Hello.
Is it possible to completely hide a share, not making it visible in the
Windows client browse tree, although leaving it accessible if the exact
address is requested?
I tried using browseable = no, but it only hides the contents of the
share, not the share itself, which I can still see
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 01:57:23 + (GMT), John H Terpstra wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jim Wharton wrote:
Keep in mind however, this only hides the share in Network Neighborhood/My
Network Places/explorer. It is still possible to do a net view command from
the command line and see
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:26:47 -0600, Henrickson, Den wrote:
[sharename$]
[]
The $ creates a hidden Windows share. To access you would have to do
Right, thanks. I did actually forget that trick.
But, uhm... can it be used also with the [netlogon] share? Will it be
still correctly
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 08:28:52 +0100, Kurt Weiss wrote:
i don't understand your question. - we're using browsable = no over
years. but i did not find, where u'll see the share. i can't see the
share with 'net view' and not in network neighbourhood. - only if it's
Uhm, sorry, I thought I
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:55:28 -, Nick Gale wrote:
I have sucessfully got a windows 2K machine to join the domain but I can not
get it to run a logon script, map the drive letter to the home directory or
create a roaming profile. All my smb.conf setting look correct as per the
Try giving a
Hi,
as I saw someone today pointing to a solution for protected directories
in the recycle dir (thanks Ben!), I wanted to compile the modified
recycle.c.
I'm using Mandrake 9.0, I have kernel-source, kernel-header and all
basic development tools installed, including the libtool package; I
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:21:51 -0500, Ben Griffith wrote:
You have to run ./configure in the main samba-2.2.7a/source directory in order to
generate
That was it. It worked, thanks.
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:19:51 -0600, Kevin Bramblett wrote:
I need to setup some directories (in RHL 7.2 running Samba 2.2.3a w/ W2K
PDC) to allow multiple groups, each of which has different permissions. If
If you simply need to configure them so that e.g. one group has
read+write
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 05:18:56 +1100, Benjamin Stewart -NEW wrote:
morning I was asked to restrict access to a particular directory in a
particular share to a group of users. How do I do this ? Am I better to
create a new share and share that folder out from there setting
permissions etc.
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:04:03 -0700, Andrew R wrote:
I am trying to setup samba to act as an authentication server, as well =
as the obvious file backup server.
This free IBM tutorial is IMHO one of the best starting points about
this:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba.html
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:38:43 -0600, Brian Wiese wrote:
I've tried setting the directories with the sticky bit (i) with chattr +i
dir/ and that didn't work... as now the users could not r/w data within
the directory. I don't want the directories to be renamed or deleted.
I solved a similar
On 27 Mar 2003 09:37:22 -0500, Eric Halverson wrote:
share. If you want rwx access for the creator and primary group, create
mask would be 0770, if you want full access for everyone to have full
access to the files, create mask would reflect 0777. Just make sure
Shouldn't this be force
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:48:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hide dot files = yes
This is the default, so you don't need to specify it.
hide files = /.*
This is the same as the previous option, so it only adds some useless
overhead. And, judging on the man smb.conf examples,
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:48:55 +0200, Jordi Castells wrote:
I would like to control the access to the shared files,
so only allowed groups of users can modify/create files
I think the simpler method to do this would be to use the write list
parameter, together with read only = yes.
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Hi, I posted this some time ago but it remained unanswered; sorry for the
repost, but I hope to receive at least some confirmations or otherwise by
other people using WinXP Pro.
Using Samba 2.2.8a, I have a problem on a WinXP Pro client regarding the
read-only attribute on folders; the problem
Il 27/09/2004, alle ore 18:23, rruegner ha scritto:
also not working
log file = /var/log/samba/%U.%m.log
It works fine here, since Samba 2.x. Actually I use it the reverse way:
%m.%U.log
Some files are created as machinename..log, without username, but I
suppose that's normal: they are
Il 26/09/2004, alle ore 20:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
of what contains the .tdb-files. Okay, the secret.tdb contains the
I suppose it will not answer all your questions, but you can have a look
at the TDB FILES section in the man page for smbd
Il 22/09/2004, alle ore 16:01, LCID Fire ha scritto:
Could anybody point out what things one has to take care of when changing
the samba pdc?
Remember to copy the domain SID, which is contained in the secrets.tdb
file.
You can also copy it using the net getlocalsid/net setlocalsid commands.
