Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 07:11, David Rankin wrote: os level = 34 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes Only reason I use 65 is that I read somewhere in my FreeBSD days that anything less wouldn't win out over NT. kept using it ever since. James Want to buy

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 07:11, David Rankin wrote: os level = 34 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes Only reason I use 65 is that I read somewhere in my FreeBSD days that anything less wouldn't win out over NT. kept using it ever since. James

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:58:16 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've been running Samba on my LAN for over a year now and I've no idea what you're talking about. I have a feeling I'm about to learn something very interesting. What is it you're talking about? I've got two

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Weaver
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:58:16 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've been running Samba on my LAN for over a year now and I've no idea what you're talking about. I have a feeling I'm about to learn something very interesting. What is it you're talking about? I've got

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:06:50 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'll take a stab, since I'm supposed to be an MCSE... ;-) In a Windows domain, as opposed to workgroup, there is a Domain Master Browser which controls the network directory structure and/or routes to shares. If

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
Mark Weaver wrote: not bad. what you said brought back memories of my NT server class in college. Don't remember much from the class, but what you said makes sense and gives me an idea of whats going on. Hey, we're discussing windows networking, and *nothing* there makes sense ;-) Bye -- Que

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Weaver
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:06:50 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'll take a stab, since I'm supposed to be an MCSE... ;-) In a Windows domain, as opposed to workgroup, there is a Domain Master Browser which controls the network directory structure and/or routes to

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-01 Thread Gary Hodder
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:42, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop keeps trying to take control.

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-01 Thread David Rankin
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:42 AM Subject: [expert] Samba Again ! Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-01 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks to everyone who answered Richard On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:43, Gary Hodder wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:42, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 2:43 pm, Gary Hodder wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:42, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master

[expert] Samba Again !

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Bown
Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop keeps trying to take control. Unfortunately, its got winxp on it as its an old pent 2

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-09-30 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 06:42 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop keeps trying to take

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-09-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 06:42, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop keeps trying to take control. Set

[expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Miark
Samba 3.0 contains the first OSS implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their existing user and group account databases. This enables significant cost of

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Ronald Ip
Miark said: Samba 3.0 contains the first OSS implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their existing user and group account databases. This enables

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3677 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba 3.0 contains the first OSS implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their existing user and

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread lorne
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:46 -0500, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Samba 3.0's] in contrib, been there for a while, thanks to Buchan...unfortunately, they took too much time to get it out, and it didn't make it into 9.2 main...but

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Miark
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:46 -0500, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Samba 3.0's] in contrib, been there for a while, thanks to Buchan...unfortunately, they took too much time to get it out, and it didn't make it into 9.2 main...but it'll be there for 9.3/10/whatever :) The press

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:58, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3677 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba 3.0 contains the first OSS implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3677 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:46 -0500, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Samba 3.0's] in contrib, been there for a while, thanks to Buchan...unfortunately, they took too much time to get it out, and it didn't make it into 9.2

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Miark wrote: Samba 3.0 contains the first OSS implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their existing user and group account databases. This enables

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:46 -0500, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Samba 3.0's] in contrib, been there for a while, thanks to Buchan...unfortunately, they took too much time to get it out, and it didn't make it into 9.2 main...but it'll be there for

[expert] Samba chewing to much CPU Power

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Williamson
Hello All, This must be a simple solve.. but I haven't quiet got it.. I have a server that's chewing lot's of CPU power while copying files from the M$ machines to the Samba server.. Tasks: 74 total, 2 running, 72 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 100.0% system,

Re: [expert] Samba chewing to much CPU Power

2003-09-15 Thread Miark
On 15 Sep 2003 19:29:06 +1000, Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This must be a simple solve.. but I haven't quiet got it.. I have a server that's chewing lot's of CPU power while copying files from the M$ machines to the Samba server.. Which M$ machines? Miark Want to buy your

