[Samba] Samba share gets dropped from windows

2011-12-01 Thread Yan Seiner
I have what should be a no-brainer setup: Windows network using AD with a single Linux box. I need to provide access to a single directory on the linux box to anyone from the network. Security is not a concern. So... On the linux box, I created a user x. I added this user to the local

Re: [Samba] Samba share gets dropped from windows

2011-12-01 Thread Yan Seiner
Never mind. Problem was between the seat and the keyboard. On Thu, December 1, 2011 10:29 am, Yan Seiner wrote: I have what should be a no-brainer setup: Windows network using AD with a single Linux box. I need to provide access to a single directory on the linux box to anyone from

[Samba] Samba 3.5.6 and Win 7 issues

2010-11-22 Thread Yan Seiner
I have a client that recently upgraded from Win XP to Win 7. They were seeing odd slowdowns and poor performance, so we upgraded to Samba 3.5.6 and enabled win 7 support max protocol = SMB2. They contacted me this morning with a report of more strange behavior, names the inability to access

Re: [Samba] smbd cannot be killed

2009-03-19 Thread Yan Seiner
in such cases everything starts working properly. Could somebody point the direction I should go to catch the actual problem? Samba logs? What does 'ps auxww | grep mbd' say? -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__

Re: [Samba] How to port samba to ARM?

2008-12-14 Thread Yan Seiner
Ryan Bair wrote: Samba should run fine on ARM. Debian even has a package for it. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/arm/samba It's also in openwrt.org - it runs on arm and mips. Nothing special about porting it. Just build it. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Jerry Dong djh...@gmail.com

Re: [Samba] Trouble finding all smb shares on network

2008-09-11 Thread Yan Seiner
`grep cifs /proc/mounts | grep /tmp/mnt/$server/$lshare | cut -f1 -d\ ` fi fi done fi done done -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_o__ Yan Seiner

Re: [Samba] Samba AutoCAd 2005

2008-06-05 Thread Yan Seiner
-- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ Personal Trainer (_)\(_),/'_o__ Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,/'_ Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) I worry about my child

Re: [Samba] Samba AutoCAd 2005

2008-06-04 Thread Yan Seiner
with AutoCad+Samba. If it's not the case, I will not care about the server and take a further look to other network component. Thanks for your help Patrik Dufresne -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ Personal Trainer

Re: [Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...

2008-04-11 Thread Yan Seiner
Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Fact is, most of us don't have farms of domain controllers and hundreds and hundreds of users. Most of us manage small to medium sized networks that can benefit hugely by the cost savings of deploying Samba instead of Windows. I'm not talking about just costs of

Re: [Samba] Help: justification for Linux PDC vs Windows...

2008-04-11 Thread Yan Seiner
JJB Yan Seiner wrote: Yup. For small-ish networks, nt4 servers are 'good enough'. Last I checked, MS imposes an artificial limit on its servers, where a server can only serve its own subnet. Samba doesn't have this limit. So a single multi-homed samba server can do the work of several

[Samba] strange permission denied problem

2008-03-31 Thread Yan Seiner
Master How do I go about diagnosing this? Thanks, --Yan -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_),/'_o__ Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,/'_ Who says

Re: [Samba] Relaying samba

2008-02-05 Thread Yan Seiner
on how this process works. The software publisher, as usual, is very politely unhelpful. ARGH! --Yan Yan Seiner wrote: I have a somewhat hybrid setup that I need some help with... I have a main server running 3.0.28 and a satellite server running 3.0.26. They are linked via VPN. Right

[Samba] Relaying samba

2008-02-05 Thread Yan Seiner
I have a somewhat hybrid setup that I need some help with... I have a main server running 3.0.28 and a satellite server running 3.0.26. They are linked via VPN. Right now we're using cifs to communicate through the VPN, which is painfully slow. Since the two servers are linux boxes, is

[Samba] XP Home and samba

2008-01-17 Thread Yan Seiner
I built a small embedded samba server based on Samba 3.0.26b. I tested it locally with XP Pro running in a vmware VM. All worked fine, so I shipped it. Turns out the person using it is running XP Home. Here's her note: I have restarted the computer and waited ten minutes and still nothing.

Re: [Samba] SAMBA under window?

