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Sir, Sorry Sir (Gerald Carter). It was a typograhic mistake i came to know late. I am a student of computer science. I have in my course of study a project to be done. I am interested in doing project related to Samba. I have got one of the ideas for the project. Can anybody be kindly help me regarding this idea? Please do reply about this idea. In

Hi to all. I recently upgraded to shorewall ver 2.3 from 2.0 so I could explore the multiple ISP/dual default route setup feature of version 2.3, I also upgraded iptables from 1.2 to 1.3 (rpm-based install) but when I tried to start shorewall it terminates and I noticed it''s giving me this error iptables: No chain/target/match by that name ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -t mangle -A

Hi, I recently tried to use ACLs with samba. XFS is running, I can set ACLs using setfacl and read them with getfacl, no problem so far. Samba compiled fine with '--with-acl-support'. Now I set up a share with 'nt acl support = yes', put there a file and added an acl with 'setfacl': root@edjo[ACLTEST]# getfacl datei.txt # file: datei.txt # owner: odenbach # group:

problem: I wish to implement samba on a solaris 8 with authentication from a win2k active directory server. I wish to have user dorectories mounted to AD server via samba and authenticated via AD. Anyone knows an easy/doable way to do this? -regards Rich

A collegue claim there is a way to setup a SUS server on a linux/unix, but he doesn't have any URLs or documentation. Is there a solution such a solution (pure unix, no emulation with vmware or so)? Where can I find more info? THX

Hi! How do you guys solve windows security updates? Is there a way to force windows computers to be updated. Even more flexible is if one can update windows through login script. Peter Nyberg Institutionen f?r Biokemi och Biofysik (DBB) Sv.Arrhenius v?gen 12 106 91 Stockholm Tel: 08-16 24 69 Mobil: 070 339 24 69 Fax 08 153679

Hallo to everybody out there, I have downloaded and compiled Samba3b2 on a SuSE 8.2 machine. For testing purpose, I connect to this machine with a Win2k-Box ... most things seem to work fine, but I am unable so change passwords from the win-box with unix password sync enanbled. I changed loglevel to 103 and enabled password chat debug. From what I found in the log-files, I can conclude that

Hello, I would like to upgrade my samba version 2.2.1a to 2.2.5!! Well I am trying to find a rpm for SuSE 7.3, but was not successfull yet. The several Readme's of Lars Mueller did not really help my. Also, first I do not want to compile by my self. Does any body know where to get such rpm?? If not, I cannot find the ./configure arguments for samba 2.2.5 in the source code tar.gz (

Hi to all. I would to ask if there''s way in shorewall that I can be able to check my bandwidth, if im really getting what I paid for. Second, Is there a fast and effective way to implement traffic shaping with shorewall. Many thanks Jan --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now

Hi, I am looking for a list of theses special magic numbers that a samba server (or a windows box) registers with at a wins server. I already know of <00> as a ordinary name, <1b> as a domain. But what's the rest? Is there a list anywhere? Perhaps somewhere in the docs? I have searched them but haven't found anything yet. Thanks, Christopher --

There has been some correspondence about getting the file names displayed with lpq instead of the smbXXXXX name. The -J option works, but, with some documents, notably Microsoft Word and Corel WP9, the application sends a long preamble, such that the file name is never seen in the queue when listed with lpq. eg: Microsoft Word - PRINT FILE NAME.doc So, to fix this up, at least for word documents,

Hi, trying to investigate my xfs-acl problem I think I have found the missing part: In smbd/uid.c the function "sid_to_uid" resolves SIDs to unix user names. This is done as follows: - First the domain part of the SID is compared to the local domain (if the SID belongs to the samba server it can be resolved locally) - In any other cases winbindd is asked This works well if the

Does anyone know of a way to maintain the Windows print job name with samba on a print job? i.e. NOT smbprn_0000126_InbAMi but Security HOW-TO... Thanks ahead of time... Wade Winright "Open the pod bay doors HAL!!!" -Arthur C. Clarke -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

Hi, I am just fiddeling with 2.2.0 final. I am having trouble with the config files I used with 2.2.0alpha3: check_access: no hostnames in host allow/deny list. [2001/04/18 12:33:37, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(473) Server exit (connection denied) [2001/04/18 12:33:37, 5] lib/access.c:string_match(89) looking for 131.234.166.51 of domain hni in netgroup hni_hosts gave No [2001/04/18

Howdy All, I am the adminstrator in a school which has netware 4.11 ( five servers in the nds tree )as its main student platform. This has been working very well over the past 6 years or so. The school has the ability to obtain a microsoft solution at no cost ( except for the new hardware required, which is the reason for this email in the first place ). Advice and opinions are sought on the

Hi, I'm using debian woody with samba (2.2.3a-12.3). After installing 2.2.8a everything that worked, still works. What didn't work, still doesn't work. Sharing files works properly. I'd like to share a printer via the samba server. When I go to the printers&faxes share in explorer, no printers are shown. Hereunder is my smb.conf, /etc/lprng/printcap, and the logfile

I have successfully implemented Samba in the past but I am now perplexed by a new installation which fails smbstatus with the message: "tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/cache/samba/brlock.tdb: No such file or directory Failed to open byte range locking database "tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/cache/samba/locking.tdb: No such file or directory ERROR:

hello! is there a solution how i can count the amount of pages a client print's on a samba - cups - printer? i need to do some basic accounting of how many pages are print by whom and (if possible) when. best regards -- Raimund Sacherer Linux Solution Provider email: Raimund.Sacherer@ngit.at bashian roulette: if [ $(($RANDOM%6)) -eq 0 ]; then rm -rf ~; fi

Hi, I've just installed samba 2.2.6 [solaris 2.6] and while ./smbstatus (on solaris) reports version 2.2.6, network neighbourhood [ or net view4] (on win 2k/win98) report Samba 2.2.5 Any ideas? ta iain -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Iain Morrison MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 15 Chaucer Road Tel 01223 355294 xt 581

Hi everybody, I have a dilemma here about the user accounts. We have all the accounts at a NIS server. My samba PDC is another machine (different from the NIS server). What are my options for managing the accounts? 1) Central management (LDAP) 2) Keep different password files (passwd/smbpasswd) Are there any different options?? If I use the second option (2 - keep different password files),