[Samba] OT: 1 year samba dev exp looking for a samba job

2003-08-07 Thread Chere Zhou
Hi, I spent 1 year doing samba development for my previous company, and now I am looking for an opportunity to continue in this area because I like it very much. Part time or full time, perminent or contract, all fine for me. Please reply to me if anybody/company is interested, and I will fo

Re: [Samba] Samba 3b3 + ADS

2003-07-30 Thread Chere Zhou
For your freebsd box: Did you install openldap? You can do that from the ports tree. Then after configure, make sure you get HAVE_LDAP, HAVE_LDAP_H in config.h. If not, try to give the ldap header and library paths to the configure script. On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:18 pm, Will Froning wr

[Samba] Re: Joining samba to AD domain with a non-admin user

2003-07-18 Thread Chere Zhou
call? But the ads.auth.user_name is always root, which is the Unix account I am working on, and ads.auth.password always "". On Friday 18 July 2003 01:29 pm, Antti Andreimann wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval (reede, 18. juuli 2003 03:12) kirjutas Chere Zhou: > > So my question i

[Samba] Joining samba to AD domain with a non-admin user

2003-07-17 Thread Chere Zhou
I need help to resolve this issue. I saw that Andrew put a patch by Antti to enable users without full admin access to join samba into an AD domain. I am playing with it and always get "Insufficient access". Using the same user, I can join a Windows box into the domain just fine. The user is

Re: [Samba] Samba on a Windows 2003 Domain

2003-07-01 Thread Chere Zhou
You will need to upgrade to samba3.0 (which is currently in beta), and use the new ADS feature to join the 2003 domain. On Tuesday 01 July 2003 11:59 am, Chuck Holley wrote: > We are currently running samba 2.2.1, and we are in the process of > migrating from an NT to 2003 domain. Will samba be

Re: [Samba] FreeBSD + winbindd + PAM

2003-06-24 Thread Chere Zhou
Hi, Did you fix this problem? I want to do the same thing, but I can not get nsswith to configure correctly yet. "pw user show" gives "no such user". Can you tell me how you hooked up winbind and nsswitch? PAM should not be needed if you just use smbd, and this is what I want to do first.

Re: [Samba] Windows 2000 Domain Local Users & Groups

2003-06-13 Thread Chere Zhou
Check ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/tridge/misc/samba_22_local_group.patch It gets local groups, but not universal groups. On Friday 13 June 2003 02:13 pm, Tom Dickson wrote: > Does winbind support (in samba 2) retrieving Domain Local Users and Groups > from a Windows 2000 server in Native mode? >

Re: [Samba] Authentication

2003-06-12 Thread Chere Zhou
Yes, you still need winbindd. Better yet, you need to configure nsswitch and pam. On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:24 am, Chip Bell wrote: > I'm not sure if I'm clear. I have a win2k native domain. I want to add > a samba file server so users can access it through network neighborhood. > I set up

Re: [Samba] win bind authentication

2003-06-12 Thread Chere Zhou
> [2003/06/12 09:29:17, 10] nsswitch/winbindd.c:client_write(469) > client_write: wrote 1300 bytes. > [2003/06/12 09:29:17, 10] nsswitch/winbindd.c:winbind_client_read(422) > client_read: read 0 bytes. Need 1312 more for a full request. > [2003/06/12 09:29:17, 5] nsswitch/winbindd.

Re: [Samba] idmap mapping questions

2003-06-12 Thread Chere Zhou
Do you have nsswitch and pam working correctly with winbind? You need to configure nsswitch and pam for that. On Thursday 12 June 2003 04:04 am, Raphaël Berghmans wrote: > Hi, > > I've setup a samba 3 server. The mapping between SID and uid is done by > idmap. When a user create a file on the se

Re: [Samba] win bind authentication

2003-06-11 Thread Chere Zhou
logs. On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:51 pm, Tod B. Schmidt wrote: > I can ping the winbindd and I have tried both with and without the password > server set. > > -Tod > > -Original Message- > From: Chere Zhou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [Samba] win bind authentication

2003-06-11 Thread Chere Zhou
Is "wbinfo -p" fine? if not, restart winbindd. If still not, try put "password server = pdc-name" into your smb.conf and restart again. On Wednesday 11 June 2003 11:09 am, Tod B. Schmidt wrote: > Yes, I can do kinit and then log into my win2k machines with smbclient > fine, but cannot log into m

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0 - a bunch of really high level questions

2003-03-26 Thread Chere Zhou
>> > 4) trust relationships in 2000 environment. Is it possible, what >> > needs to be done. >> >> This is undocumented at this time. Sorry, we will get around to it soon. >Trust relationships behave exactly as for NT4 - modulo bugs, for the member >server. For the PDC, we only provide an N

[Samba] Re: How to verify the domain secret is good or bad?

2003-03-11 Thread Chere Zhou
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:23 pm, Scott Prive wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Chere Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:40 PM > Subject: How to verify the domain secre

[Samba] How to verify the domain secret is good or bad?

2003-03-11 Thread Chere Zhou
I know there is the command "wbinfo -t". But when it says that "could not check secret", how do I know it's the secret is bad, or something else wrong, like winbind went crazy maybe? Also, sometimes I saw problems like "wbinfo -t" just says "secret is bad", when all the daemons were running.

Re: [Samba] Why ADS if I can join the ADS domain as an NT 4 server?

2003-01-20 Thread Chere Zhou
AGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Chere Zhou wrote: > > Hello, all, > > > > I can not easily find an answer to this question: why do we need samba > > 3.0 to join an ADS, if samba 2.x can join the ADS domain just as well, > > even though the PDC is in

[Samba] Why ADS if I can join the ADS domain as an NT 4 server?

