doesn't contain the file (even though the real NETLOGON does).
Jonathan Johnson
www.backupcheckup.com
Helmut Hullen wrote:
Hallo, Adam,
Du (awilliam) meintest am 25.04.08:
I can't get my Windows PCs to run sambaLogonScript: as declared in
openldap 2.3.39 and samba 3.0.28a. In LDAP for a user I
Do you have a process (like a service or scheduled task) running on a
client machine as user 'root' with an incorrect cached password?
Jon Johnson
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Jason Baker wrote:
My root account keeps getting locked out automatically. I am running
Samba 3.0.25b on
databases, so even
though they map the same user name, the passwords may be different.
Jon Johnson
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From: Jason Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 1:51 PM
To: Jonathan Johnson
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Additional information below.
Jonathan Johnson wrote:
It appears that you cannot include groups from trusted domains in the
'valid users =' directive on a share.
Here is the scenario as I experienced it (names have been changed to
protect the innocent):
Configuration:
- Samba 3.0.21b
After extensive testing, the answer I come up with is yes, and no.
Jonathan Johnson wrote:
I presently have a Samba server (3.0.21b) set up as a member server in
an NT4 domain (with a real Windows NT4 PDC). We are migrating to an
Active Directory domain (with a real Windows 2003 domain
just don't have the
resources. Is this a bug or is it by design? If you folks think it's a
bug, then I'll submit it as a bug report. If I'm misunderstanding
something, please enlighten me or point me to the appropriate docs.
-Jonathan Johnson
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= ADS
allow this? Will Samba honor the domain trust?
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Please review the Samba HOWTO, chapter 10, Common Errors where it
discusses this issue.
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id350945
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Aaron Kincer wrote:
Also, as others have mentioned
can RTFM, but I need to know where to look.)
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profile to a domain roaming profile.
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Jason Baker wrote:
So far I haven't found an automated way. I just log in to the domain
as the user, which creates the roaming profile on the network. Then
log out, log in to the local machine as admin
I offer this for your consideration:
In chapter 10, section Common Errors of the official HOW-TO (
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id321003
) there is some discussion about slow network browsing. I just ran
across an interesting article by Mark
it and don't care to sound like a broken record.
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On 10/25/2006 7:32 AM, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
On 10/10/2006 08:22 AM, Lluís Forns Puigmartí escreveu:
Hello, I am new to Samba and I have to administrate a server working
ok; but some users have huge profiles (about 10Gb), and each login
takes really long.
I think the problem
On 10/17/2006 12:41 PM, sim wrote:
Hi,
I have recently set up an old machine as a linux fileserver (Intel 815E
board with 512MB ram and PIII 800mhz). I am running the latest Fedora Core 5
with the version of samba 3 that ships with that and am exposing a single
share for my software raid
On 10/18/2006 5:56 AM, Veronica Hill wrote:
On 18 Oct 2006, at 22:28, Paul van Noort wrote:
Thanks for the help.. I got some reading matter for the upcoming fall
holiday ;-)
Questions so far that come to mind are:
My current Windows 2003 server must stay! It is the Application
server: can
I assume you mean an implementation of Samba? I haven't heard of one,
but maybe there is.
I take it that you don't want to learn UNIX, and don't want to pay for
Microsoft Windows Server Client Access Licenses? :-) Read your EULA for
Windows XP; it may specifically prohibit this sort of
management is a nightmare on XP
Home. Also, for NTFS filesystem security, XP Home is missing the GUI
tools. The security features are there, you just have to use CACLS from
the command line and that gets ugly.
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On 7/27/2006 3:59 AM, éric le hénaff wrote:
thanks for a so quick answer.
yes i deleted secrets.tdb. that's what is strange!
the server is a debian sarge box
hive (NTUSER.DAT), and modifying a registry
entry in the HKLM hive.
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I propose an addition to the documentation: in the official HOWTO,
chapter 4, under Common Errors:
Problem: User account is authenticated against server's NetBIOS name
rather than domain name
When I try to log in to the DOMAIN, the eventlog shows 'tried
credentials DOMAIN/username;
On 6/21/2006 4:41 AM, Thomas Heiligenmann wrote:
Ivan Teliatnikov schrieb:
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 08:21 -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
Sorry I haven't followed the thread, but if you use netlogon script,
you can put in it
net time \\server /set /yes
I do use netlogon and the line is in the
extensively on the forums how to use these to go from Samba to
ADS; search for it. Keywords to look for:
* Active Directory Migration Tool
* ADMT
* Jonathan Johnson (hey! That's me!)
