Re: [Samba] How to install a replacement PDC?

2013-07-30 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:47 AM, sam...@nym.hush.com wrote: I’d appreciate some pointers on what to do. I don’t want to have the exact same users on the new Debian server (some of the users on the Unix server have left) so was hoping to just create users and groups manually rather than copy

Re: [Samba] How to install a replacement PDC?

2013-07-30 Thread Chris Smith
You may want to look into using the Sernet packages instead of the Debian ones, then you'll have an up-to-date Samba 3.6.16 installation. Only problem I had was that I needed to add Samba to run level 2 as it appears my CLI only install of Wheezy doesn't boot into run level 3 (as Debian claims is

Re: [Samba] How to install a replacement PDC?

2013-07-30 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Chris Smith smb...@chrissmith.org wrote: Only problem I had was that I needed to add Samba to run level 2 as it appears my CLI only install of Wheezy doesn't boot into run level 3 (as Debian claims is their default). Just read somewhere else the run level 2

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 8 Point'n'Print drivers

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Lukasz Zalewski lu...@eecs.qmul.ac.uk wrote: According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh852373.aspx Windows 8 should be able to use level 3 drivers, but it does not seem to work for me. Are they any workarounds that can be applied

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 8 Point'n'Print drivers

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Lukasz Zalewski lu...@eecs.qmul.ac.uk wrote: Thank you for this. Unfortunately i do not even get that far. Windows claims that there is no driver found :( Does the driver have to be installed manually? I'm using the standard CUPS drivers. They work with all of

Re: [Samba] guest share on a security = user server

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Smith
My blog has the method I've used for years: http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2010/12/samba-and-guest-shares-with-security.html On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 May 2013 12:42, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Maybe the map to guest option

[Samba] Winbind in 3.6.14 crashes against NT4 DC

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Smith
Filed as bug 9847: Customer, in the 3.6.x series, has run 3.6.10 through 3.6.13 successfully. After upgrading to 3.6.14 Winbind crashes and their data is no longer accessible. Reverting to 3.6.13 brings back stability. [2013/05/01 23:15:16.303789, 0]

Re: [Samba] Static entries NOT working (Debian, Ubuntu)

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Smith
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:24 PM, thomas t.macai...@beware.fr wrote: Are you sure this is working ? I tried it and it doesnt. Yes, I have static entries that are still there from months ago. I have winbind installed and can findsmb / smbtree . pinging the NetBIOS names found by previous

Re: [Samba] Static entries NOT working (Debian, Ubuntu)

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Thomas Macaigne t.macai...@beware.fr wrote: I am trying to add static WINS entries in my Samba server, running on Ubuntu server. I read various forums and inputs on this mailing list mentionning the use of wins.dat which is located at /var/lib/samba/wins.dat

Re: [Samba] Anonymous Samba share across subnets (without WINS?)

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jon Heese jhe...@co.weld.co.us wrote: My next idea was to use Samba to create an anonymous share, and following this quick-n-dirty HowTo: http://www.debuntu.org/samba-how-to-share-files-for-your-lan-without-userpassword/, I set up a Lucid Lynx box with samba

[Samba] determining Samba version

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Smith
Is there a way to determine (or at least get close) what version of Samba an embedded client may be running (or based on) via packet sniffing (tcpdump, wireshark)? Thanks. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] determining Samba version

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Richard Sharpe realrichardsha...@gmail.com wrote: If they have not changed the version string to obscure the version, then the following will work: cc1# smbclient //some-node/some-share -U[some-dom/]some-user%some-password Failed to load upcase.dat, will use

Re: [Samba] determining Samba version

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Chris Smith smb...@chrissmith.org wrote: == Native OS: Linux version 2.6.35 Native LAN Manager: CIFS VFS Client for Linux == It advertises these protocols

Re: [Samba] Recomendations for working with existing DNS setups

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Andrew Bartlett abart...@samba.org wrote: If I could change the subject somewhat, I am also not clear on how to configure SAMBA4 and the DNS server if my network has an existing DNS server on another machine and I don't really want to move it. The DNS server is

