[Samba] Set up Samba client to backup Windows XP home edition files

2009-06-19 Thread rocky Ou
Hey, It seems that samba client could be used to back up Windows files. Am I right? To achieve this, I apt-get installed samba and set up it accordingly. Below is my smb.conf file /*==Begin=*/ [global] workgroup = HWWKM os level = 65 preferred master =

Re: [Samba] weird permissions issue

2009-06-19 Thread John H Terpstra - Samba Team
JJB wrote: > Dale Schroeder wrote: >> I don't know if you've solved this or not, but have you checked the >> acl's with getfacl. (I noticed all the "inherit acl" statements.) >> I once had this problem, and it was caused by the creation of default >> acl's that overrode all other permissions. Sinc

Re: [Samba] W2K with Samba 3.3.2 problem

2009-06-19 Thread John H Terpstra - Samba Team
tisdn tisdn wrote: > Hi, > > We've had a problem using Samba 3.3.2 and windows 2000 workstations sp4. > After many tests, it was discovered that when the netbios name has an hyphen > the windows 2000 workstations don't see the groups on the samba domain, but > when the name is changed for one with

Re: [Samba] weird permissions issue

2009-06-19 Thread JJB
Dale Schroeder wrote: I don't know if you've solved this or not, but have you checked the acl's with getfacl. (I noticed all the "inherit acl" statements.) I once had this problem, and it was caused by the creation of default acl's that overrode all other permissions. Since I did not create the

Re: [Samba] W2K with Samba 3.3.2 problem

2009-06-19 Thread Jason Gerfen
when you specify the netbios name dikrective have you tried enclosing the server netbios name in quotes when using a hyphen? tisdn tisdn wrote: Hi, We've had a problem using Samba 3.3.2 and windows 2000 workstations sp4. After many tests, it was discovered that when the netbios name has an hyp

[Samba] W2K with Samba 3.3.2 problem

2009-06-19 Thread tisdn tisdn
Hi, We've had a problem using Samba 3.3.2 and windows 2000 workstations sp4. After many tests, it was discovered that when the netbios name has an hyphen the windows 2000 workstations don't see the groups on the samba domain, but when the name is changed for one without hyphen the error doesn't oc

[Samba] samba4-alpha 6 on Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-06-19 Thread James Bowes
First let me say thanks to the Samba team for all time and effort you have put forward. Now I do not have a problem per se but am going to be testing some of the Alpha versions with respect to Ubuntu. I am interested in testing policies in particular but before I go through and do that I am cur

Re: [Samba] TOSHARG-BDC.xml translate finish and some bug found

2009-06-19 Thread John H Terpstra - Samba Team
Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:19:58AM +0900, OPC oota wrote: >> Samba-3 can act as a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to another Samba Primary >> Domain Controller (PDC). A >> Samba-3 PDC can operate with an LDAP account backend. The LDAP backend can >> be either a common mast

Re: [Samba] AIX starting and stopping samba from command line

2009-06-19 Thread William Jojo
Tim Evans wrote: BeefStu BeefStu wrote: All: I am running on an AIX 5.3 platform and I am looking to see if anybody has a script similar to this (see below) that will work under AIX. My goal is, on boot up I want to have samba started automatically. Can somebody let me what I have to

[Samba] Upgrade Broke Permission

2009-06-19 Thread Linux Addict
Hey, I upgraded samba from 3.2.4 to 3.2.8. Now all home dir permissions are showing owned by UID instead of user names. Has anyone had this issue? How to fix and prevent..? ~LA -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/opti

Re: [Samba] TOSHARG-BDC.xml translate finish and some bug found

2009-06-19 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:19:58AM +0900, OPC oota wrote: > Samba-3 can act as a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to another Samba Primary > Domain Controller (PDC). A > Samba-3 PDC can operate with an LDAP account backend. The LDAP backend can be > either a common master LDAP > server or a slave s

Re: [Samba] AIX starting and stopping samba from command line

2009-06-19 Thread Tim Evans
BeefStu BeefStu wrote: All: I am running on an AIX 5.3 platform and I am looking to see if anybody has a script similar to this (see below) that will work under AIX. My goal is, on boot up I want to have samba started automatically. Can somebody let me what I have to do (on AIX) for t

RE: [Samba] AIX starting and stopping samba from command line

2009-06-19 Thread Lund, Claus
We just have a script like this: VERSION=`ls /opt/pware/samba|sort|tail -n 1` /opt/pware/samba/${VERSION}/sbin/nmbd -D /opt/pware/samba/${VERSION}/sbin/smbd -D Which is called in /etc/inittab to start up Samba on boot ... nothing fancy :-) -Original Message- From: samba-bounces+claus

[Samba] AIX starting and stopping samba from command line

2009-06-19 Thread BeefStu BeefStu
All: I am running on an AIX 5.3 platform and I am looking to see if anybody has a script similar to this (see below) that will work under AIX. My goal is, on boot up I want to have samba started automatically. Can somebody let me what I have to do (on AIX) for this to happen.

[Samba] Equivalent of "net ads leave" while not connected to domain controller, clearing up client contents.

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Freeman-Day
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gentlefolk, I have a machine name collision issue on our 2008 DC and a samba domain member machine got kicked off AD, but did not do an official "net ads leave". We have worked it out that the samba 3.0.x machine will change its name, but want to cau

[Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.4.0rc1 Available for Download

2009-06-19 Thread Karolin Seeger
Release Announcements = This is the first release candidate of Samba 3.4. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Major enhance

Re: [Samba] Samba & LDAP, with XP and Linux clients

2009-06-19 Thread Quinn Fissler
As you probably realilse, the two separate areas are what samba requires in ldap and what Linux requires - it's likely that you've only populated the samba required stuff. Think of ldap like a /etc/passwd file with many more columns. You only have the columns for samba but most of the Linix/POSIX

Re: [Samba] Samba & LDAP, with XP and Linux clients

2009-06-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
To add a bit more, my users typically look like: dn: uid=a103,ou=People,ou=csim,dc=cs,dc=ait,dc=ac,dc=th objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top objectClass: sambaSamAccount cn: a103 sn: x uid: a103 uidNumber: 5072 gidNumber: 95 homeDirectory: /home/a103 loginShel

Re: [Samba] Samba & LDAP, with XP and Linux clients

2009-06-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > Executing "getent group" on the Ubuntu client produces the expected results. > Executing "getent passwd" does not; it only shows me a subset of the user > accounts (notably, not my own account which was created prior to migration). I am running successfully with the user accounts having the

[Samba] Samba & LDAP, with XP and Linux clients

2009-06-19 Thread Dave Beach
Hello list! I believe I may not have a Samba problem, but rather an LDAP directory problem. I'm hoping to be redirected towards a more appropriate mailing list to which I can post. I have a Slackware server running Samba and OpenLDAP, and my WinXP clients authenticate just fine. I migrated from an

Re: [Samba] Permissions and security

2009-06-19 Thread Dennis Duggen
Hi List Thanks for all the help. I found a solution. The solution was for to use "force user". Now shared files are owned by the same user and this solves my permissions problem. Thanks for the help Regards, Dennis -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructi