[Samba] Samba and Password Complexity

2010-09-17 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
A password set from Windows XP requires a certain level of complexity: by default, Windows will not allow a password of aa, but it will allow Johnny1. I've been experimenting with a check password script so that both would be rejected. That worked. However, when I removed the check password

Re: [Samba] [Ubuntu 10.04] Share not visible from XP?

2010-07-30 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr): BTW, how can I check that Samba does use /etc/samba/smb.conf as its configuration file? smbd -b lists the parameters Samba was built with - CONFIGFILE is in there somewhere. If not set otherwise in the init script or command line, that is what it is

Re: [Samba] preferred file system

2010-06-29 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
Chris Smith wrote: Is there a preferred file system (ext4, xfs, reiserfs, etc.) for hosting Samba shares used by Windows clients? What do the devs use? I don't know about Samba preferences, but in the current Fedora/RedHat world, reiserfs does not appear to be a preferred filesystem: there's a

Re: [Samba] xls file locked for editing by unknown user

2010-06-29 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
Dave Coventry wrote: I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask about this, but one of my users is having a problem with her files,specifically excel files which she is editing with openoffice. I suspect that she is closing down her PC without logging out or something and so appears to be

Re: [Samba] samba.org has been revised!

2010-05-20 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
zoolook wrote: Also, the color combination (specially on the wiki) is awful; red on gray, really hurt my eyes. I hope it can be improved soon. Regards, Norberto I also found the red/white/gray combination difficult. It took me a while to realise that the big red blocks on the left were menu.

[Samba] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name) after upgrade

2010-05-07 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
After upgrading from samba3-3.3.10-40.el5.i386.rpm to samba3-3.4.7-42.el5.i386.rpm, I'm seeing a lot of [2010/05/05 11:06:42, 1] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name) reduce_name: couldn't get realpath for addrbook/CVS [2010/05/05 11:06:42, 1] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name) reduce_name:

Re: [Samba] Samba access Windows Vista and Seven

2010-01-28 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
From: Claudio Guzman [mailto:cguzm...@gmail.com] need to update some settings or install any special protocol? best regards http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] HI

2010-01-04 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
sheron fernando wrote: Dear Samba Admin my samba server working but windows client log to my samba server coming error massages. i check my samba log file coming this error massage. please help to me. * [2009/12/29 09:01:48, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562) write_data: write failure in

Re: [Samba] Upgrading to Vista with Samba 3.0.28a

2009-12-01 Thread Moray Henderson (ICT)
Leandro Tracchia wrote: I've been running a samba 3.0.28a PDC with XP clients for a while now. The setup has been working flawlessly. I'm considering upgrading some of the clients to Vista. Are there any known issues to Vista using this version of Samba that I should know about. I all need to do

[Samba] two domains / shares

2006-04-19 Thread ict
hi, i would like to know if its possible to make a share on one domain available to another, currently we have 2 domains a windows 2000 server and a samba server both as domain masters, is it possible to make a share available on the samba server available to windows 2000 server. basically i

[Samba] make a machine create an account in samba / ldap automagically

2006-03-30 Thread ict
hi, thought i would see if some one could help i have finally got a samba ldap setup working near flawlessly, how ever the one thing i would like is for a machine to create an account on joining the domain. at present i need to add the account before hand which will just be an extra job so i

[Samba] multiple samba server

2006-03-21 Thread ict
i have spent the last three days setting up a samba PDC with openldap, i finally seem to have gotten this working, but require some info on setting up additional servers this is the layout i am after. samba PDC / directory server all user accounts here maybe some shared areas secondary file