[Samba] (fwd from Bob.Jacobs@dot.pima.gov) Daemon Errors

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Bob Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Bob Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Daemon Errors Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:58:07 -0700 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=3.2

[Samba] OT: fyi, spam

2004-01-14 Thread Martin Pool
Just as background information: our spam filter caught 14000 attempted spams in the last two weeks. Suggestions on blocking more are welcome but the vast majority is already blocked. I think we removed the @samba.org whitelist. -- Martin signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- To

CVS update: sambaweb

2003-12-15 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Tue Dec 16 05:59:37 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv28600 Modified Files: download.html Log Message: NetBIOS Auditing Tool seems to have moved. Reported by Alfonso Gazo Cervero. Revisions: download.html 1.21 =

CVS update: sambaweb/GUI

2003-12-15 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Tue Dec 16 06:12:48 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb/GUI In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv31689 Modified Files: index.html Log Message: Add Smb4K Revisions: index.html 1.28 = 1.29

[Samba] Re: 'Account disabled due to email bouncing' madness

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Pool
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:07:56 +, Daniel Kasak wrote: We have a mail filter ( CanIt, by Roaring Penguin, see http://www.roaringpenguin.com ) that is doing a very good job indeed of blocking spam and viruses. And I certainly get a lot from this list ... so much that without the use of

CVS update: sambaweb

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Fri Nov 14 03:24:19 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv28915 Modified Files: ml-etiquette.html Log Message: Say that you may receive worms if you post to the list. Revisions: ml-etiquette.html 1.4 = 1.5

CVS update: sambaweb

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Fri Nov 14 03:25:38 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv29087 Modified Files: ml-etiquette.html Log Message: Refine point about worms. Revisions: ml-etiquette.html 1.5 = 1.6

CVS update: sambaweb

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Fri Nov 14 03:28:03 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb In directory dp.samba.org:/home/httpd/html/samba Added Files: donations_list.html Log Message: Add file that for some reason was on the site but not in CVS Revisions: donations_list.html NONE = 1.1

CVS update: sambaweb

2003-11-13 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Fri Nov 14 03:46:29 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb In directory dp.samba.org:/home/httpd/html/samba Removed Files: donations_list.html Log Message: Oops, remove autogenerated file Revisions: donations_list.html 1.1 = NONE

CVS update: sambaweb/support

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Pool
Date: Wed Nov 12 06:23:01 2003 Author: mbp Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv16445 Modified Files: singapore.html Log Message: Add Artocol Systems Revisions: singapore.html 1.1 = 1.2

[Samba] Re: [OT]SPAM

2003-10-15 Thread Martin Pool
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:56:18 -0500, tvsjr wrote: Helpful suggestions (although its too late for those of us already subscribed): Quit forwarding the list onto Usenet, at least with email addresses exposed (what's the real use of this, considering it's not that big of a deal for people to

Re: [Samba] Re: [OT]SPAM

2003-10-15 Thread Martin Pool
On 15 Oct 2003, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also seen bursts of virus traffic for no apparent reason. It could be a coincidence. Correlation != causation. There's also always the question of what your ISP is doing. My ameritech.net account gets vast quantities of spam,

[Samba] Re: SPAM

2003-10-14 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 Oct 2003, J. Frisbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I singed up for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] using a one-time email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and now I get virus laden spam messages at that address about every ninety seconds -- thanks. This kind of complaint is explicitly off topic

[Samba] Re: [OT] spam

2003-10-14 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 Oct 2003, J. Frisbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you like us to do differently? I see your original message was a bit misleading: you said that you singed up for the samba, but in fact you also posted to the list, thus disclosing your address. First of all: we don't disclose the

[Samba] RE: RE: SPAM

2003-10-14 Thread Martin Pool
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:13:01 -0500, Jared Rypka-Hauer wrote: Just to further confirm the idea that this mailing list is associated with the current surge in receipts of the SWEN virus, I signed up for this list when I upgraded to Samba 2.2.3 on Oct 1. An hour later I began receiving mass

[Samba] Re: [clug] Samba Linux 64 bits.

2003-10-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is Someone can tell me if Samba is available under Linux 64bits ? If Yes, has Samba adherence(s) to Hardware platform on which Linux is running ? MoreOver, which distribution(s) ? You should ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I do believe

[Samba] (fwd from mynewsletter@nitegate.de) How to calculate a domain sid?

