Re: [Samba] Switch profile from local to roaming?

2004-09-29 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Been working on this for a while Misty. Stay tuned. TMS III Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: I've got a WinXP machine that was configured for local profiles. I have now joined that machine to the domain, but when I try to log in as a user, it tries to use a roaming profile. Fine, that's what I want

Re: [Samba] Switch profile from local to roaming?

2004-09-29 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Not sure if this is the 'approved' way to do things like this, but it always works for me when I have to migrate a profile from one dir to another, usually I use it when switching domains, i.e. from our 'one domain per site' to one global domain where the sid just can't match ANYWAY 1.

Re: [Samba] Samba became Domain Member Server

2004-09-29 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Martin Hauptmann wrote: Hi group, I have problems with a former Samba-server. It has been a simple server, no acl-stuff,not a DC or so. ACL's would be a good idea here. Now we have a Windows 2003 PDC and I intergated the Samba-Server as a Domain Member Server. Everything works fine, except one

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles:Samba PDC:WinXP:User must be local admin SOLVED

2004-09-29 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
be cumbersome. Paul Geinger's suggestion is much fewer steps. Your mileage may vary. Thanks for everyone's help - Original Message - From: Thomas M. Skeren III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:17:16 -0700 Subject: Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles:Samba PDC:WinXP:User must be local

Re: [Samba] Heimdal Version Question

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
L. Mark Stone wrote: We would like to build a SuSE Professional 8.2 box as a Domain Member Server in a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain, and we are referencing Chapter 9.3.3 of Samba3-By-Example. The version of heimdal supplied with SuSE 8.2 is 0.4e. S3BE references heimdal version 0.6

Re: [Samba] Unable to join AD (FreeBSD)

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Elijah Savage wrote: I was having the same problem as you decribe with 4.10 version of freebsd and found a number of reasons why it was not working, but I manage to find this great walk through and get it working with 5.2.1. http://www.kurai.org/~gdunn/samba3-ad/fbsd_samba.html This is quite

Re: [Samba] Unable to join AD (FreeBSD)

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Elijah Savage wrote: Well yes I would agree now that 5.3 is production release that this is a safe bet. Well shoot...they must've released it today. I got 5.3 rc2 on a server working well, and my laptop too. But yeah, use 5.3. -Original Message- From: Thomas M. Skeren III [mailto

Re: [Samba] Samba - Joining AD and OU issues

2004-12-08 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Wayne Rasmussen wrote: Windows 2000 Server named adtest.com as PDC. Solaris 9 server with SAMBA 3.0.7. I am trying to get a handle on the OU issue I am having. Suppose the PDC adtest.com has 100 OU such as a1, a2, a3, ..., a98, a99, a100. On the Solaris Server I am doing: kinit [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Samba] Samba and internet!

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Marcus Andersson wrote: Hi everybody! I have a problem wich has pusseled me for sometime time. I have put samba on an internal subnet wich is the same as the windowsclients. Everything works great as long as internet is up and running but if internet goes down then the windowsclients can't find

Re: [Samba] WinXP client always connects as Gaia\Guest

2004-12-14 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Woellert, Kirk D. wrote: All attempts to connect to our Samba server, share \data from any Windows client fails. I'm trying to get samba to prompt the windows user with a login box, have them enter the samba username/password, then head onto the share. If I use in the address field the

Re: [Samba] winbind problems

2004-12-20 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Brian Kesting wrote: I have tried using a + separator with no success. I use _ which works well. I'm just guessing here, but *nix's use / as a very significant charactrer. -- Original Message -- From: Tom Skeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Dec

Re: [Samba] winbind problems

2004-12-20 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Brian Kesting wrote: I have tried using a + separator with no success. I also get this in my log.winbindd file as soon as I restart winbind: [2004/12/20 17:33:27, 1] libsmb/clikrb5.c:ads_krb5_mk_req(313) krb5_cc_get_principal failed (No such file or directory) I've seen that one. Do a

Re: [Samba] winbind problems

2004-12-20 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Brian Kesting wrote: Someone told me once to try to remove the Samba server from the domain, rename it, and rejoin the domain..would that solve any problems in your opinion? That is an odd solution, unless AD is mangled with respect to the samba server name. Methinks you have a kerberos

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.10 ADS setup issue

2004-12-21 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Jon Starbird wrote: Follow up: Sorry to have bothered all, after signing up to the list I was able to look at other archives but didn't do so until after I sent the email I found a post with the following link in it which had a helpful little piece in it. I wouldn't use that. It's gopt usefull