* moveuser or moveuser.exe (may or may not be useful)
The big advantage of ADMT is that it will migrate user
It's spelled peeve, not peave.
Sorry, couldn't resist. :-)
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Michael Wood
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:40 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject
I can't remember if I've done this or not, but here's how I would
proceed:
1. Create a Samba domain group called Terminal Services Users
2. Assign users who need TS access to that group
3. Assign that group to the local Remote Desktop Users group on the
terminal server
One gotcha is that
Posted on behalf--
Subject: Need Solaris 8 Version that Works with AccessCheck()
From: Gary Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:30:21 -0500
To: samba@lists.samba.org
I am having a problem verifying permissions from a Windows machine
using AccessCheck() through a Samba share with
On 5/25/2006 12:04 AM, Morné du Plessis wrote:
I am using Mandrake 9.2, Samba 2.4 version as a PDC. How do I enable the
roaming profiles on the server via /etc/samba/smb.conf?
Please note that the Samba 2 series is considered obsolete and no longer
supported. The documentation for Samba 3
On 5/16/2006 4:26 PM, William Tran wrote:
Dear JimCould you please help me out with a couple questions here ? 1. Which
Administrative tool would you use to manage a user account in Active
Directory ? 2. Define roaming profile and its advantages ?3. With
administrator rights , how can you
Sorry, I deleted a bunch of the original posts with a trigger happy
delete finger, so I might've missed something in the discussion.
One thing that I've found affects the performance of Windows network
browsing -- and it has nothing to do with Samba -- is stale connections
to servers and shares
environment.
I have performed NT4/PDC-Win2k3/ADS migrations before (using ADMT), and
even Samba/PDC-Win2k3/ADS migrations using ADMT, but none of those
environments have included Samba/member servers, so this is uncharted
territory for me. It's probably something I need to learn about.
~Jonathan Johnson
, but it increased my understanding of Windows Domain
Control too.
I was wondering if there are any plans for future Samba workshops?
Another member of our company would like to gain experience from experts
like JHT, and I could certainly use a refresher course.
Thanks, JHT!
--Jonathan Johnson
Sutinen
You said...
Just a guess, but this might have been an issue because I created some
users before I made Samba a PDC. (since I think this is why I had the
name wrong, it's really my prob :)
Yup, I've run into a similar situation. The Samba server was running in
workgroup mode (not domain
Chapter 5 of Samba 3 By Example (
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html ) states thusly:
-
Configuration of MS Outlook to Relocate PST File
Microsoft Outlook can store a Personal Storage file, generally known as
a PST file. It is the nature of email storage that this
Jonathan Johnson wrote:
Migrating Users Profiles When Changing Domain Affiliation: A Primer
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I'm sorry, I can't help you with the issue of forcing Samba to use local
profiles. I should be able to help you, but at the moment I'm rusty on
that and I have a headache. But what I CAN help you with, once you get
over the issue of roaming vs. local profiles, is how to make sure the
users get
Migrating Users Profiles When Changing Domain Affiliation: A Primer
I. Introduction
NOTE: This applies to Windows NT-based systems with locally-stored user
profiles. Windows 9x and Me do not manage user profiles in the same way.
Quite often we find the need to change a workstation's
To my knowledge, it's not possible to migrate the passwords from Windows
to Samba, and vice-versa. This is because Windows and Linux both use
one-way hashes to encrypt the password; there's no way to decrypt the
password. Unfortunately, Windows and Linux use different algorithms to
encrypt the
Replying on list so others may help or benefit...
Arne,
It's been a while since I've done one of these migrations, but here's a
couple of things to try:
- Make sure the clients' primary DNS server is an Active Directory
Integrated DNS (in a single-DC environment, the DNS is usually the same
be that
Windows periodically is going out there looking for these nonexistent
shares, and in the process interrupts your connection. Hey, it's worth a
shot.
