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Hello Why is it necessary to specify encrypt passwords = no to make Samba server start using solely /etc/passwd? Isn't it possible to tell Samba server that on the way between a client and the server, the passwords sould be encrypted, and after decryption, they will be checked against /etc/passwd and not smbpasswd, tdb or whatever backend? Cl<

...month, more in the future. I will be using disk quotas if that makes any difference, and may use recycle bins. I'm seeing a lot of comment here on problems with the 3 series Samba so I'm wondering if I should use it or wait for the 3.1 series (-: Thanks for all advice -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

Hi, I'm running samba-3.0.5 on OpenBSD 3.5. I'm trying out using samba as a print server for the first time, and it works ok, but I have this problem where everytime I print anything, a additional blank page comes out of the printer at the end of what was just printed. It's an old HP Laserjet 4 connected to the parallel port of the samba server. /etc/printcap lp|HP4|HP Laserjet

Has anybody done such a thing as this? I'm looking to make this transition as smooth as possible. I have the new fileserver up and running, and I'm using rsync to keep the Novell data current on the Samba server. Any words of advice on transferring the users and groups and permissions over to the new server in the least painful way possible? I have some idea that Novell uses LDAP

...anything else remotely fancy. It just exists as a web server for developing new PHP code, and I use Samba to make it easy to edit the web files. So what is it that I am missing? (note I have NEVER logged into any kind of MS domain server, ever. We have Novell at the office) -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

...e there is definitely something buggy in this code that is causing smbd to return the raw count of blocks to Windows clients when a quota is set on FreeBSD 5.2.1. Yet, the size is correct when no quota is set on a share. Please can the people who know how to fix this, fix it. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

...licated a little by having a laptop username that differs from the network username. Has anyone a better way of forcing a XP Home logon? Hope this helps someone, and thanks to Allan whose message about something like this got me going from a web search, but his email bounced. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

...k with having 2 users, one the local machine user, and the other the domain user. They have separate settings, so any icons the boss sets up when connected to the network are not present when he logs in when he goes away with the laptop. Is there a way to have just one user? -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

...is reporting neither the real quota size (actually twice the set size), NOR the real disk size so this is clearly a BUG. Please help Samba to be 'correct', not 'worked around'. My server goes live on 26 November and I'd really like it to work correctly. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

hi, on samba3 a have a directory "foo" with one subfolder "blah". the subfolder contains a huge subtree with lot of files (11gig). if i click on "foo" it takes 10 or more seconds to get the one folder "blah". but if i use the left foldertree of explorer, there are no problems, it's fast. what is the explorer looking for? size calculations? it there a

Hi, i have samba 3.0.7 and set a logon.bat script in /home/samba/netlogon But when i log in my domaine (from a windows xp sp1 machine) "Domi" the script isn't run, no error message at log in Just going on the share "netlogon" i got the sand-hour and nothing more happens What's wrong ? Thanks for any help *here my smb.conf * [global] # Do something sensible when

running debian 3.1 "sarge" ppc and samba 3.08 I want to have my win98se computer users to have their shares automatically mapped. 1. I have read that I would use a netlogin directory and put scripts in there? 2. Does anyone know if samba has to be set up a special way ADS, wins, etc... to use the netlogin directory and it's scripts? "this server is the only smb server

Hi, Don't ask why I'm posing this question -- actually, I WILL explain below -- but is there any danger in having two shares in Samba with the same name? Here's our situation. We have a bunch of production machines out in the field. On those machines, we are constantly setting up "special project shares" for each user (different from the user's Home directory) that