[Samba] can samba figure out the "closest" domain controller in ADS mode?

2007-01-05 Thread Jason Haar
I'v got working Samba ADS servers, but "net ads info" shows most of them are associated with Win2K3 domain controllers that are in different sites than the ones the Samba servers are in (we have a large WAN with DCs in every site). I'm not configuring "password server" as I want Samba to be more fa

RE: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
Err, because I had not heard of (or remembered of) strace. I'll check it out. I've also discovered, there is one computer (maybe others, too) that whenever it connects the processor maxes out. I tried it a couple time... rebooting the file server, connect from that computer, and see the proc max

[Samba] Re: users can't write to a subset of mounted directories

2007-01-05 Thread David Mebane
I'll tell you what -- I now think this is a server issue, since I have the exact same problem with write access in root. However, I am still stumped. Any ideas? -David Original message: Hello I am connecting to an NT server via a Linux client. I am mounting the drive on the client via th

[Samba] users can't write to a subset of mounted directories

2007-01-05 Thread David Mebane
Hello I am connecting to an NT server via a Linux client. I am mounting the drive on the client via the following in smbfstab: //server/Users /home/dm215/Desktop/SambaBringover smbfs username=user,password=pass,suid,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=770,dmask=770,rw It works fine except the local user u

[Samba] net rpc group members timeout

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Proud
Hello, Occasionally when I perform "net rpc group members (group a)," I get a timeout. When I do "net rpc group members (group b)," I always get a timeout. I get the following error: [2007/01/05 16:36:18, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790) rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine 127.0.0.1 pipe \s

Re: [Samba] Access From another subnet

2007-01-05 Thread Stuart Highlander
shawn, is the server on the 1.x network set as the wins server on the 2.x clients or is there another wins server set? stu Jim Hogan wrote: Shawn, Shawn Simmons wrote: I have setup a Samba Server to be used as a documentation repository. The IP address of the server resides in 192.168.

Re: [Samba] Kerberos and PAM

2007-01-05 Thread Dale Schroeder
Since you are connecting to AD, I would use "security = ADS". It is my understanding that Kerberos is required for AD. If you're using linux, something similar to the links below should work for you. http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3487081 http://www.enterprisenetw

Re: [Samba] Access From another subnet

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Hogan
Shawn, Shawn Simmons wrote: I have setup a Samba Server to be used as a documentation repository. The IP address of the server resides in 192.168.1.x I have several Windows XP workstations that reside in the 192.168.1.x network and have no problem accessing the shares on the Samba Server.

[Samba] Joining Domain Issues

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Sellers
Hello All, I work with a large AD connecting a small number of linux boxes for our school using a winbind/ldap for our university. We have had relativly few issues but im haivng one now I cant seem to fix. I recently brought up a new client and tried to join it to our domain but I get the follo

RE: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, James A. Dinkel wrote: Yeah, I see the brief spikes when each user connects. Those are nothing. This is a dual-Xeon 3.6Ghz server (both assigned to the Ubuntu file server vm) with 1GB of RAM assigned to this vm. It's the only vm running on this ESX server. Also top doe

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
Whoops. That's 2.66 ghz. Dual Core plus Hyperthreading gives 16 logical CPUs (8 cores hyperthreaded). James A. Dinkel wrote: Yeah, I see the brief spikes when each user connects. Those are nothing. This is a dual-Xeon 3.6Ghz server (both assigned to the Ubuntu file server vm) with 1GB of RA

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
Do you have your Samba server installed on the same RAID array and/or controller as ESX? This would be the first issue. I've got my data store housing my Samba server on a separate external PowerVault SAS RAID 5 array. Also, you didn't tell me what version of ESX you are running. ESX Infrastru

RE: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
Yeah, I see the brief spikes when each user connects. Those are nothing. This is a dual-Xeon 3.6Ghz server (both assigned to the Ubuntu file server vm) with 1GB of RAM assigned to this vm. It's the only vm running on this ESX server. Also top doesn't show a user smbd process maxing out the pr

Re: [Samba] WINS server issues

2007-01-05 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
David Miller wrote: I have a Samba server (3.0.23a) running WINS for our network. The other day we had some extended power outages and a number of computers and network segments came up before DHCP/DNS servers causing a lot of confusion on our network until everything settled. DNS/DHCP an name

