Re: [Samba] Samba installation discrepancies

2006-07-08 Thread EHines
Eric Evans wrote: Samba colleagues, I promise to limit my postings to this list to one message per day from now on, and to keep my messages focussed on very specific technical issues. I think I have gotten over my initial panic at the weirdly broken Samba installation and am now in a

Re: [Samba] Samba installation discrepancies

2006-07-08 Thread EHines
Eric Evans wrote: Samba colleagues, I promise to limit my postings to this list to one message per day from now on, and to keep my messages focussed on very specific technical issues. I think I have gotten over my initial panic at the weirdly broken Samba installation and am now in a

Re: [Samba] Sorry for all the messages, I'm just trying to get a few answers here

2006-07-07 Thread EHines
I'm new to Samba, too, but here's my two cents worth on your questions: Eric Evans wrote: snip Please let me summarize the points that I'm confused about: 1. Why do I need to use wins support in my smb.conf? I don't see the point of this since it seems to me we are not using WINS. WINS is

Re: [Samba] Updating to Samba 3

2006-07-07 Thread EHines
John H Terpstra wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 19:27, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:54 -0700, Huck wrote: This link may be of some assistance to those updating from Samba 2. http://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=419048rl=1 Since the official Samba

Re: [Samba] smbd not starting

2006-05-20 Thread EHines
Burton B Williams wrote: Hey all, I recently installed fedora core 5 and then installed samba. I however encountered a problem. The smbd thread would not start. Can anytone shead some light on why this might have happened. In the original installation of the OS I installed samba.

Re: [Samba] smbd not starting

2006-05-20 Thread EHines
I've never used webmin, but SWAT will construct a syntactically correct smb.conf. Of course, that just means that samba won't crash when you start it; it does not guarantee that what you've configured correctly from a syntax perspective actually will accomplish anything. You can check the

Re: [Samba] What is the meaning of the output from smbstatus?

2006-04-30 Thread EHines
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:28:59PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:02:12PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: If you need auditing on logon/logoff you can get this info from the logs, and we're in the process of adding an audit mechanism (hi

Re: [Samba] Re: Stable Network Down

2006-04-19 Thread EHines
jamrock wrote: EHines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I eventually cleared the problem by rebooting the Samba server--everything is running properly, now. However, rebooting seems excessive. In future, what sorts of things typically go wrong to produce this type

[Fwd: Re: [Samba] can't connect to swat]

2006-04-16 Thread EHines
Sorry for the direct post Eric Hines Original Message Subject:Re: [Samba] can't connect to swat Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:51:45 -0500 From: EHines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Larry Weldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Samba] Stable Network Down

2006-04-16 Thread EHines
Hi, I've had a stable Samba-run LAN, with some active shares, for several months, with my PC and laptop also gaining access to the Internet through the Samba server. However, this morning, when I booted up my Samba server, I had no LAN--neither my PC nor my laptop could connect to any share.

Re: [Samba] net drive mapping not working in login script

2006-04-07 Thread EHines
I'm shotgunning here, since I'm not much more experienced than you, but I think setting login script to netlogon/%U.bat makes Geraldine, for instance, run the script geraldine.bat.bat. Try using netlogon/%U (although I'm not sure this construction works). Eric Hines Chris Boyd wrote: No

Re: [Samba] net drive mapping not working in login script

2006-04-07 Thread EHines
/07/06 2:56 PM I have the following config that works well for me: logon script = %u.bat and under /shared/netlogon I have [user].bat for each user as we are a small operation... HTH Ed At 06:24 AM Friday, 4/7/2006, EHines wrote -= I'm shotgunning here, since I'm not much more