Re: [Samba] Issue with Samba version 3.0.25b on Debian

2007-08-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Volker Lendecke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:24:07PM +0100, Dan Peachey wrote: I have an issue with Samba version 3.0.25b on Debian. I am receiving a number of mails from my server with the following: The Samba 'panic action' script,

Re: [Samba] Disculpen ?Se puede escribir en espanol?

2007-10-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Roylan Suarez Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hola colegas Disculpen por mi pregunta, yo se que la lista es en Ingles, pero me gustaria saber si se puede escribir en Espanol, y si exiten muchos que hables nuestro idioma... For those who do no speak/read Spanish, Roylan is asking

Re: [Samba] Big problems with 3.0.24-6etch6 Debian packages

2007-11-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marco De Vitis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What's happening with Samba packages for Debian Etch? We're trying to keep up with upstream's security announcements and regressions they induce. I saw a security announce yesterday by Steve Kemp, but it's a bit confusing, for Etch it lists some

Re: [Samba] Re: Big problems with 3.0.24-6etch6 Debian packages

2007-11-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marco De Vitis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, I know, but it wasn't like this for Samba on Sarge, when Simo Sorce promptly built upstream packages... but when Etch arrived I remember someone else was to take his role, can't remember who now. If I'm correct, that should be Jerry Carter.

Re: [Samba] Problem with samba 3.0.14a-3sarge9 on Debian Sarge

2007-11-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Alessandro FAGLIA wrote: After I upgraded to 3.0.14a-3sarge9, I observed a strange behaviour with no apparent explanation. Perhaps this link could be helpful: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453050 And -sarge10 should be available in

Re: [Samba] Big problems with 3.0.24-6etch6 Debian packages

2007-11-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I saw a security announce yesterday by Steve Kemp, but it's a bit confusing, for Etch it lists some 6etch6 packages and some 6etch7 others. Are the current packages broken? 3.0.24-6etch5 is the first roll-up of packages fixing CVE-2007-5398

Re: [Samba] Re: Official Samba builds for Ubuntu?

2008-01-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Michael Lueck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Frank Gruman wrote: I believe Ubuntu has builds of Samba available through their repositories. Yes of course that is the way to get the official distro release. Ubuntu, like Debian, only issue security patches to their packages after a certain

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

2008-02-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Michael Lueck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): both helpers in the same package is a sufficient answer to my question. (Yes, finally, light bulb goes on!) I am certainly not going to nit-pick how the Ubuntu packagers decided to do things, just was trying to fully understand these things.

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

2008-02-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Volker Lendecke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:00:36AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: In short, we (Ubuntu and Debian maintainers) are dropping support for smbfs. This code caused many regressions in recent security fixes as it is essntially unmaintained

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

2008-02-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Volker Lendecke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:22:56PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: At least considering to distribute it (or a derived work) as part of the samba distribution could help samba users to switch from smbfs to cifs? Sorry, we can't. Looks nice

[Samba] ctdb now in Debian lenny - samba-related packages in Debian

2008-03-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Thanks to the efforts of Mathieu Parent, ctdb is now available in the testing branch of Debian, which represents the future version of Debian, codename lenny, due out at the end of the year (you know the drill about Debian releases, right?). This is a good opportunity to mention the efforts of

Re: [Samba] When are folks arriving for SambaXP?

2008-03-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andrew Bartlett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My current plans are to fly in on Saturday, spend a few days with Kai Blin, then attend the conference (ie, hack in whatever space SerNet gives us :-) from Monday to Friday, leaving on Saturday (at some point, to join Jelmer in the Netherlands).

Re: [Samba] SWAT Error on Debian

2008-03-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Karolin Seeger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am afraid this might be a bug in the SerNet packages. We will have a look at this next week (after Easter) and give you a report. Karolin (and Volker as well), what are the differences between the SerNet .deb packages and those on main samba sites?

