[Samba] centos 6.4 SELinux and connecting to homes
I setup of centos 6.4 box. The smb.conf file under SELinux notes said to run this command to share home directories. setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs on On the windows machine when I make a connection to \\server.name\homesfile:///\\server.name\homes I get the usual login prompt, but I cannot login. I provide my samba username and password but it fails to log me in. My ipaddress is in the hosts allow = line. Is there something else needed to use samba in SELinux? I can connect fine to my fedora and redhat boxes, which are not SELinux. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect
My googling seems to point at upgrading samba to 3.4. Currently installed on my RHEL 5.2 32 bit server is as listed below for smb and samba. If I was running RHEL 64 bit I would be supported by red hat and updating the OS to the latest 5.x would provide this for me. For some reason red hat feels they do not need to support their 32 bit users, which my server is running, and updating the OS does not update certain packages like samba and php. Even though I have paid support with red hat they will not provide support to update the needed packages. Thus, is there a detailed set of procedures on how to manually upgrade samba on a RHEL 5.2 server? I do not want to try this by trial and error and cripple the server. Thanks -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:00 PM To: Marc Fromm; samba Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect 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 samba information: [root@finaid45 samba]$ rpm -qa | grep smb pam_smb-1.1.7-7.2.1 libsmbclient-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 gnome-vfs2-smb-2.16.2-8.el5 [root@finaid45 samba]$ rpm -qa | grep samba samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 system-config-samba-1.2.41-5.el5 Is the samba machine a 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] windows 7 cannot connect
The server currently has 3.0.33 on it, but it needs at least 3.4 to work with windows 7 computers. Red hat will not be upgrading samba beyond 3.0.33 for their 32bit RH5 users. Thus I am stuck and cannot use yum and the red hat repos to do the upgrade. On site directed me to this page to download the rpms, but I am not experienced enough with manually updating a package. http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ . I downloaded all the files listed under the 3.6/rhel/5/i386 directory. Thus I was hoping to find to step by step on how to do the upgrade. -Original Message- From: Chris Weiss [mailto:cwe...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:17 PM To: Marc Fromm Cc: John Drescher; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Marc Fromm marc.fr...@wwu.edu wrote: My googling seems to point at upgrading samba to 3.4. Currently installed on my RHEL 5.2 32 bit server is as listed below for smb and samba. If I was running RHEL 64 bit I would be supported by red hat and updating the OS to the latest 5.x would provide this for me. For some reason red hat feels they do not need to support their 32 bit users, which my server is running, and updating the OS does not update certain packages like samba and php. Even though I have paid support with red hat they will not provide support to update the needed packages. Thus, is there a detailed set of procedures on how to manually upgrade samba on a RHEL 5.2 server? I do not want to try this by trial and error and cripple the server. I think RH 5 has a samba 3.x package, or was that only Centos? I don't recall what version it was intro'd -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] windows 7 cannot connect
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 samba information: [root@finaid45 samba]$ rpm -qa | grep smb pam_smb-1.1.7-7.2.1 libsmbclient-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 gnome-vfs2-smb-2.16.2-8.el5 [root@finaid45 samba]$ rpm -qa | grep samba samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 system-config-samba-1.2.41-5.el5 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] multiple samba accounts
Is it possible on a windows computer to connect to a linux server with two samba accounts, simultaneous? My scenario is, I want to create two mapped network drives on a windows computer to two separate home directories on a linux server, but I want to require one samba user name and password to connect to home directory A and a second samba user name and password to connect to home directory B. As it stands right now, as soon as I connect to the first mapped network drive with the first samba account, when I go to create the second mapped network drive the windows computer tries to use the first samba account, instead of prompting for the second samba account. Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] group write permission
Is there a setting in the smb.conf file so that if a user creates a directory or a file, the group permissions retain write permissions to the new directory or file? Currently when logged on to the linux server itself, if a user creates a directory the group permissions are set to RWX, but with a samba connection the permissions are set to R-X only. Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] disconnect a user
I need to disconnect some samba connections to my linux redhat server. I searched online and found these two tips but neither work: 1. Set the deadtime parameter to specific time in the smb.conf file my smb.conf file does not have the parameter deadtime listed 2. Use kill command to kill the smbd PID. Kill -15 PID I tried that and after killing my own connection I could still open and save files to the samba share that I had connected to. Is there a command that I can use to disconnect a user's samba connection? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] changing owner and group
