Re: [Samba] configuration help

Can you ping the Linux machine from the wndows machine... and the Windows machine from the Linux machine ? - Original Message - From: sukkur abdul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: [Samba] configuration help Dear I install

Re: [Samba] Rejecting User

Do you have other users who CAN log in via Samba ? Have you set up their Samba password (smbpasswd) and have you included their IP in Hosts files. Mike - Original Message - From: Jorge Videgain Marquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:05 PM

Re: [Samba] Rejecting User

I do not know if you need to use smbpasswd when you have security=USER (I have security=SHARE) We will have to wait for a more experienced person to answer this. Mike - Original Message - From: Jorge Videgain Marquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: [Samba]Ooops File In Use when it's not...not a problem

Thanks Joel, Netwatcher is one of the M$ Windows (95/98 and maybe 2K) system tools. Shows who is connected to your shares, what files they have open etc. and allows you to disconnect them :-) Seems that if the client crashes, and then tries to reconnect after reboot, finds that the files are in

Re: [Samba] XP needs ~30seconds to open network share

Is there something similar (or the same) in win 2000 which I could disable ? Mike - Original Message - From: Leroy van Logchem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] XP needs ~30seconds to open network share Try disabling

[Samba] SWAT display

Is there any way of modifying the SWAT pages shown by my browser ? I'd like to move the heading so that I don't have to scroll down every time the page refreshes. Thanks Mike

[Samba] SWAT display

Is there any way of modifying the SWAT pages shown by my browser ? I'd like to move the heading so that I don't have to scroll down every time the page refreshes. Thanks Mike

Re: [Samba] PB samba 2.5 and clients W2K SP2-SP3

Possibly the password expiry time is set by Win2k and not Samba I have this problem too but not yet got around to investigating. Mike - Original Message - From: GAUCHON Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:19 AM Subject: [Samba] PB

[Samba] Hosts files

Hi, I have put entries into the hosts file for all the machines which need to connect to our Samba server. Everything seems to be working correctly but I'm curious can anyone tell me what the other files hosts.deny and hosts.allow are for. Thanks Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list go

Re: [Samba] Samba unable to validate password error

have you created the new user accounts in Unix and also in smbpasswd ? Mike - Original Message - From: Carolyn Mayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: [Samba] Samba unable to validate password error I sent the

[Samba] SWAT, where ?

Hi there... first I apologise for being dim... Where can I download SWAT from ? I've looked on the Samba.org site but it only tells me that the demo page is off-line and no more info. Idiot proof instructions for installing it on RH 7.2 would be handy too :-) Thanks Mike -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] SWAT, where ? Got it, not working :-(

it... `rpm -qa | grep swat` may also indicate if it's installed already or not... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20

[Samba] Re:SWAT, where ? what a FOOL

Hi. after 2 days of looking, checking and rechecking I've just found that I made a mistake in the swat file I'd created in xinetd.d ... got the path to swat wrong. What a fool am I. All's working brilliantly now. Thanks to all for your assistance... sorry it was my mistake. Mike -- To

Re: [Samba] SWAT, where ? Got it, not working :-(

blocking port 901. Make sure your firewall (if enabled) allows that connection. Mark -Original Message- From: Mike Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:16 AM To: Mark Knecht; 'Bradley W. Langhorst' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Samba] Starting smbd nmbd from xinetd ?

Hi there, Just experimenting with Samba (latest version) running on RH 7.2 Everything seems to be OK, got it running and can access shares but... smbd and nmbd have to be started manually ! ( using # /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D and then # /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D ). Any idea how I set

[Samba] swat not working this time

Hi again, I've just reinstalled RH 7.2 and Samba 2.2.7 for the unpteenth time this time swat is not working !!! I have checked the etc/services file and swat 901/tcp is in there and I have a text file named swat in etc/xinetd.d directory containing the following... service swat { port = 901

Re: [Samba] Help Needed

Have you set up the users with Linux accounts and smbpasswd entries and have you added them to the etc/hosts file ? Mike - Original Message - From: pondiboy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: [Samba] Help Needed Hi there I have

[Samba] Hide printer icon

Hi, is there any way I can hide the printers icon/folder from the Windows users ? We don't have any printers attached to the Samba server and find that it's confusing the users a little ! Thanks Mike Stewart --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http

Re: [Samba] Restricting file types

Yes, and very useful it is too :-) In the Globals section I put this to stop all users cluttering up the server with mp3 files. You can put it in each required share definition rather than globals though. veto files = /*.mp3/ basically it starts with a / then file name and type and then ends

Re: [Samba] Permissions problem...I must be overlooking *something*...

Hi, just a thought Are the LINUX permissions on the directory set correctly ? Make sure it's owned by your group, I got caught out by that a few times when I created a new directory as root and then tried to share it for users Mike - Original Message - From: David Brodbeck [EMAIL

Re: [Samba] (no subject)

Can I disagree there Mark... I've set up several Samba servers for our company over the past year. All just purely file servers (nothing clever). They can be accessed from different windows workgroups. I'm in the workgroup PTAdmin and I can access the servers in all the other workgroups

Re: [Samba] clients logout .............

