RE: R: R: [Samba] dos application

2008-05-22 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Volker Lendecke Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:03 AM To: Meli Marco Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: R: R: [Samba] dos application On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Meli Marco

RE: [Samba] samba server maxing out cpu, load up to 10

2008-05-20 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Alex Harrington Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:39 AM We used to have a similar problem - but I've not seen it in a long time. It was always a badly behaved PC and often involved a Publisher document being stuck open. Running top, see if one smbd process

[Samba] samba server maxing out cpu, load up to 10

2008-05-19 Thread James A. Dinkel
This is samba 3.0.23c running on RHEL 5.0. Starting a few months ago, the server started periodically slowing to a crawl. The cpu would be maxed out and top would show the load between 5 and 10 (it's usually way under 1, like 0.3 to 0.5). Any way to figure out what is causing this? This is

RE: [Samba] Can't kill smbd process

2008-04-21 Thread James A. Dinkel
TCP_NODELAY is still usefull and has a noticeable improvement in responsiveness. SO_RCVBUF=8192 and SO_SNDBUF=8192 are outdated and actually make things worse if running with a 2.6 kernel (they do help if running on a 2.4 kernel). But I too, am sure changing these will not fix your problem (but

RE: [Samba] Can't kill smbd process

2008-04-21 Thread James A. Dinkel
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:22 AM To: James A. Dinkel Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Can't kill smbd process On 4/21/2008, James A. Dinkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: TCP_NODELAY is still usefull and has a noticeable improvement in responsiveness. this is contrary

[Samba] Samba server, works fine for several days, then load increases indefinately till server unavailable

2008-04-21 Thread James A. Dinkel
Our Samba server running on CentOS 5.1 (upgraded from 5.0) with Samba 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 has been in place for about a year and a half. We had no issues till about 2 months ago. This may have coincided with the upgrade of CentOS 5.0 to 5.1 (which would have brought a new Samba version with it).

[Samba] will ms dfs links go to the closest file server

2008-02-06 Thread James A. Dinkel
If I enable msdfs on a samba share and create a link such as: ln -s msdfs:serverB\\share,serverC\\share linkb and say serverB is on one side of a 512kb network link and serverC is on the other side; will the clients intelligently pick the server on the same side as themselves or is it more

[Samba] force close files, preferably through Computer Management

2008-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
is Denied on the Samba server. This is Samba 3.0.25b on CentOS 5, by the way. Is there a way I can configure the server to allow me access to do this? Alternatively, if anyone knows of another way to close just these few files, that would be helpful. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list

RE: [Samba] Group Policy install MSI from Samba share

2007-04-11 Thread James A. Dinkel
I'm assigning this to the Computer Accounts, not publishing to groups/users. The only thing I could think of was to give permission to the Domain Computers group, but that does not work. James Dinkel -Original Message- From: Daniel Samson Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:32 AM Is you

[Samba] Group Policy install MSI from Samba share

2007-04-10 Thread James A. Dinkel
know how to make this work? James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There's no place like ~/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] samba groupware integration

2007-03-20 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Marcus Sobchak Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:09 PM Hi, I'd like to install a groupware server in our institute and looking for a software, which connects samba and the groupware server, for example for authentication (may be LDAP) and (more importent)

RE: [Samba] Administrator on samba server?

2007-03-02 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: max Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:39 AM Hi, I've samba 3 running on trustix 2.2. I've added an xp sp2 client without much problems. But now I'm trying to use administrator user on this client for administrative purpouses (adding software, printers and so

RE: [Samba] vfs_shadow and [homes]

2007-03-02 Thread James A. Dinkel
:) if there´s a new release please let us know so we can test it. thanks again! micha Ed Plese wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:35:12PM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote: i was able to successfully run vfs_shadow on a samba share with win xp shadow copy client. but i think it?s currently

RE: [Samba] vfs_shadow and [homes]

2007-03-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
at least administrators can access that share and use the Previous Versions Client to retrieve files. My solution does not allow users to retrieve their own files though, which I would like for it to do. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

RE: [Samba] What is the difference between %u and %U

2007-02-16 Thread James A. Dinkel
I had to deal with some other issues and had not checked my list emails. But anyway, I have read the replies they all have given me a very good idea, and I my question has been thoroughly answered :) So Thank You to everyone who replied! James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go

