Re: [Samba] Use LDAP for passwords ONLY

2013-10-03 Thread Donny Brooks
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 12:56 PM CDT, Garey gareysmi...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Marc Muehlfeld samba at marc-muehlfeld.de writes: Hello, Am 03.10.2013 18:17, schrieb Garey: I am trying to figure out if I can setup samba to verify only passwords against LDAP and keep

Re: [Samba] Administrative users on domain

2013-07-17 Thread Donny Brooks
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 04:43 AM CDT, Marc Muehlfeld sa...@marc-muehlfeld.de wrote: Hello Donny, Am 12.07.2013 21:34, schrieb Donny Brooks: On the old domain, which was setup before I got here, our IT section was in an ldap group that allowed us to join PC's to the domain

Re: [Samba] Administrative users on domain

2013-07-17 Thread Donny Brooks
the SeMachineAccountPrivilege. On 07/17/13 09:44, Donny Brooks wrote: On Saturday, July 13, 2013 04:43 AM CDT, Marc Muehlfeld sa...@marc-muehlfeld.de wrote: Hello Donny, Am 12.07.2013 21:34, schrieb Donny Brooks: On the old domain, which was setup before I got here, our

Re: [Samba] Administrative users on domain

2013-07-17 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 01:53 PM CDT, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/17/13 14:32, Donny Brooks wrote: On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:11 AM CDT, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: According to the net man page

Re: [Samba] Administrative users on domain

2013-07-17 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 02:39 PM CDT, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/17/13 15:02, Donny Brooks wrote: On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 01:53 PM CDT, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/17/13 14:32, Donny Brooks wrote

Re: [Samba] Administrative users on domain

2013-07-17 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 04:33 PM CDT, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/17/13 16:12, Donny Brooks wrote: On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 02:39 PM CDT, Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/17/13 15:02, Donny Brooks wrote

[Samba] Administrative users on domain

2013-07-12 Thread Donny Brooks
Back in January we upgraded/moved our domain from an old install of samba and openldap to a newer version (samba 3.5.10 and openldap 2.4.23) while also moving our domain to a new name. On the old domain, which was setup before I got here, our IT section was in an ldap group that allowed us to

Re: [Samba] having issues with shares

2013-02-12 Thread Donny Brooks
does smbstatus give you when you have a user using their GIS software? Any locks? On 8 February 2013 21:40, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Everything oplocks related has been disabled. Still the same issue. There have been no updates to the software as the GIS guy or I

Re: [Samba] having issues with shares

2013-02-12 Thread Donny Brooks
not responsible for any file corruption as a result of these settings. Thanks Ned On 12 February 2013 14:37, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Actually it does show locks. Here is the pertinent section: Locked files: Pid UidDenyMode Access R/W

Re: [Samba] having issues with shares

2013-02-12 Thread Donny Brooks
That seems to have worked. Thanks for that. On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 09:32 AM CST, Edward Ashley n...@redmonkeysoftware.com wrote: Hi, Okay could you please try: share modes = no locking = no on your share. Thanks Ned On 12 February 2013 15:06, Donny Brooks dbro

[Samba] having issues with shares

2013-02-08 Thread Donny Brooks
We recently migrated our install from an ancient fedora 11 install of samba and openldap to a centos 6.3 setup with its openldap and samba. The domain has been totally recreated from scratch as the person that did the previous setup has not been employed here in many years. After fighting with

Re: [Samba] having issues with shares

2013-02-08 Thread Donny Brooks
software doing that. On 8 February 2013 20:56, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: We recently migrated our install from an ancient fedora 11 install of samba and openldap to a centos 6.3 setup with its openldap and samba. The domain has been totally recreated from scratch

Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-11 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 04:23 PM CST, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 04:13 PM CST, Norberto Bensa nbensa+sa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Ok, I

Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-11 Thread Donny Brooks
On Friday, January 11, 2013 10:21 AM CST, Norberto Bensa nbensa+sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, first, I'm sorry for making you wait for so long. I had some personal problems that required my attention. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote

[Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-09 Thread Donny Brooks
We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles to local. What would be the best practice to accomplish this? I can find plenty of writeups on how to do the opposite. Also we will be doing some extra

Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-09 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 09:14 AM CST, Bjoern Baumbach b...@sernet.de wrote: Hello Donny, On 01/09/2013 03:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles

[Samba] Windows 7 folder redirection

2013-01-09 Thread Donny Brooks
Is there a way to have folders redirected to a server share automatically? If not possible for existing users with existing data would it be possible for new users with a fresh install? We are moving to local profiles but I would still like stuff like the users My Documents and Desktop to be on

Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-09 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 09:14 AM CST, Bjoern Baumbach b...@sernet.de wrote: Hello Donny, On 01/09/2013 03:53 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: We are migrating all of our users from the current domain to a new one we created. In this process we are moving them from roaming profiles

Re: [Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

2013-01-09 Thread Donny Brooks
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 04:13 PM CST, Norberto Bensa nbensa+sa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Ok, I tested this on a couple of our windows 7 machines. I did as you said and changed the profile to a local one

[Samba] MIgrating users to new domain

2012-12-03 Thread Donny Brooks
We are currently setting up a new domain with samba 3.5.10 and openldap 2.4.23 (based off of Centos 6.3). The current domain is running older versions, 3.4.7 and 2.4.15 respectively. We are changing domain names also. There is alot of layout changes and the way it works. One change we are

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-14 Thread Donny Brooks
On Saturday, May 12, 2012 04:48 PM CDT, Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:47:02 +0200 Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected.

[Samba] Migrating to new domain

2012-03-28 Thread Donny Brooks
In the comming months we will be setting up a few new machines to replace our PDC and BDC that are currently running Fedora 11 with Samba 3.4.7 and OpenLDAP 2.4.15. We will be upgrading to the latest Fedora with samba/ldap. With this we will be recreating our domain fresh to get rid of alot of

Re: [Samba] Migrating to new domain

2012-03-28 Thread Donny Brooks
their files to a server in the domain seems simpler than trying to move users and a DC at the same time. The downside is the extra time in copying files between machines. On 03/28/12 08:14, Donny Brooks wrote: In the comming months we will be setting up a few new machines to replace our

[Samba] Yet another 3 vs 4 question

2012-02-29 Thread Donny Brooks
We are currently looking at upgrading our PDC which is currently Samba 3.4.7 with OpenLDAP backend for authentication. As it stands we are only wanting to move it to new hardware and possibly run the latest 3.X.X branch. However one of my co-workers suggested why not look at samba 4. We

[Samba] Very odd issue with Win7 and trust relationships

2011-07-26 Thread Donny Brooks
Hello all, We have just concluded a very drawn out test of our domain that is having some trust relationship problems with Windows 7 desktops. Here is a breakdown of our setup: roark PDC running samba 3.4.7 (also has OpenLDAP) on VLAN 2 archives3 BDC running samba 3.4.7 (also has

Re: [Samba] Very odd issue with Win7 and trust relationships

2011-07-26 Thread Donny Brooks
On 7/26/2011 11:28 AM, Donny Brooks wrote: Hello all, We have just concluded a very drawn out test of our domain that is having some trust relationship problems with Windows 7 desktops. Here is a breakdown of our setup: roark PDC running samba 3.4.7 (also has OpenLDAP) on VLAN 2

[Samba] Moving PDC

2011-06-07 Thread Donny Brooks
Hi all, We currently have a Fedora 11 machine (about to be upgraded to Fedora 15 though) running Samba 3.4.7 as our PDC and multiple BDC home servers running various versions of samba and OS. What I am needing is a fail proof way to migrate the PDC function off the current machine and

Re: [Samba] Moving PDC

2011-06-07 Thread Donny Brooks
between 3.4. and 3.5 that may be gotchas. Altho so far for me going from 3.4 to 3.5.x doesn't seem to have broken anything (at least anything else- some things that didn't work under properly 3.4. still don't work for me.) On 06/07/2011 02:57 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: Hi all, We

[Samba] samba and OpenLDAP ppolicy

2010-11-04 Thread Donny Brooks
I am looking for a way to enforce our password policy using our PDC with OpenLDAP. I have already configured ppolicy, just can not find a way to make it enforce it on the windows clients. Searches turn up little to go on. I must be searching for the wrong terms. Anyone have any pointers? -- To

[Samba] Very odd problem

2010-11-01 Thread Donny Brooks
I had previously tried to migrate our PDC to a new machine by simply copying the config over and such. That failed miserably but luckily the various home servers (BDC's in samba speak I think) took up the slack. So after much debate, this weekend we moved the PDC back to the original machine.

