Re: [Samba] How do I lock a shared file?

2013-09-05 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, steve, Du meintest am 05.09.13: School classes often have projects with files that many students will need to edit. [...] Also, nobody forces applications to keep files open while they are edited. For example even some Windows native editor (I don't remember which) loads files into

Re: [Samba] Samba Version 4.0.7 replace netlogon: /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol/my.domain/scripts

2013-08-22 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Daniel, Du meintest am 22.08.13: I did fix this: In [global] Set: follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes unix extensions = no As with Samba 3 I wouldn't set follow symlinks = yes as a global option ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

Re: [Samba] Winbind troubles

2013-07-23 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jonathan, Du meintest am 23.07.13: Why use a word like orthogonal? Orthogonal is a single word, is precise and describes what is required exactly. Sorry - that depends. I know this word as a synonym of rectangular, and I mostly know it in a geometrical environment. 90 degrees =

Re: [Samba] Can someone explain SMB passwords?

2013-07-22 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Volker, Du meintest am 22.07.13: So is there ANY way to provide access to a share, with only a password, not caring about a username? Or must I pick a name (e.g., root) and tell all clients to log in under that username? If I do the latter, and root isn't listed in smbpasswd, will it

Re: [Samba] Does Samba Re-read Changes To smb.conf

2013-07-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, bhogue, Du meintest am 17.07.13: I was told that samba will re-read the smb.conf if you make changes without restarting the smb service. That's not true for the [global] section. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Losing Permissions of Files

2013-06-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I wrote am 16.06.13: [...] The solution required the correct storage of the DOS attributes, the appropriate configuration lines are # store DOS attributes in extended attributes ea support = yes store dos attributes = yes map readonly = no map archive = no

Re: [Samba] Losing Permissions of Files

2013-06-16 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jonathan, Du meintest am 12.06.13: Here is the information that you requested. When I say that all permissions on a file are lost, this is at the windows level. In Windows Explorer, we go to open the file in the default program, we get an Access denied. Contact your administrator.

Re: [Samba] Losing Permissions of Files

2013-06-12 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Tanveer, Du meintest am 11.06.13: Here is the information that you requested. When I say that all permissions on a file are lost, this is at the windows level. In Windows Explorer, we go to open the file in the default program, we get an Access denied. Contact your administrator.

[Samba] samba3/4: libpopt version

2013-05-16 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I'm just playing with samba-4.0.5 (slackware), running as samba3 (and replacing/updating samba-3.6.x). Seems to work fine - many thanks! Perhaps one problem: when I start the server or when I run smbclient -N -L hostname (and perhaps with some other start commands) then samba

Re: [Samba] missing libgnutls.so.26

2013-04-12 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Phil, Du meintest am 09.04.13: [...] So I did a bit of looking around and one very interesting thing I noticed is that /usr/local/samba/lib no longer has the libgnutls files (prefix is /usr/local/samba). Just for the record: my system (slackware current) has installed

Re: [Samba] Accsse Deny

2013-01-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Usuário, Du meintest am 20.01.13: Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE password: lang_tdb_init: /usr/lib/samba/en_US.UTF-8.msg: No such file or directory NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED: Access denied (0xc022) Why it's returning Access Denied for me ? As I've told you in the squid

Re: [Samba] Making Linux as client and Windows as server...

2012-12-25 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Nirmit, Du meintest am 26.12.12: Please tell how to do this as I am not able to make my window as server, Which Linux distribution have you installed on your client? Do I need to require to install samba on my windows machine, No - it is installed. In German it is called

Re: [Samba] Disabling Roaming Profile Support

2012-10-31 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jeff, Du meintest am 31.10.12: I have logon drive = in smb.conf but testparm does not report that. Just try testparm -sv Then you can see the actual options (regardless wether they are set in smb.conf or not). Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

Re: [Samba] Out of Memory error

2012-09-24 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Phibee, Du meintest am 24.09.12: In my config, i have: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 TCP_NODELAY is the pre-installed option, and the *BUF options are really bad, since many years. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Out of Memory error

2012-09-24 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Phibee, Du meintest am 24.09.12: In my config, i have: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 TCP_NODELAY is the pre-installed option, and the *BUF options are really bad, since many years. Ok i can delete it, but it's the reason of Out of memory ? Even if

[Samba] server hardware (was: XP Administrator has no access to shares)

