Re: [Samba] samba+cups printing. drivers on clients.

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:39 +0400, Sergey Karapetyan wrote: Any help? May be samba or windows clients can forcefully serve\takes drivers always then printer installing? ? Automatic printer driver installation works very well. The procedure is covered in the Samba documentation.

Re: [Samba] Veto files question

2009-08-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:34 -0400, Allen Chen wrote: Hi, there I have a question about Veto files in smb.conf: Can we use this option to hidden files not belonging to myself in a shared folder? No, AFAIK, veto files just match the name of the file to some pattern; it doesn't concern itself

Re: [Samba] samba 3.4 performance tuning

2009-08-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:06 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Any hints for samba performance tuning parameters in smb.conf? current parameters: First connection (drive map) from windows machines is a bit slow, maybe disabling ipv6 helps for that? Why not suss out where the delay is before

Re: [Samba] samba 3.4 performance tuning

2009-08-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:44 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Adam Tauno Williams kirjoitti: On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:06 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Any hints for samba performance tuning parameters in smb.conf? current parameters: First connection (drive map) from windows machines is a bit

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC + OpenLDAP (Debian Lenny)

2009-08-16 Thread Adam Tauno WIlliams
I'm trying to move my existing MS-AD over to SAMBA, the place I'm So you have an AD domain? Samba 3.x does not provide an AD domain, it provides an NT domains, so your requirement of everything keeps running in the same or almost the same way cannot be met. Unless you want to try Samba 4.

Re: [Samba] block streaming from samba server

2009-08-16 Thread Adam Tauno WIlliams
I noticed that If I have media files in my samba share and a user double clicks on the share the media starts to stream from my linux box to the windows box. This hampers my B/W and I would prefer users to rather download the file then play it, I read a lot on the net regarding this but was

Re: [Samba] Delay of group membership modifications

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
But when the user tried to access the directory, access was denied. When I checked with net RPC GROUP MEMBERS projekt-my-test-rw, the user was not listed as a group member. After I waited for about half an hour, the user suddenly could access the Is the host running nscd? If so, stop the nscd

Re: [Samba] Request for feedback

2009-07-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 17:39 -0500, John H Terpstra - Samba Team wrote: A number of years back it became necessary to limit the size of messages that could be posted to the samba mailing list. The current limit is 64 KBytes. While it continues be be desirable to block large spam messages, I

Re: [Samba] Fwd: HELP SAMBA + LDAP

2009-06-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:43 +, Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Hello everybody, Please does some one have any documentation, tutorial, how to about setting up a PDC basing on *Samba with a LDAP (OpenLDAP) *backend on *CentOS *? i found a lot of howtos but all of them were based on debian's family

Re: [Samba] Problem with reboot of machine with openLDAP

2009-05-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 16:02 -0400, Matt Burkhardt wrote: I'm having a problem with the reboot of a machine. I can get a list of the shares by running smbclient -L BGCFC but if I reboot, I get smbclient -L BGCFC Error connecting to 192.168.10.100 (Connection refused) Connection to BGCFC

Re: [Samba] Please translate M$ speak: create a new organizational unit

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Tauno WIlliams
I am a bit new to Samba PDC. When a M$ tech article says: Use Active Directory Users and Computers to create a new organizational unit (OU). What does this mean in Samba PDC talk? Please translate. It doesn't translate; Samba 3.x emulates/provides an NT4 domain, not an Active Directory

Re: [Samba] Intermittently Get Target filesystem does not support long file names when copying file to Samba share

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 03:45 -0700, Robinson, Eric wrote: I have two CentOS servers running samba3-3.0.34-37. When I connect to a samba share from my Windows 2003 R2 servers, and then try to copy a file to it, I often get the message target filesystem does not support long filenames. Sometimes

Re: [Samba] Controlling network printer

2009-04-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:24 -0300, Túlio Henrique Alves dos Santos wrote: Hi everyone! I'm trying to install a network printer (HP 2600n) in my primary domain controller(samba+ldap), and control the printer, create a list of users able to print and deny the others, etc. I've been searching

Re: [Samba] low memory!