Re: [Samba] Samba (3.6.12) - Different Home Directories for Different Users

2013-03-16 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:59 PM, TMason c.koe...@live.com wrote: What I would like to do now is have different /etc/skel directories for different groups. So, for example, if someone from the Finance department logs in one set of default settings are copied for that person but if someone from

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.6.10 not reading groups

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Smith
Might be related to my bug: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9561 Unfortunately I'm not getting any traction on it. From my testing there still hasn't, after 10 releases, been a fully usable 3.6.x and now it's claimed to be in maintenance mode due to the release of Samba 4.x, which I

[Samba] static only wins server

2012-12-18 Thread Chris Smith
Since there's only a couple of server systems on the network that actually need name resolution or to be seen via NetBIOS browsing. Is there any reason not to run a static only WINS server with just the information for those systems listed? If not, then how can one stop the other systems from

Re: [Samba] static only wins server

2012-12-18 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: If your windows clients use login scripts to map drives, then they don't need WINS at all, since they resolve hosts via DNS. I think that WINS is necessary for the clients to find the Domain Controller. However,

Re: [Samba] static only wins server

2012-12-18 Thread Chris Smith
I'm not referring to Active Directory, the Domain Controller is a Samba 3 box. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: ??? With Active Directory I'm pretty sure that happens via a DNS query (or series of them). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

Re: [Samba] Samba is not starting automatically on boot, installed on Ubuntu

2012-09-06 Thread Chris Smith
Ubuntu AFAIK has never fixed their Bug 951087 which is one reason I cannot recommend it as a server where Samba is a critical package. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Eitan Orgil eitan.or...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have installed an Ubuntu server 12.04.01 with Smba 3.6.3 I have configured it

[Samba] Upgrade to 3.6.6 fails - Couldn't migrate printers tdb file

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Smith
Upgrading from 3.5.15 to 3.6.6 failed. Looks a bit like Bug 8235: [2012/07/04 09:02:38.341747, 0, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] lib/charcnv.c:543(convert_string_talloc) Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence() [2012/07/04

Re: [Samba] Upgrade to 3.6.6 fails - Couldn't migrate printers tdb file

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Smith
From the smbd.log level 10 log there is this: = [2012/07/04 10:41:28.146531, 5, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] printing/nt_printing_migrate_internal.c:54(rename_file_with_suffix) moved '/var/lib/samba/ntdrivers.tdb' to '/var/lib/samba/ntdrivers.tdb.bak'

Re: [Samba] Upgrade to 3.6.6 fails - Couldn't migrate printers tdb file

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Smith
Thank you. Done. Bug 9026. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] Upgrade to 3.6.6 fails - Couldn't migrate printers tdb file

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Smith
Just to note that ntprinters.tdb does not fail tdbbackup validation and a backup/restore of it does not resolve the issue. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, David Disseldorp dd...@suse.de wrote: ntdrivers.tdb is ok, it appears to be ntprinters.tdb which is processed afterwards -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] requesting help setting share permissions

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Smith
This: chgrp GRP\sales /opt/group/sales chmod 0770 /opt/group/sales if you already have a bunch of directories and files use find with xargs to properly set the permissions With this: [sales]

[Samba] samba-3.5.15 croaks linking pam_winbind

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Smith
Samba is throwing this when trying to build version 3.5.15: === Compiling ../nsswitch/pam_winbind.c ../nsswitch/pam_winbind.c: In function ‘_pam_parse’: ../nsswitch/pam_winbind.c:440:76: warning: comparison between pointer and integer

Re: [Samba] samba-3.5.15 croaks linking pam_winbind

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Smith
Sorry, not an x86 vs. amd64 problem at all. My amd64 system had an older iniparser. Appears that this is an incompatibility with anything newer than iniparser-3.0b which is apparently no longer available @ http://ndevilla.free.fr/. The Samba build fails with both iniparser-3.0.0 and