Re: [Samba] Book suggestion?

2010-10-29 Thread Donny Brooks
On 10/29/2010 4:27 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Hi, all. I haven't really been deep into Samba for a couple of years, and a co-worker just asked me for a Samba book suggestion. Well... I ain't got one. I mean, God bless Samba-3 By Example, but even that's five years old. Any suggestions of

Re: [Samba] Moved PDC now issues

2010-10-13 Thread Donny Brooks
On 10/12/2010 5:02 PM, Donny Brooks wrote: This weekend we moved our samba PDC to a new machine. Now we are having a few issues with not being able to join new computers to the domain and some users cannot change their passwords. People can still login and such though. Here is a brief

Re: [Samba] Moved PDC now issues

2010-10-13 Thread Donny Brooks
or 3.3.x or 3.4.x. But I found that samba stopped looking at ldap group suffix = ou=Group and started looking through the whole domain branch of the LDAP tree. Can you recompile samba 3.4.x on FC11 to have consistent versions? On 10/13/2010 10:26 AM, Donny Brooks wrote: On 10/12/2010 5

[Samba] Moved PDC now issues

2010-10-12 Thread Donny Brooks
This weekend we moved our samba PDC to a new machine. Now we are having a few issues with not being able to join new computers to the domain and some users cannot change their passwords. People can still login and such though. Here is a brief synopsis: Old server was named roark IP 10.8.2.3.

[Samba] Moving Samba PDC to new machine

2010-08-23 Thread Donny Brooks
I am looking to move our current Samba primary domain controller to a new machine. The current machine is EOL, running Fedora 11 (old), and had way too many services on it to start with (mail, dns, samba, mysql replication, primary ldap, etc). I am looking to move to a Xen domu with either

Re: [Samba] Moving Samba PDC to new machine

2010-08-23 Thread Donny Brooks
it should have and from the proper server. But since I am not changing the machines name, I don' think I will have similar issues. Am I correct in assuming this? -- Donny B. On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:23 PM CDT, Donny Brooks dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: I am looking to move our

[Samba] Roaming profiles, linux client...

2010-08-11 Thread Donny Brooks
I know this may be a hairbrained idea, and I may be totally off base here. If so please let me know. But I was wondering how to have roaming profiles similar to xp and vista/7 on a linux client pc. Say I am at one desk with xp (or vista/7) and I want to login as myself on a linux desktop (say

Re: [Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues

2010-07-27 Thread Donny Brooks
On 7/26/2010 10:02 PM, Paul Venzke wrote: On Mon July 26 2010 16:05, Donny Brooks wrote: We are currently using samba and openLDAP to enable our users to have roaming profiles on our domain network. We have one primary domain controller and 7 home servers at the various locations that serve

[Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues

2010-07-26 Thread Donny Brooks
We are currently using samba and openLDAP to enable our users to have roaming profiles on our domain network. We have one primary domain controller and 7 home servers at the various locations that serve the profiles and such. The problem is that randomly various users are unable to load their

Re: [Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues

2010-07-26 Thread Donny Brooks
a path error. My suspicion is that some rougue data with incompatible perms has gotten into the local users profile. I've seen it happen, but I'll be damned if I can remember the cause. --- Original message --- *Subject:* [Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues *From:* Donny Brooks dbro

Re: [Samba] Weird samba pdc problem.

2010-07-21 Thread Donny Brooks
[mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von Donny Brooks Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010 17:05 An: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: [Samba] Weird samba pdc problem. Hello, We have been running a samba pdc with LDAP backend setup here at work since before my time (a few years now

[Samba] Weird samba pdc problem.

2010-07-20 Thread Donny Brooks
Hello, We have been running a samba pdc with LDAP backend setup here at work since before my time (a few years now). Recently it has became necessary to move a handful of users to their own server for shares, profiles, and such to reduce the load on the primary server. Of these users,