Re: [Samba] Offline files with Windows - again

2008-06-26 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Scott Lovenberg wrote: Have you set the smb.conf setting 'csc policy'? Is it that you want and/or need offline files, or would you rather do without it? I've found it to mostly be a pain, FWIW. Oops; John beat me by a few minutes. Listen to what he has to say; he wrote the book on this

Re: [Samba] Profile Location Best Practice

2007-10-16 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Mike Eggleston wrote: Well... I created a new directory structure: home directory = \server\home\username (unchanged) profile directory = \server\home\profiles\username (new) I've already switched one user over who was having a weird problem with a printer not appearing on the receptionist

Re: [Samba] Profile Location Best Practice

2007-10-15 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Server Gremlin wrote: Eric Feldhusen, you've pretty much convinced me that best practice is having profiles stored in one place, and home folders in another. But I'm still curious if you have also experienced these problems even with such a configuration. Either way, I think the merits of

Re: [Samba] Profile Location Best Practice

2007-10-14 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Charles Marcus wrote: The key advantage is that if the profile is stored within the user's home directory, the Windows workstations will sometimes discconnect the user's home directory network drive mapping during logout before the profile has finished synchronizing between the workstation and

Re: [Samba] Profile Location Best Practice

2007-10-12 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Server Gremlin wrote: it seems like the convention has shifted to that of storing profiles in one place (/sambaprofiles/john/profile) while storing home directories in another (/sambahomes/john). What is the advantage of this setup, if any? The key advantage is that if the profile is stored

Re: [Samba] Where is the tdbsam password database file?

2007-09-24 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Tim Largy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# smbd -b PRIVATE_DIR: /var/lib/samba/private If you look in this directory, you'll see the passdb.tdb and secrets.tdb, which is what you're looking for. Eric Feldhusen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

[Samba] Location of profile sid renumbering script

2007-08-29 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
My apologies, I can't seem to find the profile sid perl script in the samba 3.0.25c download or the samba-latest-docs download. I wanted to test it out for a user moving between two of my domains running on Samba. Eric -- Eric Feldhusen Network Administratorhttp://www.remc1.org [EMAIL

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.25b: smbd 99% CPU utilisation with opened MS Word doc

2007-08-10 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Tisdall wrote: Hi I'm trying to upgrade from Samba 3.0.23c on FC4 to 3.0.25b from Samba sources. Everything appears to function correctly until an MS word document is opened from a share - the file opens but the smbd process in question

Re: [Samba] Samba doesn't work after upgrading

2007-08-04 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Bill Baker wrote: If anyone can provide any help or insight into this, I'd really appreciate it. Google searches have proved fruitless and I've found out nothing useful by running smbclient and nmblookup commands. Fedora 7 separated the init scripts for the smb and nmb processes, so you'll

[Samba] Re: Currently on 3.0.10 and want to upgrade to 3.0.25a

2007-06-26 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
William Jojo wrote: is? Seems to me to be a big jump. Does 25a have all of the changes Before you start up the samba 3.0.25a server, make sure to do a testparm on your smb.conf file to make sure you don't have any options that are now unsupported. Eric Feldhusen -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Samba] incompatibility between roaming profiles and winxp clients that didn't create them

2007-02-22 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
David Hostetler wrote: Basically, winxp seems to be creating roaming profiles that are incompatible with another winxp client. This doesn't help, but since either the November Microsoft Patch Tuesday we've seen the exact same thing across 19 different Samba PDC's running RHES4 with Samba

Re: [Samba] Samba-3.0.23c kernel lock problems with new Redhat kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8

2007-02-02 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: Looks like a kernel issue to me. Have you reported this to Red Hat ? No, because I run samba-3.0.23c in stead of the RHEL4 Samba 3.0.10 which is broken wrt. workgroup master browsers. Your recent Samba versions solve the problems, but I'm sure Redhat won't accept a

Re: [Samba] Samba-3.0.23c kernel lock problems with new Redhat kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8

2007-02-02 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Yes, they're the solo PDC in the lan and we haven't had an problems, but that does clear it up for me. At most, we connect our W2k3 servers to our Samba PDC's, that's working fine. Aaron Kincer wrote: If they are working great as PDC's, I wouldn't worry too much. As a file server in an Active

Re: [Samba] upgrading from 3.0.13 to 3.0.23

2006-08-28 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Jean-Baptiste Estival wrote: I just downloaded the latest sable rlease (3.0.23b). I compiled it and installed it without any problems. groups and users are local to the samba server (running under Linux FC1). I use webmin to configure samba. Does anyone has an idea ? From the command line

Re: [Samba] Administrator doesn't have admin rights on workstation

2006-07-02 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
I've had similar problems before, make sure you don't have any unix group mapped to multiple Windows groups. Like having Domain users - users Staff users - users Eric Feldhusen Brian May wrote: Steve == Steve A [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Hello, I'm running FreeBSD-6.1, and Samba

Re: [Samba] Difficulty converting from RH 7.3 to Debian Sarge

2006-05-24 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Various distrobs store the .tdb files in different locations, some are /var/lib/samba, some under /var/cache/samba/ and some in /var/db/samba. You'll need to store those .tdb files in the correct location for your distro. I've seen the same exact thing with redhat 8,9 and various fedora

[Samba] Moving a Samba server from i386 to x64

2006-05-18 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Has anyone moved the Samba tdb library files from a 32bit i386 linux to a 64bit x64 linux? I want to move from redhat enterprise 4 on a i386 server to a redhat enterprise 4 on x64, so if I move over all the users, and /etc/samba and smbpasswd files, then I move over all the tdb library files

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
On a RHEL4, with Samba 3.0.10, I have the following password options below. I just tested and with a WinXP Pro client, I did the ctrl-alt-delete and changed my password. Once I did that, I ssh'ed into the box and it used my new password. [global] encrypt passwords = yes null passwords =

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 by Example - chapter 5 6 ( Manager - sambaadmin)

2006-03-07 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Natxo Asenjo wrote: On 3/4/06, John H Terpstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be delighted if someone steps forward with an offer to take over responsibility for maintenance and improvement of the documentation. Its about time for a more capable and more enthusiastic person to have a go. Please

[Samba] Samba and Fedora Directory Server

2005-12-03 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
Just curious, is anyone running Samba 3.x.x with LDAP using the Fedora/Redhat Directory server as the LDAP backend? -- Eric Feldhusen System Administrator http://www.remc1.org PO Box 270 (906) 482-4520 x239 809 Hecla St(906) 482-5031 fax Hancock, MI 49930