Re: [Samba] UID/GID mapping consistency across at least two Linux machines

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:27 PM, bakytn bak...@gmail.com wrote: Would you recommend me to use IDMAP_RID with Winbind? I use it successfully. idmap backend = idmap_rid:DOMAIN=2000-1 Depending upon your Samba version the syntax may be a bit different. idmap config DOMAIN : backend =

Re: [Samba] UID/GID mapping consistency across at least two Linux machines

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:50 PM, bakytn bak...@gmail.com wrote: I tried the old config and newer.   idmap backend = rid:DOMAIN=4000-2   idmap uid = 4000-2   idmap gid = 4000-2 Doesn't look right - man smb.conf - for the correct syntax. For your version I think it should be more

Re: [Samba] samba server does not list shares of type Pritner

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Shirish Pargaonkar shirishpargaon...@gmail.com wrote:        printcap name = /etc/printcap        #obtain list of printers automatically on SystemV ;       printcap name = lpstat        printing = cups Have you tried: printcap name = cups ? I use it with

[Samba] NT4 PDC w/Exchange 5.5 migration

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Smith
Hello, I'm working on migrating an NT4 PDC to a Samba 3 PDC. The tricky part, is that the NT4 server is also running Exchange 5.5 which needs to remain running. So unlike a migrate and toss the NT4 system, I need to migrate, then demote the NT4 PDC to an NT4 Server, then (probably) rejoin the

Re: [Samba] NT4 PDC w/Exchange 5.5 migration

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Chris Weiss cwe...@gmail.com wrote: to clarify, this sounds kind of like you are running exchange on the PDC? Indeed. you can't demote an NT4 PDC to a stand alone or member server, it requires a re-install. Officially, yes. In reality, no. Changing

Re: [Samba] NT4 PDC w/Exchange 5.5 migration

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: So presumably you would use the net vampire command to extract all the account info from the NT server.    The samba server is then a BDC, you then promote it to a PDC and make the NT server a BDC (or even a

Re: [Samba] APW and Windows 7

2012-02-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mike Vallabh m...@waikato.ac.nz wrote:  What I haven't figured out (but have managed to work around) is that when you install the driver via APW, it presents a list of Manufacturers and Printer Models.  If I do the above from a Win7 (32-bit) client everything

Re: [Samba] APW and Windows 7

2012-02-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Christ Schlacta li...@aarcane.org wrote: Were you careful to install both the 32 and 64 bit printer drivers on the samba server? I think you're missing the point. Installing the drivers on the Samba server is what we're trying to do :) Using the APW is a known,

Re: [Samba] Share-based security

2012-02-05 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Bruno Martins bmart...@galileu.pt wrote: [formacao]        comment = Partilha Formacao        path = /home/joe/Formacao        guest ok = yes        browseable = yes        read only = no        write list = bmartins, amoreira Share to expose is 'formacao'

Re: [Samba] Share-based security

2012-02-05 Thread Chris Smith
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: Share to expose is 'formacao' but I want it to be only writable by two AD users and read-only for everyone else. Then you would want read only = yes, yes? Then the admin users wouldn't be able to write to it, would

Re: [Samba] Share-based security

2012-02-05 Thread Chris Smith
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: And you're correct, the man page points this out. I've tried to avoid this particular kind of manipulation ever since I first used Samba (way, way too long ago!!!) because the difference between the permissions

Re: [Samba] Ignoring unknown parameter hosts equiv

2012-01-20 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Antsu an...@antsu.eu wrote: I dont want to print via samba Checked your configuration with testparm, it will provide some good clues. Some parameters are enabled by default and just remming them out does not disable them, you need to explicitly do so. Ex:

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request

2012-01-15 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Suraj Rathod suraj.rat...@solutionenterprises.co.in wrote: but I am still facing There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request Check out the official howto: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Make sure

