[Samba] Promoting Samba BDC to PDC

Hi All, Has any one got an idea of how to make clients automatically find the BDC when the PDC is stopped. Both PDC and BDC are running by Samba authenticating again a LDAPSAM backend replicated on both the PDC with master LDAP database and BDC with replicated LDAP database. But when

[Samba] Re: Strange Behavior with Read Only files 3.0.20b

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:17:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't had a chance to look at the list very carefully for the past few > weeks, so I apologize in advance if I'm asking a question that has recently > been discussed. I seem to recall there has been some discussion about a

[Samba] Access denied when creating a new local group

Hi, If I run this: (where LOCALHOST is the local server name) $ net rpc group add test -U LOCALHOST\\root Then providing I've put in the correct password, I get this: add group failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED I'm using "security = domain", so is there some reason why local groups are not all

[Samba] "wbinfo -n administrator" failed

Hi all, I have a strange situation, I hope someone can tell me what's wrong. I have a samba server 3.014a joined win2003 AD. When I run "wbinfo -n administrator", I am getting an error: "Could not lookup name administrator" BUT If I first run "wbinfo -u" I get the list of users successfu

Re: [Samba] Multiple Login scripts

Julian Pilfold-Bagwell wrote: I have several rooms each with a printer, and nearly a thousand users divided into two main groups - pupils and teachers who change rooms on a routine basis. Is it possible to set up multiple login scripts that would be executed in sequence i.e. run by user is %u,

[Samba] workstation service failing on Windows XP (Samba + LDAP)

Hello All, Quoting Terry Wood: Greetings, I am having problems with about 80% of my Windows XP machines that are connected to a PDC. The PDC is running Fedora Core 2, Samba 3.0.3-5, openldap 2.1.29-1 ***, and kernel 2.6.5-1.358. The XPs that don't work are all very new machines and I

Re: [Samba] OpenLDAP and SAMBA

I have done the similar in my company and had the same problem, I have now a centralized authentication of the linux local user, email and samba user. You need to check for the ACS's in the slapd.conf file first, making sure that every one has the full rights on their account in LDAP and the ro

Re: [Samba] Windows->LDAP->Samba

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 14:30 -0800, Mont Rothstein wrote: > Sorry for being so vague, I was tring not to be :-) > > I actually dived in days ago and I am swiming in docs, books, manuals, > and webpages. > > Part of my challenge is that I'm not ever sure of what questions to > ask. > > Jeff's repl

Re: [Samba] Windows->LDAP->Samba

Sorry for being so vague, I was tring not to be :-) I actually dived in days ago and I am swiming in docs, books, manuals, and webpages. Part of my challenge is that I'm not ever sure of what questions to ask. Jeff's reply has helped (thanks Jeff). Looking up ldap authentication has brought me t

[Samba] Strange Behavior with Read Only files 3.0.20b

I haven't had a chance to look at the list very carefully for the past few weeks, so I apologize in advance if I'm asking a question that has recently been discussed. I seem to recall there has been some discussion about a similar situation to the one I am in. My situation is that I am hav

Re: [Samba] Share access error

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:34 -0800, Ravi Natarajan wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ravi Natarajan > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:11 PM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID error > > Hi, > > > > I tried to acce

Re: [Samba] Windows->LDAP->Samba

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:23 -0800, Mont Rothstein wrote: > I am hoping someone can tell me if I am trying something that can't be done. > > What I would like to be able to do is setup a Linux file server that Windows > users can use, including the use of ACLs. AFIK this should not be a problem. >

RE: [Samba] Multiple Login scripts

> basis. Is it possible to set up multiple login scripts that > would be executed > in sequence i.e. run by user is %u, and machine is %m is it > possible to say > run %u to set up shares followed by %m to set up the right > printers for the > room their in? With some clever scripting, anyt

Re: [Samba] Multiple Login scripts

Julian Pilfold-Bagwell schrieb: Hi all, Just a quick question about login scripts for a large number of users who change rooms a lot. I have several rooms each with a printer, and nearly a thousand users divided into two main groups - pupils and teachers who change rooms on a routine basis.

