Hello,
I run a Windows domain based on Samba 3 and I am searching for a way to
distribute/deploy software to clients.
I.e., a user logging on to a client, software should be automatically
installed or upgraded. Is there any common solution? I heard of MSI
packages, but I don't know if it is
Hi,
anybody knows, what the last entry in this log mean?:
[2004/11/07 16:51:50, 3] smbd/reply.c:rename_internals(3777)
rename_internals: case_sensitive = 0, case_preserve = 1, short case preserve =
1, directory = ./Neu Textdatei.txt, newname = ./äüö.txt, last_component_dest =
äüö.txt, is_8_3
Florian,
Please keep me updated on your findings and in particular on the solution you
end up using. I believe it would be most useful to document this in the
Samba-HOWTO-Collection.
I look forward to your feedback.
Cheers,
John T.
On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:04, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Basically what you are looking for is called Electronic Software Distribution
(ESD) and is far too rarely used in the industry.
Honestly MSI stinks. My Opus 1 product back in 1995 is much like what MSI is
today. Currently I am working on Opus 4, plus have used some vendor tools as
well.
The
Hi John,
Please keep me updated on your findings and in particular on the solution you
end up using. I believe it would be most useful to document this in the
Samba-HOWTO-Collection.
Of course, will do as soon as I know something. ;-)
A good page is www.gruppenrichtlinien.de , but it seems that
Hi Michael,
The name of the game is to get the right files in the right places, the
right registry entries in the right places, and BINGO! the software
works. That's it!
thanks for the feedback. However - simple question: How to achieve that?
It's not that easy figuring out all those entries...
Florian Effenberger wrote:
thanks for the feedback. However - simple question: How to achieve that?
It's not that easy figuring out all those entries...
Tools...
Novadigm (now HP) Radia is maybe the best vendor tool. They won't answer the
phone unless you have at least 1000 nodes. (Which is
Michael Lueck wrote:
Basically what you are looking for is called Electronic Software
Distribution (ESD) and is far too rarely used in the industry.
Honestly MSI stinks. My Opus 1 product back in 1995 is much like what
MSI is today. Currently I am working on Opus 4, plus have used some
vendor
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
I run a Windows domain based on Samba 3 and I am searching for a way to
distribute/deploy software to clients.
I.e., a user logging on to a client, software should be automatically
installed or upgraded. Is there any common solution? I heard of MSI
packages,
Hi Michael,
Novadigm (now HP) Radia is maybe the best vendor tool. They won't
answer the phone unless you have at least 1000 nodes. (Which is stupid
in my opinion) Good support of distributing MSI's over HTTP.
These tools are pretty good for low end:
http://www.newboundary.com/
I have PrismPack
Hi Thomasz,
is this page available also in English?
Unfortunately not. :-(
Florian
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Hi Thomasz,
The only solution I'm aware of is MS Active Directory (distributed
software installation)...
Which needs a MS Windows 2000/2003 Server, and that's exactly what I
wanted to omit using Samba. ;-)
If you just want to install a system + your applications, try Unattended
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi Thomasz,
is this page available also in English?
Unfortunately not. :-(
OK, I know *some* German, but not computer / technical German :)
Before I start translating this page - could you sum up what's that about?
And if this solution is open source, or not?
Tomek
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Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi Thomasz,
The only solution I'm aware of is MS Active Directory (distributed
software installation)...
Which needs a MS Windows 2000/2003 Server, and that's exactly what I
wanted to omit using Samba. ;-)
If you just want to install a system + your applications, try
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Thanks, but these are all commercial solutions, whereas I need something
free. ;-)
I do not know of ANY free tools AT THIS TIME that run on Windows. It is rare for ESD to be used / developed, then you want to narrow the playing field down to the free ones?! And someone
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
OK, this presentation is just a bunch of phrases - not much behind it.
Any link to a *real* solution?
Point me at funding so we can go Open Source and you'll see a *RREEAALL* solution... As of today, if you were to stop by you would fall in love with the system I have
Hi,
OK, I know *some* German, but not computer / technical German :)
Before I start translating this page - could you sum up what's that about?
And if this solution is open source, or not?
