[Samba] Need help with strange rejected the tconX on the IPC$ shareerror messages.

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Smith
One Win2k client constantly generates these messages in the log: Jan 30 16:50:32 server smbd[30271]: [2003/01/30 16:50:32, 0] rpc_client/cli_spoolss_notify.c:spoolss_connect_to_client(134) Jan 30 16:50:32 server smbd[30271]:

Re: [Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:17, John H Terpstra wrote: Which clearly, and seemingly purposely, leaves out the lo interface. Which is always allowed except when explicitly NOT allowed. OK, so there is no need to add the lo interface because it is added by default. How about the format of the

Re: [Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Smith
Thanks for clearing that up. It's good to know that one can rely on the official docs. On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:07, John H Terpstra wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Chris Smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:17, John H Terpstra wrote: Which clearly, and seemingly purposely, leaves out

[Samba] Samba vs IPP printing

2003-02-12 Thread Chris Smith
Not including cases of unsupported clients for IPP printing (such as Windows NT) are there any reasons/caveats for installations running CUPS to not move over to IPP printing? Are there any features or benefits to Windows/Samba printing for Windows clients that make it superior compared to IPP?

RE: [Samba] 95 and NT cannot access shares

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Smith
WFWG 3.11 supports encryted passwords as well. Rule of thumb should be to use encryted passwords unless you have some specific reason for not doing so (of which I can't think of any off hand). On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 12:36, William R. Knox wrote: The information provided here about the use of

RE: [Samba] PDF Printer issue

2003-02-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:42, Buchan Milne wrote: The script in packaging/Mandrake/print-pdf (or something like that) is IMHO a better solution. I can expand as to why if you are interested. Expansion would be appreciated thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] Access to shares for authenticated domain users only

2003-03-27 Thread Chris Smith
I believe this works OK with an NT PDC as one can restrict share users to, as an example, members of the Domain Users group, but this group is not available in Samba 2.2.x. Maybe 3.0 will help. I suppose, as one hack, you could use a root preexec and a root postexec to add and remove users to a

RE: [Samba] What's the best method - probably simple

2003-03-31 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:44, Jim Shaffer wrote: this might be the blind leading the blind, but I think restarting samba will simply cause it to reread the smb.conf. It will not disconnect the users. I think the smb.conf is re-read every 30 seconds or so, nothing needs to be done. From my

Re: [Samba] WINS

2003-04-02 Thread Chris Smith
Most MS OS's systems either use the DNS/hosts system very poorly or not at all for NetBIOS name resolution. In place of DNS/hosts is WINS/lmhosts. WINS is the dynamic, centralized version of an lmhosts file and is to lmhosts as DNS is to hosts. Without the use of WINS or lmhosts files NetBIOS name

Re: [Samba] problem with samba and a dos application

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:40, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: I am trying to export a share to several Windows clients, that start some application in a dos box. The application itself is located on the share. The first client can start it, the second cannot. I have a client whose major

Re: [Samba] problem with samba and a dos application

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:17, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Would you mind to allow me a look in the smb.conf (in private email)? Maybe there is some difference ... No problem but it might be better shared here as there are many who know more than I. In my clients smb.conf we use these

Re: [samba] File Systems - Which one to use?

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:58, Corey Hart wrote: We are looking at implementing a Linux box running samba in the near future with about 1TB of disk online. The purpose of this box will be for basic file and printer sharing needs. I am doing research on the different journaling file systems

Re: [samba] File Systems - Which one to use?