Re: [Samba] Mount smbfs

2007-01-05 Thread Jason Zondor
Felix, thanks for the reply but still no go. --- Jason Zondor On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/01/05 09:10 (GMT-0600) Jason Zondor apparently typed: I've got a FreeBSD 5.5 box running Samba 3.0.21 and every-time I try to do a "mount -t smbfs -o username=username,pass

[Samba] WINS server issues

2007-01-05 Thread David Miller
I have a Samba server (3.0.23a) running WINS for our network. The other day we had some extended power outages and a number of computers and network segments came up before DHCP/DNS servers causing a lot of confusion on our network until everything settled. DNS/DHCP an name resolution via DNS is

Re: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Gasch
since i'm not the samba expert, my last attempt: could you please try valid users = +NAME_OF_FILESERVER\private ? may be samba then accepts the domain of the file server (local SAM) as a lookup into local groups. it must work since samba also works correctly with nested groups which can IMH

[Samba] PAM configuration

2007-01-05 Thread M Azer
when setting up samba with winbind as "security = domain" to user 2003 AD users for authentications. do i need to configure pam.d/samba pam.d/login pam.d/auth Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Mount smbfs

2007-01-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/01/05 09:10 (GMT-0600) Jason Zondor apparently typed: > I've got a FreeBSD 5.5 box running Samba 3.0.21 and every-time I try > to do a "mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password // > server/share /mnt/folder" I get the error "smbfs: -o username=: > option not supported". >

Re: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2007-01-05 Thread Stefan Froehlich
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:50:07PM +0100, Michael Gasch wrote: > if "private" is a group, you have to add @ in front of the "valid > users" entry. according to a post of jerry the syntax with ticks and > spaces is correct. Ok, with the right keywords I now found some old threads in the archive as

[Samba] Windows file security properties on a domain member server

2007-01-05 Thread Lafond, Thomas
Hello, When viewing the Windows file security properties, for a file stored on a Samba domain member server, should the ACL show the AD domain or the Samba server as the domain? If the ACL should show the AD domain, can someone point me at some things to check? The UID/GID assignments in Linux a

Re: [Samba] Mount smbfs

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
mount -t smbfs //server/share/ /mnt/folder -o username=username,password=password Try that. Jason Zondor wrote: Hello, I've got a FreeBSD 5.5 box running Samba 3.0.21 and every-time I try to do a "mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //server/share /mnt/folder" I get the err

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
I just watched the top for a bit and did some testing and I see brief spikes on my system where each domain user has their own smbd process that grabs resources. This seems to happen when first opening a directory. It would seem that whatever resources Samba needs to complete this operation, my

Re: [Samba] INTERNAL ERROR

2007-01-05 Thread Filipe Mota
I follow the instructions but results are not stable... Fisrt, when I run *nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__ this command return error after sometime it was ok. Smbclient with password always return the error session setup failed: Call returned zero bytes (EOF). It's really strange I have this c

Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Kincer
James, I'm running Samba 3.0.22 on Ubuntu 6.10 with VMWare 3.0.1 build-32039 (vmware -v from command line) and I'm not having that problem. What versions are you running? Make sure you aren't running your virtual machine from the same data store where the VMWare server lives. That's a design

[Samba] Mount smbfs

2007-01-05 Thread Jason Zondor
Hello, I've got a FreeBSD 5.5 box running Samba 3.0.21 and every-time I try to do a "mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password // server/share /mnt/folder" I get the error "smbfs: -o username=: option not supported". I've google'd this with no luck... any help in the right directi

[Samba] Upgrading to Windows 2003 servers

2007-01-05 Thread Mary Couture
We have samba 2.2.12 running on Solaris 9. Our PDC and BDC are windows 2000 servers running AD. Our windows admin is ready to promote a new windows 2003 R2 server to a DC. When she started DCPromo she received a warning message about older versions of windows and non-windows systems including SA

[Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
This is running in vmware, and I noticed occasionally wmware reports that the cpu is being maxed out by a virtual machine. Logging into the virtual machine and running top confirms that the smbd process is maxing out the cpu. If I leave it alone for a while, eventually it starts dropping connecti