Re: [Samba] one machine connects, others do not

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
jdyke wrote: Glad to help. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year TMS III Add: wins support = Yes (Unless you have an NT wins server. Then you want to use wins server = w.x.y.z) enhanced browsing = Yes thanks, that did it. as well as the passwordhad set it to No for

Re: [Samba] Connection reset by peer

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you doing? What configuration. What network configuration? Hi, We continuously see these errors in our logs. I've done some searches on this but nothing seems to point to anything specific. Any ideas? -John Dec 23 20:14:41 valhalla smbd[3574]: [2004/12/23

Re: [Samba] Re: domain administrator is always mapped to root

2004-12-24 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Michael, 2) Anyone who is a Samba Domain Admin will cause things in the log to equate the user to being the root user. Just how Samba thinks about things. okay. Any chance to get that fixed by the Samba development team? :-) Get what fixed? The OS is Unix. The

Re: [Samba] share premissions help

2004-12-26 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Lozej Radovan wrote: hello i would like to set premission for share like this: user can: -create new file -read file user cant: -delete file -modify file Well, since an owner can always change files owned, that's going to be tough. Maybe if cron did a chown -R root to the directory every few

Re: [Samba] Help with error log entry and terrible performance

2004-12-26 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
stephen wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:33:26 -0800, Thomas M. Skeren III wrote: The Samba server log has these entries: posix_fcntl_lock: WARNING: lock request at offset 12226560, length 61440 returned [2004/12/24 17:28:52, 0] locking/posix.c:posix_fcntl_lock(658) an Invalid argument error

Re: [Samba] Update: Slow browsing/reading from WinXP SP2

2004-12-28 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Jim Hood wrote: Two things. 1. No wins--may be a netbios issue. Try mapping to share by \\ip-addy\share. 2. Security = share is not recommended. Try user instead. I stumbled onto another tidbit that may shed some more light. From the new laptop, I tried to create a new folder on the 'samba'

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.10 joining Windows 20003 ADS

2004-12-28 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Andrew Zbikowski wrote: Since smb.conf is a link..let me try. I've experienced some strange things as well, the question is, can ADS users get a share properly? I had similar probs, but the share works. What does net ads testjoin show? Also in smb.conf you have a passdb backend. DON'T.

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.10 joining Windows 20003 ADS

2004-12-28 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Andrew Zbikowski wrote: Commented out passdb backend abrams:/etc/samba# net ads testjoin Join is OK abrams:/etc/samba# net ads join [2004/12/28 20:00:31, 0] libads/ldap.c:ads_add_machine_acct(1368) ads_add_machine_acct: Host account for ttlnx01 already exists - modifying old account Using short

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.10 joining Windows 20003 ADS

2004-12-30 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
, Thomas M. Skeren III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Zbikowski wrote: Commented out passdb backend abrams:/etc/samba# net ads testjoin Join is OK abrams:/etc/samba# net ads join [2004/12/28 20:00:31, 0] libads/ldap.c:ads_add_machine_acct(1368) ads_add_machine_acct: Host account for ttlnx01

Re: [Samba] [OT] SUSE 9.2 support

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:43 -0600, John Schmerold wrote: I'm really sick of trying to get Fedora working with Samba LDAP, I've read all the books, technotes etc etc Still no glory after several months of fighting with it. So: I'm going to give SUSE 9.2 a shot, after 6

Re: [Samba] PDC Domain Name Change

2005-01-14 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Skeren wrote: | What are the repercusions, particularly with respect | to XP Pro, for changing the domain name in Samba 3.0.9 PDC? The domain SID will be regenerated (you can manually set it to the old value after the

Re: [Samba] PDC Domain Name Change

2005-01-14 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas M. Skeren III wrote : | | Can I join a Samba PDC to a W2K domain with net rpc or | | is this a bad idea? | | bad idea. Samba 3 cannot currently operate as a BDC for | NT4 or AD domains with Windows DC's | | | Right

Re: [Samba] i cant make samba work!!

2005-01-16 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Diana Ross Guerrero wrote: hi! i've been working with samba for one 25days yet i cant make it work. i am configuring samba for a board which is on mips-linux. all i want to have is when i will try to access my mips-linux board, it will ask me for a username and password. but what was happening

Re: [Samba] how to check IP addresses of machines in the network?