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0pre2 Available for Download

2009-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org): Release Announcements = This is the second preview release of Samba 3.5. This is *not* Please notice that, contrary to what we generally did up to now, Debian maintainers have not been able to build a package for pre1 before

[Samba] Samba 3.5.0pre2 in Debian experimental

2010-01-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Last year, sometime in December, I wrote: Please notice that, contrary to what we generally did up to now, Debian maintainers have not been able to build a package for pre1 before pre2 went out... This is mostly because we apparently can't build with the packaged talloc libraries (Debian

[Samba] Ubuntu packaging vs Debian packaging (was: Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler)

2010-01-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Lueck (mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com): Peter Olcott wrote: I decided to try Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf file to make my share fully operational. :-) I had been hearing good things about Ubuntu, however I was firmly in the

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rob Shinn (mor...@tuxedo.darktech.org): I've used both and the packages themselves are basically the same. A particular Ubuntu stable release package of Samba is more likely to be more current than the Debian stable release, but that's a result of policy differences, not technical

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc1 Available for Download

2010-01-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org): Release Announcements = This is the first release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.4 Panic in Debian

2010-01-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Dale Schroeder a écrit : I've suspected that ever since reading Karolin's release notes for 3.4.4. Debian has not yet released 3.4.4 to testing, but I'll gladly try it as soon as it's available. For the That should happen in about one week, assuming that no dependency chain is blocking it.

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.4 Panic in Debian

2010-01-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jeremy Allison (j...@samba.org): On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:14:31AM -0600, Dale Schroeder wrote: This time, it seems to be an ADS specific winbind error. I have attempted with the current kernel - 2.6.32-trunk-686 and the previous kernel - 2.6.30-2-686. What kind of

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.4 Panic in Debian

2010-01-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): Referring to the SUBJECT: Where is this leading to a panic in Samba 3.4, I got lost in the meantime. I'm afraid I don't know. I was cc:ed on this somewhat mid-thread, and haven't seen any panics; what I know about is

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc2 Available for Download

2010-01-31 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org): Release Announcements = This is the second release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not* Debian packages for 3.5.0rc2 were uploaded to Debian experimental as of Sunday Jan 31st. Many special thanks to Michael Adam for

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc2 Available for Download

2010-02-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Dale Schroeder (d...@briannassaladdressing.com): On 02/01/2010 12:05 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org): Release Announcements = This is the second release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not* Debian packages for 3.5.0rc2

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc2 Available for Download

2010-02-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Dale Schroeder (d...@briannassaladdressing.com): Any chance that there will be included in this release, a fix for the libkrb5-3 1.8 problem with winbind? Or will that fix have to come from the libkrb5-3 maintainers? Sam Hartman answered to this by reassigning the relevant bug to the

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.5 / Debian Lenny preexec/postexec

2010-02-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Didier Roques (didier.roq...@brive.unilim.fr): Hi i've got a server with lenny installed on it with samba 3.2.5. I need to use preexec and postexec command into the [netlogon] service like this root preexec = /etc/samba/ntlogon -u %U -g %G -o %a -d /etc/samba/netlogon/ -f

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.5 / Debian Lenny var full

2010-02-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Didier Roques (didier.roq...@brive.unilim.fr): Hi i've got a server with lenny installed on it with samba 3.2.5. My problem is that the var partition is sometimes full. In fact, if i use df command I watch the partition full, but if I use du command the partition is not full. If i

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc3 Available for Download

2010-02-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org): Release Announcements = This is the third release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting

[Samba] Security problem with Samba on Linux: situation for Debian

2010-03-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jeremy Allison (j...@samba.org): Security problem with Samba on Linux In Samba releases 3.5.0, 3.4.6 and 3.3.11 new code was added to fix a problem with Linux asynchronous IO handling. Situation for Debian: - Debian stable isn't affected by this

Re: [Samba] symlinks and Samba 3.4.7

2010-03-23 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Preller, Markus (markus.prel...@uk-erlangen.de): Hi, we upgraded one of our Solaris 10 (SPARC) machines from Samba 3.0.28 to 3.4.7. Symlinks are used within some shares that point to data outside the original share path. While this was no problem with Samba 3.0.28 access is denied

Re: [Samba] 3.5 in Debian Squeeze?

2010-03-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Robert LeBlanc (rob...@leblancnet.us): What is the milestone that will get 3.5 into Debian Squeeze? We're still in the process of deciding whether we'll go for 3.4.* or 3.5 for squeeze. There are arguments for both: - 3.4.* releases are now rock solid and the risk of important issues

Re: [Samba] upgrade to 3.3 on debian lenny.