--Jonathan Johnson
Ryan Wright wrote:
List,
I apologize for the newbie nature of this post; I am sure there is
an easy answer somewhere
) On the workstation, make sure there is no DNS Suffix specified
4) There is something else but I can't remember it off the top of my
head. Search the archives -- I've posted on this before.
--Jonathan Johnson
Ross McInnes wrote:
Yes I know it's a bad thing, but due to several issues I am
something interesting.
Hopefully, your research will help the developers solve some other
nagging problems!
--Jonathan Johnson
David Beck wrote:
Hello There,
After having googled the whole internet for days I decided to go
public with this issue.
The result of my google queries so far
See David Beck's post Samba - XP performance problem dated 8/8 and my
reply dated 8/9.
--Jonathan Johnson
Chuck Theobald wrote:
Hi,
I have Samba 3.0.14a + OpenLDAP 2.2.24 installed on Solaris 8 as a PDC
for serving files only (no profiles, no printing). Performance of
network browsing
-bit) on the box. Will connect it in tomorrow and see if it sees the
domain. If it doesn't, I'm not too concerned, as we've been working as a
workgroup instead of a domain; being a small shop with 5 PCs it's not a
big deal.
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of the Resource Kits for NT and 2000. For Windows
XP and Server 2003 it is part of the standard distribution. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371 for details on shutdown.exe for
Windows 2000. More information on Resource Kits here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/
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/all/proddocs/en-us/schtasks.mspx
Hope this helps you the developers, Jerry. Maybe you already knew all
this. :-)
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example. Many thanks to JHT for pointing this
simple fix out to me.
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with a NetBIOS (aka Pre-Windows 2000)
domain of FLINTSTONE and an FQDN of flintstone.local, in your smb.conf
you would put workgroup = FLINTSTONE. Case shouldn't matter, but I
always use all caps, as that is the standard which Microsoft uses.
--Jonathan Johnson
Chris Aitken wrote:
Hello
Ben S. wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
I saw your post in the linux.samba newsgroups with the above topic heading.
Looking through the posts I could not see any replies.
We also have a customer with the exact same requirements, and I though that
I would quickly ping you to see if you had any luck with
backend = smbpasswd, tdbsam
Execute:
pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam
And so on. After migration you can delete the backend that you no longer
need to use from the passdb backend parameter line.
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Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
For a test I tried to do this:
pdbedit -u ya-1 -p
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[global] workgroup='your-workgroup'
[homes]
If your workgroup=WORKGROUP (the windows default) that line can be
omitted, but you need at least one parameter in the [global] stanza.
For the rest, please refer to chapter 1 of the book Samba-3 by
Example,
.
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Andrew Debnar wrote:
John,
Thanks I also tested and this worked great. Now I get to do Linux.
Thanks,
Andrew
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elminate the
need FOR a unix password database. Don't ask me how (as I've never done
it), but a fellow by the name of John H. Terpstra has written an
excellent book on the subject, see above. ;-)
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is no then an error stating failure to join
the domain should appear.
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dialog box does not automatically select the first
available document in an Office 2003 program
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832889
I don't know exactly what your problem is, but the above articles may
keep you from chasing the wrong horse. :-)
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.
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Tom Skeren wrote:
Jonathan Johnson wrote:
Again, this is the responsibility of the network administrator.
That's why a password is required to join a domain, so those who
don't know the password (read: your users) can't mess up your
network. As an administrator, it's your responsibility
it, yet thought you (and the rest of
the Samba community) might like to hear of my experience and
understanding of the problem so that it can be avoided in the future.
~Jonathan Johnson
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Charles McLaughlin wrote:
I noticed that this didn't affect all users, so
Address Book, which is a
.WAB file. The registry entry that describes the path to the WAB file is
REG_SZ, [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name\(Default)]
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Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
I have samba set up as primary domain
You might also try:
[global]
os level = 65
This seems to ensure that the Samba box will win browser elections. Be
sure to read the man page (help button in SWAT, if you're so inclined).
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Andrea Venturoli wrote:
micheletto wrote:
have
it by default. Even though it's supposed
to be disabled in 2003, you might want to double-check the registry hack
mentioned in 818792, maybe setting DisableAutoSelect to 1 just to be sure.
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Jonathan Johnson wrote:
David Rankin wrote
to the hosts
entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf, but I didn't think of that. It works now,
so why fix it?
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, but perhaps a technical
explanation of what might go on in this situation. Even if there were no
naming conflicts, what are the implications of having two multi-homed
non-routing Windows machines on common networks?
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Changed the subject to something more meaningful that might get noticed
by someone who knows. The original subject is too vague and generic.
See my comments below about logfile name and guest on authenticate.
Other questions left to others to answer.
~Jonathan
Yannick Bergeron wrote:
Recently,
an NT4
equivalent and Exchange 2003 requires a domain at least at AD2000
functional level. Maybe AD2003 functional level.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So my question is, how can those 100 users logon to the Samba server from ANY
workstation without having an account on the Windows XP workstation that
matches their username/password on the Samba server?
Either set up the Samba server as a domain controller and join
Apologies if this has already been answered, but I'd like to share my
understanding, in too many words.
The reason that the user must exist in a user database (such as
/etc/passwd) accessible to the underlying system (such as Linux) is
that in order to read and set permissions on the files, Linux
I've done this many times. More than I care to admit. :-)
Here's an archive of a previous post that I made on the subject:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087799.html
You'll also want to read this afterthought:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087800.html
My
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 16:20, Tomás Polák wrote:
lanman auth = no
This is the cause of the inability to connect from Win95/98 machines.
These clients only support Lanman authentication, and so have been
locked out of this server.
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, HM wrote:
Hello all.
I'm trying since a few jours to get my w2k clients join my domain,
managed by my samba 3.0.4 PDC, without success. I can browse the server,
share files with it with my station, but i can't join the domain. When i
try to, i get the following
First of all, let me say I know it's been fixed in Samba 3. That's
for those of you who think I'm talking about the requiresignorseal
registry hack in Windows XP. I'm not.
I ran into an issue when using Windows 95 clients with a Windows 2003
server. (Why not Samba? The customer needs terminal
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
Maybe this is crayziness, but...
is there a way through some smb.conf script, or any other mean than
installing a graphical interface in the server, as my users are lobying me
:P, to a user of a domain records a data CD with data from the Samba
, not the parameter and
value.
Matthew
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Should be 'passdb backend = (something)' where (something) is
smbpasswd, tdbsam, ldap, etc.
~~Jonathan Johnson
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properties, along with Samba tools on the UNIX end to accomplish
the same thing in a quicker, easier manner, but I haven't investigated
that.
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You may also want to read these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
How to Migrate User Profiles to Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234548
How to Create and Copy Roaming User Profiles in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;142682
way.
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a domain trust.
Note that Windows 9x/Me doesn't truly reside in a domain (since it does
not participate in domain security); at logon, a user can specify any
domain they wish.
I realize that this does not address Samba specifically, but I believe
it still applies.
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Laurent CARON wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
I had a very similar problem. My only fix I could actually find was to
completely remove all of the generated samba files (the .tbd files and
such) with samba and winbind not running. Then removing all the machine
accounts out
The first thing that jumps out at me is the line beginning with
Domain=[WORKGROUP] in the results of 'smbclient -L moon. It appears to
me that in looking for the browse list, your user may be attempting to
authenticate against the local smbpasswd database instead of
authenticating against the PDC
You want to look into the winbind options. Winbind allows you to
authenticate users against an external server (say, a Windows or Samba
server).
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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, abebe lsslp wrote:
I have a Samba PDC server running
I'll start off with my question: how do you change a user's SID? When I
issue the command:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# pdbedit -u testuser -U \
S-1-5-21-4000410194-515421893-615041212-2006
I see
testuser:516:Test User
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Then, I do pdbedit -Lv
I have a Samba 3.0.4 server configured as a PDC. NetBIOS name of the
server is SERVER; name of the workgroup is AEC.
Problem is that there's now a phantom workgroup called SERVER when I
try to browse the network. Since there's no clients configured in this
workgroup, any attempts to browse this
Of course, you can download the source RPM, then issue rpmbuild
--rebuild samba-3.0.4-1.src.rpm then you'd have your very own RPM
sitting in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ which you could then install as
you say below.
This is, of course, assuming you have all the appropriate compilers
and utilities
Have an issue with password policy in Samba 3.0.4 with tdbsam password
backend on RedHat 8.0. This issue was observed with an up-to-date
Windows XP client, NT's SRVTOOLS on Windows 2000.
I can set password policy (expiration, length, etc.) using usrmgr.exe
from the Windows NT Server Tools. After
to help.
Hope this helps.
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I've got a Samba 3.0.4 server running on RedHat 8.0 as a PDC. It's the
only domain controller on the network, and the only WINS server on the
network.
The problem is, when I browse the network neighborhood, I see the
NetBIOS name of the server (SERVER) appear as a workgroup/domain
(though there
strange problems with network
browsing.
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=
On Mon. May 10, Alan Munday wrote:
I have a mixed network with both XP and ME clients.
I'm going round in circles trying to find out why half the machines, that is
half the XP and half the ME, don't show up
,
when changing automatically from daylight to standard time or vice
versa, it is often necessary to re-enter the passwords for each event
in the task scheduler. A very strange bug, but a bug nonetheless.
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Does anyone know of a place where I can find sample scripts for use
with Samba?
Looking thru smb.conf we have these options:
add user script
delete user script
add group script
delete group script
add user to group script
delete user from group
Having a little trouble with SWAT in Samba 3.0.3.
When an option in smb.conf contains quotes, for example:
add group script = /path/to/addgroupscript %g
SWAT will, upon parsing smb.conf, display
add group script = /path/to/addgroupscript
and committing it causes the quoted
I've found that with roaming profiles enabled, some users experience
extremely slow logoffs when using NT/XP/2000. I've discovered that
this is usually due to very large email folders in the user's profile.
OUTLOOK:
As Outlook saves ALL messages in a single .pst file, any activity in
Outlook
Saw that a new version (12 Nov) of Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf was
posted on the docs page. It's missing the Table of Contents.
23 Sep version has the TOC. It's also somewhat larger (462pp); has
something been removed from the 12 Nov version (404pp)?
link:
When a Windows client attempts to browse shares on a Samba 3.0 server
authenticating against a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, it
requests credentials. Typing in user name and password fails.
Basically, I can't see even see the shares.
If I give username/password for a user in smbpasswd,
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:
If both network cards are installed in your Samba server, then each
network card must be configured for a different subnet. For example:
Card IP Address Network
--- -- ---
eth0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.0/24
eth1
We all know about cost. Are there any TECHNICAL reasons for running Samba?
Have you found it to be superior to Windows NT or 2000 Server in some way?
Are you using it for the challenge of *something different*? Are you hoping
to 'advance the state of the art'?
Just a few questions to get your
OK, I don't have a strong understanding of oplocks, but I'm sure someone
will correct me where I go wrong.
Overgeneralization #1: Disabling oplocks is ALWAYS a safe thing to do.
Overgeneralization #2: Oplocks provide a performance boost by allowing the
workstation (ws1) to cache a copy of the
I'm assuming you want to give your users the ability to backup and restore
files at their will.
If you're looking to share the tape drive so you can use Windows' native
backup utility to write directly to the tape, sorry -- can't be done with
Samba. This is because a tape drive is not seen by the
Also check out Sync2Nas ( http://sync2nas.sourceforge.net/ ) and rsync (
http://rsync.samba.org/ ).
--Jon
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Jonathan Johnson wrote:
A better way is to use a client/server backup solution which has a backup
server running on the Linux box, and backup clients running
OK, what I want to do is access files on my Samba server remotely.
Currently, I can use WinSCP, but this isn't ideal because it is more like an
FTP client, where you have to download a file, edit it, upload it. I could
set up a VPN (using open source software), but these can be kind of a
headache
In some future version of the Samba help file, it would be nice if for each
option the equivalent (if applicable) Windows registry or group policy
setting could be listed. This would be helpful when working with the
Miscrosoft knowledge base, or when setting up a Windows NT/2K server to
behave
Unfortunately, many people set their MUA's (Outlook/Express) mail rules
filter to provide the vacation message, then leave it running when they're
gone. Others set the rule and close Outlook, then when they get back from
vacation and download all their messages everyone gets a vacation message
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