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:22, Simo Sorce wrote: Have you ever tried ACLs with reiserfs? No. Didn't even know that it was possible. Any opinion on ACL support in reiserfs? If it truly works I would like to try it. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: [Samba] oplock_break

2003-01-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 10:39, Simon Faulkner wrote: [global] oplocks = false kernel oplocks = false level2 oplocks = false in /etc/samba/smb.conf The Samba docs I have list the oplocks and level2 oplocks params as being share level, not global and on by default. What does a testparm show

RE: [Samba] winbind problems

2004-09-28 Thread Chris Smith
Woops, wrong window. Sorry! -Original Message- From: Chris Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:24 AM To: 'Borut Kurnik' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] winbind problems Mark, this is a known issue, please follow the steps in the attached

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Smith
Wow, the 1000+ users we have printing thru Samba 3.0 and up would be surprised to hear that! We even have click and print working... the load that took off of our sysadmins (not having to set up lpr/IP printing and manually keep track of drivers) was definitely worth the week of tweaking Samba to

RE: [Samba] Printers Showing up on Alternate Server Names

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Smith
I am having the same problem using Samba 3.0.7 w/ FC2. This only started happening recently, and is happening on 3 servers. I hadn't seen it happen on 3.0.4. Nothing else has changed. Thanks, Chris Smith Systems Administrator API Group Information Systems Dept. -Original Message

Re: [Samba] Windows XP Home Edition

2003-09-23 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:01, Eric Treu wrote: Can anybody help me. I have come to the conclusion that the one XP Professional box that I have does not have this problem. Xteq X-Setup from http://www.xteq.com/products/xset/ can allow some better LAN functionality, at a price - you must

Re: [Samba] valid users = %S in rc4

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 26 September 2003 00:15, Hannu Tikka wrote: After upgrading rc2 - rc4 (suse binary packages) line 'valid users = %S' in [homes] section prevents user getting to his homedirectory Same change occured here when upgrading from 2.2.7a to the 3.0.0 release. -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Samba] valid users = %S in rc4

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 26 September 2003 10:26, Derek T. Yarnell wrote: I see this problem too. I thought that I was going crazy. On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:14:36AM -0400, Chris Smith wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 00:15, Hannu Tikka wrote: After upgrading rc2 - rc4 (suse binary packages

Re: [Samba] valid users = %S in rc4

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:04, John H Terpstra wrote: The homes share should be set to be browsable = No. Do NOT set the valid users = %S on the homes share. So this is a purposeful change in behavior then? With 2.2.x one could have browseable = Yes and valid users = %S. Chris -- To

Re: [Samba] valid users = %S in rc4

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:28, John H Terpstra wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Petty, Robert wrote: No, I haven't filed a bug report... The key part of my message was: Since nobody's home directory was / it would open the root directory I have changed it since I immediately

Re: [Samba] After Upgrading to rc4 (and still with 3.0.0) havingGroupmap problems.

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Saturday 27 September 2003 15:00, John H Terpstra wrote: On each workstation make the Domain Admins group a member of the local Administrators group. John, I'm missing the point here as this shouldn't be necessary at all. The only reason to add someone to the local Administrators group

[Samba] net groupmap displays multiples

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
A net groupmap list show 2 each of Domain Admins and Domain Guests as marked below with ** and *** respectively. System Operators (S-1-5-32-549) - -1 Replicators (S-1-5-32-552) - -1 Guests (S-1-5-32-546) - -1 Power Users (S-1-5-32-547) - -1 Print Operators (S-1-5-32-550) - -1 Administrators

Re: [Samba] net groupmap displays multiples

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Saturday 27 September 2003 21:08, John H Terpstra wrote: It looks here as if you changed either the domain name or the machine name of your Samba server. That will result in the duplicate entries you see here. OK, this probably happened during a reasonably sloppy install - I didn't quite

Re: [Samba] After Upgrading to rc4 (and still with 3.0.0) havingGroupmap problems.

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Saturday 27 September 2003 21:04, John H Terpstra wrote: The only way that a domain user can gain admin priviliges ona domain member workstation is through domain users or domain groups being made members of a local workstation group that has sufficient rights and privilige to do what

Re: [Samba] Samba + Cups + Filter Access

2003-10-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 10:00, Thiago Lima wrote: If I configure samba and cups in the RAW mode using windows original drivers of the printers, everything works fine, but this way I can't use cups accounting. Yeah, that bites. So I reinstaled all my printers in cups using

Re: [Samba] Samba + Cups + Filter Access

2003-10-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 11:17, Sheldon Hearn wrote: But alas, printing with IPP is fine. :-) From Windows or just 'nix? Note that this still doesn't mean the problem is definitely in Samba (although see the WERR_ACCESS_DENIED error below). It could be a problem with the cups-samba

Re: [Samba] Samba + Cups + Filter Access

2003-10-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:51, Sheldon Hearn wrote: But alas, printing with IPP is fine. :-) From Windows or just 'nix? Just *UNIX. My intent with the IPP suggestion was to print via IPP from the Windows box to CUPS, only changing the equation by taking Samba out of the loop.

