Re: [Samba] pdb_init_sam errors on upgrade to Samba 3

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Brodbelt wrote: | make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! | | It may be pertinent that this user has a different | unix username from Windows one, and I'm using the | username map in samba to point

[Samba] pdb_init_sam errors on upgrade to Samba 3

2005-06-28 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I have been running Samba 2.2 on a server without any problems until recently. We're currently in the process of upgrading our aging NT workstations, and replacing them with new machines running XP Pro. Yesterday I was bitten by a printing problem, which I think is bug 1147 in the bug

[Samba] How to force XP to use an unqualified username?

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I'm trying to map a share to a samba server from an XP workstation. The Samba server is a domain member, and the share in question is set up for guest access. From a linux box, I can run smbclient -W DOMAIN \\server\share, and it prompts for a password. I hit enter, and it logs in as

Re: [Samba] Authenticating PPTP users against Samba/LDAP

2004-10-20 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:44, Mike Brodbelt wrote: The pppd patch (one for 2.4.2, one for current CVS) is here: http://download.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/lorikeet/trunk/pppd The documentation is: http://hawkerc.net/staff/abartlet/comp3700/final-report.pdf Note

[Samba] Authenticating PPTP users against Samba/LDAP

2004-10-19 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I have a few remote user who use a PPTP based VPN. The server is running PoPToP (http://www.poptop.org/), and a pppd patched to support MPPE/MPPC for (some) added security. Currently, users authentication information is stored in plaintext in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. I'd like to be able to put

Re: [Samba] Re: NT domain migration to LDAP/SAMBA (password migration)

2004-07-27 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Kang Sun wrote: Previous question was regarding the passwords was not migrated ... Well, I find one error, at least that was what happened to me. In the smb.conf file, I had add user script = /var/lib/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl -a -m %u while it should have been add user script =

Re: [Samba] Re: NT domain migration to LDAP/SAMBA

2004-07-26 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Kang Sun wrote: Hello Mike, I did similar things and have similar problems. I looked at the ldap database, the migration did nothing but get all the names of users and machines. If the smbldap-* scripts are the only things vampire process is calling, I don't see how would it would get

[Samba] NT domain migration to LDAP/SAMBA

2004-07-23 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I'm attempting to migrate an NT4 domain to Samba3, and getting quite frustrated with stuff that seems not to work as advertised. I'd appreciate any help. I've set up an OpenLDAP server, and Samba 3, configured it as a BDC, and tried running net rpc vampire. This all works, and Samba does the

[Samba] Samba - printing fails with Canon ir5000i

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've got an interesting problem with the Samba spoolss support. We've recently received a new networked printer/copier - a Canon ir5000i. The machine comes with a CD that provides various drivers, including ones for NT4, which is our dekstop OS. I have set this up via TCP/IP printing support

Re: [Samba] OT: Why are so many using Samba to authenticate as PDC??

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Jonathan Johnson wrote: We all know about cost. Are there any TECHNICAL reasons for running Samba? Have you found it to be superior to Windows NT or 2000 Server in some way? Are you using it for the challenge of *something different*? Are you hoping to 'advance the state of the art'? Just a

Re: [Samba] Win(yuck)NT

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Steve_Lyle/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In migrating to Samba on FreeBSD from Win(yuck)NT, I?ve run into this hitch. Let us say I have 9 users named User1, User2, User3, ? User9 User1 is a member of group wheel User2 User3 have the administrative task (add/change/delete) of

Help with spoolss printing

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've got a network with an NT4 PDC and a Samba file/print server, running Samba 2.2.3 as packaged with Debian Woody. The machine has been working quite happily for ages (started life with Samba 1.9.18 a long time ago), and the printer sharing has always been done as Lan Manager printers.

Re: Help with spoolss printing

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: Please retest against 2.2.8pre2. OK - I'll need to build my own packages, which I was hoping to avoid, so testing against the new version will probably take me a day or so. Running the rpcclient enumdrivers command returns no output. Inspection of the logfiles

Re: Help with spoolss printing

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Mike Brodbelt wrote: Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: Please retest against 2.2.8pre2. OK - I'll need to build my own packages, which I was hoping to avoid, so testing against the new version will probably take me a day or so. Having tried this, 2.2.8 doesn't compile for me. Found

Re: Help with spoolss printing

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: Have you tried the backported 2.2.7a packages available at http://people.debian.org/~peloy/samba/? Jerry, have there been more printing fixes since then that he'll need in

Re: [Samba] MRTG + Samba

2003-02-11 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Ryan Beisner wrote: Hi all Just wondering if anyone has pointers for graphing data from Samba using MRTG. I already have MRTG graphing things like signal strength (cisco aironet pci), total kbps in/out each interface, mem and disk i/o usage. I'd like to graph, for example, average

[Samba] Problem changing settings on printer driver

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've run a Samba server happily for some time now, and all my users are printing via it. The printing works like so:- User prints from application on an NT4 workstation to a Samba printer Samba picks up job and hands it off to LPRng LPRng directs job to the appropriate network printer. The

Re: [Samba] Error when list a directory

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Joan Sanchez wrote: After mount a winnt folder on my linux box, if I try to list someone directory inside this mount point, my linux box show the error message Segmention Fault. snip Oct 29 12:46:57 box kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d000 The kernel

Re: [Samba] auth to two diff PDCs? (success, sort of)

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Collins, Kevin wrote: Hi All: Excuse me for butting in here, but I'm planning a migration from WinNT 4 to Samba in the near future and this thread has caused me to worry a little. Take the case that I'm planning: 3 Domains each to its own LAN (connected via 128k Frame Relay lines to

Re: [Samba] auth to two diff PDCs? (success, sort of)

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Collins, Kevin wrote: Hi All: Excuse me for butting in here, but I'm planning a migration from WinNT 4 to Samba in the near future and this thread has caused me to worry a little. Take the case that I'm planning: 3 Domains each to its own LAN (connected via 128k Frame Relay lines to

Re: [Samba] Samba versus Dreamweaver

2002-06-14 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Keller Nicolas wrote: Hi! I hope someone can help me with this one: We're using Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 to publish local files from a NT4 Server to our internet server running Redhat 7.3 / Samba 2.2.3a. Life could be so sweet but we're facing a strange problem: Users can't _overwrite_

Re: [Samba] How to switch from NT to Samba transparently?

2002-06-07 Thread Mike Brodbelt
name longer than 8 characters, will the machine account die? #!/usr/bin/perl # # Author: Mike Brodbelt # Creation date: 21/11/01 # Last updated: 03/12/01 # # Small script to read the contents of system account files, and an smbpasswd file, and # create new /etc/passwd and /etc/group files