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Hi- I'm deploying a fileserver running Samba 3.0.2a in an environment that contains NT and UNIX users. I'd like to have my fileserver set up as follows: - Users connecting to the fileserver from NT boxes are authenticated against the Win2K ADS Domain Controller. - Users connecting to the fileserver from other UNIX boxes are authenticated locally using NIS and access the shared volume

Hello! I've been running a custom hacked samba 3.0rc1 to get winbindd to bind every SID simply to what getpwent returns as the UID. The newest versions of samba seem to support the possibility to have winbindd to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group as the storage backend. So basically what I need is that each time samba wants to know the SID of the username "joe" it would just query

Hello! A few users on my network has complained about Excel opening files as read-only. What is weird is that the files aren't. I can open such a file using notepad and write to it, but when the same file is opened in Excel, Excel says it's read-only. Anyone know what the problem is? Workstations run WinXP and office is 2k3. These files are shared between many users, but I don't

Hello! I'm building a samba fileserver that would share the same files for both linux and UNIX clients and ACLs should still work from windows. The UNIX clients don't have any users either, because all user information is taken from an AD. The setup is the following: Samba 3rc1 fileserver Win2k3 AD Server + Win2k clients and Linux clients Basically the win2k3 AD schema has been updated