[expert] Samba+CUPS problem printing large documents

2003-08-24 Thread Alberto J . Azevedo
Hello All, I'm facing a little problem with CUPS + Samba. I use CUPS as a Print Server, samba makes it accessible to Windows clients. Windows clients print documents from Office Applications and from terminal, connected on a SCO box via telnet. When I did an update

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Bown
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 02:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:21, Richard Bown wrote: Hi James You were right something was using the port. Well for the moment there's no contention for smbd , but nmbd is still producing Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: [2003/07/30

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-30 Thread J.C. Woods
Richard Bown wrote: Thanks James, log.smbd showed this:- [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707) smbd version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(751) standard input is not a socket,

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks everyone who offered help and assistance. I've found the reason why smbd would'nt Vmware also want to be a smb server the reason nmbd was stuck in a loop Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: [2003/07/30 09:23:23, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756) Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: Packet

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-30 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbpasswd richard New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no terminating :) Failed to find entry for user richard. Failed to modify password entry for user richard ideas

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks , I've been hammering the keyboard all day, That got the login on the host machine from the host machine OK.; Win98 sitting on win4lin can see the host, and the host can see the virtual win98 machine, but their both refusing acess both ways. Time to check the firewall again maybe,,

[expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
Hi, I had to do a complete rebuild of the system here a few weeks ago, my fault , made it unstable wth a mix from cooker. Since then I hav'nt had samba running as I also scapped the windows machine when I installed win4lin. Now I find I need samba to print from win4lin, and smbd just wont run,

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
Sorry I'm at it again but just spotted in syslog this, SWAT is still saying smbd not running but Jul 29 14:21:32 gb7tf smbd[5114]: [2003/07/29 14:21:32, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(804) Jul 29 14:21:32 gb7tf smbd[5114]: bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0. Jul 29 14:21:32

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 2:25 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Sorry I'm at it again but just spotted in syslog this, SWAT is still saying smbd not running but Jul 29 14:21:32 gb7tf smbd[5114]: [2003/07/29 14:21:32, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(804) Jul 29 14:21:32 gb7tf smbd[5114]: bind failed

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
I think the hostss file is OK Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /etc/hosts 192.168.1.1 gb7tf.org.uk gb7tf 127.0.0.1 localhost I checked the process list and nmbd -D is running , but no sign of smbd. Looks like its getting killed as it tries to start. I tried starting

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: Hi, I had to do a complete rebuild of the system here a few weeks ago, my fault , made it unstable wth a mix from cooker. Since then I hav'nt had samba running as I also scapped the windows machine when I installed win4lin. Now I find I need

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
Hi James, unfortunatly , the're installed :( On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: Hi, I had to do a complete rebuild of the system here a few weeks ago, my fault , made it unstable wth a mix from cooker. Since then I

RE: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
] Subject: Re: [expert] samba probs again Hi James, unfortunatly , the're installed :( On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: Hi, I had to do a complete rebuild of the system here a few weeks ago, my fault , made it unstable wth

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:34 pm, Richard Bown wrote: I think the hostss file is OK Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /etc/hosts 192.168.1.1 gb7tf.org.uk gb7tf 127.0.0.1 localhost I checked the process list and nmbd -D is running , but no sign of smbd. Looks like

RE: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:10, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: This line is curious. Why is a broadcast ip responding? 192.168.1.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted Brian its a broadcast not a response, confusing as it split on 2 lines Jul 29 14:04:12 gb7tf nmbd[4665]: Packet send

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks James, log.smbd showed this:- [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707) smbd version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(751) standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 10:00, Richard Bown wrote: Hi James, unfortunatly , the're installed :( On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: Hi, I had to do a complete rebuild of the system here a few weeks ago, my fault , made

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:46, Richard Bown wrote: Thanks James, log.smbd showed this:- [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707) smbd version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0]

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bown
Hi James You were right something was using the port. [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# lsof -i :139 COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME vmware-sm 3554 root5u IPv4 6966 TCP 172.16.27.1:netbios-ssn (LISTEN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# kill -9 3554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# lsof -i

