[Samba] FYI: Samba 3.6.6 crash -solved

.2012 11:47, schrieb Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch: Hi, I just wanted to test ACL with our file system (a GFS). So I've installed a test machine running Novell SLES 11SP1. After installing the GFS software and creating a share I've installed the latest SLES rpm's from SERNET (3.6.6) from http

[Samba] Samba 3.6.6 crash ?!

Hi, I just wanted to test ACL with our file system (a GFS). So I've installed a test machine running Novell SLES 11SP1. After installing the GFS software and creating a share I've installed the latest SLES rpm's from SERNET (3.6.6) from http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/sles/11/x86_64/ Joing th

[Samba] samba 3.6.4 + office 2010 -> deny write 0x3019f

Hi, we just noticed the following problem: User wants to open a file on a group share. Nobody else is currently using the file. Open is possible, saving the file is denied DENY_WRITE 0x3019f RDWR EXCLUSIVE+BATCH Using office 2003 it works. Using 2007/2010 we get this fault. Do we ha

Re: [Samba] Update Samba PDC - win7 stop working

--- -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 08:31 An: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: [Samba] Update Samba PDC - win7 stop working Hi, we have tried

[Samba] Update Samba PDC - win7 stop working

Hi, we have tried to update our rather old samba PDC. The system is running on Novell SLES 10 SP2 with the samba RPM from Sernet. We stopped everything and updated (booting from DVD, using offline update) the machine to SLES 11 SP1 started samba and everything was fine - expect all WIN 7 and W20

[Samba] GDI Printer problem

Hi, we have a new printer here (OKI C5650). It's a GDI printer attached to our cups server. I installed the windows driver as root on the print share without any problems. However it's not working. When a user maps the printer only a message appears "printing not possible". So I looked at the p

[Samba] Samba won't connect to new users ...

Hi, we have the following problem: From time to time (1 week -> 6 weeks) new user (computer just started) are unable to connect to our file server, BUT old connections are still working without any problems. The log file is currently not very helpful. Any idea, where to look ? Samba running on

[Samba] File access error

Hi, we have updated our samba version from 3.0.20-something (SuSE packages) to 3.0.25b-33 (SerNet " " ) a few weeks ago. Since we have done this update, some people are reporting the following behavior. They open an M$-Access file and after a few hours a messages is coming up, network connec

[Samba] access to share is not working using smb://

Hi, it's not possible for users running linux on the private laptop to get direct access to their own shares (Home-drives). So if a user is running linux on his private laptop, open konqueror, enter smb://FILESERVER/USERNAME an error occurs, "share does not exist". Clicking on a visible share fo

[Samba] Samba suddenly stops working

Hi, we have 2 file server (SuSE SLES 9 SP3) running samba-3.0.20b-3.4 . We have now the situation that one sometime both server stops working. All smbd process are still visible, smbstatus is working and so on, but all connected users are unable to access the shares. Also new connection are not

[Samba] Samba giving up. How to debug ?

Hi, just a few minutes ago our samba file server stops working. The system seems to work fine with old sessions, but new sessions could not be started. A simple restart of the smbd solved the problem, but we want to know WHY and WHAT happend ... The file sytem was reachable. The log shows not "er

[Samba] Problem with MacOSX and SAMBA

Hi, our Mac users have sometimes trouble with samba shares. Those users are not able for a certain time ( 0.5 -20 sec) to read or write to files. Some reported error messages like "read only file" or file not found. Windows users (XP) have some also slow access, but no further problems. Our fil

[Samba] Hide workgroup names in network neighborhood ?

Hi, since we have have a working wins server all kind of workgroups from private laptops, or from special devices are visible in the network neighborhood in our institute. Is it possible to hide or mask all of them ? -- Bye, Peer _ Max

[Samba] MAC OSX-Users - samba PDC - passwd

Hi, we have just moved our old NT4 domain to some linux boxes running samba as a PDC. Everything is working well, but ... Setting passwords seems to be tricky. For Windows eyerything is working great. All passwords (unix,windows) are correctly set. For linux I've written a little wrapper to cal

[Samba] Upgrade question NT4 -> Samba 3 PDC

Hi, we want to replace our old NT4 PDC with a samba 3 PDC against LDAP. We have already 2 fileserver and a print server currently (all running samba 3) working within the old domain. Do we have to change the configuration and add the ldap parameter at those servers ? Or what is the best practi