2009-04-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 15:00 +0430, Mohammad Reza Hosseini wrote: hello using samba server on CentOS 5.02 after some hours the system memory becomes quite full! What do you mean by full? What does 'free -t' say? and the top command shows 5 or 7 or even more smbd processes! any help? That

Re: [Samba] Occasional loss of connection between Windows clients and Samba under stress

2009-04-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:30 +, Brebner, Gavin wrote: Problem seen on more than 1 server, and more than 1 client type. Windows clients = Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP sp3. Samba = 3.0-25b or 3.2.3 (clustered) My clients connect ok, and I have no problems with basic operations - copying

Re: AW: [Samba] Question about multiples logins at the same time

2009-04-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
If you have a ldap and samba domain there is a way to restrict the login to a single workstation To a single workstation or a defined set of workstations, yes. But I don't think there is a mechanism to limit a user to a single logon anywhere in the domain. Do you have any guideline or

Re: [Samba] Samba + LDAP = SLOW Help plesase

2009-04-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
awill...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: what indexes do you have in slapd.conf? what hardware is the server running on? More important than anything else is your Berkley environment. Do you have a reasonable DB-CONFIG file or are you asserting reasonable DB values via cn=config? But these are all

Re: [Samba] Understanding ldap auth credentials

2009-03-30 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 00:39 -0400, jeff sacksteder wrote: out fine - just change your passwords via Samba or use the standard change-password extended operation [LDAP] with the smbk5 module and they will all be updated simultaneously. Could you elaborate on the smbk5 module and how it

Re: [Samba] Understanding ldap auth credentials

2009-03-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 22:35 -0400, jeff sacksteder wrote: I'm try to create a single sign on configuration for a home fileserver, storing user accounts in the directory and using those credentials to authenticate Linux shell logins, server applications and PDC logins. Not single sign on (that

Re: [Samba] PDC / BDC in a Samba Domain Controller.

2009-03-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
but to have there shares accesseable you should hve the same shares on PDC and BDC. Write a script when you log on or off to rsync the files of the users. How do you reliably capture logoff events? I thought slurpd was deprecated years ago when openldap-2.3 came out. It is (was). Current

Re: [Samba] Automatic Permanent Disconnect of WinXP Clients

2009-03-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I'd like to enable my Samba server, either by the correct choice of standard configuration parameters or by custom script, to permanently log off and disconnect WinXP clients that have been inactive for a specified period of time. From my travels around the Web, I've seen this basic question

Re: [Samba] Re: pdbedit dosen't send the sambaSID to the ldap

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:06 +0100, LiPi - wrote: Hi people, did you find a solution for this problem? I'm having it too. r...@patata:/var/log/samba# pdbedit -am merlin Cannot locate Unix account for merlin$ Is that true - Does id merlin work? But the unix account is in ldap and it creates

Re: [Samba] Re: pdbedit dosen't send the sambaSID to the ldap

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Then, getent passwd and getent group must show ldap entries, and then joining to a domain and the creation of automatic machine samba accounts is well done. http://linuxadministration.us/2008/05/17/ubuntu-804-hardy-ldap-client/ http://www.cos.ufrj.br/docs/ldap#debian -- if you use debian

Re: [Samba] gidNumber's and ldap backed samba PDC

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:10 -0500, Derek Werthmuller wrote: In the planning process for migrating from NT4 PDC, and external ldap directory to samba 3.2.8 PDC. The external existing openldap directory is used currently to support the local uid mapping for the Linux logins and samba file

Re: [Samba] gidNumber's and ldap backed samba PDC

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 19:31 +0100, LiPi - wrote: Despite that RID!=GID, mappings between samba rids and groups must be there if you want the server to act as a PDC. If there are some GID's mapped to i.e. RID 512, and these GID is used by another group, then there will be a conflict. No,

Re: [Samba] vampire support for windows 2000+ domains?

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 15:38 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: Is this ever going to happen? Or am I waiting in vain? You mean Active Directory? You need to look into Samba4, but I don't think there is anyway to vampire an AD. Samba4 also isn't released - but it is really interesting. :) -- To

RE: [Samba] gidNumber's and ldap backed samba PDC

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 13:31 -0500, Derek Werthmuller wrote: Ok I see it appears that the ldap entries that samba needs in the directory are under a different O. ou=groups,o=smb,dc=unav,dc=es for example. dn: cn=Domain Admins,ou=groups,o=smb,dc=unav,dc=es objectClass: posixGroup objectClass:

Re: [Samba] integration with existing ldap directory

2009-03-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 19:58 -0400, jeff sacksteder wrote: I'm having trouble wading through the various documents that only partially apply to my situation. I have an exsting LDAP instance providing NSS login data to my small group of linux machines. I want to also now provide domain logins

Re: [Samba] Samba with ldap-Backend as PDC: Changing SMB-Password under Unix?