2010-03-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Holdoway (st...@greengecko.co.nz): Does anyone have experience with the upgrade from 3.2 ( in lenny core ) to the samba provided 3.3 debian packages? Specifically, I'm looking for a list of gotchas in this process, as I'm short on machines I can use as test servers... This is

Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jeff Layton (jlay...@samba.org): It's also worthwhile to note that I've recently re-enabled the ability to run mount.cifs as a setuid root program in the latest cifs-utils release: http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/ ...you may want to switch to using that instead if you need

Re: [Samba] how to mount shares as a user without mount.cifs setuid

2010-04-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@rogers.com): Now perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no trouble with users mounting nfs shares. The idea that users can't mount cifs shares strikes me as odd and an unnecessary impediment. How about turning the binary we provide in Debian to setuid on the

Re: [Samba] Compile Samba 3.5 for lenny

2010-04-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac (lscarne...@veltrac.com.br): You can use the backports repo to install samba 3.4 and add Windows 7 machines, also windows Vista machines. Also note that I may provide unofficial backported packages for samba 3.5 series through

[Samba] cifs-utils 4.1 in Debian lenny backports

2010-05-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
(this mail is crossposted to 4 mailing lists, some of which being subscribers-only. Please consider this when answering if you need to) Let's see this as my first achievement of SambaXP (http://www.sambaxp.org). An official backport of cifs-utils (http://www.samba.org/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/) is

[Samba] Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny

2010-05-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
(please note that this mail is crossposted to 3 lists. No need to CC me to answers, I read the 3 of them...) Some users (including me with my professionnal hat) want to use 3.5 versions of samba on production servers running Debian. Of course, most of the time, these production servers are

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny

2010-05-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): (please note that this mail is crossposted to 3 lists. No need to CC me to answers, I read the 3 of them...) And one of them was invalid (sigh) as lists.debian.org is not yet hosting Samba mailing lists..:-) -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] smb.conf works for 3.4.0; doesn't work for 3.4.7

2010-05-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Mike Leone (tur...@mike-leone.com): directories. Even tho Ubuntu 10.04 seems to have the /etc/pam.d files already configured for samba, I copied over the common-account, common-auth, common-password, common-session files from the 9.10 server to the 10.04 server. Did the same with the

Re: [Samba] [Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny

2010-05-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Please note that these packages are not (yet) digitally signed, so apt-get might complain and ask for confirmation. I should improve this in the future. This is why this mail is currently GPG-signed with the key I'm using for Debian packaging. As one of my co-maintainers kindly pointed: -

[Samba] Samba 3.5.2 packages for Debian lenny (some issues left)

2010-05-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
So, as a service to our users, I prepared some packages which are now available from http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org, also known as the not so official but still quite actively supported backport service of the samba packaging team of the Debian project (which makes a fairly long name...).

[Samba] Samba 3.4.8 packages for Debian in unstable

2010-05-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.4. Packages for Debian unstable are available as of May 12th. They're expected to enter Debian testing in 10 days. Backports for Debian lenny will follow on backports.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the

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

2010-05-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net): Special thanks go to Blackbit [4] for creating the new design, Special chide to Blackbit for the outcome. :~( .../... There are two ways to react after improvements or changes when one has trouble with them: constructive criticism, given with a

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

2010-05-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net): That's what http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-sambaorg1005.png was supposed to be. How does the depiction fall short? Please accept some excuses here. In the next messages, you gave ecidence of you will to contribute constructively. Maybe the apparent

Re: [Samba] problems after upgrade from 3.3.2 to 3.4.0

2010-05-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Gutzler (thomas.gutz...@gmail.com): Hi, After upgrading one of my samba servers from ubuntu jaunty (3.3.2) to karmic (3.4.0) I cannot access the shares any more. The default for passdb backend changed between these versions (from smbpasswd to tdbsam) and, as you don't

Re: [Samba] problems after upgrade from 3.3.2 to 3.4.0

2010-05-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Gutzler (thomas.gutz...@gmail.com): passdb backend = tdbsam already set. Yet another setting not listed by testparm. Ah, because this is the default so it's trimmed by testparm. 3.3.2 testparm would probably have it shown. So, sorry for the wrong answer. Are you in position

Re: [Samba] ARGH... once again samba causes permission errors.