Re: [Samba] Multiple Login scripts

Julian Pilfold-Bagwell wrote: Hi all, Just a quick question about login scripts for a large number of users who change rooms a lot. I have several rooms each with a printer, and nearly a thousand users divided into two main groups - pupils and teachers who change rooms on a routine basis.

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

Josh Kelley schrieb: On 11/15/05, Jeremy Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: hmm don't know. I just saw a similar window here where I work, and searched the internet for something that looks similar. But AFAIK, we don't inst

[Samba] Locking Problems with Tracker 97

hi send me a copy of tracker 97 and i will see if i can help you. have you installed the application as a shared(see dos) booklet. contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) cheers sal. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the foll

[Samba] Multiple Login scripts

Hi all, Just a quick question about login scripts for a large number of users who change rooms a lot. I have several rooms each with a printer, and nearly a thousand users divided into two main groups - pupils and teachers who change rooms on a routine basis. Is it possible to set up multiple

[Samba] Share access error

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Natarajan Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:11 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID error Hi, I tried to access a file share on a Windows 2003 server that has around 150 other directories.

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

On 11/15/05, Jeremy Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > > hmm don't know. > > > > I just saw a similar window here where I work, and searched the internet > > for something that looks similar. > > > > But AFAIK, we don't ins

[Samba] Windows->LDAP->Samba

I am hoping someone can tell me if I am trying something that can't be done. What I would like to be able to do is setup a Linux file server that Windows users can use, including the use of ACLs. AFIK this should not be a problem. The way I would like to go about doing this is what may be a probl

Re: [Samba] What's a preferred linux distribution for my needs...

If you want the best, most up to date, easiest to manage and most widely used distro (that is free anyways) , use CentOS. Latest version is 4.2 and available here: http://centos.org Christian Tylko wrote: I've gone through samba.org and have tried to go through the samba archives (but ther

Re: [Samba] SWAT not accessible from remote sites

"only_from = 127.0.0.1" It looks like this option is only allowing users to access swat from the localhost (127.0.0.1). You will need to change this option. Kenny Sanders wrote: Hello, I am not able to access SWAT from any other host besides the one running the SWAT daemon. No firewall b

Re: [Samba] Re: Security=user half as fast as share. Why?

Try this, it sped mine up quite a bit: in globals, socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 IPTOS_LOWDELAY IPTOS_THROUGHPUT Do a man on smb.conf for an explanation of what they do to speed things up. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: samba1.20.cdunham at spamgourmet.com escreveu

[Samba] () Unable to connect samba server using hostname

Hai All, I am Unable to connect samba server using hostname the thing is.. its happen only from few windows machine in my network... but they can access the sambe share using IPAddress.. as like all other machine All the other Windows system in my network can access samba share using both... IP A

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Thomas Bork schrieb: > >Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > >>>Any chance of sending in a network trace when this message is > >>>received ? We need to see how the client is getting this message > >>>in order to be able to do the sam

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

Thomas Bork schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Any chance of sending in a network trace when this message is received ? We need to see how the client is getting this message in order to be able to do the same. yeah why not, just tell me what do I have to capture (and how?) and I'll try to do

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

On 11/15/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With Windows domain controllers with when the profile size is too big > (and there are limits appled), when the user logs out, he/she gets a > warning, and a list of files, sorted from the biggest, to the smallest. > > Is it possible to d

Re: [Samba] Samba 2.2 to Samba 3.0 migration - LDAP backend

On 11/15/05, Daniel Bramkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having some issues migrating a Samba 2.2 installation to Samba > 3.0. I am using the LDAP backend and converted the LDAP database to the > new schema using the provided convertSambaAccount script. As far as I > can tell that worked fine

Re: [Samba] Pronounciation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Adams wrote: > Hi. > > I have search for the answer to this question, to no avail. Does > anybody know the authoritative pronounciation of samba. Maybe there > isn't an authoritative pronounciation. If anybody can help me I would > grea

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Any chance of sending in a network trace when this message is received ? We need to see how the client is getting this message in order to be able to do the same. yeah why not, just tell me what do I have to capture (and how?) and I'll try to do it. Mmmh: http://www.