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:12 +0100, Daniel Spannbauer wrote: Hello, I have a working PDC with ldap-Backend under SUSE 10.2. Everything is working fine, except 2 thing: Can I change the sambaNTpassword and sambaLMpassword under Unix so that the User can change the samba-Passwords and the

Re: [Samba] Postfix and Samba best practice

2009-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
My question is this: Is it better to store the mail somewhere else entirely - i.e. /var/mail/users or something or a new home directory (/home/mailstorage) or something? In which case how best to set up permissions? It seems that when the mail is stored it gets the username as the

Re: [Samba] Binary Packages SuSE9.0 != SLES9

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I need to install a current version of samba on a server running SuSE9.0 :-/ My Idea was to use the binary package provided at samba.org for SLES9 As your subject states SuSE 9.0 != SLES9 :) but I do not have the exact libraries that are needed: libtalloc.so.1 is needed by

Re: [Samba] ACL problem under FC9

2009-03-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I am running Samba for some years now (3 years) and had absolutely no problems. For the last month on one of the machines the NT ACL stopped working and everyone have full access everywhere even if they are not in the acl. If I try to add them and restrict them only to read and execute the

Re: [Samba] Re: ldap group authentication refresh

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 22:21 +0100, Arthur Odekerken wrote: nscd wasn't running on my machine. After setting the option ldapsam:trusted = yes smbd doesnt start any longer I get the following error in /var/log/smbd.log: [2009/03/09 22:01:31, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1063) ERROR: failed to setup

Re: [Samba] Re: ldap group authentication refresh

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
/10 Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 22:21 +0100, Arthur Odekerken wrote: nscd wasn't running on my machine. After setting the option ldapsam:trusted = yes smbd doesnt start any longer I get the following error in /var/log

Re: [Samba] Complex [homes] rule

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:10 +, David Markey wrote: No.. I want only postgrad group to have access but I dont want them to access anyone elses home directory as discussed previously(using the valid users = %D%w%S). In other words i need some kind of AND statement. i.e. valid users =

Re: [Samba] ldap group authentication refresh

2009-03-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 19:32 +0100, Arthur Odekerken wrote: I have succesfully setup a Samba server with OpenLDAP authentication. I also managed to authenticate against groups in my LDAP tree, so far so good. The only problem is that whenever I add or remove an entry from the LDAP group, samba

Re: [Samba] samba 3.3.x vfs_acl_xattr support

2009-03-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 08:03 -0500, Ying Hu wrote: From samba 3.3.0 release notes, it seems like samba 3.3.x is at least experimenting using xattr to store NT ACL, which can eventually provide better NT ACL support. I tried similar features with samba 4.0.0 alpha6, which works very nice. Is

Re: [Samba] performance problem with 3.2.8: unbuffered reads for some users

2009-03-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Unfortunately I cannot put the server in debug 10 mode now because there are some clients connected... There is a handly trick for dealing with this: use include files. At the end of the globals section put a: include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%m Then create a file like:

Re: [Samba] PDC machine name appears as Domain Name on PC profiles

2009-03-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:36 -0600, Jeff McInish wrote: I have the distribution Samba package 3.2.3 running under Ubuntu 8.10 Workstation, downloaded using Synaptics Package Manager. It is running as a PDC. On some of my Windows XP workstations, the Windows profiles appearing under System

Re: [Samba] Setting up a Samba school for a school environment

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have not used Samba for a couple of years and have recently looked into it to replace our Novell Servers. I installed lenny and installed Samba 3.2.5. Looking at the configuration files and the samba documentation i see a lot has changed. Actually I don't think much as changed in the

Re: [Samba] samba user stays at the syatem !!!

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:52 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: Here is a very strange problem !!! This is normal, there is no logoff operation. Disable utmp support by setting utmp = no in the global section of your smb.conf I am using samba-3.0.25b-1.1.cc in clarkconnect server. No problem to use the

Re: [Samba] Changing LDAP userPassword fails: Internal (implementation specific) error

2009-02-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
, 22 Feb 2009 14:02:15 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilli...@gmail.com wrote: openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4,samba3-3.2.8-38 An smbpasswd by root to change a user's password fails with: [r...@littleboy samba]# smbpasswd adam New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: ldapsam_modify_entry

Re: [Samba] Migrating Samba PDC from one server to another

2009-02-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Is this a clean way to proceed ? is there a simpler way to migrate the configurations/users/machine accounts? You probably just missed setting the SID; make sure net getlocalsid returns the same thing on the new PDC as it did on the old PDC (use net setlocalsid). I believe the local and

Re: [Samba] Domain login issues.