It's from a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) describing the
group policies, offering some
Hi Michael,
I do not know of ANY free tools AT THIS TIME that run on Windows. It is
rare for ESD to be used / developed, then you want to narrow the playing
field down to the free ones?! And someone still needs to support free...
food and housing for the people doing it?! Look at Samba, they
Hi Tomek,
unattended itself can't - but I'm sure people at its mailing groups will
have some knowledge - I saw some of the topics there is about automatic
software installation, also after OS is installed.
so - who starts the topic there, you or me? :)
Could you check these lists and get back to
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi Tomek,
unattended itself can't - but I'm sure people at its mailing groups
will have some knowledge - I saw some of the topics there is about
automatic software installation, also after OS is installed.
so - who starts the topic there, you or me? :)
Could you check
Michael Lueck wrote:
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
OK, this presentation is just a bunch of phrases - not much behind it.
Any link to a *real* solution?
Point me at funding so we can go Open Source and you'll see a *RREEAALL*
solution... As of today, if you were to stop by you would fall in love
Hi Tomek,
OK, will ask them and elaborate on that here as soon as I get any replies.
Thanks!
Florian
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Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi Tomek,
OK, will ask them and elaborate on that here as soon as I get any
replies.
Well, seems like that topic was discussed there many times (at least
that's what they replied).
For archives, see: :)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=12696
I
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Well, this is not how you promote your software.
Would you rather I did things the M$ way: selling windows via a flash presentation when there is no real working prototype behind it? You remember that IS how Windows was born. It was a do-nothing
demo, they sold it, then
John H Terpstra mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lessons like this are hard earned, and therefore worth documenting.
Please communicate with me when you are refreshed. Let's see what we
can do to better document this. I'm with you in this.
John,
Looks like I jumped the gun. Everything was
Michael Lueck wrote:
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Well, this is not how you promote your software.
Would you rather I did things the M$ way: selling windows via a flash
presentation when there is no real working prototype behind it? You
remember that IS how Windows was born. It was a do-nothing
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
OK, so first you complain you don't have enough money to release your
software as open source, then you don't seem o like the idea to sell it?
No, I pointed at some of the tools I work with, wrap code around, and since
they are not free they are not of interest... so
Hi,
Yesteday, I install ACL posix on my Linux server. I have fixed some
perms on a share and I test getfacl command on a linux client with
Samba. Nothing. I don't show my permissions. (All works fine with a
Windows XP client !).
Any ideas.
Cheers.
Jean-Michel Caricand
Adresse professionnelle
Michael Lueck wrote:
See your competition's demo - unattended -
http://www.technikz.de/down/howto.mpeg - to get an idea how it works.
Big deal... silent installs have been around for more than 10 years.
If they are so great then why do fat clients still stink in general
today? How does a
Hi,
I've got an ageing NT4 server on our NT4 domain. The hardware is getting
unreliable and few people use it. Unfortunately/predicatably the few
people who use it are senior staff and they have some (important,
naturally) Excel spreadsheets which link to files on this server by
name.
As I
Leon Stringer rta:
Hi,
I've got an ageing NT4 server on our NT4 domain. The hardware is getting
unreliable and few people use it. Unfortunately/predicatably the few
people who use it are senior staff and they have some (important,
naturally) Excel spreadsheets which link to files on this server by
the following is the current network setup i have running:
Unix KDC, Windows Active Directory, and a bunch of clients that dual
boot Windows 2k and Fedora Linux. Right now the KDC only supplies the
ticket granting ticket to the clients and they use this to get the
ticket granting service from the
Dear Friends,
Is It Possible to Make a Share Visible to a List of Users Only ?
e.g. If have shares Likes Account, Sales, Support
Then I would Like make respective share visible
only to persons in respective dept.
Thanks and Best Regards.
R. S. Patil
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Subject: [Samba] v3.0.4 and remote browsing over VPN
Date:Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:19:52 +
Greetings All,
Here's my situation:
I'm attempting to connect two Samba v3.0.4
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:00:32 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3591
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3591
Log:
to get a bit more useful info from valgrind I'm disabling the
deliberate over-allocation of request structures in smbd and
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:02:27 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3592
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3592
Log:
auto-cleanup the test.$$ log files in these test scripts on control-C
Modified:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:03:17 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3593
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3593
Log:
fixed the trans2 t2open reply to initialise all bytes (bug found by valgrind)
Modified:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:03:56 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3594
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3594
Log:
continue conversion to __location__ from __LINE__ for error reporting
Modified:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:05:35 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3595
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3595
Log:
- fixed a talloc_free ordering problem on cleanup with pending requests
- added initial support for MODE_INFORMATION in
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:09:50 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3596
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3596
Log:
MODE_INFORMATION tests now pass. Only RENAME_INFORMATION level left to
support RAW-SFILEINFO
Modified:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 10:20:50 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3597
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3597
Log:
implement a suggestion from abartlet. By taking a refernce to the
database in the opendb lck, we ensure that the database is
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 12:40:07 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3599
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3599
Log:
fixed a couple of memory errors in the rpc netlogon server
(found with valgrind)
Modified:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-07 12:52:53 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3600
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3600
Log:
fixed two debug typos
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/librpc/rpc/dcerpc_util.c
Changeset:
Modified:
Author: jelmer
Date: 2004-11-07 16:47:46 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3601
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3601
Log:
Lots of smaller DCOM updates and fixes. Adds oxid tables, proper
use of contexts.