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Adrian Stabiszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Adrian Stabiszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to calculate a domain sid? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:01:01 +0200 Hi! I am working on a possibility to prepare an LDAP directory without having

[Samba] (fwd from Michael.Pedigo@motorola.com) Core Dump issue with Solaris8 and 2.2.8a

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Pedigo Michael-G17060 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Pedigo Michael-G17060 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Core Dump issue with Solaris8 and 2.2.8a Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:40:16 -0500 Hello, I am NOT an advanced UNIX admin and

[Samba] (fwd from botelho@lenep.uenf.br) Help.

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Botelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Botelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help. Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:48:43 - X-Mailer: UebiMiau 2.7.2 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.1 required=4.0 tests=MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2,

[Samba] Re: smbwrapper

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I am going mad I cannot seem to find any documentation on smbwrapper at the Samba web site. [Paul, this kind of question is better sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not the admin address.] There is an smbwrapper/README [attached] file in the

[Samba] (fwd from mamaya@ingenieriagerencial.com) s/390

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Marco Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Marco Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: s/390 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:34:44 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=4.0

[Samba] Re: hi ....

2003-08-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 22 Jul 2003, Gustavo Barbosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can you tell me if the winbind and samba realy works well? Yes, they do work well. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] (fwd from lordtm@poczta.onet.pl) Few questions...

2003-08-06 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3 Siwek?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3 Siwek?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Few questions... Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 9:45:25 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: onet.poczta X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.1 required=4.0

[Samba] Re: Tech Request

2003-07-29 Thread Martin Pool
On 29 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked back over your site, and can't find where I got the link from. I'll look further and let you know. I have looked at the section you point me to, but still have no idea what I'm looking at. As I said, I'm new to Unix and don't yet

[Samba] [DE] (fwd) frage an die sambagurus

2003-04-02 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Ruediger Honzatko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ruediger Honzatko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: frage an die sambagurus Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:03:12 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Schenker CO AG User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2)

very interesting!

2003-03-20 Thread Martin Pool
I just noticed this in the libc manual. http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.5/html_node/Backtraces.html It could be pretty cool to have this built in to smb_panic(). -- Martin

Re: very interesting!

2003-03-20 Thread Martin Pool
On 20 Mar 2003, Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Martin Pool wrote: I just noticed this in the libc manual. http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.5/html_node/Backtraces.html It could be pretty cool to have this built in to smb_panic

Re: 2.2.8 compile problem

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 17 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking whether to use included popt... ./popt checking configure summary... configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config Have a look in config.log. If you can't work out what's wrong from that, post the *relevant*

overmalloc_safe_strcpy?

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Pool
For developer mode, this seems to be the same as safe_strcpy: we clobber the specified region at runtime. Otherwise, it skips the static CHECK_STRING_SIZE call. I think this is meant to allow you to call it passing the address of an array whose size is less than the maxlength passed to

Re: CVS update: samba/source

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 15 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch also includes a 'marker' of the last caller to clobber_region (ie, the function that called pstrcpy() that called clobber_region) to assist in debugging problems that may have smashed the stack. This is printed at smb_panic() time.

Re: CVS update: samba/source/lib

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, do a char-by-char walk through both buffers until we get to a non-ascii character, or a difference between the strings. This prefix can be directly compared without needing to call into iconv. This should be much faster for strings that

(fwd) amigasamba?

2003-03-13 Thread Martin Pool
Does anyone know about this? - Forwarded message from Larry Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Larry Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: amigasamba Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:28:49 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2)

Re: tdb, valgrind, and mmap

2003-03-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 13 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 - Use IO not mmap when running under valgrind. Not so nice. thats why we have the 'use mmap = no' smb.conf option. It seems to work quite well and is fast enough for testing. OK, thanks. -- Martin

Re: [scottprive@earthlink.net: Re: Information on Samba QA process,Regression testsuites]

2003-03-11 Thread Martin Pool
Please let's have this conversation on the list. I have Martin's notes.txt (Notes on Samba Testing Framework for Unittests). I think I misunderstood, and assumed there was a working (if immature) basic framework that hadn't been checked in yet. OK, we're at the planning stage? Some

Re: [Samba] Does the SWAT tool come with the Red Hat 8.0distribution?

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 10 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could post your specific thoughts on what an automated editor I understand that by using a GUI rather than command line will in some cases make things easier. My experiance with Samba is that I had to research, implement and test many

Re: RESOLVED!!: [Samba] Struggling to get SAMBA and Windows workingtogether --- RESOLVED!