Fwd: [Samba] Pronounciation

Ment to send this to the list I believe the pronounciation for the dance of the same name applies: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=samba On 11/15/05, Mark Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I have search for the answer to this question, to no avail. Does > anybody k

[Samba] Samba 2.2 to Samba 3.0 migration - LDAP backend

Hi list, I am having some issues migrating a Samba 2.2 installation to Samba 3.0. I am using the LDAP backend and converted the LDAP database to the new schema using the provided convertSambaAccount script. As far as I can tell that worked fine. The new ldif file has everything in it. Populat

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

Jeremy Allison schrieb: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:09:29PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: With Windows domain controllers with when the profile size is too big (and there are limits appled), when the user logs out, he/she gets a warning, and a list of files, sorted from the biggest, to the s

Re: [Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:09:29PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > With Windows domain controllers with when the profile size is too big > (and there are limits appled), when the user logs out, he/she gets a > warning, and a list of files, sorted from the biggest, to the smallest. > > To get

[Samba] Pronounciation

Hi. I have search for the answer to this question, to no avail. Does anybody know the authoritative pronounciation of samba. Maybe there isn't an authoritative pronounciation. If anybody can help me I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, -Mark The information contained in this e-ma

[Samba] samba 3.0.20b-2 debian sarge - make_connection: refusing to connect with no session setup

Hi, After installing service pack 1 on our SBS 2K3 server, mac osx client (10.4.3) couldn't connect anymore (make_connection: refusing to connect with no session setup), so I upgraded to 3.0.20b-2 but the problem didn't go away. smb.conf: [global] realm = SOMEDOMAIN.LOCAL workgroup = SOMEDOMA

Re: [Samba] When to use Winbind ??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary MacKay wrote: > Am I correct that you only need to run winbind if you have > other servers are involved? If all I have is a samba server > acting as the PDC and that is it, I do not need to run > winbind, right? The common reasons to run winbin

[Samba] Re: Debian Binary Packages from samba.org

Simo Sorce wrote: Any suggestion is very welcome, feel free to write me, or keep me in Cc as I often miss [EMAIL PROTECTED] threads. Hi Simo- Thanks for the great packaging work. We have upgraded two of our Debian Sarge production servers, after one Debian Sarge test server-ala-laptop and al

[Samba] When to use Winbind ??

Am I correct that you only need to run winbind if you have other servers are involved? If all I have is a samba server acting as the PDC and that is it, I do not need to run winbind, right? The samba by example book shows using chkconfig to start smb, dhcpd, etc., but does not mention winbi

Re: [Samba] D flag at sambaAcctFlags

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a server with Samba(3.0.13-1.1)/OpenLDAP and > sometimes my users get a D flag at sambaAcctFlags. > > There are some users that don´t have all the samba > attributes yet. > > I would like to know why it h

[Samba] Re: Using group membership to access a symlink directory

> Can you access this on linux as the user? ie, if you remove samba > from > the equation, does it work? Yes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cbarnes]$ id uid=834(cbarnes) gid=503(staff) groups=503(staff),509(website) [EMAIL PROTECTED] cbarnes]$ ls -alF www lrwxrwxrwx 1 cbarnes website 37 Nov 9 11:33 www

Re: [Samba] OpenLDAP and SAMBA

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 02:00, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Miguel Lopez schrieb: > > Hi everybody! > > > > In my company, we want to migrate from Windows NT to a Linux PDC. I am > > responsible for the change so I am searching for the best solution. > > After some time surfnig in google, I deci

[Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

With Windows domain controllers with when the profile size is too big (and there are limits appled), when the user logs out, he/she gets a warning, and a list of files, sorted from the biggest, to the smallest. To get an idea how it looks like, here's a screenshot: http://www.windowsitpro.com/

[Samba] what does VFS default_quota do?