Il 05/10/2004, alle ore 21:16, Paul Espinosa ha scritto:
And now I've got a little conundrum. How to I get the local SID from the
old samba server. It's running Samba 2.2.2 and it doesn't appear to have
the -X flag for smbpasswd that is supposed to be in 2.2.8 and it obviously
The SID
Il 23/12/2004, alle ore 18:28, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto:
The connections have been idled out, this is normal Windows 2000
behaviour. There are many articles about changing the value or
disabling the 'feature'
This can be changed or disabled only in Windows servers, AFAIK, which
indeed
Il 24/12/2004, alle ore 10:02, Gémes Géza ha scritto:
It happens to me to at any W2k machine on the network, and also to other
users, so I suspect it is not a network problem.
Maybe faulty network card/cable on the server or something like that?
Check the Samba logs for errors; if the problem
On 23/12/2004 Bart Hendrix wrote:
When I go to my computer, I see a red cross in every sharemapping. But
when I click on the sharemapping it seems to work fine end I can see
al files.
On 24/12/2004 Gémes Géza wrote:
Changed the NICs and other hardware (even the servers), and of course
the
Il 24/01/2005, alle ore 21:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
ANY machine. However on a SINGLE MACHINE, when I log on as USER_1 and access
that user's roaming profile, if I then log off and immediately try to log on
again (AS USER_1 or ANOTHER USER), Windows XP gives me a message saying that
Hello,
on my Samba 3.0.14a PDC (Debian Woody) I created a local unix group
named gpusers. Then I mapped it to a new NT domain group named
GPPower:
# net groupmap add rid=1005 ntgroup=GPPower unixgroup=gpusers
Then added a user mdv, who already had its own initial group mdv, to
the new gpusers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marco De Vitis wrote:
| Shouldn't group mapping work also for groups other
| than the initial one?
Yes. It does for me. Could be the user private group
that's causing problems. Windows does not allow a user
Hello,
I have a Debian Sarge machine running Samba 3.0.14a as PDC and file server.
Everything runs smoothly, except for a random problem: users (on
Win2000Pro clients) are often seeing a red cross on the main network
share, as if it was disconnected. This red X seems to come and go at random.
Joel Franco wrote:
I had that problem of a radom red X in the mapped drive too when the
server was a Win98 machine. The problem was hardware on this server.
I already thought about a hardware problem, but one thing mostly keeps
me away from this idea: supposing there was some hardware
Joel Franco wrote:
Try sniff the ethernet communication with ethereal in the server (within
a VNC server is cool), or try to increase the log level (3 gives you a
lot information).
Too much information, unfortunately. :-(
The problem happens at random, and setting log level to 3 for an
Hello,
I'm using Samba 3.0.21a on Debian Sarge, tdbsam account backend.
I was playing around with pdbedit and the account control flags, and
noticed a different behaviour from what I expected: if the password for
a user has expired, and I set the X account flag for him (pdbedit -c
[X]
Hello,
I'm doing a migration of a PDC from Samba 2.2.8a on Mandrake Linux 9.0 to
Samba 3.0.6 on Debian Woody (stable), both on the same machine, different
partitions, they do not run simultaneously. And I really need help. :-/
I could not find a detailed guide, so after having a look at the
Hello,
I'm configuring Samba 3.0.6 on Debian stable, after using version 2.2.8a
for a while.
I have some questions on VFS modules, which could be summed up into a
single big question: is there any documentation about them, other than the
few paragaphs in the official howto?
Now for the single
Il 12/09/2004, alle ore 2:05, Brian Krusic ha scritto:
Since user profs and envs are critical in my env, what I did was
[...cut...]
Thanks but oh, no, please someone DO tell me that a way exists to copy the
domain SID and avoid all this trouble! :-(
Where does Samba 3 store the domain SID? I
Il 13/09/2004, alle ore 20:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
Where does Samba 3 store the domain SID? I tried deleting
/etc/samba/secrets.tdb, to no avail.
Indeed SID is stored in this database. You can use tdbdump to see what are
Indeed it is, and today I found the cause for my problem:
Hello,
I'm using Samba 3.0.7, and I'd like to keep logs of open/delete/etc.
files, to be able to tell which user accessed a particular file at a
certain moment, and so on.
Samba logs are a bit confusing for this purpose.
I thought the audit VFS module was best suited for the task, but I
Il 20/09/2004, alle ore 15:55, rruegner ha scritto:
hi, i have something like this in the logs
[2004/04/22 08:35:55, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(240)
tanrit opened file tanrit/Vorlagen/winword2.doc read=Yes write=No
(numopen=5)
so its user time file what else do you miss?
Some actions
Il 21/09/2004, alle ore 16:08, Ben ha scritto:
Question: How can I make the same directory only readable by the rest of
the users ?
[pcbdata]
comment = PCB Design Files
path = /home/pcbadmin/pcbdata
writable = no
write list = pcbadmin
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Il 21/09/2004, alle ore 17:43, rruegner ha scritto:
as a work around you can use the recycle module,
so whatever they delete you will have it
Thanks, I already use it, and I use a cron scripts which regularly empties
recycle dirs and logs down all deleted files.