2012-08-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, steve, Du meintest am 20.08.12: This is a bit off thread, but could you specify any budget hardware/minimum Samba4 DC Samba3 fileserver server requirements for a college of 2000 students sharing 150 duel boot KDE/w7? Where's the problem? Such configurations need a machine with 2 GHz

Re: [Samba] server hardware

2012-08-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, steve, Du meintest am 20.08.12: This is a bit off thread, but could you specify any budget hardware/minimum Samba4 DC Samba3 fileserver server requirements for a college of 2000 students sharing 150 duel boot KDE/w7? Where's the problem? Such configurations need a machine with 2 GHz

Re: [Samba] Samba4: rfc2307 compatibility with Samba3

2012-08-11 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Andrew, Du meintest am 11.08.12: In Samba3, I have full rfc2307 compliance via winbind where all attributes can be obtained from AD. In Samba4 I only have partial rfc2307 compatibility with: idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes uidNumber and gidNumber can be obtained from AD but

Re: [Samba] 'x' bit always set?

2012-08-01 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jonathan, Du meintest am 01.08.12: Seems I can't find the root cause of $subj. When I store a file on my home, it gets chmodded ugo+x ... [...] mount your file system with extended attributes enabled and then add the following to your smb.conf # store DOS attributes in extended

[Samba] Kernel 3.4.6: cifs problem

2012-07-28 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I've just tried kernel 3.4.6, self compiled, with the .config from kernel 3.3.7. Samba version 3.5.14 (slackware) When I run a script with (among many other lines) the command mount.cifs //$share/$src /path/to/$target \ -o noperm,sec=ntlmv2,$Loginparms (which runs without any

Re: [Samba] Kernel 3.4.6: cifs problem

2012-07-28 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Günter, Du meintest am 28.07.12: When I run a script with (among many other lines) the command mount.cifs //$share/$src /path/to/$target \ -o noperm,sec=ntlmv2,$Loginparms (which runs without any problem under kernel 3.3.7) then I get an error message (some cifs problem), and

Re: [Samba] Trouble with mount.cifs while smbclient works (Ubuntu 12.04)

2012-05-16 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Scott_Purcell, Du meintest am 16.05.12: mount.cifs fails (with mount error(13): Permission denied): sudo mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/ -o credentials=/etc/.smb_creds.txt Just try sudo mount.cifs -o ... //server/share ... mount.cifs needs the options early. Viele

Re: [Samba] User's home folders

2012-05-04 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Stefano, Du meintest am 04.05.12: What tells df i wrote this script: #!/bin/bash Login=rw,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,username=zingalo,password= ,noserverino smbmount //192.168.5.219/users/zingalo /mnt/samba/Dati zingalo is user registered on ldap server. in his

Re: [Samba] User's home folders

2012-05-04 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Stefano, Du meintest am 04.05.12: #!/bin/bash Login=rw,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,username=zingalo,password=** ** ,noserverino smbmount //192.168.5.219/users/zingalo /mnt/samba/Dati df is Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5

Re: [Samba] User's home folders

2012-05-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, zingalo/Stefano, Du meintest am 03.05.12: Hi, yes, home directories are specified in the homeDirectory attribute as: //amahoro/users/zingalo That's the samba notation. //$SERVER/$SHARE but after logging this creates the same directory on the client and this is wrong. What tells

Re: [Samba] User's home folders

2012-05-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, zingalo, Du meintest am 03.05.12: yes, home directories are specified in the homeDirectory attribute as: //amahoro/users/zingalo That's the samba notation. //$SERVER/$SHARE You mean my notation is wrong? No - that's one kind of notation. When this share is mounted then you see

Re: [Samba] User's home folders

2012-05-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Daniel, Du meintest am 03.05.12: Try ex.: [global] logon script = logon.bat #--your logon.script,if not defined in ldap logon path = /users#--your path to homes.Leave empty if defined in ldap [netlogon] Path=/path/to/your/netlogon Just for curiousity: that looks like a mix

Re: [Samba] User's home folders

2012-05-02 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, zingalo/Stefano, Du meintest am 02.05.12: I have a computer room with 30 machine Ubuntu and about 200 differents users. So user_1 will logon on client_1 and he will work on /usersHomes/user_1 directory. Then, the user_2 will logon on the same client and he will work on

Re: [Samba] SAMBA-FREERADIUS-LDAP

2012-04-26 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, stefano, Du meintest am 26.04.12: The LAN has a computer room with 30 pc Ubuntu. In addition to these there are others computers will can connect to the LAN using wireless connection and they can have differents operating systems (Mac, Windows, Ubuntu). I want that every user can

