVER%\profiles\%USERNAME%\ string to replace %USERPROFILE%. But, when I use gpedit.mmc to exclude the redirected folders from the roaming profile, as instructed here http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#sbehap-locgrppol all files in the redirected folders are deleted when the user logs out. In other words, if a user logs in, downloads the firefox installer and saves it on the desktop, I can immediately see it in that user's /profiles/Desktop directory on the Samba server. When the user logs out, the firefox installer is deleted from the /profiles/Desktop directory and obviously no longer on the Desktop when the user logs in again. This surely can't be correct, but I don't know if this is a documentation problem, a Windows problem, or a samba problem. If instead of putting the folders I redirected in the exclusion box, I _disable_ the whole "Exclude directories in roaming profile" option, I don't get the file deletion problem, however, I also then see the redirected folders copied to the users computer on login. I put a copy of my smb.conf and a level 5 log of a new user logging in, getting and using the Default User profile, copying the firefox installer from /apps to his Desktop and then logging off on our web site http://www.wykids.org/samba/ Many thanks, Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance As a followup for the archives, my initial diagnosis about the Excluded redirected directories causeing file deletion was not correct. Instead, with redirected folders working, it appears that it is mandatory that the "Prevent roaming profile changes from propagating to the server" in the Group Policy editor be enabled. Start->Run->gpedit.mmc->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->User Profiles Enable "Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Folders" Enable "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" (See IMPORTANT below!) Enable "Prevent roaming profile changes from propagating to the server" Start->Run->gpedit.mmc->User Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->User Profiles Enable "Exclude directories in roaming profile" Put the directories you redirected with regedt32 in the exclusion box. My list is: Local Settings;Temporary Internet Files;History;Temp;Application Data;Cookies;Desktop;Favorites;My Documents;NetHood;PrintHood;Recent;SendTo;Start Menu;Templates Hope that helps someone else in the future. If I'm not correct in any of this, please reply to set the record straight. Jeff Ross IMPORTANT! If your users use Outlook Express, or Outlook with the default setup, you CANNOT delete the cached copy of the local profile on logout. Outlook Express stores all of its junk in the Local Settings folder, and if this folder is deleted on logout, all POP mail, address books, and settings WILL BE DELETED!. You might think that the Local Settings folder could also be redirected to the server, but Outlook Express will refuse to start if you do. Thunderbird stores its mail in Application Data, so it works very well with redirected folders. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Excluding redirected directories causes file deletion on logout...
Hi, Samba: samba-3.0.21 OS: OpenBSD I built a new WinXP (sp2 and fully updated) box with the the idea of making a Default User profile. I followed the directions in the "Making Happy Users" section of the Samba-3 By Example guide. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#redirfold Folder redirection is working, using the %LOGONSERVER%\profiles\%USERNAME%\ string to replace %USERPROFILE%. But, when I use gpedit.mmc to exclude the redirected folders from the roaming profile, as instructed here http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#sbehap-locgrppol all files in the redirected folders are deleted when the user logs out. In other words, if a user logs in, downloads the firefox installer and saves it on the desktop, I can immediately see it in that user's /profiles/Desktop directory on the Samba server. When the user logs out, the firefox installer is deleted from the /profiles/Desktop directory and obviously no longer on the Desktop when the user logs in again. This surely can't be correct, but I don't know if this is a documentation problem, a Windows problem, or a samba problem. If instead of putting the folders I redirected in the exclusion box, I _disable_ the whole "Exclude directories in roaming profile" option, I don't get the file deletion problem, however, I also then see the redirected folders copied to the users computer on login. I put a copy of my smb.conf and a level 5 log of a new user logging in, getting and using the Default User profile, copying the firefox installer from /apps to his Desktop and then logging off on our web site http://www.wykids.org/samba/ Many thanks, Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