But:
1. empty directories
Il 21/09/2004, alle ore 17:07, Adam Tauno WIlliams ha scritto:
The redXs mean the connection has been dropped probably due to idle
Right.
I just want to add that I also noticed this problem on Windows 2000 Pro
clients where Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 was installed, with a slightly
different
Hi, I quote from the smb.conf man page:
log level (G)
The value of the parameter (a astring) allows the debug level (logging
level) to be specified in the smb.conf file. This parameter has been
extended since the 2.2.x series, now it allow to specify the
Il 22/09/2004, alle ore 14:57, Igor Belyi ha scritto:
From source/include/debug.h:
[...]
From source/lib/debug.c:
[...]
Thanks, I'll do some tests.
I don't know the answer to that but what I would do - I would turn all
trace on and look which file reports the information I'm intereted
Hi,
I'm using Samba 2.2.8a as PDC + file server in a LAN containing many
Win2000 Pro clients and one WinXP Pro client.
In a share I have some directories which are set to read-only by a script
on the Linux side, but any user can open up the folder properties on the
Windows client and remove the
Il 03/02/2005, alle ore 22:13, Stuart Callender ha scritto:
folder structure intact. However this option seems to be ignored by
Samba 3 and Windows 2000. Windows 2000 will quite happily delete
read-only files - which seems to be an annoying trait that cannot be
Uhm, as far as I recall,
Hello,
I'm using Samba 3.0.10 as file server and PDC for some Win2000 Pro
clients, and I'd like to get detailed and clear logs of file/dir
creation/open/save/deletion on some shares. The standard logs are a bit
too much for me. The ideal would be a well balanced setting of the
extd_audit VFS
Hello,
any news about the inconsistencies between what the Samba HOWTO tells and
the actual behaviour of the extd_audit VFS module?
See https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2349
Thanks in advance for any useful info.
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Il 07/04/2005, alle ore 9:20, John H Terpstra ha scritto:
I would much appreciate if you could provide a documentation update. I am
bogged down with other priorities right now. If you can not provide a
detailed documentation update this will have to wait for several months
before I can
Il 07/04/2005, alle ore 15:13, John H Terpstra ha scritto:
The documentation will need to be updated based on a review of the current
source code. If there is a bug then the appropriate vehicle for having it
dealt with is a bug report on https://bugzilla.samba.org.
...which is what I
Il 07/04/2005, alle ore 15:52, John H Terpstra ha scritto:
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:35, Marco De Vitis wrote:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2349
extd_audit VFS log output problems - unexpected behaviour
But nobody seems to have picked it up. What else can I do, as a
non
Il 08/04/2005, alle ore 16:41, John H Terpstra ha scritto:
Whoever did the last update to this module did not document the changes and
most likelt will not either. I originated the extd_audit module and thus I
think it will fall to me to update the docs. That will have to wait until I
get
Il 01/07/2003, alle ore 14:19, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) ha scritto:
It it possible to send messages to all users logged in a PDC at same
time ?
I didn't find a ready-to-use program, so I use something like this
inside an executable script:
for i in $(cat /path/clientlist.txt)
Hi,
I'm on a network with a Samba 2.2.8a fileserver + PDC (Mandrake Linux
9.0) and various Win2000 Pro clients.
Very often, when I log off from one client and log on a different one
soon after, I get an error message telling me that the remote profile
cannot be loaded, and the local one will be
Il 30/07/2003, alle ore 1:41, Rashkae ha scritto:
Try to veto oplocks for that file.
In the global section of your smb.conf, add the following
veto oplock files = /NTUSER.DAT/
Let us know if that changes the behaviour.
This sounds like an interseting quirk in the W2K clients.
Hi, I know I'm
Il 06/06/2005, alle ore 8:12, Jeremy Allison ha scritto:
Or Apple can learn how to cooperate with Open Source/Free Software projects.
Hi Jeremy.
I don't know anything about changes introduced in Samba by Apple in MacOSX
10.4, but I've actually read that some OSX 10.4.1 users had troubles
Hi,
I'm using Samba as a PDC with roaming profiles on a Debian Etch machine,
the clients are Windows XP/2000 machines.
I just installed security upgrades with aptitude, and this upgraded all
samba 3.0.24-6etch4 packages to 3.0.24-6etch6 (except for samba-doc
which was upgraded to
Il 27/11/2007 18:25, Christian Perrier ha scritto:
and can't currently work on them. So you're quite likely to need
waiting some time before this is fixed. In the meantim, you should
revert back to -etch5
Thanks, no problem, I can wait. Luckily I could fix it immediately by
reverting to the
Il 27/11/2007 19:48, Christian Perrier ha scritto:
On the other hand, I think (but this should be checked as well) that
Debian packages from unstable may quite easily be rebuilt on an Etch
machine.