2010-05-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jeff Wiegley (je...@csun.edu): Before we start let's clear up some common misunderstandings: I have googled for the answer. I have spent the last six hours doing so and trying various suggestions. Most of these suggestions point to solutions involving chown or chmod. These are not

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 Home to Ubuntu 10.4 Samba 3.4.7 Access denied

2010-06-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Guy Rouillier (guyr-...@burntmail.com): I have spent many hours researching and trying many different things, starting with this: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7. However, I still cannot get Windows 7 Home Premium to connect to a Samba share using user-based security. XP

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 Home to Ubuntu 10.4 Samba 3.4.7 Access denied

2010-06-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Guy Rouillier (guyr-...@burntmail.com): Thank you *very* much. That was the problem. Windows 7 now works with security=user. Ugh. That entry was left over from the initial smb.conf that Samba provided upon install. I left it in case I Hmmm. If Ubuntu default smb.conf includes

Re: [Samba] Debian Lenny 3.5.3 packages pam-auth-update

2010-06-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Neil Price (npr...@gibb.co.za): I hope it is relevant to report this here. The debian lenny samba 3.5.3 packages at http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org have this problem: It is relevant, yes. Mailing pkg-samba-ma...@lists.alitoh.debian.org is also an option. Probably a better one as

Re: [Samba] Debian Lenny 3.5.3 packages pam-auth-update

2010-06-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): Indeed, I noticed this problem (this is the second time these remainings from Debian squeeze packages slip to the lenny backports, official or not)and fixed it in 2:3.5.3~dfsg-1~unoff50+2 packages. However, as of now, binary packages

Re: [Samba] group permissions broken after upgrade 3.2.5 - 3.4.8: deleting of files denied

2010-06-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Marc Schiffbauer (m...@schiffbauer.net): Now after the upgrade delete operations on files do not work anymore until a user owns the parent directory or has world write access to it (windows client (XP SP2) gets a permission denied error). This is strange because a user can still

Re: [Samba] Debian Lenny 3.5.3 packages pam-auth-update

2010-06-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Neil Price (npr...@gibb.co.za): I hope it is relevant to report this here. The debian lenny samba 3.5.3 packages at http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org have this problem: Setting up winbind (2:3.5.3~dfsg-1~unoff50+1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/winbind.postinst: line 16: pam-auth-update:

Re: [Samba] Samba packages for debian squeeze

2010-06-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Robert LeBlanc (rob...@leblancnet.us): I have had 'net' not correctly registered on some squeeze machines. Since I don't use the net command often, I just run net.samba3. I'm sure you could do an `update-alternatives --config net` as root and choose to use net.samba3 to restore the

Re: [Samba] Samba packages for debian squeeze

2010-06-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
I haven't run into the problem on Squeeze recently, personally, so it may have gotten fixed in the last couple of releases. I did have a lenny box with 3.4.8 from backports that had the problem a couple of days ago, but I did two today without any problems. I just chalked it up as a fluke and

Re: [Samba] samba-3.0.25 on Debian

2007-05-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Guillermo Gutierrez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have upgraded to samba 3.0.25 on a Debian Etch system and I am using winbind to authenticate against active directory. It used to work just fine with 3.0.24, wbinfo showed all users and groups, getent used to show all users and groups, and I

Re: [Samba] samba-3.0.25 on Debian (Debian bug #424637)

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Perrier
That sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424637, I'm afraid. Not much hop yet...there is nothing in that bug except a kind of proof that you're not alone...:-| The error indicates that the packages were not built to include krb5/ldap/ads support. Just a

Re: [Samba] force group to Unix group in 3.0.25

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Our bug. I fixed it last night for next week's 3.0.25a release (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_3.0). You can either retest against the SAMBA_3_0_25 svn tree or I can send you a patch. Jerry, apparently this bug hits Debian's version in etch as it appeared after

Re: [Samba] force group to Unix group in 3.0.25

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Jerry, The patch is working fine. I have had it running on the production machine at work since 12:00 am and there have been no *howls* from the rest of the minions and I haven't run into any trouble. Guys, I want to double check the patch to 3.0.24 (thanks, Jerry, for it) but

Re: [Samba] Endless Password Expiration in 3.0.25

2007-05-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jeremy Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): People who have reported this bug (Endless Password Expiration in 3.0.25, bugzilla id #4630) can you please let me know if you're working on 64-bit machines please ? I'm trying to track this down for 3.0.25a and am working on a theory The bug

Re: [Samba] 3.0.25 breaks username map?