Re: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 05 January 2007 06:25, Michael Gasch wrote: > valid users = "Unix Group"\your_local_group ? I don't understand that example. Unless you're using NIS, dump @ (considered deprecated) and replace it with +. For local ('nix) groups, use +group_name, put the group name in quotes if it cont

Re: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Gasch
if "private" is a group, you have to add @ in front of the "valid users" entry. according to a post of jerry the syntax with ticks and spaces is correct. please also increase the debug level on the server side to see why it fails greez Stefan Froehlich wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:25:35

Re: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2007-01-05 Thread Stefan Froehlich
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:25:35PM +0100, Michael Gasch wrote: > could you please try the latest samba (or at least 3.0.23c) and use > valid users = "Unix Group"\your_local_group This does not change very much: | [Server B] | # smbd -V | Version 3.0.23c-2 | # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf |grep "valid

RE: [Samba] Access From another subnet

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
> -Original Message- > From: Shawn Simmons > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:24 PM > > I have several Windows XP workstations that reside in the 192.168.2.x > network that will show the Samba Server in the network neighborhood; > however, I get "access denied" errors trying to access i

Re: [Samba] Samba File Shares growing out of control

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Gasch
hi, for a more professional solution one would choose HSM, because samba offers HSM support, too. e.g. you could use commvault, xfs and samba to transparently migrate data off shares. greez Douglas Sterner wrote: Can anyone recommend any solutions for plucking files out of my samba shares

[Samba] Problems managing groups with smbldap

2007-01-05 Thread Diego Lima
Hello, I have added a group on my samba server (which uses LDAP as its backend) using the command: 'smbldap-groupadd -a "DINF - Suporte"' but when I try to add a user into it using 'smbldap-groupmod -m "pr193292" "DINF - Suporte"' I get the following error message: /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod: gro

[Samba] browser list

2007-01-05 Thread stephane . purnelle
Hi ! I have a question or request for improvement : Some external people with her domain name must be connected to our network. Each time, he receive wins and other informations from DHCP. With this configuration the browser list from my PDC contain domain name wich not longer exist because t

Re: [Samba] log rotation in samba

2007-01-05 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Melanie Pfefer wrote: how to enable log rotation in samba? You don't. The log rotation is normally done by other programs. In some Linuxdistributions this is done by the logrotate program. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denma

Re: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Gasch
could you please try the latest samba (or at least 3.0.23c) and use valid users = "Unix Group"\your_local_group ??? thx Stefan Froehlich wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:35:30PM +0100, Voelz Alexander wrote: [...] what das NOT work is to assign a samba share on B to this local group. I trie

Re: [Samba] INTERNAL ERROR

2007-01-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 1/5/2007 Filipe Mota ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba3-HOWTO Since this reference was on the line immediately following the INTERNAL ERROR, did you read it? Did you follow the instructions there? What were the results? -- Best regards, Ch

Re: [Samba] INTERNAL ERROR

2007-01-05 Thread Filipe Mota
Please I need realy help. Nobody knows what is this problem? Suddenly, I start to have this problem with my samba and everything stop to work. I using samba 3.0.23d and kernel 2.6.16. Can someone help me??? [2007/01/03 12:20:25, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(42) INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pi

[Samba] log rotation in samba

2007-01-05 Thread Melanie Pfefer
how to enable log rotation in samba? max log size in the conf file allows only 1 log file. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samb

[Samba] troubles with telnet sessions under Solaris8 as AD member with winbind V3.0.23d

2007-01-05 Thread Thomas Fleischmann
Hi guys, I've a problem with telnet sessions under Solaris 8 with samba 3.0.23d winbind. If I have the winbind authorization active for telnet in my pam.conf I got a kick out of the system after exactly 300 sec, no mather if I do or do not activity on the telnet session. The same behavior is for

[Samba] permission problem samba share 2nd suse server

2007-01-05 Thread Roland_Lepper
Dear all, I'm running a fileserver on Suse10. The purpose of this fileserver is to store only mailbackups. I also have backupserver running Suse10 with Dar&Sarab installed. backups will be done on HDD. This runs perfect. because I need to mount the samba share of the fileserver to the backu