I've just found out that Samba (rather correctly) implements a nice and low
password expiry date through the tdbsam backend, and I believe the maximum
password age value.
However, I can't, for the life of me, actually /set/ this thing. I've tried
this:
# pdbedit -u username -r -P maximum
Thus spake Andrew Bartlett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01/10/03 06:18]:
I've just found out that Samba (rather correctly) implements a nice and low
password expiry date through the tdbsam backend, and I believe the maximum
password age value.
However, I can't, for the life of me, actually
We're in the midst of setting up some XP workstations and came across a
rather large security problem...
Essentially, when bob logs into a workstation (samba acting as the PDC),
then alice logs onto the workstation, alice can peruse bob's [homes] share.
Anyone know how I would go about
Thus spake Jeremy Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/08/03 16:00]:
Anyone know how I would go about disabling this? I'm at a complete loss --
the only thing I could think of was the Cached Logon Credentials, but I
didn't think it was applicable in this case.
Set the path to the homes share
A couple of days ago, I was given the task of replacing a mail server -- old
hardware, network topology changes, and personnel changes led up to this.
Now, the actual swapout of a mail server is relatively straightforward and
(somewhat) easy to do. But this one had a wrench -- I had to
Thus spake Jim C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/08/03 18:10]:
Also, is it not true that Samba has some virus protection built in?
/Is/ this true? I'd love to be able to plug in a virus scanner that scans
everything as it is written to/read from a share, but I haven't ever seen or
heard of anything
I've just moved our current Samba installation to LDAP (to try to combat
some other issues), and I've run into a large number of problems. One of
them is that I'm quite new to LDAP.
I've made our entries to be:
organizationalPerson
inetOrgPerson
posixAccount
sambaSamAccount
I
Thus spake Matthew Scarrow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12/08/03 10:53]:
I just found out that the service WebClient on XP machines was causing about
10 minute delays when trying to browse the shares this may be the same
problem you coming up against but in a diffrent situation. Try disabling
Thus spake Buchan Milne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12/08/03 09:30]:
not work
Agreed.
I get this output:
$ cat smbpasswd | perl import_smbpasswd.pl
produces the output:
Adding [uid=root,ou=Users,dc=cimpa,dc=corp]
Adding [uid=thc1gk,ou=Users,dc=cimpa,dc=corp]
Adding
Thus spake Dragan Krnic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12/08/03 14:50]:
| I've posted a couple of times about this problem.
| This is a plea for help with Roaming Profile
| configuration.
|
| The short problem is that logging on and logging off
| takes about ten minutes, with a fresh roaming
|
Thus spake Christoph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12/08/03 02:55]:
pretty simple explanation:
your profile is getting bloated with everything in your personal folder.
under XP go to C:\Documents and Settings\your username and look
around.
each and every bit in this dir gets synced to your
I've posted a couple of times about this problem. This is a plea for help
with Roaming Profile configuration.
The short problem is that logging on and logging off takes about ten
minutes, with a fresh roaming profile (~1MB), on a 100Mb LAN.
If anyone has any suggestions or pointers or
Thus spake paul k ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/08/03 09:30]:
Damian Gerow wrote:
return code = 0
I can't see any groups, nor any group mappings. Does anyone have any
up-to-date docs (even some notes) on setting up 3.0 to work with LDAP well?
I had tried the import tool, but it didn't
Thus spake Matthew Scarrow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/08/03 17:50]:
I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a
shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have
connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up.
People are
Thus spake Ed Kwan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/07/03 21:40]:
I am trying to setup a network of 5 XP computers with roaming profiles.
I've got a profile set up on the server and I can log on. The problem
is that the log in time takes about 10 mins and the log out takes just
as long. Here is a
Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30/07/03 16:40]:
So we've narrowed this down to a problem with XP and Samba 3.0b[13]. Can
anyone give a hand at trying to figure out /exactly/ what's going on? The
only thing I can think of doing next is to really bump up the logging level.
Okay
Thus spake Nathan Ehresman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/07/03 08:50]:
check out http://www.css.tayloru.edu/~nehresma/samba.html
Check out the logs -- this is a completely different problem. Ed and I have
been working on this for some time now, and while your solution wards off
potential future
Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [03/07/03 13:19]:
I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the fact
that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues
trying to authenticate to other services/shares as that user (smbugest).
I'm not sure
Thus spake Nathan Ehresman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08/07/03 09:04]:
We had this problem too in a lab setting. The issue for us was large My
Documents, Application Data, and Desktop directories. You said your
profile is 800k -- is that the NTUSER.DAT registry hive or does that
including all the
We've just set up an internal domain, and had a single XP Pro machine join
without any difficulties. But we need this machine (and the other handful
with it) to use Roaming Profiles, which is posing something of a speed
issue.
I have logged on, killed the 'You do not own the profile' tidbit,
Hi all,
In continuing of previous problems, I've noticed some potential problems
with force user / force group and Windows XP Professional.
I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the fact
that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues
trying to
Thus spake John H Terpstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [03/07/03 13:28]:
I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the fact
that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues
trying to authenticate to other services/shares as that user (smbugest).
I'm not
Thus spake Justin Kreger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25/06/03 19:30]:
I'm seeing the same exact thing, Primarly with an XP Home user, and one
XP Pro user.
We've managed to narrow it down to workstations that we'd imported old
values from. We're in the midst of setting up new workstations to replace
We run Samba on our internal LAN (about 20 workstations, mostly XP), and
until last night, we were using 2.2.6. I've since updated to 3.0b1, hoping
to fix some *very* strange XP weirdness we're seeing.
The one XP Home client works just fine. But of the rest (all XP Pro), we
get some erratic
Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24/06/03 14:08]:
We run Samba on our internal LAN (about 20 workstations, mostly XP), and
until last night, we were using 2.2.6. I've since updated to 3.0b1, hoping
to fix some *very* strange XP weirdness we're seeing.
It would have been prudent
All these messages seem to have this in common (apologies for formatting --
gots to love Windows clients):
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I've got a really funky error happening when installing new programs. I'm
running a CVS version, taken about a week before 2.2.4 came out, built into
a .deb package (speaking of which, is the package maintaner on the
list? I've been waiting for the 2.2.4 package to come out...).
Anyhow, my
Our print server (linux 2.2.19, Debian unstable, with the 2.2.3a-6 package)
had a bit of trouble yesterday, and after getting everything back up and
working, printing is now broken. I can print from the commandline, but not
through samba.
From a 2000 client, I can see the printer shares,
At 03:17 PM 4/24/2002, Gerald Carter wrote:
Check the level 10 debug log just before the crash (search for
BUGS) and see if there is a reference to *SMBSERV[ER]. We fixed
a bug related to this error logging just after the 2.2.3a release.
You might want to try the SAMBA_2_2 cvs code (since you
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