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Hi! I have samba 3 beta2 as PDC. Now I need to make all mebers of the unix grop "users" local admins on their Windows systems, because Wordperferct 8 doesn't run otherwise. As the "domain admin group" setting from smb.conf doen't exist anymore, I don't know, how to do the group mapping correctly. Could someone explain the steps to do it? Thanks in advance for

Hi there, i still have a weird problem with Powerpoint an Excel files stored on a Samba share. Only read on if you -use a samba share as MULTI-user file repository (no force_user etc.) -where multiple, different users share files in common directories -the modification time of a file is of any relevance to you. (seems like lots of folks don?t bother access rights or keep their information

Okidokey Heres the story We currently have an NT4 Domain with 50+ machines connected to it, we have one NT4 PDC and two NT4 BDC's. We Currently have three redhat 7.3 servers that offer up our file shares using Samba 2.2.x As opposed to "upgrading" to windows 2000 we want to see if we can migrate across to a Samba controlled domain. Now then I currently have a test machine that is

Okidokey things are flying here However I am a domain admin and as such when I logon to a win 2k/xp system I should be able to access the system stuff (like changing the domain) as well as certify a new machine to the domain. With the Samba user however I log onto the machine now and no longer have my admin rights to change settings :c( (I hate this quirk of xp/2k it's almost enough reason

the only thing to happen has been the server has had the patch for the windows rpc problem now the responce to a command that has worked perfectly for weeks of testing doesn't ************ work anymore. instead it spews this out [2003/08/08 11:50:31, 0] libsmb/namequery.c:getlmhostsent(588) getlmhostsent: Ill formed hosts line [ > lots of random signs rpcclient vomits this out

hi just a quickie I've just setup a share in samba 3b3 and discovered it wont allow my share names to be longer than 8 characters (how annoying!) I don't have any ms machines below win 2k and as such I don't care how long my names are infact having a name like eposd1_logs is far more useful than epslt1 or something equally non descriptive. How do I stop sam3 from doing this? (there