Re: [Samba] SAMBA-FREERADIUS-LDAP

2012-04-26 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, stefano, Du meintest am 26.04.12: I'll do some questions: I need that after the power-on of the client, will appear the login screen. Is this like your solution also? No - that's at least impossible for private machines. Our school machines can show such a screen via autostart (or

[Samba] Samba 3.5: dumping core

2012-02-02 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, in a neighbourhood school Samba (versions 3.5.7 and 3.5.10) show (for only one machine) the following log: ... [2012/02/02 11:08:34.974139, 0] lib/fault.c:326(dump_core) dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd [2012/02/02 11:37:33.245678, 0]

Re: [Samba] smbpasswd not working

2012-01-19 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, John, Du meintest am 20.01.12: root@hayek:~# smbpasswd john New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Failed to find entry for user john. This is despite the existence of the user root@hayek:~# cat /etc/samba/smbpasswd # # SMB password file. #

Re: [Samba] samba-server, windows7-clients, server-hostname

2011-12-30 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, luxInteg, Du meintest am 30.12.11: I have setup a computer to act as a 'samba-server'. The machine has these:- --cpu: amd64 --OS: cblfs linux --samba-3.6.0 compiled from sources in /usr/local/samba The clients are windows 7 clients. They can only see the server as its IP-

Re: [Samba] samba passwd

2011-12-26 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Rajesh, Du meintest am 26.12.11: In which file the user entry and password is stored when i added a user using smbpasswd -a username in redhat enterprise linux 6 (64bit) That depends - what tells testparm -sv 21 | grep 'passdb backend' If you only will see the result of

Re: [Samba] logon scripts and variable substitution on the windows side

2011-12-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, nikos, Du meintest am 17.12.11: i am really wondering a logon script stated in the config file with for example logon script = %L.bat can't contain inside variable substitutions from samba for example a script that it will have inside and it will be uploaded in the client to

Re: [Samba] Preserving timestamps with smbclient

2011-11-09 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Phillip, Du meintest am 09.11.11: I have a backup script that uses smbclient to push files to a Windows server and I have noticed that the mtime on the server is the time of upload, not the mtime of the original file. I can not find an option to preserve the original mtime. Does

Re: [Samba] Realtime virus scanning

2011-10-26 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Ian, Du meintest am 26.10.11: I just came across an interesting question. Is there a way to do realtime virus scanning on samba 3.4.7 on ubuntu 10.04. Maybe there is some way. But it may produce only virtual security. In the last months I've tested many malware mail attachments, p.e.

Re: [Samba] how to upgrade to samba 3.6.0

2011-08-12 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Christian, Du meintest am 11.08.11: I am running a version of ubuntu lucid 64 bit, and so will be upgrading with the apt-get program. Well, I have no idea what are plans for Ubuntu (you don't tell what version you're usingsounds like 8.04) but I don't think there will be

[Samba] reading write list from a file

2011-07-15 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, for a school server I'd like the option write list = /path/to/class-8a-list for the share [class-8a] Ok - I can work with [class-8a] ... include /path/to/writelistdefinition.txt ... but that's more ugly. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [Samba] reading write list from a file

2011-07-15 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Chris, Du meintest am 15.07.11: for a school server I'd like the option        write list = /path/to/class-8a-list for the share [class-8a] why not use a user group? The simple class list still exists, for mail aliases. It's very simple to change if necessary. Why should I

Re: [Samba] reading write list from a file

2011-07-15 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jeremy, Du meintest am 15.07.11: for a school server I'd like the option write list = /path/to/class-8a-list for the share [class-8a] Ok - I can work with [class-8a] ... include /path/to/writelistdefinition.txt ... but that's more ugly.

Re: [Samba] reading write list from a file

2011-07-15 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jeremy, Du meintest am 15.07.11: for a school server I'd like the option write list = /path/to/class-8a-list for the share [class-8a] Ok - I can work with [class-8a] ... include /path/to/writelistdefinition.txt ... but that's more ugly.