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:21, Richard Bown wrote: Hi James You were right something was using the port. [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# lsof -i :139 COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME vmware-sm 3554 root5u IPv4 6966 TCP 172.16.27.1:netbios-ssn (LISTEN) [EMAIL

[expert] Samba-LDAP : Adding machines automatically

2003-07-05 Thread Jim C
Arrgh! My Samba-LDAP setup won't add machines automatically any more and I've spent all day today trying to find the bug. Prelim stuff checks to make sure it isn't something other than Samba-LDAP: The setting in dhcpd.conf appears to be correct: host kaliklak { hardware

[expert] samba 2GB file size limit/patch question

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Chou
I've got a few questions, more or less related to samba 2GB file size limit and MDK 9.1. I'm using Mandrake 9.1 as a base for mythtv, a linux personal video recorder (a la tivo). As such, I routinely need to access video files greater than 2GB on my Windows shares (as well as linux machines). 1.

Re: [expert] samba 2GB file size limit/patch question

2003-06-05 Thread Guillaume Marcais
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:15, Mark Chou wrote: I've got a few questions, more or less related to samba 2GB file size limit and MDK 9.1. I'm using Mandrake 9.1 as a base for mythtv, a linux personal video recorder (a la tivo). As such, I routinely need to access video files greater than 2GB

[expert] samba 2GB file size limit/patch question

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Chou
No, I'm afraid that's not it... Thanks, Mark Guillaume Marcais wrote: work with the stock kernel? FWIW, here's what I did: - change Makefile as suggested by kernel (comple module only) howto, changing SUBDIR=fs/smb, and

[expert] samba 2GB file size limit/patch question

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Chou
I've got a few questions, more or less related to samba 2GB file size limit and MDK 9.1. I'm using Mandrake 9.1 as a base for mythtv, a linux personal video recorder (a la tivo). As such, I routinely need to access video files greater than 2GB on my Windows shares (as well as linux machines).

[expert] samba permissions ~ printers

2003-04-06 Thread richard bown
What permissions have to be set to use a printer on the samba host , ie this linux box, from a winblows machine. The printer is configured OK on the windows machine, but getting the message epsom_c82 on firewall Access Denied, unable to connect The section of smb.conf below [printers]

[expert] samba -routing madness

2003-04-03 Thread richard bown
Hi all saga continues. I am more convinced this is a routing issue. No matter what I do to alter the routing, ie deleting routing subnets and replacing with host routes netbios broadcasts are being made in the wrong subnet. ie from route -en Destination Gateway Genmask flags MSS

Re: [expert] samba -routing madness

2003-04-03 Thread Ray Warren
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:48:02PM +0100, richard bown wrote: AFAIK this is the reason I cant get the two machines to see each other. When the MDK network config wizard ,from the MDK Control Center, is run the subnet for eth0 (44.131.90.0) is entered correctly, BUT the netmask is changed to

Re: [expert] samba -routing madness

2003-04-03 Thread richard bown
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:52, Ray Warren wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:48:02PM +0100, richard bown wrote: AFAIK this is the reason I cant get the two machines to see each other. When the MDK network config wizard ,from the MDK Control Center, is run the subnet for eth0 (44.131.90.0)

Re: [expert] samba -routing madness

2003-04-03 Thread Ray Warren
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:24:12PM +0100, richard bown wrote: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=44.131.90.129 NETMASK=44.131.90.0 NETWORK=44.131.90.0 BROADCAST=255.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes If that's not a typo the NETMASK and the NETWORK appear to have the same

Re: [expert] samba

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 31 Mar 2003 11:33 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:44, richard bown wrote: Now I'm confused :( The windows box only has 2 users, both have a null string as a password, ie I login as richard with a blank password. When I login to this box as a user richard and the

RE: [expert] samba

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
see the machines both ways. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] samba On Monday 31 Mar 2003 11:33 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31

RE: [expert] samba

2003-04-01 Thread richard bown
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:31, Frankie wrote: if you use windows find to look for the machine.. can it see it then?? Start-search/find-Computers... that bit is'nt in winblows 2k, but it dos'nt in network neighbourhood when searching there and enter the hostname of the linux server (in my

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thanks to a local LUG member, got Samba going. Samba does not by default create a new smb user when you run smbpasswd. You must create it manually. I'm sure many ways would have worked but smbpasswd -a worked here and then with a few tweaks she came up roses. Cheers for the help all, Jason

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread richard bown
Hi All , thanks Kwan Torstein for the advice , but so far the windows machine still cannot see this machine. I have opened ports 137 139 on the firewall , I've altered the smb.conf as suggested, included the chmod and chown foe the public dir, but still nothing. The modified smb.conf is as

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 31 Mar 2003 8:32 pm, richard bown wrote: Hi All , thanks Kwan Torstein for the advice , but so far the windows machine still cannot see this machine. I have opened ports 137 139 on the firewall , I've altered the smb.conf as suggested, included the chmod and chown foe the

RE: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Frankie
, the windows PC's should still be able to see the linux box..just not access it. hope that is of some help.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 3:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread richard bown
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:33, Anne Wilson wrote: # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... root = administrator admin nobody = guest pcguest smbguest It looks as though your windows users don't have accounts on your box? They need a user account, with password and username exactly

RE: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread richard bown
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:24, Frankie wrote: some ideas.. 1. make sure the windows machines and the linux box have the same workgroup name.. in this caes MDKGROUP 2. Try it with the firewall off.. clear your iptables rules and eliminate the firewall as the cause. 3. add these to your

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
it on the offending win98 boxes. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] samba Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:33:35 +0100 From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on the offending win98 boxes. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] samba Date: Mon, 31

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread richard bown
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:15, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Christopher Joseph
richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the printer or files on the linux machine. Had a similar problem running v9.0 with most recent samba.

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
ok, got the winpcs changed to the MDKGROUP. Without stuffing about trying to get users to have access to their home directories, is there an EASY way to allow anyone on the LAN to have access to the /home/public directory for sharing files from there?? Cheers Jason richard bown wrote: On

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:44, richard bown wrote: Now I'm confused :( The windows box only has 2 users, both have a null string as a password, ie I login as richard with a blank password. When I login to this box as a user richard and the password is richard. I dont think linux likes null

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread David Rankin
settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on the offending win98 boxes. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] samba Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:33:35 +0100

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread David Rankin
Wait, Wait, Wait You don't need to disable the samba password. The way it works is to just make sure the windows password ('95 OSR2 and beyond) is the same as the samba password. The windows login (user name) should be the same as the unix and samba username. Just make it simple. The

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yup, I tried that too This is what it says: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change : Error was RAP86 : the specified password is invalid WTF?? Cheers Jason David Rankin wrote: Wait, Wait, Wait You don't need to disable the samba password. The way it works is to just

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
This is the exact text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diggy10]$ smbpasswd Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The specified password is invalid. Failed to change password for diggy10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] diggy10]$ WHY

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:21, Jason Greenwood wrote: This is the exact text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diggy10]$ smbpasswd Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The specified password is invalid. Failed to

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Gary Hodder
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:25:26 +1200, you wrote: ok, got the winpcs changed to the MDKGROUP. Without stuffing about trying to get users to have access to their home directories, is there an EASY way to allow anyone on the LAN to have access to the /home/public directory for sharing files from

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread richard bown
Hi Kwan, just a quick attempt before going to work, had these results ] Does this help ?? $ smbclient //FW-GB7TF/public -U richard Server's Role (logon server) conflicts with share-level security added interface ip=44.131.90.129 bcast=44.131.91.255 nmask=255.255.254.0 Password:

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-30 Thread Torstein Hernes Dybdahl
Maybe the most important setting for me in smb.conf is the security setting Setting this to share use to solve the problem with problem with win2k machines not being able to mount network drives. try to add security = share Vennlig Hilsen Torstein Hernes Dybdahl

[expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread richard bown
Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the printer or files on the linux machine. Ive rtfm'd several docs which just causes more confusion. It just about worked ,

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:23, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the printer or files on the linux machine. Ive rtfm'd several docs