2009-02-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:24 -0500, Holland, George (MLCI) wrote: Is there a way to check more that one domain controller on login? I have users on two different domains that need to mount shares on the same system. Establish interdomain trust. -- OpenGroupware developer:

[Samba] Changing LDAP userPassword fails: Internal (implementation specific) error

2009-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4,samba3-3.2.8-38 An smbpasswd by root to change a user's password fails with: [r...@littleboy samba]# smbpasswd adam New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: ldapsam_modify_entry: LDAP Password could not be changed for user adam: Internal (implementation specific)

Re: [Samba] Domain logins not working

2009-01-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
suggest I do that. However, any suggestions on what may be going wrong are welcome. :) ): Do you have a box handling WINS? Also make sure the SID of your net domain controller is the same as the SID of your old domain controller (net getlocalsid/setlocalsid, I think)? -- Adam Tauno Williams

Re: [Samba] Samba utilization monitoring

2008-11-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:46 +, Kristian Davies wrote: What tools do people use to monitor their samba server? I realise the use of top, ntop (I recently heard of iftop) and smbstatus but I was thinking more along the lines of historical data and possibly web based nagios/cacti style. Any

Re: [Samba] nss_ldap make fails on Slakware 12.1

2008-10-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:23 -0300, Joao Amancio wrote: Iarly, There's no ldap-nss or any nss tool on system. I still cannot compile the sources... Such a case : What to do now? Perhaps, ask for help in the appropriate forum. https://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=ldap or

Re: [Samba] Revisiting Samba's interaction with LDAP's ppolicy overlay

2008-09-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Some months back, I entertained a conversation with Volker Lendecke, Adam Tauno Williams, and Simo Sorce about getting Samba to play nice with LDAP's ppolicy overlay. (Thread starts here: http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg92134.html and ends here: http://www.mail

Re: [Samba] LDAP-Backend: How to store 'employeeNumber' in 'sambaGroupMapping'?

2008-09-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
If you don't already have a GUI for looking at the LDAP structure, I suggest that you install one - then you will easily be able to browse through the schema. Luma is the nicest LDAP GUI that I have been able to find. When I look at the sambaGroupMapping in the schema area in luma, I see the

Re: [Samba] print job counter never decreases

2008-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I've a samba printing problem: while all cups handled printers work perfectly, a fax printer application recently stopped working because of the default 'max print jobs' of 1000. In reality, the spool directory is empty. My question is: where ist this 'max print jobs' stored and how should

Re: [Samba] Samba Shortfalls?

2008-09-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 00:23 +1000, Tim Bates wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: 1) Can not support .chm help files They're just files. In what way aren't they supported? Ditto. 2) Does not support locks for multi-user access to Access Access doesn't really support that either. But 2 staff at the

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:49 -0400, Gerald Drouillard wrote: Brian McGrew wrote: System info: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) Kerlen 2.6.18-8.el5 SMP x86_64 Samba version 3.0.23c-2 Eth0 Eht1 bonded to bond0, 2Gbps. Try unbonding the NICs and just

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba I¹m not sure how else to describe it. If I try and copy a 4GB DVD image from the server to any Windows box (XP, 2003, 2008, MacOS) it estimates more than 4 hours to copy. However, if I FTP to the server from any given client I can move the whole

[Samba] ntlm_auth works.... and then doesn't (winbind related)

2008-08-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
CentOS5, Samba 3.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# service winbind restart Shutting down Winbind services:[ OK ] Starting Winbind services: [ OK ] $ ntlm_auth --username=adam --domain=BACKBONE --password=CORRECT NT_STATUS_OK: Success

Re: [Samba] Samba Vista [SOLVED]

2008-08-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 08:40 -0400, Steve wrote: Michael Heydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: snip Somewhere under the covers, Vista thinks that user Kellie is user User even though Control Panel (Classic View)-User Accounts shows only one user called Kellie.

