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Hi all, Running SerNet Samba 4.0.9 on CentOS 6.4 serving as an AD DC and fileshare for XP clients. Added recycler per the example at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions to my smb.conf. Works great. My concern is that the recycle dir will eventually grow large. vfs_recycle's docs mention a parameter for limiting individual file sizes, but what's a best practice to prevent the whole recycle folder from growing too large? Cronjob to delete old files wh...

Hello, our samba server runs in security = user mode. Now I need a share people can connect to, even if they are not in the domain. I tried this configuration [open] comment = Fuer Scripte die via Mcafee gestartet werden guest only = yes #security = share path = /san/san-lacie/abteilungen/allgemein/mcafee read only = no writable = no printable = no Browseable = No but it does not work.

Hi all, I have a Samba 3.0.20b installation on a Redhat 9 system running as PDC for a Windows Domain. I now would like to move the PDC funktionality to an existing Debian Sarge system running Samba 3.0.23c and then decommision the Redhat system. I did search for information on how to do this but all the information that I could find seems to deal with Samba 2.x PDCs since the MACHINE.SID file is

I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask about this, but one of my users is having a problem with her files,specifically excel files which she is editing with openoffice. I suspect that she is closing down her PC without logging out or something and so appears to be still logged in. She is using Vista and the server is a Debian Lenny box. Whenever she tries to access the files on

Dear All .. I use webmin to do the samba PDC configuration The authentication is work well. I've a problem with share permission, the condition is : 1. I've group named "warehouse" 2. I've user named "wh01", with home dir /home/wh01, and be a group member of "warehouse" Both created via webmin. 3. Next I created share, named "warehouse"

...re "warehouse" >> > Which permission to the new file? May be 644? :) > IMHO, user have right to write directory, but have not right to write file. > Look man smb.conf for "force create mode", "force directory mode" or http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#inherit_permi ssions > > Thankyou for your enlightment I read that documentation, but I don't want uuser to be able to execute things in directory So I chage the share to : [warehouse] create mode = 660 path = /hdd2/samba/groupfiles/warehouse directory mode = 660 for...

Hello Nick, I do not think it is possible to just copy files like this from one to the other samba. You can do the copy job with rsync or scp. I made a samba PDC and BDC with ldap master ldap slave. So on both servers are the same users Groups etc. Both machines must have the same SID Greetings Daniel -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: samba-bounces+mueller=tropenklinik.de@lists.samba.org