Re: [Samba] Samba + Cups + Filter Access

2003-10-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 14:49, Thiago Lima wrote: Any tips? I can't believe that nobody ever had this problem. :( I never had a problem getting the CUPS Windows PS drivers working but had an entirely different problem in the use of them. What I experienced was when a user requested

Re: [Samba] Mounting windows shares under linux

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Smith
I just put the mount commands in the rc.local. Maybe there's a better way? -- Chris Do not reply to this address. The contact page below is a spam limiting device. Apologies for the inconvenience. http://realcomputerguy.com/contact.html -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] RE: SPAM

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 16:10, Jim Morris wrote: I vote to kill the mailing list - Usenet gateway, if that is what is causing these virus email attacks on subscribers. If I wanted to use Usenet, I would go read comp.os.protocols.smb or whatever, directly! I disagree. A Usenet search via

Re: [Samba] LDAP compatible

2005-02-24 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:47 am, Craig White wrote: I'm quite certain that Tonni meant to say only stable version of openldap is 2.2.23 and of course none of the current distributions of Linux package that version yet. Gentoo -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

[Samba] Mapping users home drives fails

2005-03-11 Thread Chris Smith
I have the following in my logon batch file and everything works great other than the home H:drive. This randomly works or doesn't work, and I can't seem to find a consistent reason. This is with samba-3.0.10-1.fc2. I have tried it with and without the /persistent switch. Any ideas? thank you in

[Samba] Where does the ¨Display Name in XP come from in a Domain?

2005-03-24 Thread Chris Smith
Where does the ¨Display Name in XP come from in a Domain? I have about 300 machines that are in a ldap backended Samba 3.0 domain. I regularly add users like so: smbldap-useradd -a -m -c First Last -P flast It seem that at least at first they usually get the First Last portion displayed in the

Re: [Samba] big file server

2003-06-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 16 May 2003 07:12, Honza Houstek wrote: I must agree. Reiserfs is quite fast but not very reliable. Totally reliable from my experience. I've been running several small business offices plus my own server for about two years without a glitch. Reiserfs has held up with constant

Re: [Samba] Re: Accepting Time Server

2003-06-07 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 16:36, SoloCDM wrote: How does Microsoft Windows know to grab the time off the Linux server? In regards to Samba's time service the Windows system simply performs a net time /set command, executed manually or via a script. Is ntpd needed on the Linux server to execute

Re: [Samba] Multiple domains in the logon window

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Smith
On Monday 23 June 2003 11:01, Alexandru Molodoi wrote: I wish that a user could be able to choose to which domain he should log on to (and I think that is the normal way). Why do you think that is the normal way? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

Re: Re[2]: [Samba] W2K PDC Domain

2003-06-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 27 June 2003 03:35, Fabio Muzzi wrote: Also, do NOT try to go from a workgroup to a domain of the same name. It will quite surely fail. Just want to mention that although I've read this advice many times I have almost always joined the domain from a workgroup of the same name

Re: [Samba] Printing multiple copies

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 06:05, Joel Hammer wrote: With XP Home, printing to a postscript printer on my linux box, the job is sent as multiple, sequential postscript files, each file being just one copy. Ergo, samba thinks it has received multiple different print jobs, not one job consisting

Re: [Samba] share level access and Windows XP

2003-07-23 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 13:54, Dan Gapinski wrote: XP home cannot log onto domains at all. Rather disappointing what they did with it. All is not lost, however. I have successfully used X-Setup from Xteq Systems (http://www.xteq.com/) to at least enable domain participation close to the