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 10 Mar 2003, David Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this did it, joining the Linux Server to the domain and changing the smb.conf to use a password server fixed the problem. Great. now the next thing is to get the permissions to create files in the shared directory (Access is denied when

scalability of print_queue_update

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
I've been testing injection of many jobs (thousands) into a print queue, and am noticing that appliance_head samba seems to spend heaps of time in print_queue_update, trying to reconcile the output of lpq with samba's database. In particular, this is causing smbspool to give warnings because

bug? non-default hash sizes in tdb

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
tdb (all branches) has the behaviour that when opening an existing database, if you don't specify the right hash size, the open will fail with EIO. This means for example that tdbtool can't open printing tdbs after jra's change to increase their has size to 5000. Wouldn't it be reasonable to

Re: scalability of print_queue_update

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doh ! Yeah, that's a really good idea. Wish I'd thought of it :-). Good, I'll send you a patch then. It would make the stress tests of a certain person in Roseville much harder to destroy Samba :-). I imagine her work as being similar to somebody

tdb, valgrind, and mmap

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
If you use tdbs under valgrind, and in particular if you run tdbtorture, you may get spurious uninitialized value warnings. I think this is because valgrind doesn't understand that the mmap'd area may be written to by other processes. Memory can, from the point of view of the grinded process,

valgrind_strlen?

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
Some files have a little valgrind_strlen function in there, I suppose to work around a Valgrind bug. Does anyone know what the bug was? There might be a cleaner solution. -- Martin

Re: CVS update: sambaweb

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have a *homepage* ! Woo ! (Cribbed shamelessly from tridge :-). If I were you, I'd make it more clear that I can't work out how to install Samba is not urgent enough to call you. What software did you use to make the funny face? :-) -- Martin

Re: Clean up winbindd locking

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 Mar 2003, Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 21:20, Tim Potter wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:10:23PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Is there any reason I should not apply this patch to Samba HEAD? I think the patch was eaten by Mailman. Please

Re: Information on Samba QA process, Regression testsuites

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 9 Mar 2003, Scott Prive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Tim. So far, most of the tests I've seen in CVS are unit- or small-tests, but as a software tester I'm more interested in integration tests... which it sounds like you and Martin are working on. Our framework is intended to

[PATCH] draft: better string overflow checking (was: memorycorruption in SAMBA_3_0)

2003-03-04 Thread Martin Pool
I was thinking about Andrew's fstring-overflow patch from a few weeks ago: for developer builds, it touches the last byte of a string buffer to check that it's as long as it should be. This should be reasonably helpful in catching string overflows on the heap, but not so good on the stack,

Re: [Samba] [Fwd: Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria]

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Pool
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote gcc is a great compiler, but as of gcc3.2.2, it can't compile Samba on Sparc with -O2. This has been marked as a high priority bug in the gcc bug tracking system, and should be fixed before the next release. To make such regressions less likely in the

[Samba] (fwd) FW: Starting a process from a windows client

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Scattergood, Ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am hoping to run a Unix process from code running on a windows client, I am told this can be done using Samba, does any one have any example code to do this? Regards Ivan Scattergood London Software Development -

[Samba] (fwd from johanhusselman@cks.co.za) Please help with smbprinting

2003-02-23 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from Johan Husselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Johan Husselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please help with smb printing Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:17:40 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. Can tou please help me to setup

Re: win2000 server, linux client

2003-02-23 Thread Martin Pool
On 21 Feb 2003, Marco Eyzaguirre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a win2000 domain controller in subnet 172.17.0.x and a linux server in 172.17.20.x (DHCP assign) The DC not solve the ip / netbiosname relation (A record i think..) like a win98 / NT /2000 If i ping the linux server from

Re: technical support

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Pool
On 19 Feb 2003, HAKIZIMANA Claude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you help me? You need to ask this kind of question on the users list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin

[PATCH] leak in init_valid_table

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Pool
util_unistr.c/init_valid_table in HEAD and 3.0 causes a 64k leak every time the configuration is loaded if there is no valid.dat file installed. (The pointer to the malloc'd valid_table is clobbered by the call to map_file.) It looks like it is intended that the valid table be recreated on each

Re: [Samba] Samba processes

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
DON'T SEND USER QUESTIONS TO SAMBA-TECHNICAL. Just curios under what circumstances the smbd runs as user id process ( unix id ) Broadly: it runs as a user when doing operations on behalf of that user, and as root when doing system tasks. and running as root is a security risk? No. If you

[Samba] (fwd from spoteet@hotmail.com) Windows 2000 Terminal Server RoamingProfiles

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from S Poteet [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from hotmail.com (dav61.sea2.hotmail.com [207.68.164.196]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E67D2C05E for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 18

[Samba] (fwd) HELP!HELP!