What does VFS default_quota do? The description from the Samba HOWTO says: "This module allows the default quota values, in the windows explorer GUI, to be stored on a Samba-3 server." Where exactly can I locate it "in the windows explorer GUI"? Does this setting in smb.conf: vfs objects =

[Samba] D flag at sambaAcctFlags

Hello, I have a server with Samba(3.0.13-1.1)/OpenLDAP and sometimes my users get a D flag at sambaAcctFlags. There are some users that don´t have all the samba attributes yet. I would like to know why it happens. Which actions/attributes can tell to samba turn de D flag on? This is a ldif of a

[Samba] Kerberos config.

Somewhere I've read to rename krb5.conf file and leave "net ads join" found the right ads server on the network. Beliving that it could be flexible method I try to mv krb5.conf to krb5.seek, but result is: ads_connect: Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm! What's wrong? Also why leaving krb5

[Samba] maximum amount of data in a SMB read response packet

Hi, When sniffing traffic between a WinXP client (WinXP Professional version 2002 SP1) and a Samba server (Samba 3.0.9-2.1.5-SUSE on Suse Linux 9 kernel 2.6.5), I observed the following behavior: - Writing to the Mapped network drive occurs with SMB write request packets containing exactly

Re: [Samba] Roaming profiles migration

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 14:32 +0100, Daniel Ruiz Jimenez wrote: > Hi!! > > I'm going to migrate from an old debian machine to a new one. This new > machine has installed debian sarge 3.1 and samba 2.2. (old has samba 2 too). > > I need an *easy* method to migrate my roaming users profiles to my ne

[Samba] Roaming profiles migration

Hi!! I'm going to migrate from an old debian machine to a new one. This new machine has installed debian sarge 3.1 and samba 2.2. (old has samba 2 too). I need an *easy* method to migrate my roaming users profiles to my new samba server. I heard about some metod to change the sid, but only inco

Re: [Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

Hai Strebel, Franz R & ALL while i try to connect share from machine those getting error... its ask for username and password... but even if we give username and password.. share will not open.. it will again ask user name and passowrd.. but user name or password is not needed to.. access thi

RE: [Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

Hmm, what is the error message you get from the problematic machines? Does anything register at all in the samba logs on the server? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

Strebel, Franz R & kurt weiss All My machines are in same subnet.. and its resolving the IP address .. correctly.. i am using samba-3.0.14a-1 (i download src rom from samb.org and rebuid the rpm using --with acl support option) most of my clients are perfactly accessing sam

RE: [Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

Netbios name resolution does not work across subnets so I am guessing that that is causing the problem. Using the IP address does not have this issue. There are two ways to deal with this: 1. have a WINS server 2. put appropriate entries in the LMHOSTS file More info can be found here: http:/

[Samba] Re: net rpc vampire - cannot login to migrated computer accounts

Andrew Bartlett wrote: Yes, but what's the underlying technical cause for the cause? ;-) It would be interesting to see how two identical XP-maschines would differ after having joined the one to a NT4-Domain and the other to an ADS domain. Which regkyes differ? Has somebody tried to make a "ba

Re: [Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

updatemyself . schrieb: I am Unable to connect samba server using hostname the thing is.. its happen only from few windows machine in my network... but they can access the sambe share using IPAddress.. as like all other machine All the other Windows system in my network can access samba share

RE: [Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

The machines that could not access via hostname, are they on a different subnet (not the same as the server)? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Unable to connect samba server using hostname

Hai All, I am Unable to connect samba server using hostname the thing is.. its happen only from few windows machine in my network... but they can access the sambe share using IPAddress.. as like all other machine All the other Windows system in my network can access samba share using both... IP A

Re: [Samba] Linux Primary Domain Controller Authentication

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 01:16 -0800, Jose Medeiros wrote: > Hi Cynthia, > > I am not sure if you tried this yet, but you may want to check your > local server security policy on the server and verify that you are > accepting lanmanger based authentication and that SMB signing is > turned off. smb s

[Samba] Re: OpenLDAP and SAMBA

Miguel Lopez wrote: > access to * > by self write > by dn="cn=Administrador,dc=NT,dc=DPT,dc=ES" write > by * read > > > access to attr=sambaLMPassword,sambaNTPassword > by dn="cn=Administrador,dc=BECARIOS,dc=DPT,dc=ES" write > by * none > > access to attr=userpassword > by self write > by * read