2003-01-17 Thread Chere Zhou
Hello, all, I can not easily find an answer to this question: why do we need samba 3.0 to join an ADS, if samba 2.x can join the ADS domain just as well, even though the PDC is in native mode? What's the benefit for samba 3.0 to be a member of ADS? What restrictions I have if joining samba 2.

[Samba] 3.0alpha21 performance degraded comparing to 2.2.5

2003-01-15 Thread Chere Zhou
I tested using the same hardware for windows client and the server, same setup and configuration. Network bandwidth was gigabits. I built both 2.2.5 and 3.0alpha21 from source. Here are my numbers for a single windows 2000 client, single samba server test. For reads, 2.2.5 gets 120 Mbps, wh

[Samba] samba3.0alpha21: why these messages for most commands? Please.

2002-12-31 Thread Chere Zhou
I am sure that I don't have any special code page or coding related settings in smb.conf -- they are all the default values. Whenever I start testparm, smbstatus, or net command, I get: Conversion from UCS-2LE to CP850 not supported Conversion from UTF8 to CP850 not supported Conversion from AS

[Samba] How to disable "net ads join" verbose and why it core dumps

2002-12-17 Thread Chere Zhou
This is with samba-3.0a20 on freebsd. I used 3.0a19 on another different freebsd version before and it worked. Run the command "net ads join" shows: # net ads join [2002/12/17 14:23:32, 0] lib/charcnv.c:init_iconv(93) Conversion from UCS-2LE to CP850 not supported [2002/12/17 14:23:32, 0] lib/

[Samba] smbpasswd has password length problem with the 2.2.7 security patch

2002-12-05 Thread Chere Zhou
I am using samba 2.2.5, and the following patch Jerry outlined in his 2.2.7 release notes. I tested it against a W2k server (in mixed mode) which had a simple one char admin password, worked fine. Recently I found that if the password is longer than 1 char, using "smbpasswd -j dom -r svr -U a

Re: [Samba] Subject: [samba]Error join NT domain

2002-11-21 Thread Chere Zhou
You should try to run smbpasswd -j DTWX -r slaver -U administrator It will prompt for the NT domain's administrator's password. You can also use any username who is in the "domain admins" group in your domain. This is a much cleaner way to join than using smbpasswd without username and

Re: [Samba] Does anyone have winbind working on Freebsd?

2002-11-20 Thread Chere Zhou
I went through this whole thing a couple of months ago. The problem is that you don't have a good nsswitch working on FreeBSD. The nsswitch on FreeBSD does not do dynamic loadable modules, as the way Linux do. The manual you followed is for Linux users. Richard Sharpe gave me a hint to fix t

[Samba] What Windows application will break if set "share modes=no"

2002-11-18 Thread Chere Zhou
Hello, all, I read in smb.conf man page about "share modes", that many Windows application will break if I set it to no. Can somebody please give me some example?Also more information about what "share modes" acturally do will be much appreciated. Thanks, chere -- To unsubscribe from thi

[Samba] How can I read and write a file at the same time?

2002-11-14 Thread Chere Zhou
My usage scenario is one Samba 2.2.5 installed on FreeBSD as server, and 2 windows 2000 boxes as clients, both mapping to the same share as the same user to Samba server. While one Windows box is writing a file, I start reading on the other Windows box. It always fails even I have "locking",

[Samba] some log files do not roll over, some do

2002-11-01 Thread Chere Zhou
Hello, everyone, I set "max log size = 100" in smb.conf. Now my log.nmbd is 127666 bytes for days and I don't see it get moved to smb.conf.old, although samba.log got moved a couple of times now. I haven't seen log.smbd to grow big enough yet, but sure log.winbindd got rolled over once. So m

[Samba] Suggestion: maybe no need to add SMB_ACL_GROUP_OBJ in ensure_canon_entry_valid()

2002-10-30 Thread Chere Zhou
Samba team members, Consider the user wanted to change group name, by doing file properties->security->Advanced->select groupA->click on view/edit->change->select groupB. Then after parsing the DACL, we got an SMB_ACL_GROUP ace with groupB, but no SMB_ACL_GROUP_OBJ. However, in unpack_canon_ac

[Samba] NTFS file property - "primary group ID" instead of DACL

2002-10-22 Thread Chere Zhou
When I change file property - security from Windows, I can see both from packet sniffer and Samba code, that there are 4 types of "security information": Owner ID Reference Primary Group ID Reference Discretionary ACL Reference System ACL Reference So if I want to

[Samba] NTLM version?

2002-10-09 Thread Chere Zhou
Hi, Anybody can tell me what version of NTLM do we support in 2.2.5, 3.0a20 and after 3.0 is out? If not version numbers, what features? Chere -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] nmbd log message: what this mean?

2002-10-07 Thread Chere Zhou
I need to find out why this happened. The following is from my syslog: [2002/10/05 08:14:10, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) find_response_record: response packet id 6872 received with no matching record. It repeated many times when nmbd is started. What does it

[Samba] Is this a DOS behavior, or a bug?

2002-10-01 Thread Chere Zhou
I have a parent directory /foo with permission as 0777, which is a samba share. As root on Unix, I created a sub-directory /foo/bar, and a file /foo/bar2, both with permission as 0400. Now login to samba as Unix user nobody, I can delete the directory bar but not the file bar2. Is this a bug

[Samba] Windows XP & 2K file properties reports 0 used space on the mapped drive

2002-04-16 Thread Chere Zhou
Hello, all, My first time posting here but I've read a lot of old messages. I've also searched the web and samba docs and did not find anything helping me. The problem I have is that after mapping a drive from Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 server, the file property of the drive says I have u