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
- Forwarded message from ???H?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] - DEAR ALL: I NEED YOUR HELP. I MANAGE AN AIX/R6 VER4.3. I WANT TO STORE DATA TO AN IBM PC SERVER. PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO INSTALL AND GET SAMBA FOR AIX VER 4.3. AND HOW TO

Re: SEGFAULT in HEAD

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
On 20 Feb 2003, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the backtrace: #0 0x40325079 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4039d944 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x402c80e6 in system () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x08183e8c in smb_panic (why=0x8221974 internal

3.0 commit policy?

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
What is the commit policy for 3.0? Should all changes be moved from HEAD except ones that are explicitly too risky? Or only bug fixes? What about documentation? -- Martin

source location for samba test harnesses

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Pool
After talking to Tim, I wanted to start committing to HEAD some test harnesses that will exercise internal bits of Samba, such as StrCaseCmp to start with. These will be small C files that link to -lbigballofmud and allow particular functions to be exercised from the command line, with a view

Re: [Samba] samba in a High Availability Configuration

2003-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Feb 2003, Matt Schillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to post High availability oriented questions to this list, but I was wondering about some samba configuration parameters and what options are available. You're welcome, this is on-topic here. What I am interested in, is

Re: [Samba] Networking linux machines in windows environment

2003-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
On 19 Feb 2003, raj rajesh kalagarla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I am a new user to this group. Presently I am doing networking linux machines in my windows network environment. I am able to access linux server from windows machines but I am not able to access linux server from linux

Re: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-18 Thread 'Martin Pool'
On 18 Feb 2003, Boyce, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry - I'm probably doing something dumb, but I still get failures even with this patch - first, if I save the patch as it appeared in my Outlook window, then line 25 consists of a single left brace char, which results in : You can

(fwd from rsharpe@richardsharpe.com) Re: CVS update: samba/source/lib

2003-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
-- Martin

(fwd from rsharpe@richardsharpe.com) Re: CVS update: samba/source/lib

2003-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
doh doh doh - Forwarded message from Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CVS update: samba/source/lib Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:57:57 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 [EMAIL

Re: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-17 Thread 'Martin Pool'
On 17 Feb 2003, Boyce, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK - I've been trying to apply the patch that Tim posted (to supersede Martin's first cut) to the Samba 2.2.7a source file for util_sock.c, but get errors applying the patch no matter what I do. Thanks for trying that. I guess the posted

Re: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-17 Thread 'Martin Pool'
On 17 Feb 2003, Boyce, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I get if I apply the posted patch : As I said I'll send you an update just for 2.2. But in general, in case you're interested, here are some tips on applying mismatched patches: MYBOX:/usr/local/src/samba-2.2.7a/source/lib#

interesting fact about StrCaseCmp

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
StrCaseCmp (and strequal) in HEAD has the interesting side-effect that it only compares the first PSTRING_LEN (1024) bytes of the strings. I suppose comparing strings longer than that is probably a bit unlikely, but it still seems kind of dangerous. Would it be OK to change it to use dynamic

Re: interesting fact about StrCaseCmp

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly only for long strings? But then that is probably micro-optimization. If we really cared about optimizing this function, then we would compare character-by-character rather than converting both strings to uppercase first.

Re: Detecting true64

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 17 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to detect a truu64 system in configure.in ? I'm going through my patchlist and there is a big optimisation that can be done on systems where the getgrnam() call works (True64 is listed as the only broken system) and I'd like to add

Doxygen janitor?