Modified:
Author: jelmer
Date: 2004-11-07 19:28:18 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3602
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3602
Log:
Add looking up transport by endpoint protocol
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/librpc/rpc/dcerpc_util.c
Changeset:
Author: jerry
Date: 2004-11-07 19:59:09 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3603
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3603
Log:
updating packaging for 3.0.8 (sync from 3.0 tree)
Added:
branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/packaging/Solaris/makepkg.sh
Removed:
Author: jerry
Date: 2004-11-07 20:21:14 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3604
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3604
Log:
fix bug in Fedora packaging scripts
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_3_0/packaging/Fedora/samba.spec.tmpl
Changeset:
Modified:
Author: jerry
Date: 2004-11-07 20:42:45 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3605
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3605
Log:
* sync up with 3.0 with the exception of volker's recent changes
to the getaliases call
Modified:
Author: jelmer
Date: 2004-11-07 21:30:59 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3606
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3606
Log:
More DCOM fixes:
- OXID tables work now. IOXIDResolver is used if there is used for getting a
STRINGBINDING if none is known
Author: tpot
Date: 2004-11-07 22:05:18 + (Sun, 07 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3607
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3607
Log:
EnumDomainAlises doesn't take a max_size parameter.
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/scripting/swig/samr.py
Changeset:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-08 01:21:45 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3608
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3608
Log:
added BASE-DENYDOS test
this test demonstrates how w2k3 handles the special semantics of
DENY_DOS when 2 opens happen on the
Author: abartlet
Date: 2004-11-08 01:46:00 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3609
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3609
Log:
Lets spew out a few less error messages for tridge, and hope to get
krb5 going on recent heimdal installs.
Andrew Bartlett
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-08 02:01:05 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3610
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3610
Log:
prevent segv with heimdal and password krb5 init
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/libcli/auth/kerberos.c
Changeset:
Author: jelmer
Date: 2004-11-08 02:12:15 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3611
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3611
Log:
DCOM client support works!!
The torture test DCOM-SIMPLE now successfully does an
IStream_Read and a IStream_Write call.
Author: abartlet
Date: 2004-11-08 02:28:12 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3612
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3612
Log:
This appears to be the 'offical' way to initialise this struct.
Andrew Bartlett
Modified:
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-08 02:43:49 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3613
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3613
Log:
fixed a typo
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/libcli/auth/gensec.c
Changeset:
Modified:
Author: jerry
Date: 2004-11-08 03:44:13 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3614
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3614
Log:
latest draft of release notes for 3.0.8
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt
Changeset:
Sorry, the patch is
Author: tridge
Date: 2004-11-08 03:54:12 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3615
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3615
Log:
split out struct pvfs_file_handle from struct pvfs_file. This is in
preparation for adding code to pass the BASE-DENY1 and
Author: abartlet
Date: 2004-11-08 04:32:23 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 3616
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=sambarev=3616
Log:
Merge for 3.0.8.
In auth_winbind, remove the push_utf8 calls, as this is no longer a
UTF8 interface. (Removed from
Author: abartlet
Date: 2004-11-08 04:44:03 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 124
WebSVN:
http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=lorikeetrev=124
Log:
A few more fixes to the thesis, and expand/footnote acronyms.
Andrew Bartlett
Modified:
trunk/samba4-ad-thesis/ack.tex
Author: jht
Date: 2004-11-08 06:10:13 + (Mon, 08 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 274
WebSVN:
http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=revroot=samba-docsrev=274
Log:
Updated username mape man page to reflect post 3.0.7 operation.
Modified:
trunk/smbdotconf/security/usernamemap.xml
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