[Samba] Unstable printing w/3.2.0

2008-08-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I've upgraded my print server to CentOS5 w/Samba 3.2.0. While it works we are experiencing numerous irritating issues. I'm curious if anyone else is experencing these issues. 1.) Print jobs do not clear out of the CIFS queue. So we now have printers that show they have over 1,000 jobs in the

[Samba] Re: Unstable printing w/3.2.0

2008-08-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
3.) After working perfectly for awhile a specific queue will stop working and users will get an Access Denied messgaes while other queues using the same driver will work perfectly. Then switching the driver on the server around will sometimes make it work. Othertimes the driver needs to be

Re: [Samba] Samba Preferred Platform

2008-06-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have set up several OpenSuSE 10.3 File Servers... These are small environments, 5 - 15 workstations. They are purely File (and possibly Application) Servers All are AMD64. Since the Servers only purpose in life is to support Samba. 1.) Is there a platform Linux/Unix, where Samba is

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 with OpenLDAP multimaster or Fedora-DS

2008-06-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 16:39 -0400, Charlie wrote: Lots of folks have samba 3 running over OpenLDAP. Syncrepl is what I'd use if I was setting it up today, but I have a very reliable and mature implementation already running slurpd, so I am going to stick with that for the moment. As for

Re: [Samba] Password Policy for Samba Ldap PDC

2008-05-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I´ve a customer with a problem. They need to apply some policy's in your Samba LDAP (SMBLDAPTOOLS) passwords, like this: - Passwords Expiration Yes - Minimum lenght Yes - History Yes - Quality of Password No (at least without hackery) - Block after 3 incorrect logon attempts Yes

Re: [Samba] Password Policy for Samba Ldap PDC

2008-05-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Please keep all traffic on the list. Where Can I get pbedit (Download) ? pdbedit is part of the Samba packages. I read some docs about pbedit, Is it possible to integrate pbedit with SMBLDAPTOOLS ? I know nothing about smbldaptools; I don't use them at any of my sites. --

Re: [Samba] openldap - samba

2008-04-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=ldap and/or the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list (send subscribe nssldap to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] Mis-behavior of ldap.conf regarding nss?

2008-04-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
of smbldap-tools. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Samba + terminal services

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I was wondering if there is any support for samba and terminal services? I currently have two windows boxes, one with terminal services installed and the other with active directory. From what I have seen terminal services relies heavily upon AD and DNS. Could anyone point me in the

Re: [Samba] corrupt files... oplocks?

2008-04-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Suddenly in the past week we have been having users who share excel files via our Samba complain that the file has become corrupt, and also some database files (Orcad .tdb database files). Fortunately there has in each instance been a good copy in the .recycler... so far. I came across

Re: [Samba] Samba keeps resetting smbpasswd permissions

2008-04-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
a FreeRADIUS server that authenticates users of a wireless network via PEAP against a SambaDC. It works very well, and the process/configuration is well documented. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http

Re: [Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...

2008-04-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ppolicy related thread]. Making use of technologies like Kerberos is really awkward. * samba is - of course - muchmuch cheaper due to the lack of license costs Agree. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.24 handling LDAP responses incorrectly

2008-04-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
get us pretty close, no? -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.24 handling LDAP responses incorrectly

2008-04-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:57 -0400, simo wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:54 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:40:33AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: How are these policies exactly defined in LDAP? Are they visible for LDAP clients? It's an explicit entry

Re: [Samba] Domain logons w/ LDAP backend

2008-04-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
see what the real failure is -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC, OpenLDAP, and passwd chat

2008-04-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Directory. :( -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Recycle module... Stable?

2008-03-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
How stable and tested is the Recycle module? Very, we've been using recycle on a Samba server with ~250 users for ~4 years now. No problems. In particular, the version that's supplied with Debian Etch. The reason I ask is that some files have gone from one of our servers (so says a user,

Re: [Samba] Setting up ADS in Samba with MIT kerberos mapping/backend

2008-03-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba/Ldap problems with Versions 3.0.24

2008-03-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
:~ # pdbedit -P minimum password age account policy value for minimum password age is 86400 littleboy:~ # pdbedit -P maximum password age account policy value for maximum password age is 5184000 -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com

Re: [Samba] HP Deskjet 6940 and 6988

2008-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
. There have been innumerable posts around the internet about the multiple copies issues. I've never found a resolution. I will try to install 3.0.28 with a vm session of Hardy ubuntu and see if I get the same results. You will. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator

Re: [Samba] Samba and Active Directory

2008-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

Re: [Samba] Problems running samba in vmware

2008-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Adam Zimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used samba for nearly 9 years with no problems and we have about 20 users. In the past we have had a dedicated samba server. We have recently virtualized this server to a quad core Q6600 using vmware virtual

Re: [Samba] Samba to Kerberos via OpenLDAP

2008-03-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
? If so, I can have OpenLDAP use the {SASL} method to do authentication via kerberos. You can make OpenLDAP use Kerberos for authentication, that is well documented. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP Question

2008-02-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
.. That is your problem. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Samba4 - MS specs delivered? - WAS: Re: Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Samba Domain and OpenVPN

2008-02-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
a domain trust relationship. But I read that this feature in Samba is not very stable and insecure. I think it is stable. Or run a local server as a BDC. Additionally I'm not sure if this procedure is worth the trouble for only 7 clients. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator

Re: [Samba] Samba4 - MS specs delivered?

2008-02-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 07:35 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: Adam Tauno Williams, on 2/26/2008 7:25 AM, said the following: This question probably belongs more on samba-technical, but I'm sure there are others that would be interested in the answer... Has Microsoft been forthcoming

Re: [Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
We have something setup here (on a smaller scale) that might be useful. Our main file server rsync's with our backup server every hour (using hardlinks to keep snapshots). Since relatively little data changes between each sync, it is fairly fast (approx 5 minutes with no noticable

Re: [Samba] How to set Samba and Cups on different servers ?

2008-02-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
operations, polling, etc... to make it more efficient, but that all has to do with CUPS and nothing at all to do with Samba. If lpq -P... doesn't work Samba won't, if it does, Samba will. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com

Re: [Samba] Get number of current logged on users

2008-01-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
a real solution. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Get number of current logged on users

2008-01-30 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I'm looking for a simple way to get the number of current logged on users (with established sessions) to measure the use frequency of our student labs. I don't need to identify the users. sardine:~ # expr `smbstatus -b | cut -c35-45 | sort | uniq | wc -l` - 3 151 -- Adam Tauno Williams

Re: [Samba] A good read

2008-01-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
worked exclusively with Windows was Mark Minasi's Mastering Windows NT Server 4. Amazon has used copies starting at 1.54 USD. Guide to MS Windows NT 4.0 Profiles and Policies http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/featusability/prof_pol.mspx?pf=true -- Adam Tauno Williams

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC (and Users/Machines) join Server 2003 Domain

2008-01-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I've been reading the Official How-To, Chap. 6, Joining an NT4-type Domain with Samba-3 because I want to join my current Samba3 PDC server and all its users (on Win XP Pro machines) to an MS Server 2003 domain. You can establish a trust relationship between the domains. -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC (and Users/Machines) join Server 2003 Domain

2008-01-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
You can establish a trust relationship between the domains Thanks for the quick response, Adam. I'll start googling on this. No, don't google, RTFM. This is right there in the docs. http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ -- Adam Tauno Williams, Systems Network

Re: [Samba] Samba locking with NFS backend.

2008-01-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
... then the client should only be able to see a certain portion of the Dit. The correct solution to this kind of issue is to implement appropriate ACLs on the DSA so that the clients only has access to the data they need. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http

Re: [Samba] Samba locking with NFS backend.

2008-01-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
certainly can accomplish it via back-meta and rewrite rules, all on the DSA, and keeping a simpler Samba configuration. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [Samba] RE: Sync passwords unix/smb with FDS backend?

2008-01-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
/plugin/yadayada like OpenLDAP's smbk5pwd (sp?) that lets the client perform an change-password exop and have all the passwords managed by the server (DSA). Samba supports this mode, don't know about netatalk. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http

Re: [Samba] ldap interface authentication

2008-01-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
machines to join domains. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Samba] Terminal Server entries in SambaPDC

2008-01-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
normally. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Another Uploading Printer drivers problem.

2008-01-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
and it shouldn't be used unless you explicitly know [and understand] why you DO want to use it. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] Fedora samba and ldap (resend)

2008-01-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I am currently using the Fedora Open directory with a posix structure user information to authenticate several hundred Mac users. Currently this is being done using the netatalk package for userId, UID, GID, password, home directory. What I am looking for is a way to move from netatalk to

Re: [Samba] samba 3.0.28 and dropboxes

2007-12-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
and drop file on the dropbox folder. And I do restart the samba services every time I edit the smb.conf file. No, just wait a moment. If you don't have anything constructive to say don't bother replying to my posts. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http

Re: [Samba] Password expired

2007-12-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
? Or perhaps you only want to change the Samba SAM and not hit PAM? -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

Re: [Samba] re: editposix setup

2007-12-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
user out of such a migrated unix user? You use smbpasswd or generate the required data with a script. 3. When creating accounts the user homes per default points to /home/domainname/user. How can I change that? This is a setting in your user add scripts (I'd assume). -- Adam Tauno Williams

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