Re: [Samba] Delays with windows 2000

2002-04-29 Thread Chris Smith
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the Samba docs, but wouldn't you need host to be in the name resolve order for Samba to use hosts, or DNS for name resolution? Since Win2k/XP are DNS/hosts centric OS's that only use WINS/lmhosts for backward compatibility one should be able to have a WINS free network

Re: [Samba] local/roaming profile default

2002-05-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 14:49, Jay Ts wrote: Are you really sure of this? I don't have time to check it right now, but the way I remember it is that new users get a local profile, no matter whether Windows or Samba is used as the PDC. Three separate Samba PDC installs that I've done recently

Re: [Samba] local/roaming profile default - different behavior

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 07:52, Markus A. Madlener wrote: i have exact the same behavior ! if a new user logons on to a samba domain, the profile IS roaming, you can easily check by starting NT user manager and connect to the samba PDC, the path to the user profile is always set to the samba

Re: [Samba] local/roaming profile default - different behavior

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 10:47, Simon Jester wrote: Just to clarify: Deleting the options in smb.conf doesn't work because the default service definitions for those parameters become active; one must actively set them to null (logon path= for example). So, you are saying that simply

Re: RE: [Samba] Win2k Printing Problems

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Smith
a browseable = Yes in the [global] section. Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17 10:52 AM If you've installed TCP/IP printing on the W2k client and setting up an LPR port why bother using Samba for the printing at all? If you skip these steps: 1a,1b,2a 2b(printer),2a 2b(global), 3h

Re: RE: RE: [Samba] Win2k Printing Problems

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Smith
managed nor always the best way. Chris Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17 3:11 PM On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 13:44, Van Sickler, Jim wrote: You do want to use the samba box to manage your printers; otherwise all of your PCs are going to be fighting over the printers... that gets real ugly

Re: [Samba] Update to 2.2.4 on SuSE 7.3

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Smith
You need 4 rpm's: samba, samba-client, and either the two classic's or the two ldap's. On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 05:38, Peter Meyer wrote: Hello list, I wanna update 2.2.1a to 2.2.4 on SuSE 7.3. Find under ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/people/lmuelle/i386/7.3/ the

Re: [Samba] Re: Win9x login script drive mapping problem - more info

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:05, A.J.Dawson wrote: Many thanks to those who have replied so far - still no luck unfortunately. It would appear that I was ni=ot quite specific enough in the original post re: the OS version I am using - it is Windows 98SE, NOT vanilla 98. My first guess is the

Re: [Samba] About SOCKET options

2002-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:50, David Morel wrote: Le jeu 26/09/2002 à 14:47, Benjamin Weber a écrit : Ok, as some of you read I was the guy who experimented with SOCKET options. In my last post, where I figured that I needed to use the right syntax I found out that SO_SNDBUF=4096 and

Re: AW: [Samba] About SOCKET options

2002-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:24, Benjamin Weber wrote: Yep I am using large readwrite=yes as it is set on by default. That might have anything to do with it? Not sure. I didn't think that was the default, maybe I'm mistaken or that it changed at a certain release. -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: AW: [Samba] About SOCKET options

2002-09-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:24, Benjamin Weber wrote: Yep I am using large readwrite=yes as it is set on by default. That might have anything to do with it? Just checked my docs for 2.2.5 claim that the default is large readwrite = no. Maybe it's just the way your distribution set up the

Re: Re[2]: [Samba] How to forbid user to login?

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:31, Vladimir I. Umnov wrote: May be it my poor english, but I mean that I don't want to allow login user into domain and don't want allow him create profile and use home directory, but I want allow this local autentificates in PDC. May be I need run for him some

Re: [Samba] Re: Time server

2004-04-29 Thread Chris Smith
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 04:34, Mike Stewart wrote: net stop Windows Time net time /setsntp:172.16.15.4 (my samba server) net start Windows Time Still no errors but hasn't yet synchronised the time with the server. Done this way Samba is out of the loop and time control is not a Samba issue.