RE: [Samba] copying a folder removes the 'hidden' attribute

2007-02-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Jeremy Allison Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:29 PM On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:24:48PM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote: I have extended attributes enable in the file system so the 'hidden' and other attributes should be saved as an extended attribute

RE: [Samba] Winbind separator = +

2007-02-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
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[Samba] difference between %u and %U

2007-02-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
What is the difference between %u and %U? The documentation says they both return the value of the connected username, but will they return different values? James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary

[Samba] What is the difference between %u and %U

2007-02-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
What is the difference between %u and %U?  The documentation says they both return the value of the connected username, but will they return different values? Or the same values? Or different values in different situations? James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

RE: [Samba] What is the difference between %u and %U

2007-02-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
From: Don McCall %U returns the username the client requested over the wire %u returns the username that he actually mapped to. From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter %u is based on the uid of the connected userand is only available with the context of a share connection. That's a little

[Samba] cleaning up duplicate files on the file server

2007-02-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
sort of copy-on-edit mechanism, so when the file is changed, instead of changing the original file, the symlink is replaced with the edited version of the file. Does this make sense? Has anyone else thought about this, or found an elegant solution to this? James Dinkel Network Engineer

RE: [Samba] Version control filessytem using Samba

2007-02-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Mario Fernandez Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:43 PM I'm looking at implementing a version control filesystem and would like to know if it's possible to implement version control with Samba. Thanks Mario As far as I know, the answer is no. This

RE: [Samba] Dual boot Win98 Centos sharing files

2007-02-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Jeff Boyce Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:17 PM jbaker_signatureSo, it sounds like using Samba is not the way to achieve my objective. And that I just need to learn about partitioning. So my new question would be can anyone point me to a good how-to

RE: [Samba] Samba4 TP release

2007-02-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Andrew Bartlett Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 5:47 PM On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:37 -0800, Guillermo Gutierrez wrote: Hey guys, I am wondering when there will be another samba4 technical preview release? Also, because I will want to set it up in a

RE: [Samba] SMB slow by design?

2007-02-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmundo Valle Neto Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 7:14 PM To: Jeremy Allison Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] SMB slow by design? Jeremy Allison escreveu: On Sat, Jan 27,

RE: [Samba] SMB slow by design?

2007-02-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Chris Garrigues Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:06 PM From: Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:56:25 -0800 On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:47:59AM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote: I don't know why, but I just tried

[Samba] copying a folder removes the 'hidden' attribute

2007-02-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
I have extended attributes enable in the file system so the 'hidden' and other attributes should be saved as an extended attribute. When connecting to the share from a Windows computer, if I copy a FILE then the new file stays hidden, but if I copy a FOLDER then the new folder is NOT hidden. I

RE: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly [SOLVED]

2007-01-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
on Ubuntu, but the setup was the same. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org

RE: [Samba] sharing word files

2007-01-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
I think the problem is, when Word opens a file, it puts an oplock on it. When word opens the file a second time, it sees that oplock and refuses to open it as anything other than read-only. I'm not sure if this is how it acts on Windows file servers, but I suspect it is. James Dinkel Network

[Samba] lib/util_sock.c:print_socket_options(206)

2007-01-08 Thread James A. Dinkel
This is seem unusual to anyone? I have this over and over and over in the smbd.log file: [2007/01/08 09:48:22, 5] lib/util_sock.c:print_socket_options(206) socket option SO_SNDBUF = 16384 [2007/01/08 09:48:22, 5] lib/util_sock.c:print_socket_options(206) socket option SO_RCVBUF = 16384

RE: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
the processor, it's the root smbd process. -Original Message- From: Aaron Kincer Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:00 AM To: James A. Dinkel Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly I just watched the top for a bit and did

RE: [Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
max-out. Looking specifically at the logs for that computer, may give me some insight, but it will have to wait until probably Monday. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -Original

RE: [Samba] Access From another subnet

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Shawn Simmons Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:24 PM I have several Windows XP workstations that reside in the 192.168.2.x network that will show the Samba Server in the network neighborhood; however, I get access denied errors trying to access it.