2007-05-21 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jason Haar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi there I was using username map under 3.0.24 so that when I connected from DOM\jhaar under (ADS Win2K3) Windows, it was mapped to my local jhaar Unix account - with homedir /home/jhaar, etc. That sounds like samba bug #4620

Re: [Samba] prexec change between 3.0.24 to 3.0.25

2007-05-21 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jeremy Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was a little worried this might break some existing setups but this is the first report I've had, and believe +1 http://bugs.debian.org/425391 :-) But, anyway, I agree with youwhich explains why I marked the bug wontfix in Debian's BTS.

Re: [Samba] prexec change between 3.0.24 to 3.0.25

2007-05-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Quoting Jeremy Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was a little worried this might break some existing setups but this is the first report I've had, and believe +1 http://bugs.debian.org/425391 :-) But, anyway, I agree with youwhich

[Samba] Re: Winbind dies silently

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Perrier
Can anyone confirm a bug here or offer any suggestions as to where to go next? Well, if this is reproducible safely and downgrading to samba 3.0.24 removes the bug, I'd suggest reporting this in the Debian BTS, along with your smb.conf file, as many details as possible about your setup and the

Re: [Samba] Binary_Packages/Debian

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
(extending the discussion to the ML of the Debian packaging team in the Debian project. Sorry for the extensive quote) Simo Sorce in samba|samba-technical: Dear users, I have uploaded the new 3.0.25a packages compiled for sarge. At the same time I have removed older 2.2.x and 3.0.x packages

Samba in Debian Etch (was: Re: [Samba] Binary_Packages/Debian)

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
(samba-technical dropped as this is not really on-topic for it) Quoting Miguel Gonzalez Castaños ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If it is not a very complicated process I might help you out a bit. Anyway, current Samba etch package seems not to work with ADS, so this can be lay on the fixing tasks

Re: [Samba] Re: 3.0.25 packages for debian/ubuntu

2007-06-30 Thread Christian Perrier
With all due respect for the package maintainers of the Debian and Ubuntu distros... I sort of wish there would be a way of getting official packages of the current build verses some custom concoction (security updates only). (shrug) I certainly do not seem to be the person to make that

Re: [Samba] Very slow access to large files

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Eric Shuman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi all, I am having a problem accessing very large files through my samba shares after upgrading my file server to Debian Etch (Samba 3.0.24) from Debian Sarge (Samba ???). Debian sarge has 3.0.14a -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

Re: [Samba] How can Samba both work, and, suddenly stop working, simultaneously?

2010-06-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Paul Branon (paulbra...@googlemail.com): I can only interact with the server from the local command line. (I haven't altered the allow hosts in the config file. I haven't changed anything) I used to be able to reach it from all the machines on my network with windows \\10.10.10.1

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

2010-07-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr): Also tried this, running restart smbd after each addition, to no avail: You apparently have a *browsing* problem, so it's likely that nmbd is more the problem. === # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string =

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

2010-07-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr): It is. This is the Ubuntu package and It Works(tm)..:-) Apparently, not that well ;-) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1468111 Ah, this upstart thing*that* is a Ubuntu change to the Debian package. Not my responsibility, then..:-) (at

Re: [Samba] [3.4.7/Ubuntu 10.04] Can modify but not create/delete

2010-07-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr): Hello I notice I can modify existing files, but not create/delete. I also notice that after saving a file I modified, Samba sets its access rights to 744. nobody.nogroup owns /var/www, with /var/www/. as 755 Logged on from XP as nobody.