Re: [Samba] Using group membership to access a symlink directory

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 16:56 -0600, Chris Barnes wrote: > I am having a problem getting Samba to use the linux group membership > when following a symlink. > > On the Linux side, I have a soft link from the user's home directory to > the shared directory. > ln -s /home/shared/testgroup testshar

[Samba] roaming Profiles

Hi all I've updated a server from samba 2.2.8 to 3.0.20 . and i've got some problems with roaming profiles on Win2k clients workstations . On WinXp clients everything works fine but on win2k clients the client says that it cannot load roaming profiles. I've disconnected and re-joined the machi

[Samba] smbpasswd -a UID/privs checking needed

FreeBSD 6.0 + Samba 3.0.20b running "smbpasswd -a " under non-root privileges dumps core instead of polite warning "not root ... cannot add users". Samba should IMHO behave better at this point ... Hugo -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://l

RE: RE [Samba] samba 3.0.21rc1 + ldap PDC - smbpasswd issue

Thank you Stephane, Your responce time was less then 1 minute - truly amazing. Copying the new samba.schema and restarting ldap & samba fixed this problem. # cp/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.21rc1/LDAP/samba.schema /etc/openldap/schema Many Thanks Adrian Sender. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: samba@l

RE [Samba] samba 3.0.21rc1 + ldap PDC - smbpasswd issue

I have upgraded the samba.schema in /etc/openldap/schema , --- Stéphane PURNELLE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Informatique Corman S.A. Tel : 00 32 087/342467 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 15/11/2005 11:36:40 : > Hey Guys, > >

[Samba] samba 3.0.21rc1 + ldap PDC - smbpasswd issue

Hey Guys, I have just upgraded to version 3.0.21rc1. I decided to re-populate the database and test if everything is working. ./smbldap-populate -a root -k 0 -m 0 -> ok ./smbldap-useradd -m -a username -> ok ./smbldap-passwd username -> ok smbpasswd username - > fail [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin

[Samba] winbindd and user groups

Hello, I'm using samba 3.0.20b with security=domain and my server is part of an NT 4.0 domain which trusts another domain being run on AD mixed mode. Accounts on samba are handled by winbind. Here's the problem: I asked the admin of the trusted domain to create a new domain group and add severa

Re: [Samba] OpenLDAP and SAMBA

Miguel Lopez schrieb: Hi everybody! In my company, we want to migrate from Windows NT to a Linux PDC. I am responsible for the change so I am searching for the best solution. After some time surfnig in google, I decide to use a LDAP server for users maintenance and SAMBA as a file server. and

RE: [Samba] is this a DNS resolution problem ? bad news

>From what I know, if your PDC is on a different subnet, then the PCs won't be able to see it. This is a limitation of netbios and is addressed by having a WINS server. I haven't followed your problem entirely but I suppose that now that your server has 2 interfaces, it is able to listen to anoth

[Samba] NTLM & Kerberos.

Hi all, I'm working with samba 3.0.20a on Suse9.2, with followings files setted: [global] netbios name = NAME wins server = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX workgroup = DOMAIN realm = DOMAIN.COM security = ADS password server = * encrypt passwords = yes

[Samba] OpenLDAP and SAMBA

Hi everybody! In my company, we want to migrate from Windows NT to a Linux PDC. I am responsible for the change so I am searching for the best solution. After some time surfnig in google, I decide to use a LDAP server for users maintenance and SAMBA as a file server. and PDC controller The f

Re: [Samba] is this a DNS resolution problem ? bad news

A good info : if I configure the server to listen on 2 interfaces, I can join the domain and authenticate. What is the difference between listenning on 2 interfaces and listenning on 15 interfaces ? Someone told me that I should add the loopback interface. Is it true ? And why (I like to under

Re: [Samba] is this a DNS resolution problem ? bad news

What I thought was a solution was not. As no one answered to my question, I presume that samba cannot serve multiple networks in the same time. Has anybody been confronted to this problem ? Thanks, Valéry Valéry Roché a écrit : Hi again, It seems the problem is solved by these two lines in s