Re: [Samba] issues with printing

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Dale Schroeder d...@briannassaladdressing.com wrote: Samba 3.6 had a rewrite of the printing code.  If you haven't already, you can read about it here: http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html With the winbind and printing issues I've seen with 3.6 my

Re: [Samba] limiting netbios browsing

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:59 AM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu mo...@monyo.com wrote: To set browse list = no solves your issue? I think that may do what I want. Just need to make sure that the Domain Controller can be discovered by the clients. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

[Samba] samba bugzilla access denied

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
Is this normal or a bug? When accessing samba's bugzilla for bug #8674 I get an access denied: You are not authorized to access bug #8674 A bug in bugzilla? I know Microsoft hides bugs and fixes, didn't know it happened in open source. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] samba bugzilla access denied

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Volker Lendecke volker.lende...@sernet.de wrote: If it's something reported to us that we think might be relevant for security it can happen. Sorry. Thought that might be a possibility. Thanks, Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

[Samba] limiting netbios browsing

2012-01-02 Thread Chris Smith
Given a DC environment where very few (1-3) hosts actually need to be discovered via browsing is there a good way to limit what is browseable? I'm thinking of something like a read-only WINS - where WINS provides only those servers that need be contacted and doesn't allow client registrations.

Re: [Samba] remove machines from login list

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:06 AM, steve st...@steve-ss.com wrote: add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$ The machine name (e.g. computer_1$) now appears in the kdm login list for Linux clients using kde4. This looks a mess and doesn't make

Re: [Samba] NT4 SP3 PDC with MS Exchange 5.5 to Samba 3.x ldapbac ked PDC and MS Exchange 5.5 still

2011-10-29 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote: for info long time ago i tested exchange 5.5 / win2000 server working with a samba pdc controller it worked like charme, but thats years ago Thanks, good to know. I was pretty sure it would with a Samba PDC, just

Re: [Samba] NT4 SP3 PDC with MS Exchange 5.5 to Samba 3.x ldapbacked PDC and MS Exchange 5.5 still

2011-10-28 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Derek Werthmuller dwert...@ctg.albany.edu wrote: Looking to make some changes to an old but working LAN, that has about 10 samba servers serving printers and network shares and a NT 4 PDC server with Exchange 5.5 on it.  The samba servers are members of the nt4

Re: [Samba] NT4 SP3 PDC with MS Exchange 5.5 to Samba 3.x ldapbac ked PDC and MS Exchange 5.5 still

2011-10-28 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Derek Werthmuller dwert...@ctg.albany.edu wrote: I did consider this, though the issue is what do I do with the existing NT4 PDC - I can demote this to BDC but from the samba docs samba PDC and Windows BDC is not supported.  And I don't think it can demote the

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 64-bit drivers / cupsaddsmb

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Allison Jones ajo...@answers4families.org wrote: I'm getting ready to migrate my office of 50+ Windows XP machines to Windows 7, in a mix of 64-bit and 32-bit clients.  I've setup a new samba server on a separate domain to prepare and test for this transition.  

Re: [Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Smith
Bug #8371 is still alive in 3.6.1 making it unusable for a member server. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:11:00AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: ` Michael Wood wrote: Hi Linda Yeah...reported this a month ago... as well as other

Re: [Samba] Need help getting colour printing features restricted to a specific group

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote: I¹ve got a Ricoh multi-function printer/copier that I need to restrict the colour printing functions to only members of the @ColorPrinting group. I¹ve two print queues for the Ricoh, one colour, one not.

