[Samba] Problem with password program setting. Maybe my upgrade did not go good?

2004-11-15 Thread Richmond Dyes
I was running a server with Redhat 9.0 on it. I had upgraded samba by compiling 3.03 on it several months ago. When I add password syncronization I started getting the error: ERROR: the 'passwd program' (/usr/bin/passwd %u) requires a '%u' parameter Of course my parameter was right but there

Re: [Samba] No connection to SAMBA server

2004-11-15 Thread Richmond Dyes
Can you send yout smb.conf file? Bernd Schreiber wrote: Hello, I've compiled SAMBA 3.0.7 on AIX 5.2 ML 2 with gcc 2.9. There were no errors during the compilation. I get no connection from a Windows XP PC to my SAMBA-Server. When I enter the username and password I get the next window and I

[Samba] Question about samba 3.0.9

2004-11-30 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have been setting up my domain server using FC2 and samba 3.0.9. First thing, for your information: In the notations in several sources, it tells you to user logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u this is wrong. It should be, logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U. Now that I spent 5 million hours banging

Re: [Samba] Question about samba 3.0.9

2004-12-13 Thread Richmond Dyes
The only catch I have found in all the solutions is after you move a profile to the samba server using the administrative(root) user, is that the owner and group is root and you have to change ownership. Otherwise, everything worked fine. Paul Gienger wrote: I do this pretty regularly ... I

[Samba] Trying to get my local profile to sync with my roaming profile

2005-01-18 Thread Richmond Dyes
I am having a problem getting my original local profile to sync with my new roaming profile on a FC2 samba 3.0.9 server. I have a user called John Doe who logs into a machine as a local user. In samba his name is jdoe and I use the smbusers file to map him to John Doe. When I decided to

[Samba] Having problems running palm desktop or the uninstall program

2005-01-25 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have a user John Dow on a local machine johnsmachine. I have a samba user jdow. When I moved the profile john dow to the domain keydomain, I can't get the install program to run. This is how it looks. I have local profile johnsmachine/John Dow and roaming profile keydomain/jdow. When

Re: [Samba] Having problems running palm desktop or the uninstall program

2005-01-25 Thread Richmond Dyes
Paul Gienger wrote: keydomain/jdow. When logged into profile johnsmachine/John Dow, I can install and uninstall the palm software with no problem. When I am logged into keydomain/jdow on the domain I cannot do any installs or uninstalls. Sounds like your user isn't an administrator on the

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profile problems

2005-01-31 Thread Richmond Dyes
SABINE ZARABIAN wrote: Hi, we are using samba 3.0.10-17 with openlddap 2.2.6-37.22 as backend. We use roaming profiles, but because of problems with different operating systems and the profile size, we want to use locale profiles. I tried to change logon path in smb.conf in an emty string, but

[Samba] Slow shutdowns and tmp files?[VASCL:A1037FCE7F5]

2005-09-27 Thread Richmond Dyes
I am having problems with long shutdown periods. The machines are building large tmp files, like prf2E6.tmp. These files are over 1 gig. I am running Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients to a Redhat ES 4.0 with Samba 3.0.14. I have a domain setup. In each of these machines there are large

[Samba] Group ownership[VASCL:A17D1EDC742]

2005-10-26 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have several different directories on my samba 3.14 running on centos 4.1. I have several different groups that have access to each directory. So directory1 group is group1. The problem is when a user writes to the directory he has owner and group privileges in his/her name. So file1

[Samba] Ton's oftmp files in Outlook Express Folder[VASCL:A165472F8B5]

2005-12-22 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have a server running Centos 4.2 with samba 3.0.14a running and using roaming profiles in a domain setup. There is a user with 125 tmp files in his Outlook Express Folder. They date back to June of this year with different sizes from 300K to 65 meg. Is this a sign of a problem with

[Samba] Any ideas on splitting my profiles directory

2005-03-02 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have 2 250gig drives in my machine and one has 50 gig on it and the other with my profiles directory in it has 219 gig. Is there a way to split my profiles directory. These are ide drives and I will not be mirroring them. My entry in smb.conf reads: [profiles] path=/data/profiles browsable

[Samba] Stable samba version

2005-04-13 Thread Richmond Dyes
I am running Samba 3.0.9 and am thinking of upgrading to a later one. Which version is the cleanest one of the upgrades? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Problem with performance since replacing mainserver

2005-04-27 Thread Richmond Dyes
Last week I lost my main samba server on my network. It was a domain server with 20 users on it and it was working like a champ till it lost its main drive. I was backing up the data and pertinent config files on a backup server. This server was not a backup domain server. I was just storing

Re: [Samba] Problem with performance since replacing mainserver

2005-04-27 Thread Richmond Dyes
Richmond Dyes wrote: I think I may have figured out the problem. I found the name of the backupserver in the host file pointing to 127.0.0.1. I changed the field to mainserver and it seems to have fixed the problem. Last week I lost my main samba server on my network. It was a domain server

[Samba] Mirrored samba servers.

2005-04-28 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have a customer that is using 250 gig drives for his business data. I have been using rsync to keep mirror copies of his data on a second machine. In the last 3 months I have lost 2 of four drives, the last one being the system drive. I have been doing a manual switchover. Each time rsync

Re: [Samba] Mirrored samba servers.

2005-04-28 Thread Richmond Dyes
Paul Gienger wrote: I have a customer that is using 250 gig drives for his business data. I have been using rsync to keep mirror copies of his data on a second machine. In the last 3 months I have lost 2 of four drives, the last one being the system drive. I have been doing a manual

Re: [Samba] Mirrored samba servers.

2005-04-28 Thread Richmond Dyes
Seems like the 3ware adapter is the best solution along with using the LVM. I will look closely at this solution. Thanks alot Paul Gienger wrote: I have a customer that is using 250 gig drives for his business data. I have been using rsync to keep mirror copies of his data on a second

Re: [Samba] Mirrored samba servers.

2005-04-29 Thread Richmond Dyes
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[Samba] Can I tranfer my samba data to ldapsam from tdbsam?

2005-05-10 Thread Richmond Dyes
I am using tdbsam to authenticate my samba server. I want to go to a PDC/BDC model using ldap. Can I transfer my info from tdbsam file to the ldapsam file you pdbedit? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] My Workgroup eventually disappears when I enable SAMBA!

2003-08-20 Thread Richmond Dyes
Did you ever get an answer to this question. I am having the same problem. Jamie Risk wrote: When I enable Samba on my Linux box, the workgroup Workgroup eventually disappears from site in both the GUI Network Neighbourhood and at the W2000 cmd line net view. It takes a little while for this to

[Samba] How do I get rid of a disabled IP address

2005-05-11 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have a samba server in which I did not designate an interface in the smb.conf file. I added another card with a sec IP address and rebooted the server. I then removed the card and the ifcfg-eth1 file. Now I get this error: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser at IP

[Samba] Doing a Node status request to the domain master browser at IP 11.11.11.11 failed

2005-05-12 Thread Richmond Dyes
I added a second network card with a new ip address that was say 11.11.11.11. I removed it and samba is still trying to reference it. This server is my domain master. I did not put in an interface parameter in my smb.conf so I am assuming this ip address was recorded as part of my domain

[Samba] Problem with performance.

2005-05-16 Thread Richmond Dyes
I have been running the same samba conf file for a year. Last week, I added another network card with the ipaddress 10.0.0.122 to my samba server. This server is my domain master browser. I then removed it. Now I am getting errors in my messages log telling me it cannot find the domain

[Samba] Invalid user name when adding machine to domain

2005-07-05 Thread Richmond Dyes
I am getting an error when trying to add a machine to my domain. I look at the log for that machine and this is what I get [2005/07/02 20:54:51, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources.

Re: [Samba] Seeking help with Samba shares OPLOCKS Quickbooks databases

2005-07-07 Thread Richmond Dyes
Liz Ackerman wrote: I thought I had things figured out, but guess not. I have multi-user Quickbooks databases that functioned fine on a Novell server but are behaving badly on a Samba share. I have created a separate share for the Quickbook databases, users are running Win XP Pro, latest