Re: [Samba] weird permissions issue

2009-06-19 Thread JJB
Dale Schroeder wrote: I don't know if you've solved this or not, but have you checked the acl's with getfacl. (I noticed all the inherit acl statements.) I once had this problem, and it was caused by the creation of default acl's that overrode all other permissions. Since I did not create them

[Samba] weird permissions issue

2009-06-17 Thread JJB
Recently some folks in our engineering group started encountering a problem where they can't write to or alter files or folders they did not create. Anyone know what could be causing this type of problem? The users having the problem are all in the eng group is /etc/groups. smb.conf for that

Re: [Samba] weird permissions issue

2009-06-17 Thread JJB
Version 3.2.4-4.3-2042-SUSE-SL11.0 Do I need to file a bug report for something that used to work but stopped about 1 month ago? If something stops working, that usually isn't a bug, its a config problem or a data corruption problem, isn't it? In other words, isn't this most likely the fault

Re: [Samba] migrating from Samba to Windows

2008-04-25 Thread JJB
monitoring software for BRU www.backupcheckup.com On 4/24/2008 3:01 PM, JJB wrote: JJB wrote: Hello, Is it possible to easily migrate Samba domain users to a Windows PDC? - Joel Has anyone moved back to Microsoft from Linux / Samba? - Joel Awesome, thanks! - Joel -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [Samba] Yet another Samba How-to

2008-04-25 Thread JJB
Mike Petersen wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to let you guys know that I put together a High Level Samba How-to that I believe is very informative for Samba Beginners. I wrote it using Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server Hi Mike, thank you so much for creating this. We tried to do our PDC with

[Samba] migrating from Samba to Windows

2008-04-24 Thread JJB
Hello, Is it possible to easily migrate Samba domain users to a Windows PDC? - Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] migrating from Samba to Windows

2008-04-24 Thread JJB
JJB wrote: Hello, Is it possible to easily migrate Samba domain users to a Windows PDC? - Joel Has anyone moved back to Microsoft from Linux / Samba? - Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] corrupt files... oplocks?

2008-04-14 Thread JJB
Suddenly in the past week we have been having users who share excel files via our Samba complain that the file has become corrupt, and also some database files (Orcad .tdb database files). Fortunately there has in each instance been a good copy in the .recycler... so far. I came across some

Re: [Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...

2008-04-11 Thread JJB
Yan Seiner wrote: Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Fact is, most of us don't have farms of domain controllers and hundreds and hundreds of users. Most of us manage small to medium sized networks that can benefit hugely by the cost savings of deploying Samba instead of Windows. I'm not talking

Re: [Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...

2008-04-10 Thread JJB
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I realize I'll get tarred-n-feather for this, but... My IT department has implemented a samba PDC and now we are taking flack for it. Can anyone help me out with some good

[Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...

2008-04-09 Thread JJB
Hello, My IT department has implemented a samba PDC and now we are taking flack for it. Can anyone help me out with some good justifications for doing it this way vs the Microsoft way? Have a meeting about it in a short while... We wanted to do it because Linux is more secure and more

[Samba] weird election with non-existant machine

2008-04-02 Thread JJB
Forced Election: In workgroup WORKGROUP when announced server was: SYSTEM-1 (192.168.1.248) : 50 Time(s) SYSTEM-2 (192.168.1.183) : 2 Time(s) SYSTEM-3 (192.168.1.248) : 1 Time(s) Cannot get workgroup name from domain name browser: 192.168.1.153 : 96 Time(s)

Re: [Samba] weird election with non-existant machine

2008-04-02 Thread JJB
Marcio Merlone wrote: Search for a file called wins.dat, remove it, restart samba and go for a coffee. JJB escreveu: Forced Election: 192.168.1.153 was a mac running Leopard. It has not been on the network for a month, but this keeps happening. Does anyone have an idea where this address

[Samba] migrating user profiles to new domain

2008-02-21 Thread JJB
Ok, we finally have our Linux PDC up and running. I'm trying to find a good guide to copying windows XP user profiles registry settings to the newly created domain user profile. Also any utilities that could accomplish this. We are using local profiles. What we tried was using the copy to

[Samba] Mac Machines taking over Master Browser

2008-01-28 Thread JJB
For some reason the Macintosh machines on our LAN have started taking over as master browser without actually providing. Mostly these are Leopard machines, and one Tiger machine. We had OS Level set to 255 and that does not seem to make a difference. [2008/01/16 11:14:27, 0]

[Samba] Any SAMBA consultants for hire?

2007-10-25 Thread JJB
Hello, Is anyone on this list in the Santa Cruz, California area, and available immediately for a short term project to configure two OpenSUSE 10.2 machines as PDC BDC with SAMBA and OpenLDAP? If so, please email me your rate, and approximately how long you think it will take to accomplish