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I'm setting up a Samba server using CentOS 4's (RedHat Enterprise Linux) standard version (v.3.0101411). I want to be able to force users to change their password upon first logging in and to have to change them after a certain period of time (per user, not system-wide). The problem is that the pdbedit commands don't seem to be registering at all in the database. If I enter the

I have set up a logon script to run when users login. It works for me when I log in, but my user ID is mapped to a root group as well as administrative privileges. But it is not executing for regular users. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Boaz logon script = stdlogon.bat logon home = logon path = security = user preferred master = yes domain logons = yes

I'm looking to move my companies server from an old Netware 5.0 file server to a Linux/Samba server on new hardware. Since my companies' systems are not mission critical (I can afford to be down for a few hours at a time after a switch-over) I feel I have the tolerance for some problems in getting it installed. Is this something I should be able to handle on my own (I installed the NW

When I open the "Printers and Faxes" folder in Windows to view print queues my firewall gets a bunch of incoming packets from the server each from an ever increasing port number. (It is now up to 32840.) These are going to local ports 139 and 445. (The netbios ports.) Is this normal behavior? Should I be allowing these access to the system? Thanks in advance

With a recent upgrade to Centos 4.6 my system's Samba was also upgraded to 3.0.25b. But now I get a series of auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) and auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758) errors every day. As I understand it winbind allows users to be logged in as Linux users when they log in as Windows users. But since I don't want them to have access to the

With a recent upgrade to Centos 4.6 my system's Samba was also upgraded to 3.0.25b. Now I get the following errors in my log every day. > **Unmatched Entries** > auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators : 1430 Time(s) > auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758) create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users