Re: [Samba] Help with long PC names and AIX

2004-07-07 Thread Matthew Geier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I am new to Samba. I need a solution for a problem of long PC names and short AIX names. How do I work around this issue? This might not work on AIX, but it does for me on a Digital Unix 4.0D 'PDC' I run. In DU's case it's only the 'useradd' command that is limited

[Samba] 'homes' inaccessable, but the 'auto' named home is

2004-04-15 Thread Matthew Geier
I'm having a wierd problem I don't quite understand. For some users (me in particular) the 'homes' share cannot be accessed. Windows XP returns 'the sharename can't be found' or asks for a password. Supplying one doesn't help. Assing the 'named' autocreated version works fine. Every time.

RE: [Samba] How to hide shares for users that have no rights

2004-04-14 Thread Matthew Geier
... -- Matthew Geier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts IT Unit, Faculty of Arts, Sydney University -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] special chars in windows filenames

2004-04-05 Thread Matthew Geier
their files. (Which they then renamed back into what they wanted, but it was stored on the Unix side UTF-8 now) Of note on Fedora Core if I do an 'ls' of a folder containing something like Chinese put there by a Windows client, gterminal will render it correctly... -- Matthew Geier [EMAIL

Re: [Samba] mixed guest/domain user access to share

2004-03-21 Thread Matthew Geier
Matthew Geier wrote: I'm having terrible trouble getting a share that 'anyone' can connect to read only with out a password, but selected people who have write persmission would log into normally. The machine will have other shares that are access by athentication only. chopped down testparm

[Samba] mixed guest/domain user access to share

2004-03-18 Thread Matthew Geier
I'm having terrible trouble getting a share that 'anyone' can connect to read only with out a password, but selected people who have write persmission would log into normally. The machine will have other shares that are access by athentication only. smbclient will give me anon access to the

Re: samba-head bug relating to windows special chars (1/2)

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Geier
' in peoples profiles. But it didn't happen to every body. I can only assume the others never copy files to their floppy drives. :-) -- Matthew Geier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts IT Unit+61 2 9351 4713 Sydney University

Re: samba-head bug relating to windows special chars (1/2)

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Geier
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:01:55AM +1100, Matthew Geier wrote: I'm using Samba 3.0 on a 'production' server as users kept trying to put Chinese file names on the server with some what less than sucessful results. Telling them to use English names on the server