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Daniel Wilson wrote: try the tool that comes with samba (findsmb)?! Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Hello, This post is similar to what I posted yesterday 'smbclient -L host to list IP addresses - possible?'. I have a PDC in one place and many workstations in different other places connected using

Re: [Samba] About access the samba server through VPN connection

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
John Wong wrote: Dear all, We are facing the problem for accessing the samba server through the VPN connection. How's the VPN done? And also using the samba-2.2.3a-6 with the Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Kernel 2.4.18-3). Really old version. You should upgrade. Any solution can provide?? Best

Re: [Samba] Free space calculation gets it wrong

2005-01-19 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! Running Samba 3.x on HP-UX 11.00, Linux and Solaris. I've got a problem with the free space calculation of Samba. The problem is, that Samba only seems to return the free space available in the top directory of a share and not the free space available in the current

Re: [Samba] Free space calculation gets it wrong

2005-01-19 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Alexander Skwar wrote: Thomas M. Skeren III schrieb: I don't think Windows can understand how a directory on a drive can be larger than the drive itself. I disagree. On Windows XP (and 2000?), you can mount Well not really. The drive must be Dynamic . This is something I have

[Samba] Idealx 9.1

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Hoping someone knows how to deal with this, as I'm scratching my head. I have 8.3 or 8.4 installed already and they work ok for the most part. Server: FBSD5.4, Samba 3.0.20 Error in smbldap-useradd: camarillo# ./smbldap-useradd -w fums Could not find base dn, to get next uidNumber at

[Samba] Idealx Add Machine

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Really frustrated here. After some tweaking I was able to get the smbldap-useradd script to work for adding samba users. This was resolved editing sambaDomainName=and adding an Attribute objectClass with value sambaUnixIdPool, and Attribute uidNumber and Value equal to one greater

Re: [Samba] Re: ADS + Samba

2005-10-27 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
SNIP I have a share set up for testing, but I cannot access it at all, I get prompted for a username and password. Um...have you changed PAM to allow logins authenticated from ADS. If not, you will get exactly that message when accessing a share. I will include the configs from

Re: [Samba] Sharing a Samba Share?

2004-08-19 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
An interesting problem. I think a thing I tried and failed at may apply here. Want internet samba port 445 clients to access a W2k machine, but point the router to a samba machine. Mount the w2k machine share on the Unix box Share that mount in samba Let the wan clients mount the unix samba

Re: [Samba] Problems with Windows XP pro after initial login to Samba 3.0 server

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Wee below Robert Galter wrote: Question: Does anybody have a solution for this problem? Problem: Windows XP creates a new user with same name after initial machine login to Samba domain. E.G. under Documents and settings the user name: gilbert existed as a subdirectory with additional

Re: [Samba] question on dot files

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Perhaps you have in XP hidden files and folders exposed. Claude Jones wrote: I hope this is an appropriate forum for Samba questions from new users. I have successfully configured Samba on my network which consists of a Fedora 2 box and three Windows machines. However, I can't seem to turn off

Re: [Samba] New user Questions on passwords

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
I've had a LOT of problems with this. First make sure that the Win box is using Samba as NetBIOS name server. Make sure that the samba server IS the domain master browser. Do a Netstat -an on the windows box when browsin, see what port the Win box is trying to connect to. IF MS client is

Re: [Samba] smb.conf syntax

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, When a new file is created it's permissions need to be RWX for all users, as this a lock file is created, edited and deleted after each session... First User on App Creates the File, all users are editing, and the last one off deletes... (Paradox Database) Is

Re: [Samba] Why Windows sucks.

2005-02-04 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
snip Then of course, there's Linux distro's that operate primarily with root shell Then of course, there are Linux users that run everything as root because they can't be bothered by the notion of users. Then there's the BSD's and it's users. But, of course we know not to do these things.

Re: [Samba] Seeking Good Documentation for... (freebsd+ldap+samba(pdc)+kerberos)

2005-03-01 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Andrew Bartlett wrote: I've got it up with two way trusts to a w2k domain everything over a ipsec vlan: s: 3.0.10 ports build FBSD: 5.3 etc. Any specific questions? On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:43 -0800, Chris Lawder wrote: ... Setting up a Samba PDC with the following: FreeBSD 5.3 Samba 3.0.x

Re: [Samba] Seeking Good Documentation for... (freebsd+ldap+samba(pdc)+kerberos)

2005-03-01 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:37 -0800, Thomas M. Skeren III wrote: Andrew Bartlett wrote: I've got it up with two way trusts to a w2k domain everything over a ipsec vlan: The kerberos stuff I refer to is all 'unix' (linking Samba and Heimdal kerberos), I don't run

Re: [Samba] samba access based on computername possible?

