RE: [Samba] Samba share access error Fedora core 5

2006-08-10 Thread John Mason
Well call me a doofus, this has been one of my problems for a few days now! Thanks for posting to the list! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pavan Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Samba' Subject: RE:

RE: [Samba] Help: smbd nmbd normal states

2006-08-10 Thread John Mason
Have you checked the output of testparm? Run it and see if it doesn't like some configuration settings. I had very similar results when I had some misspelled configuration settings. And if that doesn't work, remove any and all log files, then add loglevel = 10 to your smb.conf, then start the

RE: [Samba] Regarding samba compilation

2006-08-09 Thread John Mason
You may need to run configure with some options... otherwise the smbd built executable will go in /usr/local/samba/sbin (configure --help for more info) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of samid Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:20 AM To:

RE: [Samba] samba3, srvtools, and user account with no password

2006-08-09 Thread John Mason
In smb.conf is a null passwords option it defaults to no. It's a security risk... but if you want it then set null passwords = yes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob_bipbip Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:49 AM To:

RE: [Samba] disabling roaming profiles for some networks only

2006-08-08 Thread John Mason
What about also enabling roaming profiles, but doing folder redirection? I use it and so it take much less time since each machine is configured to mount their my documents, desktop, etc. which makes their profile large rather than include them in the profile. It's included in the official

RE: [Samba] This list is a black hole.

2006-08-08 Thread John Mason
Seems that many questions get answered... but most to the original requestor... not the list. Plus, many of us watching don't know as much as the esteemed 30 or so experts so we can only help on that which we have tried. Are you having a problem? I'll try to answer it. -Original

RE: [Samba] disabling roaming profiles for some networks only

2006-08-08 Thread John Mason
Good point. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Logan Shaw Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 9:40 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: [Samba] disabling roaming profiles for some networks only On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, John Mason wrote: What about also enabling roaming profiles

[Samba] VFAT filesystem support vs. smbfs

2006-08-08 Thread John Mason
I'll forward your question to the list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tim Schoenfelder Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 10:07 AM To: John Mason Subject: Re: [Samba] This list is a black hole. I'm having a problem with Samba, I cannot connect to my Win98 PC via FC5. It seems

[Samba] samba 3.0.23a + ldap as PDC - should work, but why?

2006-08-07 Thread John Mason
I've got an issue with roaming profiles with samba 3.0.23a and an LDAP backend. I can use the ldap to authenticate an NT and a local user, and I know alot about PAM, NSS, and general linux. BUT, I can't get ANY roaming profiles to work. Other than my domain name changed for security purposes,

RE: [Samba] samba 3.0.23a + ldap as PDC - should work, but why?

2006-08-07 Thread John Mason
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Mason Sent: Mon 8/7/2006 1:05 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] samba 3.0.23a + ldap as PDC - should work, but why? I've got an issue with roaming profiles with samba 3.0.23a and an LDAP backend. I can use the ldap to authenticate an NT and a local user

RE: [Samba] domain group mapping in 3.0.23a issues

2006-08-04 Thread John Mason
Hey, I use the exact same samba version as you... I'm waiting for the 3.0.23b or higher but anyway.. In addition to net groupmap commands, you'll need to look at net rpc rights commands for any other-than-admin rights. It seems samba (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) does the windows

[Samba] Issues getting started with samba4 from samba3

2006-08-03 Thread John Mason
Hello, I've been working with Samba 3 (default from FC5 install) for a little bit but I wasn't too happy with profiles, logon scripts etc. as I need a PDC. So I checked out Samba 4 and have been trying to get started. I finally got swat working... as well as swat is working now. But how can I

[Samba] need ldif and schema for ldap and samba3 PDC

2006-08-03 Thread John Mason
Hello, I want to do some cleaning up of our smbpasswd, /etc/passwd, etc. files and start using ldap. However, I'm not sure what schema to use, what samba is looking for for user authentication, etc. If someone can direct me to a CLEAN (the only ones I've found are ugly and excessive) samba