Re: [Samba] Password policy doesn't work (pdbedit)

2009-09-15 Thread Gareth Cummings
I had the same problem when I set a password policy using pdbedit and tdbsam as the backend... turns out the policy would only apply to new accounts and not existing ones. However if I got the existing users to reset their passwords manually the account policy would kick in. Radek wrote:

[Samba] Password issue

2008-12-12 Thread Gareth Cummings
Hi Running Samba version 3.0.22-13.18 on Suse 10.1 using a tdbsam backend as a PDC. I created a new policy using the pdbedit tool (mim. password length, amount of times a bad password can be entered before getting locked out etc). This policy is working fine apart from one issue. Users

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC, can't login into WinXP without network connection

2008-10-09 Thread Gareth Cummings
John Price wrote: I've setup a Samba PDC (3.0.28a). I can join the domain with a Windows XP sp3 laptop and logon with no problems, but if I try to logon while the laptop is not connected to the network, it will not allow it. The system cannot log you on now because the domain DOMAIN is not

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

2008-03-20 Thread Gareth Cummings
I found the following link very good when setting up my domain http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/small.htm Mike Stewart wrote: Thanks Charles, I think you're right, what I'm trying to accomplish is probably better/easier with a Domain Controller. However, I'm surely brain-dead

Re: [Samba] Problems with Samba

2008-03-14 Thread Gareth Cummings
Are you sure there are no issues with the client machine? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I administrate a server (debian etch) on which runs samba, version 3.0.24-6et. Everything worked fine until today. I tried to logon on the server via a clientmachine (win2k, winxp), but i got an error,

Re: [Samba] windows admin == ???

2007-10-01 Thread Gareth Cummings
Create a group on your samba box called domainadm or whatever you like, make sure your username is part of this group then map this group to the windows group Domain Admins using this command: net groupmap add rid=512 ntgroup=Domain Admins unixgroup=domainadm type=d You should now be able to

Re: [Samba] Clearing account lockout

2007-09-12 Thread Gareth Cummings
The following will reset the flags to the default setting clearing the lock: pdbedit -r -c [] administrator Gaiseric Vandal wrote: I recently am migrating my PDC from NT4 to Samba 3.025. Apparently due to a mismatch between the capitalization of the Windows account and the Unix account

Re: [Samba] backup samba domain accounts

2007-07-09 Thread Gareth Cummings
You need to back up /var/lib/samba as well. Martin Miethe wrote: Hi Newsgroup, I use SAMBA as PDC with MS Terminal Server 2K3. I dont use LDAP. For backing up the domain accounts, I secure /etc/samba on daily base. Yesterday I made a test: I set up a new machine with Samba and copied my

Re: [Samba] Rebuild Samba Server: Do my XP clients need to rejoin domain?

2007-03-30 Thread Gareth Cummings
I recently did a similar upgrade, moving from Suse 9.3 to 10.2(the 10.2 was installed on a new machine). I copied over the relevant files (which for me on Suse where /var/lib/samba, /etc/samba, /etc/passwd, /etc/group), configured samba on the new box, shutdown the old samba and started the

Re: [Samba] Domain Admins with Samba 3.024

2007-02-14 Thread Gareth Cummings
I am having the same problem on 3.23d, had it working fine with on 3.0.10. The users in the domain admin group can add machines to the network but do not have admin rights on the actual PCs' Neil Jolly wrote: I can't seem to get the Domain Admins group members to be recognisd as

Re: [Samba] I want install samba on debian

2007-01-19 Thread Gareth Cummings
Have a look at this: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/simple.html Samantha Bandara wrote: Dear I am very beginners for samba. I want to install samba on Debian. I want maintain file server. We have 50 PCs that are running on WinXP I want connect these PCs to PC it run on

[Samba] Change existing accounts policy using pdbedit

2006-12-13 Thread Gareth Cummings
Hi, Running Samba version 3.0.22-13.18 on Suse 10.1 I have just converted our smbpasswd to a tdbsam passdb backend so I could use the pdbedit tool. I created a new policy using the pdbedit tool and it works fine for new accounts however I am wondering is there any way in applying this

[Samba] Joining windows client to Samba Domain

2006-10-03 Thread Gareth Cummings
users = %G read only = No/ Can anybody see what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Gareth Cummings -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba