RE: HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8

2008-05-09 Thread Boyce, Nick
are there any benefits to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS? yes there are lots of benefits ... It is been qualified on the latest hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with the latest OSes On the other hand, I believe HP's CIFS-for-VMS product isn't available for VAXen, or on VMS

RE: Version 2.0.3 for OpenVMS

2006-10-12 Thread Boyce, Nick
[correcting myself] On 10th.Oct.2006 at 19:25, I wrote : FWIW: my VMS colleagues here have Samba 2.2.4 running on our various VMS servers, with authentication handed off to the normal VMS UAF subsystem (I don't believe they've ever managed to integrate with our Windows ADS domain) Sorry

RE: Version 2.0.3 for OpenVMS

2006-10-10 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 9th.October.2006 at 22:22, Mark Wesling wrote : Keep getting the same error when trying to map a drive. Error is all over the internet: The account is not authorized to log in from this station. [I don't have the answer - just trying to help a bit] Perhaps it would help if you told us

RE: Problem with Samba 3.0.10

2006-09-25 Thread Boyce, Nick
[disclaimer: I'm not a VMS sysadmin - just a lurking Unix one] On 25th.September.2006, Günter Gratzer wrote : If I open a VMS-textfile on a WinXP computer via a texteditor the file looks corrupted ... It seems there are troubles with CR/FL. Anybody knows a solution for this problem? I

RE: smbd purpose?

2005-11-25 Thread Boyce, Nick
[Disclaimer: I'm not really a VMS person - just a lurking Samba-on-Unix list member] Robert Young asked : [I disabled the smbd service but] samba is working just fine ... What is the purpose of the smbd service exactly ? smbd is a fundamental and vital part of Samba, responsible for

RE: Smaba 2.2.8. Cant get file properties

2004-05-24 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 23rd.May.2004 Michael Lemke wrote : I've just installed Samba 2.2.8 from the http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/ [...] I connect my W98 SE box over an ssh tunnel for port 139 and I can see the VMS directories. I can even delete and copy files. Cool. [...] Do I have to

RE: Smaba 2.2.8. Cant get file properties

2004-05-24 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 24th.May.2004 Michael Lemke wrote : I've just installed Samba 2.2.8 from the http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/ [...] I connect my W98 SE box over an ssh tunnel for port 139 and I can see the VMS directories. I can even delete and copy files. Cool. [...] Do I have to

[Samba] RE: How to join a win2k-domain using Samba 2.*

2003-09-24 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 21.Sept.2003, Ville Jutnik wrote : The documentation that I found regarding this issue wasn't that good - it didn't help me that much. Later on I managed to join the win2k-domain after a lot of work I've joined many Samba 2.2.x servers to our NT4 domain, and for us it all works just as

RE: Samba 2.2.8 on VMS 7.3-1

2003-09-24 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 11.Sep.2003, Jan Anderson wrote : Still having difficulty making Samba useable. As above. To an XP box. No domains involved. It now asks for username/password but never authenticates for some reason. We too are unable to get WinXP to map drives to Samba 2.2.x-VMS servers, but from what

2.2.8pre2 Compiler Warnings On Digital Unix 4.0D

2003-03-11 Thread Boyce, Nick
Following up my post on 4.March.2003 reporting ./configure failure on DU 4.0D for Samba 2.2.8pre2 --with-pam, I have now configured compiled 2.2.8pre2 --with-winbind (but no PAM), and want to report the selection of scary warnings that the Compaq C compiler throws up by default. The following is

2.2.8pre2 Won't Configure On Digital Unix 4.0D

2003-03-04 Thread Boyce, Nick
I decided to have a look at 2.2.8pre2 on a Digital Unix box we run here - and configure runs fine like this : ./configure --with-winbind ... checking whether or not getgroups returns EGID too many times... no checking whether struct passwd has pw_comment... yes checking

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-19 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 19 Feb 2003, Andrew Esh wrote: It's probably a line count thing. The head of the patch contains a certain range of lines that the patch should apply to. If you truncated the patch at the bottom, the header could be telling patch it needs to add, for example, 30 lines, while the patch text

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-07 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 7 Feb 2003, Martin Pool wrote: On 6 Feb 2003, Boyce, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find what seems to be an obvious, simple and annoying buggette - if I stop and restart winbind (the sort of thing you do a lot at this stage) then it fails to restart, with this message in /var

RE: unsubsribe

2003-02-07 Thread Boyce, Nick
Russell, You can unsubscribe by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], containing an unsubscribe command (either in the message body, or the subject); here's the help info for that command : unsubscribe [password] [address=address] Unsubscribe from the mailing list. If given, your

RE: Trusted domains' users and Samba

2003-02-06 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 6th.Feb.2003 Szilva wrote : 2. What version of samba are you running? The version is 2.2.3a-6 for Debian that was shipped with distribution (Woody). On behalf of yourself, your users, and Net users everywhere in general :), can I plead with you to install the later security-fixed version

Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-06 Thread Boyce, Nick
As per my message an hour or so ago, I'm trying to get the winbind that comes with Debian 3.0 Samba 2.2.3a-12 configured to allow me to telnet into the box with authentication handed off to a real NT domain. Anyway, even before I really get started, I find what seems to be an obvious, simple and

RE: tracking user logins

2002-11-28 Thread Boyce, Nick
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 19:55 PM, Jim Morris wrote: I must say that I know of no NT/2000 option to allow only login from one client PC, although I recall Netware having such an option. Agreed again. (I think you meant something different from the facility John Terpestra referred

Correction To DOMAIN_MEMBER.html

2002-11-14 Thread Boyce, Nick
[this is almost too trivial to bother with, but in the interests of accuracy ..] I just converted a Samba 2.2.3a-for-Debian server from being a stand-alone workgroup member using plain-text passwords into a full NT-administered domain member using encrypted passwords and security=domain. This

[Samba] RE: Running smb without nmb? (Linux Suse 8.1 feature)

2002-10-28 Thread Boyce, Nick
[sorry - bit of a belated reply - I have a bit of a backlog to read] On 23rd.Oct.2002, Linda Walsh asked : I recently upgraded my Linux distro to SuSE 8.1 which came w/samba 2.2.5. A feature of the upgrade was that it 'split' the startup script for samba from 1 script for _smb_ _nmb_ to 2

RE: Running smb without nmb? (Linux Suse 8.1 feature)

2002-10-28 Thread Boyce, Nick
[sorry - bit of a belated reply - I have a bit of a backlog to read] On 23rd.Oct.2002, Linda Walsh asked : I recently upgraded my Linux distro to SuSE 8.1 which came w/samba 2.2.5. A feature of the upgrade was that it 'split' the startup script for samba from 1 script for _smb_ _nmb_ to 2

RE: [Samba] Re: How Samba let us down

2002-10-25 Thread Boyce, Nick
Reading through Jeremy's eagerly awaited discourse on oplocks/share modes/locking, I read this bit : ... if you need simultaneous file access from a Windows and UNIX client you *must* have an application that is written to lock records correctly on both sides. Few applications are written

RE: [Samba] Re: How Samba let us down

2002-10-25 Thread Boyce, Nick
Reading through Jeremy's eagerly awaited discourse on oplocks/share modes/locking, I read this bit : ... if you need simultaneous file access from a Windows and UNIX client you *must* have an application that is written to lock records correctly on both sides. Few applications are written

FW: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target-samba-3.0-alpha18

2002-07-24 Thread Boyce, Nick
architecture he's working on though). Nick Boyce EDS, Bristol, UK -Original Message- From: san [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 July 2002 17:27 To: Boyce, Nick Subject: Re: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target-samba-3.0-alpha18 Hi Nick Boyce, I am using RedHat 7.1

[Samba] RE: Error in joining samba server to Windows Domain

2002-05-14 Thread Boyce, Nick
Jesse Chan asked : I've installed samba 2.2.3a on HPUX11.0 and are currently trying to join the samba server to our Windows Domain... I've installed the samba package from from the binary package with winbind option However, I encountered this error : load_unicode_map: filename