Re: [Samba] Debian Upgrade to 3.5.5

2010-09-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Dale Schroeder (d...@briannassaladdressing.com): After today's Squeeze upgrade from 3.4.8 to 3.5.5, domain logons were initially broken. I was fortunate to find Thomas Burkholder's workaround from last June, i.e. turn off server signing. Can anyone explain why server signing

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 on a Samba 3.2.5 Domain

2010-09-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rodolfo Barbosa (barbosa.rodo...@lunarconsultoria.com.br): Guys, Does the Windows 7 work with a Samba 3.2.5? If it does, where can I find a documentation about it? The mention of 3.2.5 makes me think you might be using Debian lenny..:-) In such case, you probably want to use

[Samba] Status of samba packages in Debian

2010-09-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
, Steve Langasek, Mathieu Parent, Christian Perrier, Jelmer Vernooij). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.6 Available for Download

2010-10-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5. It has just been uploaded to Debian unstable. Thanks to the strict release policy of the Samba Team (only well identified bugfixes allowed in the stable version releases), this updated got pre-approved by the Debian release team. So, it means

[Samba] Issues with default ACLs in created objects not including parent's owner: old bug or setup issue?

2010-11-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
I have recurrent issue with ACLs on a server that's running samba 3.2.15 (this is a Debian lenny server and we're not ready, yet, to upgrade it...we just upgraded samba from 3.2.5 to 3.2.15+security fixes). If a foo directory, owned by joe, has joe and jim authorized to write to it through the

Re: [Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Chris Smith (smb...@chrissmith.org): And I have seen reported instances of Samba issues on Ubuntu being resolved by avoiding the distro packages and compiling from source. Hmmm, could be interesting to learn about which ones. Since 2-3 years, we made great efforts in Debian to avoid

Re: [Samba] ubuntu doesn't daemonize smbd

2011-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Chris Smith (smb...@chrissmith.org): OK, not exactly a samba issue but maybe the Ubuntu maintainer reads this list and can provide some input. There is not exactly such thing as the Ubuntu maintainer. As far as I can tell (with my Debian package maintainer hat), samba packages in

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5.7 release date is...

2011-02-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Miguel Medalha (miguelmeda...@sapo.pt): On the Samba wiki page Samba3 Release Planning, the following is stated: Thursday, February 2011 - Planned release date for Samba 3.5.7 Which of the February Thursdays will it be? 10, 17 or 24? The quoted page resides here:

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security Releases Available

2011-02-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org): Release Announcements = Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 are security releases in order to address CVE-2011-0719. Debian addressed these in security updates: - 2:3.2.5-4lenny14 for Debian lenny - 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze1 for

Re: [Samba] winbind use default domain = Yes - doesn't work since upgrade

2011-03-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting markus hansen (hansenmar...@gmx.de): Hi List, I Upgraded my samba Installation from 3.3.8 (centos packages) to 3.5.8 (sernet packages). Now logging in does not work without providing the domain any more - before the upgrade it worked. Does someone knows what has changed in

Re: [Samba] Printer drivers installation: files are not deleted

2011-03-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Stegbauer (tho...@stegbauer.info): Hi Laurent, i cant imagine it is a permission problem. The driver upload runs as root and i added root Also i added root with net rpc rights grant cake\domadm SePrintOperatorPrivilege -U cake/root replaced cake with my domain-name.

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security Releases Available

2011-03-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eckert, Robert D (eck...@indiana.edu): Greetings, Can I go directly from 3.4.7 to the new 3.5.8 without installing any intermediate versions? Or is there a different route I should follow? You certainly can upgrade from 3.4.7 to 3.5.8. As usual with Samba, it's very hard to say

[Samba] Debian users: which samba bugs fixed in 3.5.8 would you like to see fixed in Debian 6.0 squeeze?

2011-03-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of samba packages in Debian. As of now, Debian squeeze provides samba 3.5.6. As per Debian policy wrt updates in the stable releases of the distribution, providing 3.5.8 (and later) is not an option we'll be considering for future updates. The policy of our

[Samba] Logon scripts not executed when NT4 trusted domain users log in a S3-controlled domain

2011-03-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
I'm currently building a Samba3-based domain (DomA) that has a trust relationship with an existing production NT4 domain (DomB). DomA uses an LDAP backend. The LDAP server is local on the PDC and is dedicated to such use. DomA runs Samba 3.5.6 on Debian 6.0. DomB is an old-timer: NT4 domain

Re: [Samba] Logon scripts not executed when NT4 trusted domain users log in a S3-controlled domain

2011-03-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): - I get a notice that the domain paassword is expired. I can either change it or ignore the warning, but: This was bug #7066. Fixed in 3.5.8. - the DomB user logon script is not executed This seems to be bug #6356 though my client