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
Is there any kind of consensus (he says, hopefully) that Doxygen is a good idea? If I'm looking at code is it OK to cleanup comments into standard form? -- Martin

Re: interesting fact about StrCaseCmp

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly do you want to do here ? I'm not clear what you mean? The thing I noticed is that StrCaseCmp (and indeed many charcnv function) truncate strings to 1024 characters. I got here following a Valgrind assertion which may or may not be

Re: CVS update: samba/source/rpc_parse

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please merge all these changes to 3.0 as well. OK. -- Martin

Re: [Samba] samba Digest, Vol 2, Issue 54

2003-02-16 Thread Martin Pool
On 15 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O email [EMAIL PROTECTED] foi alterado para [EMAIL PROTECTED], entretanto a sua mensagem foi redirecionada para o novo email. Atenciosamente, American BankNote Ltda This person has been unsubscribed. Please engage brain before starting

[PATCH] string_to_sid audit

2003-02-16 Thread Martin Pool
In several cases, the return code from string_to_sid is not checked. So if the user enters a syntactically invalid SID, the program will proceed to use uninitialized data. This patch checks for a few such cases that I found. Can somebody please review it? Index: groupdb/mapping.c

asking smart/polite questions (was Re: [Samba] !!ATTENTION NEWBIES!!)

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 13 Feb 2003, Neal Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i dont , feel that the newbies comment was in the spirit of the open source, This list is here to help people, and if sombody is asking a question, its part of the opensource comunity's responsibilty to try to help I don't know

Re: [Samba] !!ATTENTION NEWBIES!!

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 13 Feb 2003, Pierrick Brossin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also do what I do. Nicely answer the question and then point out a few pieces of material that could assist that newb in expanding their knowledge to a level closer to those of us who were once newbs ourselves. You may make

Re: query about rpcclient process_cmd:

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 13 Feb 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Martin Pool wrote: rpcclient.c/process_cmd has if (cmd[strlen(cmd) - 1] == '\n') cmd[strlen(cmd) - 1] = '\0'; if (!next_token(p, buf, , sizeof(buf

Re: password quality script aka --with-cracklib replacement

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) If we want the password-quality script to handle this, I think we'll all agree, storing clear text password is really not a good idea. Perhaps the interface should provide the new encrypted passwords to the external

Re: password quality script aka --with-cracklib replacement

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we even need to save the decrypted password? A colleague once saved old encrypted passwords to allow the do they really know the old one test to be done via challange-response. Different scripts might want to

Re: password quality script aka --with-cracklib replacement

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2003, Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because we don't have the old password, doing this via PAM doesn't work. The pam_cracklib module doesn't apply the test if it's run as root, and won't run without the old password as a normal user. I know it won't work with the

samba doxygen autogeneration

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
I've set up a cron script to autogenerate Doxygen from HEAD, 2_2 and APPLIANCE_HEAD on samba.org: http://samba.org/doxygen/ This rebuilds every day from the anoncvs checkout. Thanks to Andrew for reminding me to do this. -- Martin

Re: Winbindd limited by select

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2003, Michael Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's 60 by default after installation, but is tunable (with reboot). Maybe hp should sell per-fd licences :-/ The solution (and this should also work on other platforms) was to have winbindd housekeep its client connections by

query about rpcclient process_cmd:

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
rpcclient.c/process_cmd has if (cmd[strlen(cmd) - 1] == '\n') cmd[strlen(cmd) - 1] = '\0'; if (!next_token(p, buf, , sizeof(buf))) { return NT_STATUS_OK; } /* strip the trainly \n if it exsists */ len =

Re: CVS update: samba/source/printing

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cvs log -r1.9.2.14 tdb/tdbutil.c revision 1.9.2.14 date: 2002/11/27 01:51:43; author: jra; state: Exp; lines: +21 -25 SMBencrypt needs dos codepage also. Change tdb_pack/unpack to take a function pointer applied to all strings if it

Re: rpcclient adddriver: core dump

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2003, Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba HEAD Looks like it's triggered by not closing quotes: [root@workst1 root]# rpcclient -U admin%passwd -W GROUP workst1 -d2 added interface ip=192.168.168.250 bcast=192.168.168.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 rpcclient $ adddriver Windows

ml-etiquette (was Re: CVS update: sambaweb)

2003-02-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv30335 Modified Files: archives.html Added Files: ml-etiquette.html Log Message: adding note about ml etiquette That looks good. I added a link to this to the

Re: password quality script aka --with-cracklib replacement

2003-02-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Feb 2003, Pierre Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is it? I have my own comments at the end ... From the documentation I wrote (even if I'm French I think it's not that bad!?!?!?): This looks good to me. Would it be possible to do this as a PAM module called by Samba? (Possibly

background updates of print queues via a dedicated process

2003-02-11 Thread Martin Pool
The Samba 3.0 roadmap mentions this as a wishlist item for 3.x. I'm interested in looking at it. Has anybody else already worked on it? It seemed like it would involve a separate smbd process repeatedly parsing the output of lpq and feeding it into a database, rather than this being done