[Samba] adding valid user to a home share

2007-07-31 Thread Chris Smith
What is the easiest way to allow specific users access to other users home shares? Current config is: = [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no valid users = %S dos filetimes = Yes guest ok = no

Re: [Samba] Domain with public shares

2007-08-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 08 August 2007, samba-list wrote: I need to have some public folders on the samba server that anybody can use Use a username map and set nobody = guest. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Winbind usage

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 24 August 2007, Daniel L. Miller wrote: With only a Samba PDC, with everything defined in LDAP, is there any requirement for Winbind? I think the only reason to use it in this case (or even with a different passdb backend - any time when you are not authenticating against a Windows

[Samba] python bindings not building in 3.0.25c

2007-08-25 Thread Chris Smith
building 'smb' extension x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -D_SAMBA_BUILD_=3 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c python/py_smb.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/python/py_smb.o -march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

Re: Re-4: [Samba] limit login

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 05 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could it be possible to code in a time out. so I can set say user kirsty can login once in a 24 or 12 hour period. Maybe some sort of hack where upon login you set the allowed workstations (net sam set workstaions, for tdbsam) for the

Re: [Samba] workgroup join domain with same name = no issue? I don't get it

2007-09-08 Thread Chris Smith
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Michael Schmitt wrote: there is stated that it is not a good idea to have a local workgroup and create a domain with the exact same name and join the windows boxes ther. It is said that this will fail or at least it will have some problems. But here, what should

Re: [Samba] broken pipe

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Smith
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Helmut Hullen wrote: only SMB server,   security = server For the only SMB server it should, under most circumstances, be security = user. Also you should consider upgrading to a current version. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] Network browsing

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, James Perry wrote: I'm sending a DNS query to the outside   world, and after some hunting around through various DNS servers, it   gives up and comes back empty, so then the clients have to resort to   broadcast. They shouldn't resort to broadcast unless WINS for

Re: [Samba] best practices for naming directories

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Mike Seda wrote: I only use one samba share (home). There is a symlink called share in each users' $HOME that points to /opt/data/share, which has a *many* subdirectories (owned by certain groups). Since there are so many subdirectories, I am reluctant to make them

Re: [Samba] Mapped username then gets mapped to Anonymous

2007-11-13 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Luke Pittman wrote: Samba maps the username correctly but then immediately changes it to an Anonymous request.  Am I missing something? As your smbusers file is part of the equation you may have wanted to post at least part of it. Did you quote the usernames with

Re: [Samba] Making a public drive where admin has write access

2007-12-02 Thread Chris Smith
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Dane Shea wrote: [public] comment = Public Shared Folder path = /home/public write list = DShea create mask = 0775 guest ok = Yes It's good to distinguish between other authenticated users and guests. Authenticated users may or may not have admin rights, but

Re: [Samba] 3.0.27a, ubuntu server7.10 auth issues

2007-12-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Dale Schroeder wrote: The links below all say the same thing concerning this error message: the version of libnss_winbind.so running does not match the version of winbind that is running. In case it helps anyone: Whenever I upgrade Samba on the boxes that run

[Samba] net sam setworkstations !logic

2007-12-17 Thread Chris Smith
Hello, Is there any way to use NOT logic with net sam set workstations? Instead of explicitly declaring which workstations are allowed, I would like to explicitly declare which ones are not on a per user basis. The reason is that many users bring in their own systems (desktops/laptops) and in

Re: [Samba] samba 3.0.28 and dropboxes

2007-12-21 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 21 December 2007, CJ Keist wrote: There is no writable option ... man smb.conf The shares work fine otherwise, just not to our dropbox folders that have the permissions of 2733. Have you read the release notes from 3.0.28 to 3.0.26a? Maybe a fix (possibly that mentioned for BUG

Re: [Samba] Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 27 December 2007, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Not sure why you didn't use Google (apparently, as this didn't take me very long), but I did: http://www.ntcompatible.com/story8718.html My experience is that that hack is relatively useless for this purpose. The app may have improved but

Re: [Samba] Single Sign On, authentication, and Windows XP Home

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 27 December 2007, Gary Dale wrote: Not necessarily. If you have a business where each person only logs onto one computer, then Home is probably all you need. For example, a small business with only one computer in a department/section or one with multiple computers but each staff

Re: [Samba] Another Uploading Printer drivers problem.