Re: [Samba] ACL issue with Samba 2.0.23d + GFS

Hi, as far as I know GFS only supports posix acl. So only user:group:other. Everything else are extended acl which are not supported. Have you tested, if the acl rules are working on the unix side ? Bye, Peer Dex Chen schrieb: I build with ACL support and installed samba 2.0.23d on RedHat EL

Re: [Samba] HowTo move a samba print server

Hi, thanks a lot. I will test it ... ;) Bye, Peer Martin Zielinski schrieb: 1st. Copy the ntprinters.tdb, ntdrivers.tdb and ntforms.tdb to your new server. 2nd. Copy the driver directory to your new server. 3rd. Copy the spooler settings. Depends on your spooler. E.g. printers.conf and cla

[Samba] samba and cups printing

Hi, I'll tried to configure a few printing queues, but without any success. We want to add a dedicated monochrome queue to one color system. Our print server is a SuSE 9.1 running the following software: cups-1.1.20-108.31 cups-devel-1.1.20-108.31 cups-drivers-1.1.20-60 cups-drivers-stp-1.1.20-6

[Samba] Problem with extra accounts

Hi, we are still using our old NT4 domain. Within the domain we have _USERNAME accounts for users needing admin rights on dedicated computer. The problem is now. The samba printserver knows the normal user and also the groups, but does not know those _USERNAME accounts. Is it possible to setup

Re: [Samba] Re: Migration NT4 domain to Samba/LDAP howto

Hi, is it possible to setup a dedicated BDC and test everything and do the main step after verifing that everything is working ? Have a look at Samba 3 by Example. http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ Chapter 9 tells you how to do this. You may also want to look at Chapter 5. T

[Samba] Error message - what does it mean ?

Hi, our file server hsows the following line regulary in the log. What does it mean ? How can I avoid it ? Everything is running well, so there is no harm in the moment. We are running Novell SLES 9 (AMD64) with samba-3.0.20b-3.4 tdb(/var/lib/samba/netsamlogon_cache.tdb): rec_free_read bad m

Re: [Samba] GFS and samba

Hi, just as a remark: we are using also a cluster filesystem together with samba and nfs (StorNEXT). In the beginning we had some problem with NFS (kernel panic), caused by the file locking. However, we are using one SAMBA server for the home shares and another for the group shares. Two addional

[Samba] Differnet display of filenames (samba 2.x <-> 3.x)

Hi, we have moved our file services from an old samba 2.x (HPUX) to a linux box (SuSE SLES 9) running samba 3.x. Since this switching a couple of files containing ":" is no longer displayed correctly. The name is completely corrupted. Any hint ? It's displayed correctly under unix, and long nam

[Samba] Samba 3 and groups

Hi, we are running a samba 3 server as a file server (just domain member; the domain is still an old NT4 domain and will be soon replaced ...). However using samba 2 as a file server all unix groups could be used. Now with samba 3 NO unix groups are seen. Is this behavior correct ? We did not ch

[Samba] Character in file names are dispalyed wrong

Hi, we are running here in some trouble with file names. So under unix files are name and displayed corretly. Something like "aa_12:00" I don't like it with "space" and ":" , but it's generate from some software.. Anyway under Unix the name is displayed correctly, but samba is showing something

[Samba] Problem: changing groups

Hi, we are running a samba sever 3.0.20 (SuSE SLES9) for file services. We have still a NT4 domain (for auth) and ldap for unix (user+groups). The linux is using our LDAP server to get all user & group informations. However under samba it is not possible to change the group of a file or folder.

[Samba] HA-Samba

Hi, our file services is running on a gfs (global file system). Therefore we have a couple of machines seeing all the same file system and can work parallel on the file system. Is it somehow possible to run samba on 3-4 nodes with the same shares using ONE name ? So if one server fails, there ar

[Samba] various problems

Hi, just moved from our old HP machine running samba 2.2.x to a linux box running SuSE SLES 9 with samba. Using utf-8 on unix and under windows seem's to work well, a few questions are still open: From model runs some users have files like: hinterp.d01.2005-06-10_00:00:00 hinterp.d01.2005-06-10_

[Samba] Problem with samba3 and groups

Hi, we have just moved our file services from an old hpux system to a new linux system. I used the old config as a template for the new smb.conf. Most things are working, but not everything. The main problem is in the moment, that samba seem's to use the primary group only for accessing file and

[Samba] Q: browsing yes/no

Hi, we have ~50 shares on our file server. In the moment only a few are visible. Most of the shares are hidden using "browseable = No" But if someone does not know the name of the share, it#s sometimes not so esay to find it Is it possible (general flag) to show all shares which can be used an