Is there a way to prevent a samba connection from changing the file owner and group? Users connect to the website on a linux box from windows desktops with Dreamweaver. Each time a user edits a file that file's owner and group is changed from apache and developers to username and username, thus preventing other users from editing the file. Can I set an option in samba to leave the owner and groups alone? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] mac still wont follow symbolic link
I have received a few responses to the problem I am facing with some Mac OS 10.5.5 computers not being able to follow the symbolic link to the /var/www directory on a red hat 5.2 el server. The Mac computers can follow any other symbolic link, even to directories inside the /var/www directory. The Mac computers just can't seem to follow a symbolic link to /var/www directory. PC/windows computers can follow the symbolic link to the /vaw/www directory. These same Mac computers can follow a symbolic link to the /var/www on our fedora core 5 server. On both servers, the red hat and fedora core 5, the smb.conf file has no entry for unix extensions = no thus both are using the default unix extensions = yes Why can't these Mac OS 10.5.5 computers follow the symbolic link to the /var/www directory when windows machines can, and why CAN these Mac computers follow symbolic links to directories inside the /var/www/ directory? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www
The old server that allows the Mac to use the symbolic link to the /var/www directory does not have the unix extensions = no in its smb.conf file, thus I must assume it is using the default yes setting as well. Any idea as to how the old server is letting the Mac use the symbolic link, with the unix extensions = yes setting? Why do other symbolic links work on the Mac that is connecting to the new server that cannot follow the www symbolic link? -Original Message- From: James Peach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:42 AM To: Marc Fromm Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www 2008/10/29 Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (unix extensions = no) My smb.conf does not contain unix extensions option. unix extensions = yes is the default that will be used if smb.conf does not specify otherwise Is this a setting on the mac that I need to change? you need to change it on the server If you want the server to follow the symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support I'm not sure about the above comment. On the server I can follow the symbolic link to the www directory, it only does not work when a Mac makes a samba connection and on the Mac I try to go to the www directory. Because the target of the symlink is a location on the server. When the Mac client tries to resolve the symlink, it will try to access the corresponding location on the client. If you turn the unix extensions support off, then the server will follow the symlink and the Mac will behave just like the Windows clients -Original Message- From: James Peach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:40 PM To: Marc Fromm Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www 2008/10/28 Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have a new server running Red Hat 5.2EL. Windows machines can samba to the linux server with no problems, including symbolic links to the www directory. Our Mac OS 10.5.5 machines have a problem with symbolic links to the www directory. On the Mac computers, the symbolic links show up as an alias that cannot be followed. These same MAC computers can samba to the www directory via a symbolic link on our Fedora Core 5 server. The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow the symlink on the client side. If you want the server to follow the symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support (unix extensions = no). Since the www symbolic link works on a PC that sambas to the Red Hat server, is this strictly a problem on the macs or is there a setting I need to change in a conf file on the Red Hat server, since the same Macs can use the symbolic link to the www directory on the Fedora server? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- James Peach | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James Peach | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www
(unix extensions = no) My smb.conf does not contain unix extensions option. Is this a setting on the mac that I need to change? If you want the server to follow the symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support I'm not sure about the above comment. On the server I can follow the symbolic link to the www directory, it only does not work when a Mac makes a samba connection and on the Mac I try to go to the www directory. -Original Message- From: James Peach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:40 PM To: Marc Fromm Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www 2008/10/28 Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have a new server running Red Hat 5.2EL. Windows machines can samba to the linux server with no problems, including symbolic links to the www directory. Our Mac OS 10.5.5 machines have a problem with symbolic links to the www directory. On the Mac computers, the symbolic links show up as an alias that cannot be followed. These same MAC computers can samba to the www directory via a symbolic link on our Fedora Core 5 server. The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow the symlink on the client side. If you want the server to follow the symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support (unix extensions = no). Since the www symbolic link works on a PC that sambas to the Red Hat server, is this strictly a problem on the macs or is there a setting I need to change in a conf file on the Red Hat server, since the same Macs can use the symbolic link to the www directory on the Fedora server? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- James Peach | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www