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 03 January 2008, Richard Chapman wrote: I guess it does appear that the use client driver is preventing me from uploading the drivers. Can anyone suggest the best way around this? I think use client driver is pretty clear. If you want a driver on the server to automagically

Re: [Samba] Do I need Winbind?

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 04 January 2008, Boaz Bezborodko wrote: As I understand it winbind allows users to be logged in as Linux users when they log in as Windows users. winbind allows authentication to be done by a Microsft domain controller -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following

Re: [Samba] Help removing many users

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 04 January 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote: I cannot use smbpasswd -x in a loop. Why not? -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Help removing many users

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 04 January 2008, Mike Eggleston wrote: I'm aware that you cannot use smbpasswd in a loop creating the accounts because you have to type in the password Sure you can. Example using a variable x for the username and, in this case, setting the password equal to the username: echo -e

Re: [Samba] Propose mount.cifs/smbfs able to mount the child folder of share folder

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Smith
On Monday 07 January 2008, Michael Heydon wrote: It is much more better if we can simplied the share via this command: mount -t cifs  -o (with necessary option) //server/department/purchasing /home/purchasinguser/Desktop/mydepartmentdata One can already do this with cifs. Unfortunately

Re: [Samba] Windows XP always see folder with read-only attribute set

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 11 January 2008, Héctor Sánchez Sanmartín wrote: nt acl support = No Have you tried it with the default nt acl support = yes? -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Windows XP always see folder with read-only attribute set

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 11 January 2008, Chris Smith wrote: instead of writable or writable. SHould be writeable or writable. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Windows XP always see folder with read-only attribute set

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 11 January 2008, Rune Tønnesen wrote: [publica]           path = /sis/publica/           public = yes #          only guest = yes           writable = yes           force user = sis           force group = sis This should solve your problem as samba by default set a share as

Re: [Samba] Network Path was not found

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Chris wrote: When I try to access a share i get the following error man smb.conf search for msdfs proxy and note that the homes special share doesn't normally need a path also note that the [chr] share is mostly likely redundant as the [homes] share should

Re: [Samba] Standalone Server with Wins -- Password Not Required on Win/XP

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Greg Sims wrote: The first access to the samba server requests a userid -- this likely allows samba to understand which home share should be displayed. It's more than that - the user authenticates with the server and is now allowed access to all shares the user

Re: [Samba] Standalone Server with Wins -- Password Not Required on Win/XP

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Greg Sims wrote: I created a standalone server Looks more like you created a domain controller. Are the clients domain members? If not. are the users' client logins identical to the samba ones? And when you FW instead of replying you screw up the threading of the

Re: [Samba] Re: Standalone Server with Wins -- Password Not Required on Win/XP

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 18 January 2008, Dragan Krnic wrote: What has preferred master to do with this passwords? I'm really puzzled I'm a bit puzzled also. Because we changed that early on (took out non-essential statements - I was assisting) to simplify the smb.conf and as far as I remember it didn't

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC kills WinXP

2008-01-21 Thread Chris Smith
On Monday 21 January 2008, Martin Petersen wrote: I'm no samba god, but You habe two lines of passdb backend in use. Are You sure that is correct? At best it's a confusing practice (one reason I advocate synonym deprecation). I think that with duplicate parameter entries the last one found

Re: [Samba] A good read

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Robert Pollard wrote: Do you have any recommendations as to what is available to read that will take me through the world of Windows networking? Because Samba, as it is today, mainly emulates a Windows NT4 Server when used as a PDC it really helps to have that

Re: [Samba] Wrong perms on new files/dirs using smbmount

2008-02-13 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Michael Lueck wrote: I mount several shares with this sort of syntax: /bin/mount -t cifs Subject line is misleading: smbmount != cifs. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Re: Wrong perms on new files/dirs using smbmount