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:23 am, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup Why do it off-line. That is what this list is for. using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread richard bown
Thanks for the quick reply On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:44, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:23, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000)

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread richard bown
Hi Greg On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:56, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:23 am, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup Why do it off-line. That is what this list is for. Well there are some

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:26, richard bown wrote: # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FW-GB7TF server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

[expert] samba poor performance

2003-03-28 Thread Lorne
For some reason I've noticed in 9.0 and now in 9.1 that samba has extremely poor performance. I thought it was just 9.0 and waited until 9.1 came out. It took me longer to copy the iso image files over to an XP box from my linux box than it took to download them! Has anyone else noticed poor

[expert] samba, sharing, nautilus, me, frustration

2003-03-21 Thread Azrael
I click on a folder in nautilus, and tell it to share. smb is running. I try and see the share from the Mac, and can't get a thing. This is frustrating, I don't /really/ expect things to be this easy.. but.. I must confess.. I did wish it would be. Because it looks as if it should be. There's

Re: [expert] samba, sharing, nautilus, me, frustration

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 03:51, Azrael wrote: I click on a folder in nautilus, and tell it to share. smb is running. I try and see the share from the Mac, and can't get a thing. This is frustrating, I don't /really/ expect things to be this easy.. but.. I must confess.. I did wish it would be.

[expert] samba 2.2.7.a

2003-03-17 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, Do I need to upgrade samba-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.src.rpm for the latest update? Or is the following packages are fine? samba-client-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm samba-common-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm samba-doc-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm samba-server-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm samba-swat-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] samba 2.2.7.a

2003-03-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Mar 17, 2003 at 11:04:13AM -0800, Norman Zhang wrote: Do I need to upgrade samba-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.src.rpm for the latest update? Or is the following packages are fine? samba-client-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm samba-common-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm samba-doc-2.2.7a-8.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] samba 2.2.7.a

2003-03-17 Thread Norman Zhang
Thanks. I guess src.rpm is not needed as it contains source for compiling. - Original Message - From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [expert] samba 2.2.7.a On Mon Mar 17, 2003 at 11:04:13AM -0800, Norman Zhang

Re: [expert] samba 2.2.7.a

2003-03-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Mar 17, 2003 at 01:06:31PM -0800, Norman Zhang wrote: Thanks. I guess src.rpm is not needed as it contains source for compiling. No,... you only need the src.rpm if you plan on rebuilding it. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book;

Re: [expert] Samba LDAP PDC an answer, not a question

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Seff
I have been trying to do the same thing. Could you send me the LDAP section from your smb.conf offline? Just X out your specific info. Thanks. -Dave On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:12, Jim C wrote: So I've been racking my brains over why my Samba-LDAP PDC wont add a machine account automatically

Re: [expert] Samba LDAP PDC an answer, not a question

2003-03-02 Thread Jim C
Sorry guys, I was dead wrong about this. Well, I was right about the port but it was only one problem in a laundry list. Some of them had to do with me second guessing ACLs that were not required and I think I may have gotten some Windows formatting in my /etc/pam.d/passwd and

[expert] Samba LDAP PDC an answer, not a question

2003-02-26 Thread Jim C
So I've been racking my brains over why my Samba-LDAP PDC wont add a machine account automatically like it is supposed to. If I add the machine by hand there is no problem with joining the domain. So what's up? I try to log on and I don't get any error codes that pertain to adding a user

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply vox. Vox wrote: This time Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
with the veto files token not working correctly. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J. Grant Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen

[expert] Samba printing

2003-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
I have a win98 box that needs to print to my local printer. I tried setting it up under samba to use the cups printers, but couldn't get it to work. Then Stephen Kuhn told me to load the windows printer driver onto the box, print nothing until it had finished all its rebooting schemozzle,

RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-12 Thread Robert Wideman
This info i have also seen in the Samba Pocket reference book from O'rreilly. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Stevenson Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Samba hide

RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-11 Thread David Stevenson
Of J. Grant Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-10 Thread J. Grant
Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or

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