Re: [Samba] Need help getting colour printing features restricted to a specific group

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Smith
2011/9/29 Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com: I think that the raw option for the -o raw is the culprit here on the print command option line for lpr-cups. Do Samba shared printers require this option? I don't believe so. Removing the color option from the PPD should be straightforward,

Re: [Samba] samba cups printer defaults

2011-08-18 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:47 PM, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu wrote: I have 7 color laser printers configured in cups. Linux users can successfully print in color to them but Windows users cannot Try adding: cups options = raw to [global] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Question regarding shares

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Keith Lynn l...@cis.usouthal.edu wrote: In particular, what I mean is, is it possible to have a printer shared through Samba so that everytime a user tries to print through the share, they are asked to reaunthenticate? Not an answer (sorry), but I'm curious as

Re: [Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-08-13 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Chris Smith smb...@chrissmith.org wrote: With the standard:  idmap config * : backend = tdb    no results are returned by getent, and wbinfo does not always work, also no winbind_idmap.tdb file is ever created. by changing to:  idmap config * : backend

[Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Smith
Testing 3.6.0 on a member server of a 3.5.8 domain shows some strange problems. With the standard: idmap config * : backend = tdb no results are returned by getent, and wbinfo does not always work, also no winbind_idmap.tdb file is ever created. by changing to: idmap config * : backend

Re: [Samba] 3.6.0 winbind issues

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote: Do you see the bad packet messages also on your PDCs nmbd.log when wbinfo tries to fetch information? Yes, but not 100% correlated. IOW, there are some, but there should be more with all of the

[Samba] tattooing of tdbsam backend with logon script value

2011-08-06 Thread Chris Smith
All users whose logon script values have not been explicitly defined automagically inherit the value that logon script is set to in smb.conf. And one can change the logon script for all such users simply by changing said value in smb.conf. However, once a logon script value value has been

[Samba] OS X LION issue with Samba printing

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Smith
A user who upgraded to OS X Lion could no longer add the Samba hosted printers to his system. In this account the user logon rights are limited by workstation. Checking the Samba logs showed that OS X Lion was sending workstation as the NetBIOS name instead of the configured NetBIOS name (same as

Re: [Samba] Win7 unable to join domain if PDC has a static IP address

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Harvey tom.har...@onefinestay.com wrote: When the server gets it's IP address by DHCP the Lenovo will join just fine. Does: hostname -f ...provide the same info in both cases? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: [Samba] pdbedit password must change not following policy

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Chris Beach chr...@pintys.com wrote: [root@success]# pdbedit -P maximum password age account policy value for maximum password age is 90 At one time I used pdbedit to force a password change and that stopped working. Apparently it was deprecated in favor of net

Re: [Samba] pdbedit password must change not following policy

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: He is using an ancient version of samba (3.0.10-1.4E) though so the depreciation probably does not apply. Thanks. Missed that sorta - wasn't going to dig through the changelog back to the stone ages. -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] Access denied to samba server from win7 64bit behind a VPN

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Vincent Malien ad...@socofer.com wrote:  this morning, I added entries to the files lmhosts.sam FYI, the sam in lmhosts.sam stands for sample - you need to put the valid data in a file named lmhosts (no .sam, .txt, etc.) or it isn't being used at all. Chris --

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.8 - windows XP workstations disapear from browselist

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, BartekR bojle...@gmail.com wrote: So it is impossible to solve this issue ? Maybe :) Try running: = net config server /autodisconnect:-1 = on the XP workstations. Check the network device in device manager and make sure

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.8 - windows XP workstations disapear from browselist

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:41 AM, BartekR bojle...@gmail.com wrote: name resolve order = wins host bcast As You wrote below. Am I correct ? 3) make sure that your DHCP server (you seem to have enough systems that manual configuration would be undesirable) provides the proper information for

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.8 - windows XP workstations disapear from browselist

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:59 PM, BartekR bojle...@gmail.com wrote: So it is Windows XP workstations to blame or maybe there is another thing that i should check ? I run several Samba installations with no such issues with XP. So unless your XP installs are tweaked in some weird fashion I

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.8 - windows XP workstations disapear from browselist

2011-05-07 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM, BartekR bojle...@gmail.com wrote: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=16384 SO_RCVBUF=16384 security = share os level = 255 domain master = no preferred master = yes Try changing the above parameters. Eliminate, or comment out:

Re: [Samba] Can't get 'dos filemode' to work as expected

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Felix Brack f...@ltec.ch wrote: A 'getfacl' on /srv/samba/file-shares/tmp returns: # file: srv/samba/file-shares/tmp # owner: root # group: root # flags: -s- user::rwx group::r-x group:Development:rwx mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx

Re: [Samba] Can't get 'dos filemode' to work as expected

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Felix Brack f...@ltec.ch wrote: # file: test-file # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::rwx                      #effective:r-- group:Development:rwx           #effective:r-- mask::r-- other::--- That's the same thing you would get if were logged

Re: [Samba] new created files belong to root instead samba user

2011-03-28 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Werner Durgarten wernerdurgar...@gmx.de wrote: I wonder why the advanced settings dialog works, but permissions are not properly displayed on the security settings tab - is this normal? Yes. I think so. Pretty sure it's mentioned in the official docs as well.

Re: [Samba] new created files belong to root instead samba user

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Werner Durgarten wernerdurgar...@gmx.de wrote: Are you able to view and modify permissions via windows explorer and could you give me i a hint how i can get this working (without admin users)? Yes, anyone with the proper file and share permissions can do so.

Re: [Samba] new created files belong to root instead samba user

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Werner Durgarten wernerdurgar...@gmx.de wrote: i just noticed, that files that are created by any samba user who is in the admin users list, belong to root in the unix filesystem. This is not what i want. Are there any other options to allow sb. else than the

[Samba] strange anomaly/bug with cupsaddsmb and 64bit drivers

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Smith
This is probably a CUPS bug but maybe not, I'll mention it here just in case. When using cupsaddsmb to install 64bit drivers the drivers must be in the (maybe distro/configure dependent): /usr/share/cups/drivers/x64 to be sure that's x64 with a lower case x. The cupsaddsmb app ignores the drivers

Re: [Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Mike Brady mike.br...@devnull.net.nz wrote: netbios aliases = filesshares name resolve order = wins bcast hosts Sorry Mike, I don't have much of a clue. There is a typo in your name resolve order - hosts should be host but I doubt that has anything to do with

Re: [Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Mike Brady mike.br...@devnull.net.nz wrote: Thanks for looking any way.  I have fixed hosts, which isn't picked up by testparm Testparm mostly tests the parameters (the left side of =) and not the arguments. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following

Re: [Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Mike Brady mike.br...@devnull.net.nz wrote: No. Is nmbd running on the PDC? Do you have a wins.dat file (possible location of /var/lib/samba/wins.dat - depends on configure)? Maybe post the global section (minus comments) of your smb.conf. -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mike Brady mike.br...@devnull.net.nz wrote: wins server = yes is set man smb.conf wins server = the ip address of the wins server (unneeded on the actual wins server) wins support = yes (on the actual wins server) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Mike Brady mike.br...@devnull.net.nz wrote: Sorry, I do have wins support = yes on the PDC.  Faulty memory on my part. Do you also have a wins server = a.b.c.d entry on the PDC? If so remove it and restart Samba. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security Releases Available

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Karolin Seeger ksee...@samba.org wrote: Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 are security releases in order to address CVE-2011-0719. Will there be a new 3.5.7 Jumbo Patch available for those using it with 3.5.6 and strict allocate? Or does the current 3.5.6 Jumbo

Re: [Samba] Access to a share resource without password

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:22 AM, J. L. Cabral jelocab...@gmail.com wrote: I want to access a Linux share resource in /var/share without password from WXP desktop FROM ANY USER. See: http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2010/12/samba-and-guest-shares-with-security.html -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Samba] Access to a share resource without password

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM, J. L. Cabral jelocab...@gmail.com wrote: 1) The Linux local user guest must be added to samba with smbpasswd -a guest ??? In the example I show their is no local 'nix user named guest. The purpose of the username map file is to map the Windows guest user/account

Re: [Samba] Access to a share resource without password

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de wrote: Have I to add nobody to the samba password file? No. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

[Samba] Reserved WINS name records and Samba WINS

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Smith
Does Samba implement Microsoft's reserved WINS name capability? From: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934864 == To register a reserved name record in WINS, you must register both the name and the qualified name. (A qualified name is a name that is followed by a

Re: [Samba] call for a forum to replace the mailing list?