[Samba] smbd keeps maxing out the cpu, must reboot server constantly

2007-01-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
logs tell me nothing and the level 10 logs are Greek to me. James Dinkel PS. Earlier this morning I switched to level 10 logs and when the max out happened I checked the time in the VMWare performance graphs. It looks like it happened around 9:26:40 to 9:27:20. Here are the VERY LONG grep

RE: [Samba] users via winbind and using @group in smb.conf

2006-12-28 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Stefan Froehlich Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:43 AM Hello, I have two samba servers, A is configured as a PDC, B offers some additional shares. B is getting usernames and passwords via winbind from a, using the following configuration directives:

RE: [Samba] Heimdal or MIT kerberos comparison

2006-12-27 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 4:38 PM It's a Samba4 thing, because we bundle kerberos in the distribution. snip Almost all users will use the system kerberos libraries, whatever they are. They tend to be

[Samba] can not get preexec option to run a script file

2006-12-27 Thread James A. Dinkel
. Anybody see what I am doing wrong? James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Heimdal or MIT kerberos comparison

2006-12-26 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Andrew Bartlett Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 3:42 PM The biggest thing users will notice is that the error message system returns contextual errors, with the actual reason for the failure, not just the translated code. It often includes the vital

RE: [Samba] Re: [opensuse] Open-source leader leaving Novell forGoogle

2006-12-26 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Jeremy Allison Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 12:03 AM It's true I'm leaving Novell, but why do you think this means I'm not going to be on any Samba lists ? I'm joining Google on 2nd Jan, and believe me when I tell you they're *very* interested in me

[Samba] Heimdal or MIT kerberos comparison

2006-12-22 Thread James A. Dinkel
a blank wiki page at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_%26_Kerberos so if anyone has any good information, I'll put it there. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't

[Samba] Two domain groups with the same gid?

2006-12-12 Thread James A. Dinkel
group that I just set up btw. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Shares mount on linux but not windows?

2006-12-12 Thread James A. Dinkel
. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -Original Message- From: Brian Atkins Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:56 PM I'm not sure if this thread is making it on the list

RE: [Samba] AD integration checklist

2006-12-11 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: simo Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:58 PM On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 17:35 -0600, Don Meyer wrote: Interestingly, I've never modified my /etc/pam.d/samba -- mainly because I make the modifications in /etc/pam.d/system-auth, so the AD-based auth can take

RE: [Samba] Enum groups of a user Samba 3.0.23

2006-12-09 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Henrik Zagerholm Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:32 AM Hello list, I wonder if I can somehow enumerate all local groups a user is member of? Regards, Henrik I don't get what you mean. You should be able to list all groups with members with:

RE: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-08 Thread James A. Dinkel
Just a little update. I've found out about the 'id' command and the 'wbinfo -r' command. Both of those commands do NOT return any domain groups that are parents over domain groups for the user. I don't know if this gives any ideas or means anything to anybody. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe

RE: [Samba] AD integration checklist

2006-12-08 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Simon Renshaw Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:13 AM Hi, I compiled Samba 3.0.23d on a CentOS 4.4 machine. Then I configured /etc/krb5.conf for my domain. Was able to successfully run kinit and join my Windows 2003 domain with a net ads join. Net ads

RE: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-08 Thread James A. Dinkel
from the Sarge repo. This fixed my nested domain groups problem, hopefully it didn't introduce any new ones. I've only done this on my test server. After a little more QA I'll do this on my semi-production server. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

RE: [Samba] AD integration checklist

2006-12-08 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Don Meyer Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:12 PM Don't forget the necessary modifications to nsswitch.conf: passwd: files winbind shadow: files winbind group: files winbind Cheers, -Don That's right. Although, I do not have winbind after the

RE: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-07 Thread James A. Dinkel
Well, I think I'm giving up. I've tried following that guide. I've tried replacing my smb.conf to look just like yours. I've tried a bunch of other things that I though might do something. For the life of me, I can not get nested groups to work on this server. James Dinkel -Original

RE: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-06 Thread James A. Dinkel
configuration. I'll try another machine with that Ubuntu guide and see what happens. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-06 Thread James A. Dinkel
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-91510.html That guide also does not say anything about adding acl and user_xattr to the mount options of the partition containing the share. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

RE: [Samba] what OS do you use for Samba?

2006-12-06 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Chris Smith Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:06 PM Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) seems to be stuck at 3.0.22. Which is one of the reasons I elected not to move to Ubuntu servers - when I first examined the possibility they were stuck on 3.0.14 for the longest

RE: [Samba] authenticating NT users with space in username?