Re: [Samba] Braindead Autoreply filters... WAS Re: samba Digest, Vol 102, Issue 8

2011-06-09 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Charles, Du meintest am 09.06.11: This should be official list policy for ALL email lists... just like do not top post *g ? Don't be stupid Robert... there are times when top-posting is perfectly acceptable, and that was one of them (ie, when the content of the quote is

Re: [Samba] Strange problem with my new PDC

2011-05-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Marc, Du meintest am 19.05.11: You can find two Logfiles in the attached archive. One's named Success.log and the other one Failing.log. No - this mailing list doesn't support such attachments. Try inline copies. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.8 - windows XP workstations disapear from browselist

2011-05-09 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Chris, Du meintest am 08.05.11: information for NetBIOS and WINS. And fix the name resolve order in smb.conf (you have a typo - hosts instead of host). In smb.conf: name resolve order = wins host bcast

Re: [Samba] smbclient doesn't work from cron

2011-04-26 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jeronimo, Du meintest am 26.04.11: /usr/bin/smbclient windows-server\backup db$ -U jelo 123456 -c lcd /root;put mysql-dump.sql But when I try to run the same command from /etc/crontab, it fails: 00 10 * * * root/usr/bin/smbclient windows-server\\backup db$ -U jelo

Re: [Samba] FW: ACL Lost and unable to set rights from explorer (xp)

2011-04-02 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, L.P.H., Du meintest am 02.04.11: Ok problem 2 is solved, made a typo in disabling the unix extentions. this works. (in global) unix extentions = no Sure? My samba (3.5.7) uses unix extensions, with 1 t. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following

[Samba] converting smbpasswd to passdb.tdb - machine accounts

2011-03-29 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I'm trying to convert smbpasswd to passdb.tdb. cd /etc/samba/private # (where smbpasswd lies) pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/private/passdb.tdb converts all human users, but it converts (or transfers) no machine account. In smbpasswd are many entries beginning with

Re: [Samba] Urgent: Unable to change owner of the file through smbcacls

2011-03-24 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Katariya, Du meintest am 24.03.11: I am unable to change owner to Administrator of the file through smbcacls command. CIFS share is in french domain. SMBACLS for the file are: == smbcacls -n //10.10.18.19/Rahulk\

Re: [Samba] CIFS mount with non-ascii (UTF8) password is not working

2011-03-24 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Katariya, Du meintest am 24.03.11: I have French CIFS server. [...] mount -t cifs //MACHINE/DatasetFIGS_ùÉ??ÄÑ£??¬nbsp; /tmp/rahul -o user=ùù,password=ùù,domain=eKKDr mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) nbsp; Does

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security Releases Available

2011-03-18 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Eckert,, Du meintest am 17.03.11: Can I go directly from 3.4.7 to the new 3.5.8 without installing any intermediate versions? Or is there a different route I should follow? Should work. I've done this update/upgrade many times, without problems. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To

[Samba] Samba4 won't compile

2011-03-13 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I've just tried to compile Samba 4.0.0alpha14 under Slackware 13-current - it failed. 206 warnings, 257 errors, and last famous words cite on --- [2152/2374] Linking default/source4/heimdal_build/libroken-samba4.so [2153/2374] Linking

Re: [Samba] Can you see this letter.

2011-03-08 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Kalev, Du meintest am 08.03.11: ive tried to send letters to samba list few times and every time i get a mail back with an error Message status - undeliverable from mailer-dae...@mthelen7.ballarat.edu.au. The contents of the letter is following: The message that you sent was

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5!

2011-03-06 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Paulo, Du meintest am 17.02.11: I would take a little doubt, installed the Samba 3.5. And where is the file smbpasswb? I know, it is in /etc/samba/ , but it isn't there! Look for passdb.tdb instead. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

Re: [Samba] Access to a share resource without password

2011-03-01 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, J., Du meintest am 01.03.11: testparm output: [global] workgroup = CASA map to guest = Bad User passdb backend = tdbsam username map = /etc/samba/smbusers cups options = raw (I put security = user but is not displayed in testparm) There's

Re: [Samba] Access to a share resource without password

2011-02-25 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Chris, Du meintest am 25.02.11: 1) The Linux local user guest must be added to samba with smbpasswd -a guest ??? In the example I show their is no local 'nix user named guest. The purpose of the username map file is to map the Windows guest user/account to the 'nix nobody

Re: [Samba] What to backup on PDC with security=user

2011-02-16 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Robert, Du meintest am 16.02.11: Burned once and all that. I am setting up rsync cron jobs to back up what I would need to completely rebuild the server. My PDC is running with security=user. I know I have to backup: /home /netlogon /profiles /etc/passwd (and shadow,

