RE: [Samba] can samba keep uid/gid/permission on a per-file-base?

2009-06-09 Thread Alex Harrington
maintaining permissions, owner, times etc. You need permission on the destination to be able to change those values though. I've never done that with Samba (always when doing Win32 server migrations) but I don't see any reason why it might not work... Cheers Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network

RE: [Samba] Samba + RAID + High speed...

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Harrington
setups. It depends a lot on how the box is to be used. Cheers Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Development Manager Longhill High School t: 01273 391672 e: a...@longhill.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman

RE: [Samba] server change

2008-12-01 Thread Alex Harrington
If anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. Is the old server still running? I've seen clients connect to an old DC and change their machine account passwords with that server in a similar scenario.. Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Development Manager Longhill High School t

RE: [Samba] How to share [homes] in a more flexible way?

2008-11-17 Thread Alex Harrington
department group is not your primary group membership... Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Development Manager Longhill High School t: 01273 391672 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: [Samba] Vista - Profile - Local

2008-11-12 Thread Alex Harrington
each other? Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Development Manager Longhill High School t: 01273 391672 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Vista - Profile - Local

2008-11-12 Thread Alex Harrington
as required? Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Development Manager Longhill High School t: 01273 391672 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Vista - Profile - Local

2008-11-12 Thread Alex Harrington
on to your local machine, and the domain. That's quite different from using the profile to log on to a second domain too. Whatever you've managed to make XP do, I'm pretty sure it isn't a Microsoft-supported configuration - unless someone else here knows better? Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network

RE: [Samba] Remote announce

2008-10-21 Thread Alex Harrington
Is there anything else that I need to add or could debian be confgiured to send multicast traffic on mutiple interfaces so that a broadcast (192.168.1.255) get to both eth1 and ppp0. 192.168.1.255 is the broadcast address on 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 network. Your ppp0 interface is a

RE: WG: [Samba] Strange!!! Clients only log on to samba bdc

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Harrington
Ist there no one concerning this behaviour? I did my setup following the man pages. There must be a serious bug in samba 3.031. As I understand it, clients will prefer logging on to a BDC over a PDC, and then use whichever responds quickest, so certainly all the clients should not be logging

RE: WG: [Samba] Strange!!! Clients only log on to samba bdc

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Harrington
This is the strange thing I have set on the BDC Security=user Domain logons=yes Domain master= no --- not yes!!! Os level=190 Preferred master=no And when I do a testparm it results Role Domain PDC???!! Can you post again exactly the global section from both PDC and BDC. Several other

RE: [Samba] SAMBA and VLAN

2008-07-16 Thread Alex Harrington
Is there anyway to make my PDC server work without forwarding the UDP broadcast ports (137, 138)? As long as you have a WINS server and the PDC and your clients are using it, it should work. That's the setup we have here and it's fine. Cheers Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Development

RE: [Samba] Permissions Issue

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Harrington
Doug Tucker wrote: From the man pages, it looks like I can set the share to read only, and use the directive write list = @groupname to allow certain users write access to this read only share, but, I don't want to allow everyone read access, I want to only allow certain other users

RE: [Samba] Fwd: Add permission? (was How to create awrite-onlyshare?)

2008-05-23 Thread Alex Harrington
Harrington - Network Manager Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ash Gosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 23/05/2008 21:31 To: Alex Harrington Subject: Re: [Samba] Fwd: Add permission? (was How to create awrite-onlyshare?) Hello! I'm

RE: [Samba] samba server maxing out cpu, load up to 10

2008-05-20 Thread Alex Harrington
a Publisher document being stuck open. Running top, see if one smbd process is hogging the CPU. You should be able to work that back to a PC using smbstatus, and I think that's where the problem will be... Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL

RE: [Samba] Fwd: Add permission? (was How to create awrite-onlyshare?)

2008-05-08 Thread Alex Harrington
, the POSIX permissions are working fine so it makes it a Samba problem. Visa versa then the POSIX permissions are the ones to look at. Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

RE: [Samba] Fwd: Add permission? (was How to create a write-onlyshare?)

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Harrington
by the user but not readable. I've not tested how Windows will deal with that though... Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org

RE: [Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem

2008-04-30 Thread Alex Harrington
too, you should use getfacl/setfacl to backup just the permissions of all your files to a single text file - which you can then write to the NAS. Failing that, try using something like duplicity to do the job all in one step... Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t

RE: [Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem

2008-04-29 Thread Alex Harrington
over /source and write the output to /destination. That will create a text file with all your permissions etc included in it so they can be restored by setfacl if required. Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe

RE: [Samba] write list vs read list

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Harrington
However, the @estero group cannot access the share at all (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED). What am I doing wrong? Most likely the filesystem permissions prevent users in @estero from executing or reading the /home/samba/lab_smb folder and/or the files in it. Cheers Alex -- To unsubscribe from this

RE: [Samba] Re: How to create a write-only share?

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Harrington
Please please please! Any indeas are highly welcome! Ash - did you try setting hide unreadable = yes on the share as per my previous email? Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go

RE: [Samba] Re: How to create a write-only share?

2008-04-07 Thread Alex Harrington
Thanks for the answer but in this case anyone can look into the folder and see the file list. Sometimes even a filenames could be the secret. So this is not helps us. Set hide unreadable = yes on the share. Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086

RE: [Samba] Poor performance on open/copy/close/rename file operationsvia remote/VPN connection

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Harrington
to Windows Explorer touching the files for thumbnails etc. Try mapping a drive from the VPN client to the Samba box, then drop to a command prompt and try copy/deleting files from there. Is the speed any better? Alex -- Alex Harrington - Network Manager, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL

RE: [Samba] Domain Authentication Issue - Bug Found

2008-03-20 Thread Alex Harrington
This does not seem logical, it does not seem real, but the results have proven themselves to be true. Hi Dalton It sounds very strange. I'm no Samba dev but I do have a fair experience with AD. Could it be that the Windows server in question has somehow got one of the FSMO roles assigned to

RE: [Samba] Moving user accounts from a domain to another - andchanging their logins

2007-06-26 Thread Alex Harrington
personally - but the place I used to work used the MS Migration Tool for migrating profiles etc... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4af2d2c9-f16c-4 c52-a203-8daf944dd555displaylang=en Alex -- Alex Harrington - IT Support, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL

RE: [Samba] PDC over PPTP VPN

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Harrington
. I'd suggest that maybe you might get more help from the Poptop users group? Alex -- Alex Harrington - IT Support, Longhill High School t: 01273 304086 | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman