samba - May 2000 - Problem: permissions for removing a file in a file system mounted by smbmount

[Heribert Sch?tz <Heribert.Schuetz@gsi-office.de>]
> Consider the following case: I mount a share from an NT server on a
> Linux box, which I then use at the Linux box. I create a file on that
> partition and remove its write permissions. This happens whithin a
> directory which does have write permission. When I now want to remove
> the file, it does not work, but I rather get an error message that I
> don't have the permission for that.

	You need to set "delete readonly = yes" for
	the share or shares where you want this behavior.
	It's a filesystem semantics mapping problem,
	that Samba can work around when necessary...

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Hello.  I was wondering if it was possible to have Samba act as a WINS server
for a local network, but if a query for a machine name fails, have it fall
back and do a proxy to a different WINS server.  If this isn't possible now,
does anyone know if it is a planned feature?  The main use I can think of
would be for a home network (with some VPN clients), connected to a work LAN
via another VPN tunnel.  Since I don't want my friends machines to have VPN
access to the work LAN, just using work's WINS server isn't an option. 
Also,
since I want my friends to be able to see each other (even with their dynamic
IPs from the cable modem), I have to have a WINS server somewhere on my VPN.
Any ideas?

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I have two debian systems on my network. One has a Debian stable install
which allows me to share with no problems. I have a newer install which is
Debian frozen but I cannot browse shared  directories at all. I beleive the
smb.conf is the same on both boxes, I have messed with the permissions to no
avail. I'm fairly new to Samba but I have not had problems installing
before.

Here's the output from smbclient for the problem box - Linny:

Linny:~# smbclient -L Linny
added interface ip=192.168.0.8 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:
Domain=[OFFICE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.7]

        Sharename      Type      Comment
        ---------      ----      -------
        homes          Disk      Home Directories
        src            Disk      folder for software
        www            Disk      web pages
        IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Linny server (Samba 2.0.7))
        lp             Printer   Generic dot-matrix printer entry
        root           Disk      Home Directories

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        LINNY                Linny server (Samba 2.0.7)

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        OFFICE               FIREWALL

I don't know why box "Firewall" is master, I didn't want that.
Each box
should be independent. I don't use a PDC on my network.


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Hi all,

	I have a RH6.1 box with stock samba 2.0.5a. I did everything that
is mentioned in the "Joining NT domain with samba 2.0" document at
us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.html.
	I then used server manager on the NT PDC to create the machine
account, and did smbpasswd -j DOM -r DOMPDC. It said successfully joined
NT domain etc. It also created the mac file.
	After this I could see the machine in n/w neighbourhood from the
NT PDC and other NT boxes in the n/w. But when I try clicking on it, it
keeps saying "can't find <samba_box>". I have made sure that
I have done
all the relavent changes to the smb.conf, and that the smbd+nmbd are
running.
	Any idea why is this happening? The same config file works in
another domain in our office, with another RH6.1 samba box.
	Any help/ideas/suggestions to get it working would be greatly
appreciated.

	TIA,
	Kedar.
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