We have a new server running Red Hat 5.2EL. Windows machines can samba to the linux server with no problems, including symbolic links to the www directory. Our Mac OS 10.5.5 machines have a problem with symbolic links to the www directory. On the Mac computers, the symbolic links show up as an alias that cannot be followed. These same MAC computers can samba to the www directory via a symbolic link on our Fedora Core 5 server. Since the www symbolic link works on a PC that sambas to the Red Hat server, is this strictly a problem on the macs or is there a setting I need to change in a conf file on the Red Hat server, since the same Macs can use the symbolic link to the www directory on the Fedora server? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Samba user file Red hat 5 EL
(This is a resend to my question, due to an error between the keyboard and chair.) I installed red hat 5EL. I created samba users in command line using pdbedit -a username and then supplied a password at the prompt. On our fedora core 5 server the users are listed in a file called smbpasswd, much like /etc/shadow Where in red hat 5EL is the smbpasswd file or what file stores the users and passwords? Does creating a samba user still require first creating a red hat user by the same name? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] red hat 5 EL
I installed red hat 5EL. I created samba users in command line using pdbedit -a username and then supplied a password at the prompt. On our fedora core 5 server the users were listed in a file called smbpasswd, much like /etc/shadow Where in red hat 5EL is the smbpasswd file? Does creating a samba user still require first creating a red hat user by the same name? Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] smb from PC but not from MAC
I have a user who can connect to a SMB share on the Linux server from his PC but he cannot connect to the SMB share from a MAC. Both the PC and the MAC are in the same IP range, which is set in the smb.conf file. Is there a setting on the MAC OS X software that needs to be enabled to allow SMB connections? The error code is . . . could not be written or read -36 Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] samba.conf share settings
Is there a resource on how to configure a samba share on a Fedora core linux box so that anyone can save and edit documents, but the documents that can be seen and edited are limited to only the documents that the logged in user created or saved in the samba share? Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] user account status
I used smbpasswd -d username to disable an account. How can I see the status of the account as being disabled? Is there something similar to the passwd -S username command which tells me the account status? When I view the smbpasswd file the user I disabled appears unchanged, not like the /etc/shadow file that replaces the password with two !! when an account is disabled. Thanks Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] user accounts
I am confused on the various account creation methods in samba. I am running Fedora Core 8 and Samba 3.0.26a-6. 1.) I can create a user with pdbedit -a I can create a user with smbpasswd -a I can list the users with the pdbedit -L command Where is the file with the users that the above commands create and pdbedit -L lists? 2.) In SWAT under server password management I created a use root with a password. This created a smbpasswd file in /etc/samba/ directory. This user is not listed when I run pdbedit -L. When do you use the user that is created in SWAT? 3.) When I run smbclient -L localhost to list the shares I am prompted for a password, but my root password does not work. What account and password is smbclient looking for? Thanks Marc Fromm Information Technology Specialist II Financial Aid Department Western Washington University Phone: 360-650-3351 Fax: 360-788-0251 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] permission puzzle
I created a share on windows with a windows user marc having access to the share. On the Linux machine I created two samba users marc and jim with associated Linux accounts marc and jim. On Linux I connect to the share on windows with the windows user marc mount -t cifs //140.160.42.58/shareonwindows /cddrive -o username=marc I made cddrive a samba share on the Linux box by entering it into the smb.conf file On a second windows computer I map a network drive to the cddrive samba share on Linux using the samba user marc. User marc can create and delete files. Here is the puzzle: On the second windows computer I can map a network drive to the cddrive samba share on Linux using the samba user jim and create and delete files. There is not a jim account on the windows computer where the windows share is located. If I adjust the share settings on the windows share for the windows user marc, both samba users marc and jim are affected equally. Example: on the windows share I only allow marc to read, then neither samba marc nor jim on the second windows computer can create a file. Marc Marc Fromm Information Technology Specialist II Financial Aid Department Western Washington University Phone: 360-650-3351 Fax: 360-788-0251 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