Thanks for your kind answer and your instructions. Anyway, I'll better
not try this on a
Il 30/11/2007 6:46, Christian Perrier ha scritto:
New packages have been rolled out which claim to fix the long
directory listings regression. It turned out that a chunk from
Yes I've seen the DSA, thanks. But...
Feedback about these packages is currently quite low so I would suggest
people
Il 10/01/2008 19:19, Héctor Sánchez Sanmartín ha scritto:
Does anyone has an idea what could be happening and how to avoid windows
showing it as read-only???
Sorry for not having noticed this thread before, because I would have
saved you some time.
What you describe is not a problem with
Il 2-02-2008 0:06, Ryan Novosielski ha scritto:
Is that workstation name too long? On some of my machines, it would be.
Well, the WinXP OS accepted it so I suppose it's not too long.
Anyway I now tried adding another machine named MDVMBXP which surely
is a good enough name, but the result is
Hi,
I've got a Samba 3.0.24 Debian server which I'm currently moving to a
new hardware. It uses tdbsam as password backend.
So, while looking at configuration files, I was thinking: is there a way
I could change the Unix UIDs for some users, without breaking anything?
The problem is that,
On 05/03/2007 5:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The primary way of using NTLM seems to be using ntlm_auth.
ntlm_auth connects to winbindd which then connects to an AD server
for authentication. This doesn't seem to be what I want.
ntlm_auth through winbind can also authenticate against a Samba
On 05/03/2007 14:23, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
That's a little bit of a hard guess. Windows can be an
wild environment, and profiles can be even wilder. :-)
I know, I know ;).
PS: actually, I suppose I could simple delete both Linux and Samba users
and create them again, as
On 06/03/2007 0:35, simo wrote:
HOWTO (Desktop Profile Management Chapter) about this?
No, as far as I can tell this situation is not covered there; it talks
about migrating profiles from a NT PDC, which is somehow different, and
I'm missing the pieces to link it all together.
You are
On 06/03/2007 14:46, simo wrote:
Ahh, then you should have no problems, we don't save uids/gids in
tdbsam, just the username.
That sounds great.
So, the UIDs in pdbedit's output are not read from the Samba database,
but taken instead at runtime from /etc/passwd?
I mean, quoting the pdbedit
On 29/03/2007 18:17, Aaron Souza wrote:
I would like to upgrade our Fedora Core 3 Linux server (hosting samba,
among other services) to Cent OS 4.4. However, if I reformat the array
and install Cent OS 4.4 and copy back all the samba files (and other
files), do my Windows XP Clients have to
Hi,
I'm using Samba 3.2.5 on Debian Lenny, and I need to set the password
for a certain user to expire on a specific date (not now, it's a date
in the future).
When I was on Debian Etch I could use this:
pdbedit -r -u user --time-format=%d-%m-%Y --pwd-must-change-time=date
But it seems this
Il 27/08/10 15:42, Arvid Requate ha scritto:
Sounds like a more debian related packaging question:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/samba/filelist
says /usr/bin/pdbedit is shipped in 2:3.2.5-4lenny12.
Sorry, I do not understand what you mean to say.
The Samba version shipped with Debian
Hi,
I just upgraded a Debian Samba server (PDC+shares) from Etch to Lenny,
thus upgrading Samba from version 3.0.24 to version 3.2.5.
After the upgrade most users, on WinXP SP3 clients, encountered problems
connecting to SOME of their mapped network drives, access was denied as
if the server
Il 9-07-2008 2:14, Kevin Bedford ha scritto:
The issue is .doc or .xls files saving and then producing an error about
not being able to open the file for writing. Then it claims the file is
locked by the user who just saved the file. It even occurs in users own
home directories where no one
Il 11-11-2008 22:49, Tom Vier ha scritto:
Anyone else have problems using autodesk products to save files to a
samba share?
No problems here. My users do it daily using AutoCAD 2007 on WinXP and
Samba 3.0.24 on Debian Etch.
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Hi,
in a Samba 3.0.24 domain, using roaming profiles and WinXP (or later)
workstations, can I be *100% SURE* to catch any logged in users when
checking the smbstatus -p output?
I need this to send internal service instant messages to some logged in
users.
Can it happen somehow that a
Il 31-05-2009 14:44, John Drescher ha scritto:
If a user has been inactive for a while the connection is closed and
you will not see them in smbstatus.
Er... thanks, but... how long is that for a while? :)
I wanted to test this, and left a user logged in since yesterday at
19:07 (GMT+1).
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