[Samba] Does the refuse machine password change account policy work?

2012-04-29 Thread Nicholas Brealey
I would like to use: pdbedit -P 'refuse machine password change' -C 1 on my Solaris SPARC server running Samba 3.5.5 as a PDC to stop clients changing their machine passwords. Does this actually work? I have seen some old messages on various forums suggesting it does not work or does not work

[Samba] Copy tdb files from big endian system to little endian system?

2012-04-29 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Can I copy tdb files from a big endian system to little endian system? I would like to do this to move my Samba PDC from Samba 3.5.5 on Solaris SPARC to Samba 3.5.10 on Linux x86_64 but there are some reports that it may not work. (I don't need to move the printing tdb files). Thanks Nick

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-23 Thread Nicholas Brealey
The Sun 7310 is a storage appliance. It is not running Solaris 10 but runs an OS based on Open Solaris with CIFS and Windows style authentication integrated in the kernel. Installing Samba is not an option. You really should be using the integrated CIFs server. It is probably simpler to set up

Re: [Samba] [ANNOUNCE] Samba 3.2.2 Available for Download

2008-08-31 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Gary Greene wrote: /opt/samba/bin, /opt/samba/lib and RPATH=$ORIGIN/../lib would be OK. /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib and RPATH=$ORIGIN/../lib would bad. /usr/bin, /usr/lib and RPATH=$ORIGIN/../lib would be very bad. Nick This is not true. The reason most distributions cannot use RPATH is

Re: [Samba] [ANNOUNCE] Samba 3.2.2 Available for Download

2008-08-27 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Brian H. Nelson wrote: Michael Adam wrote: ... What is more, rpath also has some bad effects (when updating libraries, e.g.), so it should not be set unconditionally. Could you elaborate on why/when setting rpath would cause problems? I'm having trouble coming up with an example. I

Re: [Samba] [ANNOUNCE] Samba 3.2.2 Available for Download

2008-08-22 Thread Nicholas Brealey
On Solaris I think the best option for packages which have a directory structure like: package/bin package/lib is to link the executables with: -R$ORIGIN/../lib (In a Makefile use: LDFLAGS = -R\$$ORIGIN/../lib) This means the package can installed anywhere and still pick up the correct

Re: [Samba] passwd change with 3.0.27a

2007-12-11 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hans Mayer wrote: we are using samba at serveral locations over years successfully. as we have some problems with acl's we tried to upgrade from 3.0.24 to 3.0.27a as fare as we can see, all is working fine, except users cannot change the password. after some seconds a window appears: You

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles - the next step (OT)

2005-11-08 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Simon Faulkner wrote: So, if I switch to Thunderbird and use IMAP can I get a fully roaming profile? If only this was true! Sorry for this gripe, it has being annoying me for years! GRIPE Take a look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74085 This bug took 4 years from the

Re: [Samba] Unicode, ASCII, and Samba3 ...

2005-10-26 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Julien Ailhaud wrote: Problem summary : Files created with samba2 are now unreadable with samba3. I tested all possible settings in samba, rebuild it with libiconv, already posted here without reply ... without success. You need to use convmv on your Samba server.

[Samba] Move 3.0.10 PDC to server with diifferent hostname an IP address

2005-01-17 Thread Nicholas Brealey
I want to move my Samba 3.0.10 server which is acting as PDC and WINS server to a new server with a differenent hostname and IP address. The old server is being used as a NIS+ server which means it would be very difficult for me to move the old hostname and IP to the new server. I have used the IP

[Samba] Samba 2.2.8 SEGV in rpcclient getdriver on Solaris 7

2003-04-05 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hello I was trying to figure out how to add printer drivers manually for downloading to Windows 2000 clients and I came accross this problem. (The printer drivers were installed some time ago using an earlier version of samba 2.2.x). $ dbx /usr/local/samba/bin/rpcclient (dbx) run xxx -U

Samba 2.2.8 acl compatibility documentation error

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hello I think there is a small error in the 'acl compatibility' documentation. In the first sentence in the smb.conf.5.html web page it currently says: New in Samba 2.2.8 and above, this string parameter tells smbd if it should modify any Windows access control lists created from POSIX access

Samba 2.2.8 large file bug in smbwrapper and permissions bug?

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hello Compiling 2.2.8 and smbwrapper on Solaris 9, I saw the following warnings: Compiling smbwrapper/smbw.c with -KPIC smbwrapper/smbw.c, line 1258: warning: argument #4 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to ullong : include/proto.h, line 303 argument : pointer to

Re: Showstopper! Samba 2.2.8 can't read TDB files from previousversions.

2003-03-16 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Fredrik Ohrn wrote: It seems that Samba 2.2.8 is unable to open TDB files written by older versions. Instead it just overwrites them with a fresh file. This caused our domain-server to loose the domain SID leaving all our NT clients out in the cold. We use a domain SID extracted from the

Samba-2.2.8pre2 compiler warnings

2003-03-01 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hello I just compiled Samba-2.2.8pre2 on 4 different systems: 1) Solaris 7 + cc: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 2) Solaris 9 + cc: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 3) Solaris 9 + cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 4) IRIX 6.5 + MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.30 It compiled OK on

Re: Problem with latest Samba 2.2.7a PGP signed files

2002-12-13 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Herb Lewis wrote: This renaming was to work around a browser problem where browsers would think any file with a .gz anywhere in the path was a gzipped file. Actually, I think it was a web server or transparent cache bug where the web server would tell the client that any file with a .gz in

Re: [Samba] The Samba Team announces Samba 2.2.7 - security release

2002-11-20 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ Is there a permissions problem on the samba-2.2.7.tar.gz.asc file? I don't seem to be able to download it, although I can download the samba-2.2.7.tar.bz2.asc file. In view of

Re: [Samba] The Samba Team announces Samba 2.2.7 - security release

2002-11-20 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nicholas Brealey wrote: Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ Is there a permissions problem

LDFLAGS patch for Samab 2.2.5

2002-07-07 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hello I have attached a small patch to fix this problem on Solaris 7: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib CC=cc ./configure --with-acl-support --localstatedir=/var/samba --with-configdir=/etc/samba --with-privatedir=/etc/samba --with-quotas --with-automount

Re: [Samba] 2.2 4 inherit acls problem on IRIX 6.5

2002-05-21 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hi I am afraid that the problem is still there in the CVS version from last night. See attached file. Regards Nick Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:44:41PM +0100, Nicholas Brealey wrote: Hi I hope the attached file helps solve the problem. Thanks for this - I

Re: [Samba] 2.2 4 inherit acls problem on IRIX 6.5

2002-05-21 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hi I updated after I got your message but I must have been too quick. I updated again after you latest message and it seems to work now. Thank you very much. Regards Nick Jeremy Allison wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:56:31AM +0100, Nicholas Brealey wrote: Hi I am afraid

Re: [Samba] 2.2 4 inherit acls problem on IRIX 6.5

2002-05-20 Thread Nicholas Brealey
Hi I hope the attached file helps solve the problem. Nick Andrew Bartlett wrote: Nicholas Brealey wrote: Hi With inherit acls = yes and Samba 2.2.4 on IRIX 6.5 I cannot create an new folder using Windows Explorer: I can't help much if it is IRIX-specific (herb should be able