2008-01-10 Thread Yan Seiner
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:32:42PM +1100, hce wrote: Hi Yan, On Dec 20, 2007 1:10 PM, Yan Seiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hce wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 9:14 AM, Hugo Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happen to know there was a port of an early version of samba (version 2.0.10

[Samba] msdfs problem

2008-01-07 Thread Yan Seiner
I think I've set up my msdfs correctly, but I keep getting the following message when I try to connect to it: [2008/01/07 05:00:45, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003) '/etc/samba/xyz' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [beaufort] Error was No such file or

Re: [Samba] msdfs problem

2008-01-07 Thread Yan Seiner
John Drescher wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 10:29 AM, Yan Seiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I've set up my msdfs correctly, but I keep getting the following message when I try to connect to it: [2008/01/07 05:00:45, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003) '/etc/samba/xyz' does

[Samba] No protocol supported

2008-01-07 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm trying to log into a problem server. The server is running an old kernel - 2.6.10 - and samba 3.0.25C. When I try to mount a share from another server running samba 3.0.26b, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/log/samba# mount.cifs //kahn/yan /tmp/x --verbose -o user=xxx,pass=yyy,ip=10.8.0.1

Re: [Samba] No protocol supported

2008-01-07 Thread Yan Seiner
Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to log into a problem server. The server is running an old kernel - 2.6.10 - and samba 3.0.25C. When I try to mount a share from another server running samba 3.0.26b, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/log/samba# mount.cifs //kahn/yan /tmp/x --verbose -o user=xxx

[Samba] samba proxy - can it be done?

2008-01-06 Thread Yan Seiner
I am trying to build an embedded samba appliance that will work as a VPN endpoint for a remote server. I have no control over the IP and routing assigned to the appliance, or the computers on its subnet. I've set up wins forwarding on the appliance so I can see the remote server in My

[Samba] Samba not seeing any interfaces

2008-01-05 Thread Yan Seiner
I've built samba for an embedded mips platform. Since this is an embedded platform, it's possible that some critical file that samba needs is missing but stracing the daemons doesn't reveal anything strange. It's running 2.4.34 kernel. Samba is failing to find any interfaces. [2000/01/02

Re: [Samba] Samba not seeing any interfaces

2008-01-05 Thread Yan Seiner
Yan Seiner wrote: I've built samba for an embedded mips platform. Since this is an embedded platform, it's possible that some critical file that samba needs is missing but stracing the daemons doesn't reveal anything strange. It's running 2.4.34 kernel. Samba is failing to find any

[Samba] Embedded samba 2.0.26 problems

2008-01-03 Thread Yan Seiner
I've built an embedded version of samba 3.0.26b. I'm having a problem getting it started, though - it fails to start. A bit of tracing and I *think* it's failing to find secrets.tdb. strace is showing smbd dying after failing to find secrets.tdb - in the wrong place. I think the script

Re: [Samba] Sharing a shared folder

2008-01-03 Thread Yan Seiner
simo wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:34 -0600, Brandon Pedersen wrote: Hey, So, I have a Linux server that is mounting a CIFS share. The server then shares that share to everyone else. My question is does having it routed this way cause a major slow down? Do the files need to be copied to

Re: [Samba] A simple stand-alone scenario but public share doesn´t work

2007-12-28 Thread Yan Seiner
Rolf Deenen wrote: [shared] comment = Shared Directories browseable = no path=/home/samba/Documents writable = yes create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 browseable = yes -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] SAMBA under window?

2007-12-19 Thread Yan Seiner
hce wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 9:14 AM, Hugo Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happen to know there was a port of an early version of samba (version 2.0.10 stripped down) to a system that operates on embedded devices, such as a large set of wireless access points/routers using a certain

[Samba] Mounting shares with spaces in names?

2007-11-16 Thread Yan Seiner
Anyone know if it's possible to mount a share with spaces in the name? I'm working on an embedded platform with busybox ash, and a recent (3.0.25a) samba installation. I've tried various combinations of mount.cifs //share/'with space' mount.cifs //share/with\ space mount.cifs

[Samba] samba embedded

2007-10-20 Thread Yan Seiner
-- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ o__ Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,/'_ ,/'_ Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) (_)\(_) Linux stuff has made big progress over the competition. When things sit

Re: [Samba] Old samba client

2007-10-11 Thread Yan Seiner
Gerald (Jerry) Carter napsal(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to put together an embedded box that will act as a samba client. All it needs to do is to mount Windows shares read-only. It needs to support WinXP and Vista. I need to be able

[Samba] Old samba client

2007-10-09 Thread Yan Seiner
, --Yan -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ o__ Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,/'_ ,/'_ Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) (_)\(_) 'man' is short for 'manual' because it's very short, for a manual

Re: [Samba] vista client poor transfer rates

2007-08-28 Thread Yan Seiner
ken wrote: Hi I am running samba 3.0.25c on a fc6 server. The problem is I am getting poor transfer rates to a vista client, approx 8Mb/sec over 1Gb Ethernet compared to 40Mb/sec to the same machine dual boot machine running xp pro. Anything to do with this?

[Samba] File locking issue

2007-08-20 Thread Yan Seiner
(_)\(_),/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ o__ Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,/'_ ,/'_ Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) (_)\(_) Linux stuff has made big progress over the competition. When things sit and don't start right away, we have a watch

[Samba] File locking issue

2007-08-06 Thread Yan Seiner
,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ o__ Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,/'_ ,/'_ Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) (_)\(_) Linux stuff has made big progress over the competition. When things sit and don't start right