Re: [Samba] What to backup on PDC with security=user

2011-02-16 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Robert, Du meintest am 16.02.11: Burned once and all that. I am setting up rsync cron jobs to back up what I would need to completely rebuild the server. [...] What else? Command: net getlocalsid localsid.txt And on a rebuild, how do I use this sid instead of whatever

Re: [Samba] Problems with Windows7-Clients and Samba-Shares

2011-02-10 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Sabine, Du meintest am 10.02.11: The logoff from the network shares on the Windows 7 clients is realised by a simple net use * /d /yes But you can't assure that every user disconnects via this command. [logon] The little programm sends username und password to the server and the

[Samba] cooperation with samba?

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Simon (and Andrew), Du meintest am 08.02.11: in the samba mailinglist there was a remark that samba 4 is designed only for the BIND nameserver; look escpecially at http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2011-February/160848.html I know that most programmers work in their free time

[Samba] archive in the future

2011-02-08 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, samba, the mailinglist archive shows some articles from the future: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/ I'm impressed! Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] understanding users mapping

2011-02-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, fdelval, Du meintest am 03.02.11: I dont want to use root to join clients to the domain; i prefer creating a plain user. Look at admin users in [global, file /etc/samba/smb.conf. There you can define which linux user is allowed to do this job. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] understanding users mapping

2011-02-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, fdelval, Du meintest am 03.02.11 zum Thema Re: [Samba] understanding users mapping: now i have like 3 ways of achieving what i want. 1) username map = /etc/samba/smbusers (linking users to root) 2) admin users = frank 3) messing up with my netgroups and granting rights Which one

Re: [Samba] Double user name

2011-02-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Robert, Du meintest am 03.02.11: I have two samba servers running Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Version 3.4.7 One server acts as domain controller and stores user ids in a .tdb Somehow I've ended up with a duplicate user name. On the Domain Controller # pdbedit -w -L|grep debbie

Re: [Samba] Seperate BIND server for Samba 4

2011-02-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Andrew, Du meintest am 04.02.11: Just for curiousity: I prefer dnsmasq as nameserver; do you support this program too? No. BIND is the only server that will support the range of functions Samba requires. That doesn't please me - sorry. I know BIND has a bad name in some minds,

Re: [Samba] Seperate BIND server for Samba 4

2011-02-02 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Andrew, Du meintest am 03.02.11: Is it possible to use a seperate BIND server instead? I'd like to not run BIND on my file server. This isn't recommended. In future versions of Samba4, we will support BIND 9.8 and a plugin that will directly read and write our database, to support

Re: [Samba] PDC broke after upgrade

2011-01-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Mat, Du meintest am 17.01.11: Samba 3.5.6 uses tdbsam, earlier versions have used smbpasswd; you should look which file (smbpasswd or passdb.tdb) your old version has used. For converting you can use pdbedit. Danke, I will check this I am sure that is the problem as

Re: [Samba] PDC broke after upgrade

2011-01-16 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Mat, Du meintest am 16.01.11: I upgraded from Debian Lenny (Samba 3.2.5) to Squeeze (Samba 3.5.6) and now my PDC does not work. In the past when upgrading from one release to another all of the machine trust accounts no longer worked but I was able to just rejoin then to the domain.

Re: [Samba] Problem: how to make users use unique passwords

2011-01-13 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Konstantin, Du meintest am 13.01.11: I have also added a call to cracklib to check password strength prior to applying it. It all works well, but the task it to force users to use unique password every time they have to change it. A typical scenario I must prevent is this: user change

Re: [Samba] Samba migration to a new server

2011-01-13 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Henri, Du meintest am 13.01.11: What is the best way to proceed to make this migration as seamless as possible for all users (more than 200 user accounts with more than 200 PC in the domain) ? My usual way: - copy/overwrite /etc/samba to the new machine - copy/overwrite all

Re: [Samba] Samba migration to a new server

2011-01-12 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, henri, Du meintest am 12.01.11: Is it possible to migrate Samba to a new server without breaking Domain membership of all the clients ? I didn?t get any info on that issue, is there someone that has previous experience of doing that ? Or maybe a link to some relevant info ? I have

Re: [Samba] Samba migration to a new server

2011-01-12 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Mike, Du meintest am 12.01.11: Thank you too, for your kind response. Don't mention ... By the way: that description assumes that the new server is the new login server too and runs instead of the old server. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Please Help me (share linux to MS-DOS)

2010-12-06 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, TAKAHASHI, Du meintest am 03.12.10: I want to share( Map as drive) Linux folder to Windows.If posible share to MS-DOS operating system You can connect from MS-DOS to Samba with LAN Manager or MS Network Client. They are still available from Microsoft at

Re: [Samba] windows 7

2010-11-29 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Stefan, Du meintest am 29.11.10: A little off-topic (as I don't use LDAP with samba in my particular case), but regarding Win7 and Samba-PDC: Could someone here please tell me/us what the current recommended best practise is for using Win7-clients with a Samba PDC?