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Mac webreg.samba@panscend.com wrote: May be a forum would be better? Forums suck. Mailling lists are good. An NNTP newsgroup might even be better - but they seem to have gone the way of the Dodo as the main frontend. This list archived as such -

Re: [Samba] xp to samba domain member

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Dale Schroeder d...@briannassaladdressing.com wrote: smb ports = 139 You're only using the netbios port.  Maybe this is worth checking: That's a pretty normal configuration. Should not affect XP's ability to connect. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Seperate BIND server for Samba 4

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Andrew Bartlett abart...@samba.org wrote: On the basis of that discussion and other research, Kai and Metze started writing Samba4's own DNS server.  Then tridge and the BIND folks got together, and given the excellent progress made, not reinventing this

Re: [Samba] application can not delete from samba share

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Nemeth Zoltan nzol...@freemail.hu wrote: How can I found out the reason, why delete from samba is different from winappl. point of view then other shares. Read all of the changelogs between versions. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

Re: [Samba] Setting up a guest share

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Erik Bloodaxe e.blood...@gold.ac.uk wrote: I am trying to set up a share on a domain controlled by SAMBA that anyone can access See this: http://goo.gl/AKk0K -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Basic question for user/pass authentication

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, J. L. Cabral jelocab...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen an implementation where the Windows desktops belong to Company.com domain and the Samba server was a stand-alone server with workgroup = SALES, and Windows clients access to Samba resources succesfully. I

Re: [Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: And I have seen reported instances of Samba issues on Ubuntu being resolved by avoiding the distro packages and compiling from source. Hmmm, could be interesting to learn about which ones. The reports I allude to

Re: [Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: I just forwarded your mail to Steve and I think he'll make sure this reaches the right folks in Ubuntu server team. Thank you. Would be nice to see these startup scripts work properly. I'll be happy to provide any

[Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smith
OK, not exactly a samba issue but maybe the Ubuntu maintainer reads this list and can provide some input. Problem: Ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd. System: Ubuntu Lucid where a recent update moved many startup scripts into the upstart system. Now smbd is started and runs as smbd -F. If I edit the

Re: [Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Chris Smith smb...@chrissmith.org wrote: Now smbd is started and runs as smbd -F. If I edit the upstart script (/etc/init/smbd.conf) so that it runs as smbd -D (the default and what I would like) it doesn't work. Must have been a fluke - it does appear now

Re: [Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:20 PM, William E Jojo w.j...@hvcc.edu wrote: It's similar to the way you can use startsrc or stopsrc on AIX. -F           If specified, this parameter causes the main smbd process to not           daemonize, i.e. double-fork and disassociate with the terminal.      

Re: [Samba] Pdbedit problem

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Michel, Loubert lmic...@astoriafederal.com wrote: I think I am using passdb backend = smbpasswd. How do I change it to passdb backend = tdbsam in Solaris10? I am unable to find the passdb command even whithin Samba. See the official docs:

Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly [Closed]

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC robert.hodges@hill.af.mil wrote: Workgroup only, no domain Solaris with Samba loaded, a few shares, enabled as WINS server, configured as Master Browser Did you ever correct the underscore in the hostname issue and

Re: [Samba] Pdbedit problem

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Michel, Loubert lmic...@astoriafederal.com wrote: I am not using ldap however. Is that the reason why it is not working. Are you using: passdb backend = tdbsam ? With: passdb backend = smbpasswd you will find some limitations. Chris -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly [Closed]

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC robert.hodges@hill.af.mil wrote: A key item I have to keep remembering is that all of this works great in Windows 2000.  It's only XP that's having the problem. Don't know if I would put so much weight on that - a

Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly [Closed]

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org wrote: We have been networking Windowx XP boxes to Samba for longer than anyone still working in Microsoft Tech support, trust me on that :-). Cute :) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

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