I hope someone can anser that... I would find it ver useful too !! There was the DOS net logoff but that will not work in a Windows VM, only in real mmode :-( Hi, Two questions, only slightly related to SAMBA : 1) when I have logged into my Samba server (rh9) from a W2K or XP client, how

Re: [Samba] clients logout .............

endorsed by ITS -Original Message- From: Mike Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] clients logout . I hope someone can anser that... I would find it ver useful too !! There was the DOS net logoff

Re: [Samba] clients logout .............

the sender by reply email. Opinions, conclusions and other information contained in this message that do not relate to official business shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by ITS -Original Message- From: Mike Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10

[Samba] Stopping new directory creation ?

Hi, I've been looking for a way to stop users creating new sub-directories under a top level (shared) directory - which will need to contain 3 readymade directories and/or to stop users placing files outside the 3 readymade directories. Is this at all possible ? Got a really basic system -

Re: [Samba] Stopping new directory creation ?

one !? Am I missing something ? TVM Mike - Original Message - From: Matt Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Samba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] Stopping new directory creation ? Mike, These commands should

Re: [Samba] Resolving computername from ip

I normally use ping -a [IP address] from a Windows DOS session. Not sure if the -a option works from a Linux commend prompt though. - Original Message - From: Torben Thomsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:47 AM Subject: [Samba] Resolving

[Samba] couldn't find service ?

Hi, Please could someone explain this to me. I have a basic setup with Slackware 8.0 and Samba 2.2.8a running purely as a fileserver for our win2k machines. I've just looked into var/log/samba.mike (that's me) and it shows... [2004/03/26 10:23:10, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252) mike

[Samba] strange entries in /var/log/samba.%m

Hi, Please could someone explain this to me. I have a very basic setup with Slackware 8.0 and Samba 2.2.8a running purely as a fileserver for our win2k machines. I've just looked into var/log/samba.mike (that's me) and it shows... [2004/03/26 10:23:10, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)

Re: [Samba] Automatic SAMBA user creation from UNIX

I _think_ you can do it by pointing Samba at the Unix password shadow file... something like In your smb.conf: update encrypted = Yes smb passwd file = /etc/shadow unix password sync = Yes Mike - Original Message - From: carmoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[Samba] couldn't find service ?!

Hi, Please could someone explain this to me. I have a basic setup with Slackware 8.0 and Samba 2.2.8a running purely as a fileserver for our win2k machines. I've just looked into var/log/samba.mike (that's me) and it shows... [2004/03/26 10:23:10, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252) mike

Re: [Samba] Upgraded to 3.0.2a but...

Thanks Daniel, Seems that the 3.0.2a installation put most of the files in different directories from the original 2.2.8a (which came bundled with this slackware 8). The rc.samba file would not start nmbd or smbd and I couldn't manually start them from anywhere except when I went right into the

Re: [Samba] Upgraded to 3.0.2a but...

Thanks again Daniel, Yes, I edited rc.samba to point to the new files, still told me I was running 2.2.8a ! I didn't know there was a make uninstall, I'll run that now. I'll read through the configure file to see if I can modify it myself (I suppose I could compare it to the configure file

Re: [Samba] Premission

Hi Manfred, I had the same requirement for accessing ALL the user's home folders. This is the entry I have for the share in smb.conf It works OK for me. [private] comment = Access for Backup of *Central Server* path = /home admin users = mike, ray browseable =

Re: [Samba] Can I reconfigure Samba share without restart smb service?

I read somewhere that Samba re-reads its config file every minute or so. I think one of my servers (2.2.0a) does this but the other (2.2.8a) seems to take longer. - Original Message - From: Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ww m-pubsyssamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Samba] Sending message to connected users ?

Hi, Is there any simple way to send messages to all users who are connected to my Samba server. I've just a basic fileserver setup (in a workgroup not Domain) all clients are using Win2k and mapping to shares. I'd like to be able to send them a popup message from the Linux console (or my

Re: [Samba] Sending message to connected users ?

a message to the PC with the netbiosname Computer. regards Arno -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Mike Stewart Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Mai 2004 10:54 An: Samba Betreff: [Samba] Sending message to connected users ? Hi

Re: [Samba] Sending message to connected users ?

Thanks again Arno, that's a possibility for the future. Getting rather frustrated with the servers here... browse.dat is in different places on our 2 servers and neither where you said it might be ! Reason for all this messing around is that one server (built by someone else) is *extremely*

Re: [Samba] Samba basics

Have Desktop made sure that the IP address (if static) and the computername are as they were before the drive swap ? Just a thought. Mike - Original Message - From: Austin, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:05 PM Subject: [Samba] Samba basics

[Samba] Time server

Ah ha... I was browsing through the Globals in SWAT and came across the Time Server = yes option. But, can't figure out how to get my W2K clients to sync to it (other than DOS.. net time \\server /SET ). Any ideas ? Thanks Mike --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG

Re: [Samba] Re: Time server

Um, don't know where my original reply went to ! but... Thanks. I've set that up but it doesn't seem to be doing anything :-( I found other, very similar instructions on the 'net... Under my computer, manage, services applications, services made sure that Windows Time was set to start

Re: [Samba] can't get into home dir share (username stuck on guest)

Hi. I'm not sure if you need all that in homes, all I have is the following and everything seems to work OK. It's just what Samba created by default. [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No HTH Mike Running Slackware 8.0/Samba 2.2.7a with W98

Re: [Samba] Re: Time server

Mac, perfectly explained. I had (it seems wrongly) assumed Samba was using SNTP. I'll stick to the good old DOS method. Thanks Mike - Original Message - From: Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [Samba]

[Samba] Logon script, help please

load and run as soon as the user logged in to the server but nothing seems to happen, no error message either...am I doing something wrong ? I can run the command net time \\ptlserver /SET /y from W2k Start/Run and it works. Using Slackware 9.0/Samba 2.2.8a Thanks Mike Stewart --- Outgoing mail

Re: [Samba] Logon script, help please

to automate this sync but if I can't get it to work I'll just put the batch file into the \home\masters directory and tell users to run it manually. Thanks Mike - Original Message - From: Frode Lillerud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mike Stewart' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:27

Re: [Samba] Re: Time server

Thanks Mac/Matthew, I DO have time server = yes in my global section of smb.conf. I can now get the PC's clock to sync to the server using - net time \\ptlserver /SET /y Now I'm struggling with setting up a logon script (I've made several postings !) but it's not working... yet. In the

Re: [Samba] Logon script, help please

file in a common directory for users to sync their clocks when needed. Again, many thanks for your assistance. Mike - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Logon script, help please I'm having

Re: [Samba] recovering files from .recyle

Hi Robin, sorry I can't help but I didn't know there was such an option so I've looked at the how-to and it's not helping me :-( how did you set it up as it's something I would really like to try. The how-to I'm looking at is for Samba v3 but I'm using Samba 2.2.8a - do you know if it's

Re: [Samba] recovering files from .recyle

a few chocolate bars for doing something very complex and technical to recover lost files for them :-))) Mike Monday morning, week's only just started so I'm still in good gumour. - Original Message - From: Robin M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Robin M

Re: [Samba] recovering files from .recyle

Hi Matze/Robin. I put the lines Matze suggested into my [Mike] share but running testparm gives the following errors (it does pass vfs objects = recycle OK though). The lines Robin suggested gave the same errors. Am I doing wrong ? Samba 2.2.7a/Slackware Linux Thanks, Mike. Errors -

Re: [Samba] recovering files from .recyle

PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robin M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] recovering files from .recyle On Mon, 24 May 2004, Mike Stewart wrote: Hi Matze/Robin. I put the lines Matze suggested

Re: [Samba] conflict between Realtek 8139 (client) and 3c2000T(server) NIC's with Samba?

I *might* be a Realtek issue... I have heard that Sage (the accounts software folk) say that their software will not work properly over a network which uses these Realtek cards. Mike - Original Message - From: Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bart van Dijck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [Samba] conflict between Realtek 8139 (client) and3c2000T(server) NIC's with Samba?

I've just purchased some Belkin 10/100 PCI NICs which _seem_ to have the Realtek 8139 chip with a Belkin sticker over the top !!! Rather annoying :-( Mike - Original Message - From: Malcolm Baldridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:49 AM Subject:

[Samba] Running a login script

Hello all, We are trying to find a way to run login scripts for our users but all the How-To files seem rather complicated :-( We have been using Samba for several years and all our users have Windows 2000 PCs, Samba accounts etc. They log into their Windows with a username/password OK. The

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

- From: Jean-Jacques Moulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED], samba@lists.samba.org Sent: 19 March 2008 07:06:32 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re: [Samba] Running a login script On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:46:58 + (GMT) Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MS Hello all

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Stewart Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:02 AM To: Jean-Jacques Moulis Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Running a login script Hi JJ, thanks for the response. Does this mean we create

Re: [Samba] Running a login script

- Original Message - From: Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: samba@lists.samba.org Sent: 19 March 2008 20:26:47 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re: [Samba] Running a login script On 3/19/2008, Mike Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had assumed that the smb.conf entry

[Samba] Problem accessing SWAT with Firefox

Hi, not sure if I'm posting in the right place but couldn't find a SWAT forum. I've just changed my PC but the new one has exactly the same settings (IP, computername, login, password) as the old one, however I am getting an error when I try to access any of my Samba servers from Firefox

Re: [Samba] Problem accessing SWAT with Firefox

- From: Andras S. Haramasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 May 2007 17:23:42 o'clock GMT Europe/London Subject: RE: [Samba] Problem accessing SWAT with Firefox You are running TCP wrapper (samba was compiled with TCP wrapper). It is a daemon to monitor requests

Re: [Samba] Problem accessing SWAT with Firefox

Hi Wolfgang, Firefox and IE both have exactly the same proxy configuration. Regards Mike - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Ratzka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Sent: 16 May 2007 09:01:34 o'clock GMT Europe/London Subject: Re: [Samba