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I am having problems setting up the smbpasswd command to sync the /etc/passwd and $SAMBAHOME/private/smbasswd files. My passwd program (/usr/bin/passwd %u) doesn't seem to want to wait around for smbpasswd to send it a second password for confirmation. I am running Solaris 2.5.1 (103640-23) on an Ultra 2300 and using Samba 1.9.18p10 compiled with gcc 2.8.1. I thought that I had this running

I have a question about using roaming profiles in a Samba PDC controlled domain. I know that with Windows 95 and that generation or so, the profile had to be stored in the same directory as the home folder. ("/sambahomes/john/profile" for example.) You didn't have a choice because of technical reasons. But that restriction no longer applies with modern versions of Windows, and it seems like the convention has shifted to that of storing profiles in one place (/sambaprofiles/john/profile) while storing...

I am able to join Windows 7 work station to domain. I logged in as domain administrator in windows work station for testing. I am able to see netlogon, sysvol and the homes shared folders in the windows explorer in the client. However, I am not getting security tab when I right click on homes share and choose properties. Security tab is available when I right click and choose properties on

Hi list, I'm trying to set up a samba server and have run into a problem: Whenever I try to access a share other than /home/<user> I get a message saying that this resource is nonexistant on the server... I have problems getting "net groupmap modify" work, the commands I'm using is: net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=root net groupmap modify

I experienced the following problem with an apparent permissions Catch-22 where there's no "root" user to bootstrap from with Samba-LDAP, and found several other people experienced it too. I eventually figured out why a few people are plagued by this problem while most have never seen it, and I solved it. For everyone else who experiences a similar problem, the explanation and

Hello ! I have a database server running in a RH9 machine with two networks interfaces, but the second interface (10.0.1.1) does only clustering with another server, i have a PDC and WINS Server resident on a Win2000 machine. I had have troubles on find my linux machine in a network neighborhood from a Win machine. So i verified the linux machine registration in WINS server and i could see the