Re: [Samba] WG: CTDB and PDC Role

2010-11-02 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Volker, Du meintest am 02.11.10: Although the concepts of Primary and Backup Domain Controller are a lot less relevant in a full Active Directory Domain. All domain controllers are equal for most purposes. Animal farm? Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

Re: [Samba] INCLUDEs in smb.conf

2010-10-21 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Robert, Du meintest am 21.10.10: Do I need a separate INCLUDE in each section, or can I have one INCLUDE at the end and just include needed sections? include replaces the calling line with the lines of the invoked file. You can put many include lines into the smb.conf. At nearly(?)

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.6 startup configuration

2010-10-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Derek, Du meintest am 17.10.10: I have compiled and installed Samba 3.6 from git to a separate directory for testing. Now that everything is operating, I would like to start Samba at the boot-up of the server. The installation did not configure Samba to start automatically, and I

Re: [Samba] [Ubuntu 10.04] Share not visible from XP?

2010-07-29 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Gilles, Du meintest am 29.07.10: So what's the correct way on Ubuntu 10.04 to (re)start Samba, including smbd and nmbd? If the daemons run and only need to re-read the smb.conf: killall -HUP smbd killall -HUP nmbd on Linux machines. I know - there are some Unix

Re: [Samba] Problem re-writing on a SAMBA share.

2010-07-27 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Mark, Du meintest am 26.07.10: I set up a Slackware 13 file server running Samba 3.2.13. Perhaps you first change to Samba 3.5.2 from Slackware 13.1 or to Samba 3.5.3 from slackware-current. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: [Samba] Set ACLs on Samba share from Windows

2010-07-08 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Dadoo, Du meintest am 08.07.10: #testparm -v | grep acl acl compatibility = auto acl check permissions = Yes acl group control = No acl map full control = Yes force unknown acl user = No nt acl support = Yes map acl

Re: [Samba] Problem After Upgrade - NT_STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY

2010-07-07 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Leandro, Du meintest am 07.07.10: The problem with simply moving the files over to the Ubuntu server is that the files on the XP box are stored on a RAID array that comes with a controller card whose driver is really only designed to be run on Windows, not Linux. Sorry - where is

Re: [Samba] sambaLogonScript problem

2010-07-03 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Leonardo, Du meintest am 03.07.10: My scripts consist only im mapping network folders. [...] Hmm, it looks like that there are no users running the scripts partially. What happens is some users that have manually mapped their drives. None of the users are really running the scripts.

Re: [Samba] Samba Forum vs. Mailing List?`!

2010-06-30 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Tom, Du meintest am 30.06.10: No I do not want any commercial support. I want structured information at my fingertips :-) You get what you pay for. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Samba Forum vs. Mailing List?`!

2010-06-30 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Tom, Du meintest am 30.06.10 zum Thema RE: [Samba] Samba Forum vs. Mailing List?`!: No I do not want any commercial support. I want structured information at my fingertips :-) You get what you pay for. With all respect, but what you write to me sounds like irony against the whole

Re: [Samba] Samba Forum vs. Mailing List?`!

2010-06-29 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Tom, Du meintest am 30.06.10: I wanted to ask if there is an official Samba Forum No need? Why do you need a forum with a mailing list? Because a forum IMHO has certain advantages over a mailing list. But you should first try to use the possibilities of a mailing list

Re: [Samba] gecos?

2010-06-15 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Neil, Du meintest am 15.06.10: This has always bothered me.. wtf does gecos mean (in the samba ldap)? General Electric Computer Operating System. They invented the GECOS field in the /etc/passwd file. Long time ago. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] Spurious data in file retrieved from Windows share via Samba

2010-05-21 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Robert, Du meintest am 21.05.10: I am using Samba to read a file on a Windows share from Linux. Linux version is Ubuntu 9.04 (I think). Not sure about the Samba version (sorry, can't check it now); it's whatever was packaged with Ubuntu. Windows version is Windows Server 2003 SP 2.