2008-02-14 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Michael Lueck wrote: I get the idea from man smbmount that smbmount is merely a wrapper invoking mount -t cifs. Would you expect different results if I were using the smbmount binary instead? In the sense that it would invoke the deprecated mount -t smbfs

Re: [Samba] Re: Wrong perms on new files/dirs using smbmount

2008-02-14 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Michael Lueck wrote: Aaahhh, so smbclient from the Samba developers is hard coded to not use current smb protocol code? Confusing! Smbclient is new to the conversation, which until now has been about smbmount which So mount -t cifs would be the most correct way

Re: [Samba] symlink on Linux vs. Windows clients

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 15 February 2008, tovis wrote: windows/DOS clients are follows symlinks but Linux clients not. Linux clients shows that the symlinks points to nowhere - the points are doen't exists on client box(es) - obviously. Answered, I believe, by Michael Heydon earlier: disable unix

Re: [Samba] Re: cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Smith
On Monday 18 February 2008, Michael Heydon wrote: You need helpers (mount.cifs) in order to mount a smbfs or cifs share. Not necessarily. You can, at least with cifs, mount without a helper although there is much less flexibility. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: That is actually a good point because today I wanted to switch to cifs on all my mount scripts for work and I got: sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=lucas -o username=myusername //192.168.1.196/c$ /home/lucas/Desktop/C mount error 13 = Permission

Re: [Samba] Problem with SMBFS vs CIFS

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 01 February 2008, Felix Miata wrote: If you have Win9x and/or OS/2 shares on your network, you'll need to recompile your SUSE kernel to include SMBFS support to provide acceptable access to those shares. I think cifs should be able to work in those cases, but I can't personally

Re: [Samba] Problem with SMBFS vs CIFS

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Felix Miata wrote: There is at least one open time stamping bug that makes the connections worthless. Wondering which OS's exactly. Is it just OS2? Or Windows 95? Or Windows 98? Or Windows ME? -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

Re: [Samba] setup printing without a Windows PC client, how?

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Paul E Condon wrote: I am setting up Samba as a work-around for situation in a Debian/Mac OS X LAN. I'm missing something here, as both Linux and OS X natively support CUPS, why involve Samba with the printing at all? -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] page_count x number_of_copies

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Fabiano Caixeta Duarte wrote: How can I know the real amount of pages sent to the printer? I use CUPS + Pykota for handling page accounting. It can enforce quotas as well but I don't use it for that. Also works properly no matter how the job was submitted (samba,

Re: [Samba] Still unresolved: adding printers as a non admin domain user doesn't work

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Francis Galiegue wrote: When I use XP, the only option I have is to first add the printer as either the local administrator of the machine, or the domain administrator, and only then I can add this printer as a normal, unpriviledged domain user. Uh. This is not

Re: [Samba] Still unresolved: adding printers as a non admin domain user doesn't work

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Francis Galiegue wrote: Well, this page doesn't agree: My experience is different. Believe what you will. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Unable to mount using sec=none and mount.cifs

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Smith
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Christopher DeMarco wrote: //superman/www-pub  /smb/superman/www-pub   cifs    auto,uid=33,gid=33,username=WORKGROUP/www-pub,password=sekret,sec=no ne   0 0 Maybe no help but try leaving sec=none out of your fstab entry. From the man page it seems none means attempt

Re: [Samba] Problems sharing windows printer with linux

2008-03-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Maginot Junior wrote: I try to connect using cups http://cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#8_9 -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] root preexec problem

2008-03-07 Thread Chris Smith
On Friday 07 March 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote: It would be nice if this complained at all or warned you in testparm I've often wished that the appropriately named testparm was better at testing the values, and not just the parameters. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] User restriction on some client machines

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Smith
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Mesterhazy Attila wrote: What I want: - some machines (for example machine1) should be used only by user1 and user2 - allow user3 to use ONLY some machines (for example machine2) Depends on your backend. LDAP has entry for this, with tdbsam you can use net sam set

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