Re: [Samba] winbind is not taking default domain

2011-03-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Marco Huang (marco.hu...@auckland.ac.nz): Hi, We have been running samba file server about 2 years without this problem. The problem appeared at the same time on our debian and centos servers. Not sure if it's related to any updates on our windows AD servers. This seems to be

Re: [Samba] winbind is not taking default domain

2011-03-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Marco Huang (marco.hu...@auckland.ac.nz): We are using sernet-samba-3.5.8-27, but I've tried samba/winbind packages from debian squeeze, same result, and the problem appears on centos5.5 as well. We've been running these file servers for quite a long time, not sure if there's any

Re: [Samba] login failed

2008-04-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting denis rohou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello i've samba 3.022 with a ldap 2.2.26. I've no pb to join domain with my win2000, but when I reboot I'm reject (bad username ...). I find in debug that the first param sent by the client was the login and I think it must be the machines name.

Re: [Samba] smbd in hybrid mode

2008-04-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Weiser, Johann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There is this really fancy sentence in the smb.conf man page: It is possible to use smbd in a hybrid mode where it is offers both user and share level security under different NetBIOS aliases. There are a number of question here in this mailing

[Samba] Samba 3.2.0-pre3 packages in Debian - version of Samba in Debian lenny

2008-04-28 Thread Christian Perrier
The day after Karolin announced the release of 3.2.0-pre3, the Debian packaging team was able to upload .deb packages for it in Debian *experimental*. To use them, you need to already use Debian testing or unstable, then add this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian

[Samba] Re: Samba 3.2.0-pre3 packages in Debian - version of Samba in Debian lenny

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Volker Lendecke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 3.0.28a has known bugs in particular with trusts, so you will inevitably have to backport stuff from 3.0.28b that will be done by then. And, I have to agree with Jerry, having to live with .28a for the next decade in Debian might be not the best

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.0-pre3 packages in Debian - version of Samba in Debian lenny

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gerald (Jerry) Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christian, I really disagree here. What made you com to the decision that 3.0 is batter for a September Debian release? Because the Debian release team asked maintainers to slow odwn upstream version bumps as of March 2008. And one of the

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.2.0-pre3 packages in Debian - version of Samba in Debian lenny

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gerald (Jerry) Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian, | Debian entered the freeze stage for lenny on April 1st. Wow! A 5 month freeze before release? I guess I can understand for a distro but that seems a bit excessive. Well, etch

[Samba] Debian packages for CVE-2008-1105

2008-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gerald (Jerry) Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 == == == Subject: Boundary failure when parsing SMB responses == can result in a buffer overrun == == CVE ID#:

Re: [Samba] Debian packages for CVE-2008-1105

2008-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Nick Boyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (please keep applause for the moment we will upload the fixed packages for etch. I haven't done this yet...3.0.30 is in unstable now, though) Just wondering - given all the improvements (particularly Vista compatibility) made since 3.0.24 - does anyone

[Samba] (pudate) Debian packages for CVE-2008-1105

2008-05-30 Thread Christian Perrier
I've already prepared packages for 3.0.30, which will be uploaded to Debian unstable ASAP. These packages have a high priority so they An i386 1:3.0.30-1 package was uploaded yesterday to Debian unstable. Autobuilders (ie those magic scripts that build packages for all supported architectures)

[Samba] (update 2) Debian packages for CVE-2008-1105

2008-05-31 Thread Christian Perrier
3.0.24-6etch10 packages are in the hand of the Debian Security Team for review (this is our usual process). Here as well, autobuilders have to build. Then a security announcement will be sent and the packages will be available through security.debian.org APT repository. Updated packages for

[Samba] (update 3) Debian packages for CVE-2008-1105

2008-06-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Updated packages (3.0.30-2) are now available to users of Debian testing (Debian testing is the future release of the Debian distribution). So, as of now, all development branches of Debian have fixed packages, with the exception of Debian experimental as samba is 3.2.0-rc1 thereand that

Re: [Samba] Samba LDAP and Ubuntu

2008-06-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marcio Merlone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It is a known bug, I found on a bugzilla somewhere. The bug consists that the booting process needs the ldap server before it gets started. So, the workaround, for now, is to have a slave ldap server which you can use at least for booting. In

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