samba - Sep 1997 - Samba Problems

I have a couple of problems with Samba that I would appreciate help
with:

1. Since installing version 1.9.17p1, error messages such as "ERROR:
set_share_mode: failed to ftruncate share mode file
/var/smb/locks/share.9175085.1500224 to size 42 (Permission denied)" are
appearing in log.smb.

2. When a directory on a UNIX machine contains a file named *, this file
appears with the name ~16 in Windows Explorer. If this file is deleted
using Windows Explorer, all the files in the directory on the UNIX
machine are deleted.

Regards,
	Tim
> Tim Boorman
> UNIX Systems Support
> Lusis Limited, Technology Drive, Bridgend Science Park, Bridgend,
> United Kingdom CF31 3UJ
> Extension: 44966
> Direct Line: +44 (0)1656 765966
> Mobile: +44 (0)468 647495
> Email: boorman.tim@lusis.com
> 
>

I'm curious; why on earth would anyone/anything create a file called
'*'?

I've seen this question before, but I've not figured out if people are
trying to bulletproof a system, or if they actually get files called
'*'?
>From DOS (Win-whatever) if you 'del *', only files without a
'.' in them
would be removed, so it sounds to me like Samba is expanding the
wildcard, not DOS.

If this is the case, would one need to be concerned with other wilcard
characters?

Would a file called '`ls -d /`*' remove all of the files in the root?


On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Boorman Tim wrote:
> I have a couple of problems with Samba that I would appreciate help
> with:
>
> 2. When a directory on a UNIX machine contains a file named *, this file
> appears with the name ~16 in Windows Explorer. If this file is deleted
> using Windows Explorer, all the files in the directory on the UNIX
> machine are deleted.
                                [Darrin]

 "I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious."
				- A. Einstein

Darrin M. Gorski, Research Computer Systems Network Support
Scientific Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company
Internet: dgorski@ford.com | Tel/Fax: +1 (313) 248-3753

I've no idea why anyone would want to create a file called * either; one
of our developers 'discovered' this problem. Other wildcard characters
can also cause problems; if a directory on the UNIX machine contains
files named test1, test2 and test?, deleting the file test? using
Windows Explorer causes the 3 files to be deleted.

Regards,
	Tim
> Tim Boorman
> UNIX Systems Support
> Lusis Limited, Technology Drive, Bridgend Science Park, Bridgend,
> United Kingdom CF31 3UJ
> Extension: 44966
> Direct Line: +44 (0)1656 765966
> Mobile: +44 (0)468 647495
> Email: boorman.tim@lusis.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Darrin M. Gorski [SMTP:dgorski@ford.com]
> Sent:	24 September 1997 20:14
> To:	Boorman Tim
> Cc:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: Samba Problems
> 
> 
> I'm curious; why on earth would anyone/anything create a file called
> '*'?
> 
> I've seen this question before, but I've not figured out if people
are
> trying to bulletproof a system, or if they actually get files called
> '*'?
> 
> From DOS (Win-whatever) if you 'del *', only files without a
'.' in
> them
> would be removed, so it sounds to me like Samba is expanding the
> wildcard, not DOS.
> 
> If this is the case, would one need to be concerned with other wilcard
> characters?
> 
> Would a file called '`ls -d /`*' remove all of the files in the
root?
>

Hallo!

I have some problems with my Samba installation.

I have 2 PCs:

grey.sweet.org	192.168.21.2	Windows 95 OSR 2.1 with Sambar 4.2 Proxy Server
blue.sweet.org	192.168.21.1	Linux 2.0.35

The attachment:
SMB.CNF is my /etc/smb.conf
SMB.TXT is the output of "smbclient -L grey.sweet.org"
TCPD.TXT is the output of "tcpdump" running "smbclient -L
grey.sweet.org"

Can anybody help me?

Thanks,
	Stephan
_________________________________
  Stephan Trebs   sweet@gmx.net
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show's up in network neighborhood but get this error when i click on it or
use net view computername

System error 1214 has occurred.

The format of the specified network name is invalid.


any ideas where i should look?

much appreciated..

thx. in advance..

chico
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I have installed Samba on my FreeBSD system, it starts fine, but I'm unable
to see it from my windows machines.  I'm unable to see the system at all, if
I try to map a drive to it I get an error message in the log.smb file that says:
smbd/oplock.c:open_oplock_ipc(92)  open_opllock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP
socket for address 100007f. Error was Can't assign requested address.

Any help with getting this fixed would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Dear Anyone,

I'm having problems with users being able to connect to SAMBA from multiple
workstations on a single lan.  I have the hosts accept properly setup for
the domain; but, still have this problem.

Note:  Everything works fine from the 1 workstation...

Thanks for anyone's help,

James Kosin

**************************************************
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
    -- Shakespeare

James Kosin
ICG Technician

International Communications Group, Inc.
813 Diligence Drive, Suite 120
Newport News, VA 23606

Voice     (757) 873-7753
FAX       (757) 873-7760
Internet  http://www.intcomgrp.com
E-mail    mailto:techsupport@intcomgrp.com
Sales     mailto:sales@intcomgrp.com

**************************************************

My friends

I have a problem im my samba server, simply he stopped working.
I tried to restart the services, but the service SMBD didn't work more.
the content of file /var/log/samba/log.smb is:

[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are available.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] lib/util_sid.c:string_to_sid(262)
string_to_sid: Sid < does not start with 'S-'.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] passdb/passdb.c:read_sid_from_file(821)
unable to generate machine SID.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(882)
unable to read file /etc/MACHINE.SID. Error was Arquivo ou diret?rio n?o 
encontrado
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] smbd/server.c:main(682)
ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID.

I removed and I reinstalled the samba, but without success.
Please I await for your help.

Juliano Sanches
e-mail: jsanches@galvani.ind.br

My friends

I have a problem im my samba server, simply he stopped working.
I tried to restart the services, but the service SMBD didn't work more.
the content of file /var/log/samba/log.smb is:

[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are 
available.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] lib/util_sid.c:string_to_sid(262)
string_to_sid: Sid < does not start with 'S-'.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] passdb/passdb.c:read_sid_from_file(821)
unable to generate machine SID.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(882)
unable to read file /etc/MACHINE.SID. Error was Arquivo ou diret?rio n?o 
encontrado
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] smbd/server.c:main(682)
ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID.

I removed and I reinstalled the samba, but without success.
Please I await for your help.

Juliano Sanches
e-mail: jsanches@galvani.ind.br <mailto:jsanches@galvani.ind.br>

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Hello Juliano,
Looks like you have security=domain or server set up in
your smb.conf file, and it is expecting to find the 
SID file for your samba installation directly under the 
/etc directory.  Typically you would expect to find this
under /usr/local/samba/private subdirectory... although that 
is configurable at compile time as well as via an smb.conf 
parameter (it's kept in the same directory as the smbpasswd 
file, typically).
where is your smb.conf file located?  You might want to post
that, as well as how you are starting smbd.
How long had samba been up and running since you last started
it? 
Also, if you removed and reinstalled samba, then you are going
to need to check you smb.conf file to make sure your configuration
parameters are as you expect; and if you have security = domain,
you will need to follow the steps again to rejoin the domain
using the smbpasswd -j option.
Hope this helps,
DOn

-----Original Message-----
From: Juliano Sanches [mailto:jsanches@galvani.ind.br]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 3:22 PM
To: samba@samba.org
Subject: Samba Problems


My friends

I have a problem im my samba server, simply he stopped working.
I tried to restart the services, but the service SMBD didn't work more.
the content of file /var/log/samba/log.smb is:

[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are 
available.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] lib/util_sid.c:string_to_sid(262)
string_to_sid: Sid < does not start with 'S-'.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] passdb/passdb.c:read_sid_from_file(821)
unable to generate machine SID.
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(882)
unable to read file /etc/MACHINE.SID. Error was Arquivo ou diret?rio n?o 
encontrado
[2001/02/21 17:26:09, 0] smbd/server.c:main(682)
ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID.

I removed and I reinstalled the samba, but without success.
Please I await for your help.

Juliano Sanches
e-mail: jsanches@galvani.ind.br <mailto:jsanches@galvani.ind.br>

Hi,

I installed samba-2.0.10-2 in my RH 7.1 and want to share linux drivers
and windows 2000 drivers.

I have several questions to ask:

1.  When I access linux drivers from windows 2000, if I use command line
or emacs, the speed is OK.  However, when I use MS products, e.g. notepad,
it is very slow when I clicked on "Look in" drop down menu in open
dialog
for the first time.  It becomes normal when I do it after that if I do not close
this program.  I understand it is slow when I map network driver but is it
supposed
to be like this for notepad?  Or does my configurations have some
problems?

2.  When I access win2K driver from my linux box, the whole system hanged
twice in one day(I had to reset the computer).  I am afraid to do that
again.  Did anyone have the similar experience?

3.  I also tried to update to samba.2.2.2 using the RPM mentioned in this
list.  However, There are too many dependencies, samba--> samba-common -->
readline.so --< ....  It seems there is no way to install samba.2.2.2
untill I upgrade all the RPMs dependent on readline.so.  Am I right?

Thanks a lot.  I attach my smb.conf as below.

Yalin

smb.conf
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[global]
        workgroup = MYGROUP
        server string = Samba Server
        security = SHARE
        null passwords = Yes
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 0
        name resolve order = lmhosts host bcast
        socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
SO_SNDBUF=8192
        preferred master = Yes
        domain master = Yes
        dns proxy = No
        create mask = 0644
        hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        write cache size = 262144
        printing = lprng
        level2 oplocks = Yes

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

[home]
        path = /xxx/xxxx
        username = ylwang
        guest account = ylwang
        writeable = Yes
        guest ok = Yes
        case sensitive = Yes

Hi all!

I just installed Samba and am trying to get a NT pc to connect. Being new to
this application and wondering if anyone can help!

at the pc I enter:
		  net use x: \\server\tmp
	--> response:   The password is invalid for \\server\tmp
		Type the password for \\system\tmp: xxxx
	--> response:   System error 1240 has occurred.

	--> response:  The account is not authorized to login from this
station.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!

john dziegiel

The response: The account is not authorized to login from this station
Is what I was getting on my Win2K machine. This group suggested that I
add:

encrypt passwords = yes

to my smb.conf file, also run 'smbpasswd' on the Samba machine.,
(see the smbpasswd man page)

Then your user connecting from NT must have the same name and password
as he/she has on the Samba machine.

It worked for me!

Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to get it to work from
both Win2k AND Win95 at the same time.

Brian W. Barker
SAIC
Rosslyn, VA


-----Original Message-----
From: John Dziegiel [mailto:jdziegiel@tellium.com]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:14 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: samba problems


Hi all!

I just installed Samba and am trying to get a NT pc to connect. Being new to
this application and wondering if anyone can help!

at the pc I enter:
		  net use x: \\server\tmp
	--> response:   The password is invalid for \\server\tmp
		Type the password for \\system\tmp: xxxx
	--> response:   System error 1240 has occurred.

	--> response:  The account is not authorized to login from this
station.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!

john dziegiel

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Hello!!!!

I can`t find a bugs in Samba, but i have some queries to Samba and i hope
you can help me.
I will migrate my domain to Win2000 and i have many Samba Servers(2.0.7)
 in my domain. Before i migrate i must know, if the Samba-Version 2.0.7 is
compatible to Win 2000. I can't find any information witch describle this
future.
In my laboratory i tested some things and it doesn't works. I don't know
why??????????????


I hope you can give me uesful information.

Regards,

Christof Sobek

Network Management

Weidmueller Interface GmbH & Co.
P.O. Box 3030
D-32720 Detmold
Phone: +49 - 5231-14-2252
Fax:     +49 - 5231-14-1888
mailto:Christof.Sobek@weidmueller.de
http://www.weidmueller.de

Mr. Lewis
 
Excuse me, I write from Mexico I  have a question and could yoy help me,
please??:


I have a samba  (v .2.2.0)  installed on sun unix server with solaris 7 called
dico_samba (IP address 200.20.301.20; for example). And other server with Samba
(v. 1.9.17p3).  My clients are: computers with Win95 and Win2000. The problems
are:


1) With Samba v. 1.9.17p3 and  Win2000 client , ran the fix in the register:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001


This tip works, I can connect my Win200 clients with Server IP adress , but I
don?t with Server Name, I checked my dns and other name configuration of my
Win200 client and works with other applications very well, the problem is Samba
because I only can connect thought the IP addrees. What?s the conflict???


2)  With Samba 2.2.0

Win2000 Client: The same case of point 1, I can connect throught IP address of
Server, but don?t with Server Name


Win95 client: when I try to connect with Server , Windows displays the error:
"The password is incorrect, try again", and it doesn?t permit me to
access the share resource in Server. However in Unix , I try to connect with
smbclient command to share resource and it?s succesfully, inclusively from
others Unix Servers.

What's the problem?? why Unix yes and Windows No??

With Samba v. 1.9.17p3, my Win95 clients connect very well, with Server Name, no
problems, but with Samba 2.2.0 is a disaster


I read the DIAGNOSIS.txt , but I d?nt found the solution

Excuse for my questions and I hope that you can give some ideas about this


Thanks a lot

Marco
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Samba v2.2.5-8 using source rpms from Redhat rawhide, compiled for i686 
target, RedHat Linux 7.3 kernel version 2.4.18-10.

Two issues:
1. I am seeing in my /var/log/messages logs this:
Aug 26 16:01:01 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 16:01:02 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=707, 
generation=3
Aug 26 16:01:02 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 16:01:03 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=711, 
generation=3
Aug 26 17:01:02 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 17:01:02 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=707, 
generation=4
Aug 26 17:01:02 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 17:01:03 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=711, 
generation=4
Aug 26 18:01:03 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 18:01:03 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=707, 
generation=5
Aug 26 18:01:03 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 18:01:04 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=711, 
generation=5
Aug 26 19:01:00 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 19:01:01 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=707, 
generation=6
Aug 26 19:01:01 linux kernel: smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
Aug 26 19:01:02 linux kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=711, 
generation=6

Notice that this is happening every hour.  What is this?  What does it 
need that I am not providing it?  I tried looking everywhere on the 'Net 
for "-104" and couldn't find anything.

I've also had KDE lock up on me hard right after one of these, and I 
can't be sure that Samba isn't implicated in that.

Also, this may be related:
2. I set my Win 2k settings Lan Manager Authentication to be "Send NTLMv2 
response only/refuse LM & NTLM" and Samba fails to mount the disk on 
Linux.  Also, there are about 600 smb processes started with everything 
else failing with messages like "too many open files", etc... I
believe
that this is what was causing me to lock up.

Any ideas about these issues?  Is anybody else seeing this?

Hope you can help as I appear to be going in circles.

Have setup a small peer to peer network

Linux (Mandrake 8.2) Home1   192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Win XP                     Home2    192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
Workgroup                Test

Now can ping both hostnames and ip addresses from both directions (although
WinXP refuses to reply to itself). Have managed to connect to SAMBA for both
Home1 & Home2 from the linux box. Used DIR and saw all files in directories.
Used my username login for Linux share and guest login for XP box. I think all
my problems are coming from the windows XP area.

Have tried the nbstat -A 192.168.1.1 but receive Host Not Found. tried mapping
to Linux box but didn't manage to connect. Tried a number of different ways
but no joy. tried mapping \\Home1\public & \\192.168.1.1\public but think
the problem could lie with the login name and password. When you choose map as
different user how should it read? Home1\dean, dean, \\Home1\dean?

Also using the SAMBA distribution which comes with Mandrake and I don't
appear to have the command nmblookup. Any guess's?

Any tips for progressing would be gratefully recieved.

Cheers

Dean
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Hi!
    
I tried to set up a Samba PDC but so far it is not yet working (3 weeks passed).
I posted my Samba problems to news groups and discussion forums, but the
suggestions given were not able to solve my problems.  I went through a few
HOWTOs and followed the step-by-step guide, still can not solve my problem.  I
am realy new to Linux and Samba and hope sameone will guide me through.

(1) What I did: -
    (a) I installed the samba samba-swat, samba-common, samba-client, and 
edited /etc/samba/smb.conf files as following: -

    # Samba config file created using SWAT
    # from chee_ch.com (127.0.0.1)
    # Date : 2002/10/26
    # Global parmeters
    [global]

    ;Basic server setting 3/11/2002
    workgroup = CH LINUX SER
    netbios name = CH-HOMES
    server string = Primary Domain Server running Samba %v
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF = 8192 SO_SNDBUF =
8192
    
    ;PDC and master browser setting
    os level = 64
    preferred master = yes
    local master = yes
    domain master = yes
    domain logons = yes
    dns proxy = No

    ;Security and logging settings
    security = user
    encrypt passward = Yes
    log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
    log level = 2
    max log size = 0
    host allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
    samba passwd file = /etc/samba/ambpasswd
    passward program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
    passwd chat = *New*passward* %n\n*
    *Retype*new*passwd*%n\n*passwd:*all*
    *authentication*token*updated*successfully*
    
    add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Mechine
Account' -s /bin/false -M %u

    # Domain groups:
    domain admin group = root@adm
    
    [homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes
    
    [profiles]
    path = /home/samba/profiles
    writable = yes
    brawseable = no
    create mask = 0600
    directory mask = 0700

    [netlogon]
    comment = Network Logon Services
    path = /home/netlogon
    read only = yes
    browseable = no
    write list = @admins

    [printers]
    comment = All printer
    path = /var/spool/samba
    printeble = Yes
    brawsable = No

    (b) I added the Samba user Peter and Secretary: -
   
    #useradd -m Peter
    #passwd Peter
      .....
    #cat /etc/passwd | /usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
    #smbpasswd Peter
      .....

    (c) I repeated the steps to create account for Secretary.

    (d) I added root passward to the Samba
      
    #smbpasswd -a root
      ......

     (e) I did
      
     #groupadd -g 200 admins
     #groupadd -g 201 machines
     #mkdir -m 0775 /home/netlogon
     #chown root.admins /home/netlogon
     #mkdir /home/samba /home/samba/profiles
     #chmod 1757 /home/samba/profiles

     (f) At the Windows 98 client I change to Client for Microsoft Networks,
Primary Network Logon, Logon to NT Domain.

     (g) I copied AutoCAD files to /home/Peter/tmp/  and /home/Secretary/tmp/

(2) What happened

     I re-booted the Samba PDC and Samba started fine.  From the Network
Neighborhood of window client (Peter and Secretary) I can see CH LINUX SER.  I
double
     clicked it I can see CH-HOMES (netbios name).  I double clicked CH-HOMES,
it prompted for passwd, I enter and I went in CH-HOMES.  But, it is an
***empty***
     folder.  I supposted be able to see to Peter and Secretary folders.  And
and in Peter and Secretary I supposted be able to see tmp .......

    I rechecked the smb.conf file many, many times to ensure no spelling error
etc, nothing worked out.  In the CH-HOMES folder of window client, it is still
an empty
    folder.

(3) What I like to see
   
    A Samba PDC serving 10 over window clients, each window client login to
their respective /home diectory.


What has happened?!  I am new to Linux and Samba, and help will be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you

Oswald









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Thank you for your helps.  After I corrected all the spellings and did chown -R
Secretary /home/Secretary
chmod -R 700 /home/Secretary ... I double clicked the LINUXSERV at the Secretary
window
client, it did not prompt me for password instead went right to the CH-HOMES
folder.
When I double clicked the CH-HOMES, again it is an ***empty*** folder.  I
supposed to see Peter
and Secretary folder in the CH-HOMES folder.

My new sam.conf file is as following: -

# Samba config file created using SWAT
    # from chee_ch.com (127.0.0.1)
    # Date : 2002/10/26
    # Global parmeters
    [global]
 
    ;Basic server setting 3/11/2002
    workgroup = CH LINUX SER
    netbios name = CH-HOMES
    server string = Primary Domain Server running Samba %v
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF = 8192 SO_SNDBUF =
8192
    
    ;PDC and master browser setting
    os level = 64
    preferred master = yes
    local master = yes
    domain master = yes
    domain logons = yes
    dns proxy = No
 
    ;Security and logging settings
    security = user
    encrypt password = Yes
    log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
    log level = 2
    max log size = o
    host allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
    samba passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
    password program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
    passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n*
    *Retype*new*passwd*%n\n*passwd:*all*
    *authentication*token*updated*successfully*
    
    add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine
Account' -s /bin/false -M %u
 
    # Domain groups:
    domain admin group = root@adm
    
    [homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes
    
    [profiles]
    path = /home/samba/profiles
    writable = yes
    browseable = no
    create mask = 0600
    directory mask = 0700
 
    [netlogon]
    comment = Network Logon Services
    path = /home/netlogon
    read only = yes
    browseable = no
    write list = @admins
 
    [printers]
    comment = All printer
    path = /var/spool/samba
    printable = Yes
    browseable = No


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Oswald


p/s  My previous posting is as following: -

Hi!
    
I tried to set up a Samba PDC but so far it is not yet working (3 weeks passed).
I posted my Samba problems to news groups and discussion forums, but the
suggestions given were not able to solve my problems.  I went through a few
HOWTOs and followed the step-by-step guide, still can not solve my problem.  I
am realy new to Linux and Samba and hope sameone will guide me through.

(1) What I did: -
    (a) I installed the samba samba-swat, samba-common, samba-client, and 
edited /etc/samba/smb.conf files as following: -

    # Samba config file created using SWAT
    # from chee_ch.com (127.0.0.1)
    # Date : 2002/10/26
    # Global parmeters
    [global]

    ;Basic server setting 3/11/2002
    workgroup = CH LINUX SER
    netbios name = CH-HOMES
    server string = Primary Domain Server running Samba %v
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF = 8192 SO_SNDBUF =
8192
    
    ;PDC and master browser setting
    os level = 64
    preferred master = yes
    local master = yes
    domain master = yes
    domain logons = yes
    dns proxy = No

    ;Security and logging settings
    security = user
    encrypt passward = Yes
    log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
    log level = 2
    max log size = 0
    host allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
    samba passwd file = /etc/samba/ambpasswd
    passward program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
    passwd chat = *New*passward* %n\n*
    *Retype*new*passwd*%n\n*passwd:*all*
    *authentication*token*updated*successfully*
    
    add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Mechine
Account' -s /bin/false -M %u

    # Domain groups:
    domain admin group = root@adm
    
    [homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes
    
    [profiles]
    path = /home/samba/profiles
    writable = yes
    brawseable = no
    create mask = 0600
    directory mask = 0700

    [netlogon]
    comment = Network Logon Services
    path = /home/netlogon
    read only = yes
    browseable = no
    write list = @admins

    [printers]
    comment = All printer
    path = /var/spool/samba
    printeble = Yes
    brawsable = No

    (b) I added the Samba user Peter and Secretary: -
   
    #useradd -m Peter
    #passwd Peter
      .....
    #cat /etc/passwd | /usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
    #smbpasswd Peter
      .....

    (c) I repeated the steps to create account for Secretary.

    (d) I added root passward to the Samba
      
    #smbpasswd -a root
      ......

     (e) I did
      
     #groupadd -g 200 admins
     #groupadd -g 201 machines
     #mkdir -m 0775 /home/netlogon
     #chown root.admins /home/netlogon
     #mkdir /home/samba /home/samba/profiles
     #chmod 1757 /home/samba/profiles

     (f) At the Windows 98 client I change to Client for Microsoft Networks,
Primary Network Logon, Logon to NT Domain.

     (g) I copied AutoCAD files to /home/Peter/tmp/  and /home/Secretary/tmp/

(2) What happened

     I re-booted the Samba PDC and Samba started fine.  From the Network
Neighborhood of window client (Peter and Secretary) I can see CH LINUX SER.  I
double
     clicked it I can see CH-HOMES (netbios name).  I double clicked CH-HOMES,
it prompted for passwd, I enter and I went in CH-HOMES.  But, it is an
***empty***
     folder.  I supposted be able to see to Peter and Secretary folders.  And
and in Peter and Secretary I supposted be able to see tmp .......

    I rechecked the smb.conf file many, many times to ensure no spelling error
etc, nothing worked out.  In the CH-HOMES folder of window client, it is still
an empty
    folder.

(3) What I like to see
   
    A Samba PDC serving 10 over window clients, each window client login to
their respective /home diectory.


What has happened?!  I am new to Linux and Samba, and help will be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you

Oswald











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I'm trying the latest versions of Samba on a LRP box (kernel 2.2.19), namely
versions 2.2.7a and 2.2.8, but whenever I try to access a share it fails and
the smbd log has the following error message:
   
    build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt!  username smb1 not in
unix passwd database!

 I have the user accounts defined in the smbpasswd file and in /etc/passwd.
When using an older version (2.0.4b) I have no problems at all. Also, when
trying to change a Samba password using smbpasswd I get a similar error message:

  build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt!  username smb1 not in unix
passwd database!
  Failed to find entry for user smb1.
  Failed to modify password entry for user smb1

 I configured it during the build to use the traditional smbpasswd file. Does
anybody know what this is?.
 Another issue is that nmbd won't start up if I have "interfaces =
all"
specified in the global section of smb.conf, which again wasn't a problem
with
the older version.

Thanks in advance for any help.
--

Tried your suggestions but same problems on LRP. Trying the 2.2.8 smbpasswd on
my SuSE box worked fine. Go figure.

> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Spiro Philopoulos wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for responding. I've appended my smb.conf and smbpasswd
files.
> 
> Ok. So are smb1 ... smbn all in your /etc/passwd file?
> Why do all have the same uid? The nobody uid. Do NOT do this.
> 
> You need to have separate uids for each entry in smbpasswd. You should add
> your Unix users by:
> 	useradd 'username'
> 	passwd 'username'
> then to smbpasswd by:
> 	smbpasswd -a 'username'
> 
> Do NOT put a guest account in smbpasswd. Samba should use the
'nobody'
> account from /etc/passwd for all connections to the IPC$ share.
> 
>  - John T.
> 
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Spiro Philopoulos wrote:
> > >
> > > >  I'm trying the latest versions of Samba on a LRP box
(kernel 2.2.19),
> > namely
> > > > versions 2.2.7a and 2.2.8, but whenever I try to access a
share it fails
> > and
> > > > the smbd log has the following error message:
> > > >
> > > >     build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! 
username smb1
not in
> > > > unix passwd database!
> > >
> > > Email me your smb.conf and smbpasswd file please to
<jht@samba.org> - NOT
> > > to this list.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >  I have the user accounts defined in the smbpasswd file and
in
/etc/passwd.
> > > > When using an older version (2.0.4b) I have no problems at
all. Also,
when
> > > > trying to change a Samba password using smbpasswd I get a
similar error
> > message:
> > > >
> > > >   build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! 
username smb1 not
in
> > unix
> > > > passwd database!
> > > >   Failed to find entry for user smb1.
> > > >   Failed to modify password entry for user smb1
> > > >
> > > >  I configured it during the build to use the traditional
smbpasswd file.
> > Does
> > > > anybody know what this is?.
> > > >  Another issue is that nmbd won't start up if I have
"interfaces = all"
> > >
> > > If you want all interfaces (even if it is just one) comment out
this line.
> > > ie: Comment out "interfaces ="
> > >
> > > > specified in the global section of smb.conf, which again
wasn't a
problem
> > with
> > > > the older version.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > > >
> > >
> > > - John T.
> > > --
> > > John H Terpstra
> > > Email: jht@samba.org
> > >
> >
> 
> -- 
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht@samba.org
--

Umm.. I think i should make one thing clear because I'm getting alot of 
replies saying I should do smbpasswd -a username.  I just want to let you 
guys know that I have done this, I added the users I was testing out, ie. 
fred, root.  this is not the problem.  Also I'm using a newly installed 
version of redhat 8.0 and trying to make it work with samba2.2.8

Thanks for all your help so far





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