2005-03-22 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
flashgordon wrote: Is it possible to setup samba based on computernames so hostnames (NOT ipnummers) of computers instead of usernames? so to be more clear : hosts allow= computername (instead of ip number) I think yes if they're in DNS. I don't think samba resolves this through WINS. Not

Re: [Samba] samba access based on computername possible?

2005-03-22 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
is resolving to the DNS server in question? gordon - Original Message - From: Thomas M. Skeren III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashgordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] samba access based on computername possible? flashgordon

Re: [Samba] Browsing with duplicate names in multiple workgroups/subnets and multihome machines

2005-03-28 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Jonathan Johnson wrote: You can see by the subject I've got an ugly problem. Even though I don't have a Samba server anywhere near the network in question, nobody understands browsing as well as the folks on the Samba team. :-) Here's the situation: I've got two workgroups, FLINTSTONE and

Re: [Samba] Samba through a NAT router

2005-04-04 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Robin Bowes wrote: Hi, My network topology is as follows: Netgear Linksys DG632WRT54G DSL Modem --- Switch --- WAP/Router | (NAT)| | | Samba server (dude) +-- Win2000 PC 192.168.4.101 (Mum)

Re: [Samba] losing access to profile when user becomes domain user instead domain admin

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, I am in the process of migrating our windows workstations to a samba domain. Here is the problem: When creating the domain user I put every user additionalyy in the domain admin group so that he/she can copy his old files on the local profile to his new domain account.

Re: [Samba] help

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Fernando Ruza wrote: A bit Off Topic. You can use bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ Regards, Fernando. On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:16 +0300, Amani Makala wrote: hi! i need to configure a linux backup server, let me give u some hints on the real environment, i have one linux machine and two

Re: [Samba] Logins require local admin membership on Windows XP

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Lee Ball wrote: Hello, This is my first post to this list so if I break any rules be gentle :) I will try to put in as much detail into this as I can, here I go: We have a domain at work with Samba (samba-3.0.10-1.fc2) as the PDC. The Linux box is running FC2 as the rpm suggests running on

Re: [Samba] Can Samba join two domains?

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
George Farris wrote: Hi all, If I have a Samba server that is say a PDC for domain DOM-A can I have Samba join an ADS server that is DOM-B and have people authenticate against it without having an account on DOM-A? Well...no, but you can set up trust account between the domains, that will

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.13 ADS domain member on AIX 5.2

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Scruggs, Ronald wrote: All, I'm trying to figure out if I missed some steps in configuring Samba 3.0.13 on AIX 5.2 as a Windows 2003 ADS domain member server of the domain DEVELOPMENT. Samba is compiled with Heimdal Kerberos and openLDAP support, and I successfully joined the ADS domain using

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

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
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

Re: [Samba] samba-vscan

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Guido Lorenzutti wrote: Hi people, im using Debian Sarge with samba 3.0.14a. Im using tdbsam with 400 users. Well, if you run without a gui then it would be tight. With the gui I doubt your users would be at all happy with performance. I run all my samba servers on FBSD without X. I

[Samba] Schema Requests

2005-08-05 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
It would be nice to have some additional attributes in the samba.schema. I have several servers that all my users need to have mapped locations. It would be nice if I could add drive letters and paths in ldap, but there doesn't seem to be anything defined in the schema. This way when I run

[Samba] Inter Domain trusts and BDC

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
I have a Samba-LDAP PDC at an office and 5 BDC's at other offices. At corporate HQ I have a W2k Server and domain. I have properly configured an interdomain trust and Users in the Samba domain can get to sections on the W2k machine regardless of location. However, members in the W2K

[Samba] Inter Domain trusts and BDC

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
I have a Samba-LDAP PDC at an office and 5 BDC's at other offices. At corporate HQ I have a W2k Server and domain. I have properly configured an interdomain trust and Users in the Samba domain can get to sections on the W2k machine regardless of location. However, members in the W2K domain

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 + BSD 5.4 + AD

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Peter Marshall wrote: I am still stuck on this .. can't seem to get any further. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You haven't configured pam.conf correctly. Pam has to know how to authenticte the Windows user Thanks Peter Peter

Re: [Samba] Samba Over A Wan

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas M. Skeren III
Mike McMullen wrote: - Original Message - From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Over A Wan I'm currently using OpenVPN to allow access to Samba over WAN. Works pretty good but my experience has been that browsing shares and directory structures over the