Re: background updates of print queues via a dedicated process

2003-02-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Feb 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seemed like it would involve a separate smbd process repeatedly parsing the output of lpq and feeding it into a database, rather than this being done on-demand from a regular smbd child. I suppose when some change is

Re: background updates of print queues via a dedicated process

2003-02-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2003, Tim Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My idea which I've probably told a couple of you is to use kernel dnotify stuff to work out when jobs are spooled or removed. So a daemon would get a signal when a spool file is created and add that to printing.tdb. When the file completes

Re: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-07 Thread Martin Pool
On 7 Feb 2003, Boyce, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks - that was it. I now have a script /usr/local/bin/winbind, which does umask 000 /etc/init.d/winbind $1 umask 027 and everything is working ok now - I can stop restart winbind to my heart's content without any problem

[PATCH] umask audit

2003-02-06 Thread Martin Pool
Following on from the bug in winbindd this morning I did a quick grep for umask. In HEAD/client/client.c main(), there is a pair of calls to umask. It looks to me like they're trying to retrieve the current umask without changing it. However, the retrieved value is never used. (Did I miss

Re: [PATCH] umask audit

2003-02-06 Thread Martin Pool
In addition, wrepld sets its umask to 0. Is that really necessary? -- Martin

Re: [Samba] Can't unzip package

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Pool
On 28 Jan 2003, Christian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to Solaris 8, and downloaded the the following binary package from www.samba.org http://www.samba.org : samba-2.2.7-sol8-suncc-64bit.pkg.gz When trying to gunzip it, here is my output: /home/ccampbell #

Re: Patch for Samba 2.2.6 2.2.7 to work on OS X

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Pool
On 16 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:07:34AM -0500, Michael Bennett wrote: [setregid() fails] So... comments? Does the patch Do The Right Thing? Think this patch or something similar could get merged sometime? :) A patch like that would get accepted

Re: CVS update: sambaweb/support

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Pool
On 28 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue Jan 28 07:58:16 2003 Author: idra Update of /data/cvs/sambaweb/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv18414 Modified Files: italy.html Log Message: new company ATLINK SRL Thanks! -- Martin

[Samba] list filtering

2003-01-27 Thread Martin Pool
Because of the enormous amount of traffic being generated by Windows viruses[0] I have turned on Mailman attachment filtering on the high-traffic samba.org lists. Lists will now pass only text/plain MIME parts through to the list. multipart/alternative messages with both text and html forms will

list filtering

2003-01-27 Thread Martin Pool
Because of the enormous amount of traffic being generated by Windows viruses[0] I have turned on Mailman attachment filtering on the high-traffic samba.org lists. Lists will now pass only text/plain MIME parts through to the list. multipart/alternative messages with both text and html forms will

[Samba] (fwd from sascha.bieler@radiogong.de) Samba 3alpha21

2003-01-20 Thread Martin Pool
Sascha, please send your message to the mailing list in future, not to the list administrator. Where do people get the idea that this is the right address?? - Forwarded message from Radio Gong 2000 GmbH Co. KG [Technik] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Radio Gong 2000 GmbH Co. KG [Technik]

[patch] winbindd: try to fix 'restrict anonymous=1'

2003-01-20 Thread Martin Pool
hp CR1501 and friends This patch tries to make winbindd cope with the security option 'restrict anonymous=1' on NT4 and W2kS. When this option is set, the DC disallows SAMR calls on unauthenticated connections, but does allow LSA translations between names and sids. Obviously winbindd can't

Re: smbmount doesn't complain about wrong arguments

2003-01-19 Thread Martin Pool
On 19 Jan 2003, Christian Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I don't have the time to pursue this further at the moment, just wanted to note it: The arguments syntax of smbmount 2.2.3a (smbfs of Debian stable) requires that one gives -o before further options like username=... .

[PATCH] fix pointer error in appl_head loadparm.c

2003-01-16 Thread Martin Pool
hp CR 1548 This patch fixes a problem I observed where there were error messages relating to getpwent /usr/bin/passwd, which is obviously a pretty unlikely username. Investigation showed that the problem comes from the 1.247.2.52 patch to loadparm.c (appliance_head only), which replaces some

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