Re: [Samba] smbclient -k works; mount -t cifs does not

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Mike, tur...@mike-leone.com meinte am 04.05.10 in Samba zum Thema Re: [Samba] smbclient -k works; mount -t cifs does not: $ sudo mount -t cifs //dual-booter/TestShare /mnt -o sec=krb5 mount error(2): No such file or directory Try using the FQDN of the server in the UNC. For instance:

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 Policies????

2010-04-15 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Timothy, Du meintest am 14.04.10: I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I just started adding windows 7 to my domain, and my logon scripts are not running. They arent even trying to run. How do you enforce policies on windows 7? -- Which samba version? Windows 7

Re: [Samba] XP clients regularly lost mapped samba share. samba 3.5

2010-03-31 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, live.fx, Du meintest am 31.03.10: I have some complaints from Win XP users. Win XP clients regularly lost samba share - mapped as network drive. I don`t see any errors in logs. 1. I have 4 linux machines, with mapped SAMBA 3.5 shares as CIFS. - never lost. 2. Some Windows XP

Re: [Samba] XP clients regularly lost mapped samba share. samba 3.5

2010-03-31 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, John, Du meintest am 31.03.10: How do they lose the connection? I am working in a (very small) LAN with a Samba 3.4.x server, a Windows- 2000 client and a Windows XP-Home client. They just can not use P drive after some time. 1. User simple mount network share as permanent drive

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, John, Du meintest am 14.03.10: I just did a search in Google and I also found the warnings about the use of sockect options with Linux kernel 2.6. So, I suppose that one finds what one is looking for... I have seen enough recommendations not to mess with the socket options on modern

Re: [Samba] Illegal characters in filename?

2010-03-06 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Daniel, Du meintest am 06.03.10: I have a server that uses both NFS and Samba. I noticed on a Windows client that some directories and files were in the 8.3 format, and clicking on them resulted in an Access denied. message. I've since upgraded to 3.5.0 - now the Access denied.

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 + Samba 3.4.5 locking problem

2010-03-05 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Lars, Du meintest am 05.03.10: The application works with a lot of database files (*.DBF) and everything works fine if only one workstation has started the application. Getting from the main menu to the data for the first patient takes about 3 to 5 seconds which is fine. But every

[Samba] Samba 3.4.5 - rights for /etc/samba/private and smbusermap

2010-02-20 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, compiling 3.4.5 worked. Installing it was no problem. But now I get the message can't open username map /etc/samba/private/smbusermap Error Keine Berechtigung The rights were 700 for dir /etc/samba/private 644 for file smbusermap When I change the dir private to

[Samba] Samba 3.4.5 won't compile (Slackware)

2010-02-19 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I try to compile samba 3.4.5 in my slackware installation (slackware- current). Kernel compiling and compiling other packets works as desired. I use the samba.SlackBuild script from slackware.org (changing the version number of samba only).

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.4.5 won't compile (Slackware)

2010-02-19 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I wrote am 19.02.10: Compiling 3.4.5 shows Start -- [...] Linking bin/smbd lib/gencache.o: In function `gencache_iterate_fn': gencache.c:(.text+0xb1): undefined reference to `ap_fnmatch' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [bin/smbd] Error 1 --

Re: [Samba] How do I mount a share on my Debian server ?

2010-02-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Gungne, Du meintest am 17.02.10: I need to access a share on one of the win2003 servers. How do I do this? I want to mount the win share so that I permanently can access it from the debain workstations. Structure (not completely tested) smbclient -N -L win2003 shows the

Re: [Samba] How do I mount a share on my Debian server ?

2010-02-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Gungne, Du meintest am 17.02.10: I just want to access the shares on the windows server. My server (where I want to mount shares) My gateway (FW) 10.23.152.1 10.23.1.2 10.23.150.100 (win2003 with shares) What tells smbclient -N -L 10.23.150.100 Viele Gruesse! Helmut

Re: [Samba] How do I mount a share on my Debian server ?

2010-02-17 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Gungne, Du meintest am 17.02.10: I just want to access the shares on the windows server. My server (where I want to mount shares) My gateway (FW) 10.23.152.1 10.23.1.2 10.23.150.100 (win2003 with shares) What tells smbclient -N -L 10.23.150.100 myserver:~#

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