2006-12-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
Are you sure you are not looking at the user's full name? I'm pretty sure Windows does not allow usernames with spaces. James Dinkel -Original Message- From: poisonpill I know it's ridiculous, but I have a userbase where every username has a space in it. IE: temp user. Is it possible

[Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
nothing. Samba seems to not be recognizing that a user is a member of a group under another group. Is there any way to enable Samba, or Winbind, to follow down the group hierarchy? James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https

RE: [Samba] Does Samba/Winbind not follow nested groups in AD?!?

2006-12-05 Thread James A. Dinkel
-Original Message- From: Matt Skerritt There is an option in smb.conf called winbind nested groups ... and the help text from swat says: winbind nested groups (G) If set to yes, this parameter activates the support for nested groups. Nested groups are also called local

RE: [Samba] Strange behaviour with shares

2006-12-04 Thread James A. Dinkel
That snippet of code doesn't tell much. And the file should be smb.conf, not samba.conf. Could you post the entire contents of the file smb.conf located at /etc/samba? If what you say is accurate, then my guess is there is a section called [share installs] in the smb.conf. James Dinkel

RE: [Samba] Very slow changing permissions from Windows client

2006-12-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
How do I get this network trace that Jeremy is asking about? James Dinkel -Original Message- From: Jeremy Allison On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:50:08AM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote: Our samba server authenticates to Windows 2000 Active Directory and I have ea support enabled on the share

RE: [Samba] Access to home drive

2006-12-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
=700 /export/homes/%S under my [homes] share. I also put path = /home/%S as suggested in the Samba howto to use %S instead of %U, though I don't know why. James Dinkel -Original Message- From: Chandra Sornam Hi Samba Experts I raised this problem where its still waiting to be resolved

RE: [Samba] Shadow Copy Client blank, with error in logs

2006-11-29 Thread James A. Dinkel
mapping... :( James Dinkel -Original Message- From: James A. Dinkel Well, it looks like this only fixed it for admin users. The Previous Versions is still showing up blank for regular valid users. I'll look more into it, and try to get a debug 10 log tomorrow. James Dinkel

[Samba] Shadow Copy Client blank, with error in logs

2006-11-28 Thread James A. Dinkel
/vfs_shadow_copy.c:shadow_copy_opendir(81) shadow_copy_opendir: SMB_VFS_NEXT_OPENDIR() failed for [Folder/file.txt] This is logging in as the same user on each machine. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand

RE: [Samba] what OS do you use for Samba?

2006-11-28 Thread James A. Dinkel
Oh I wish I would have known that. I've already got the Ubuntu server set up and moved one department over to it. I'm planning on upgrading to Etch when it comes out anyway, so I think I'll stick to that plan and use this repo at that point. James Dinkel -Original Message- From: James

[Samba] suggestion: hide Unix UGO permissions when mode is 0

2006-11-28 Thread James A. Dinkel
. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Shadow Copy Client blank, with error in logs

2006-11-28 Thread James A. Dinkel
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RE: [Samba] Shadow Copy Client blank, with error in logs

2006-11-28 Thread James A. Dinkel
Well, it looks like this only fixed it for admin users. The Previous Versions is still showing up blank for regular valid users. I'll look more into it, and try to get a debug 10 log tomorrow. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

RE: [Samba] what OS do you use for Samba?

2006-11-27 Thread James A. Dinkel
are using Ubuntu without any hassles. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

RE: [Samba] Permissions on Domain Admin created files

2006-11-22 Thread James A. Dinkel
If you are using Samba version 3.0.20 or later, you can set the inherit owner = yes on the share. James Dinkel -Original Message- From: Julian Pilfold-Bagwell I have a PDC that serves 800 users all of whom have their own home directory. From time to time, members of the Domain Admins

RE: [Samba] need unix to windows solution

2006-11-22 Thread James A. Dinkel
but I would expect this to be different on Solaris. James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -Original Message- From: Robert Mortimer Hello, I am looking for a solution

[Samba] Very slow changing permissions from Windows client

2006-11-17 Thread James A. Dinkel
this could be so slow? Setting permissions on the same directories on the old Windows file server would take maybe a minute. This is my first time posting on any mailing list, so just let me know if I do something stupid :) James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas   There are 10 types

[Samba] script for VFS module shadow_copy

2006-11-17 Thread James A. Dinkel
(in the unlikely event it is ever rebooted). One solution to this would probably be to use awk and sed (no idea how to use these) to dynamically add and remove the fstab entries. James Dinkel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman