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...a cifs mount in samba. When I mount a cifs resource to a folder which is a part of samba share, users get all folders in it as zero files. They press F5 or refresh, and folders become ordinary ones. The issue repeats with all folders inside it. How to resolv this issue? -- Faithfully, Andrey Grebennikov

Hello! I want to use Samba only as authentication server that stores groups and user accounts. With no shares (excluding, of course [netlogon]), no printers... So, I think that it is do not really need to create UNIX groups and users in my case. Is it possible to work without creating users in UNIX? I need it for creating user\groups on native language with spaces in names by using usrmgr.exe.

Hi! I have samba server which is a member of a win2003 domain. I'd like to attach domain's permissions to samba shares, but when I open the mmc for the samba server I cannot save any added permissions. There are only local unix permission exist. What should I do to solve the problem? Andrey.

I'm running samba 3 server as PDC. Sometimes I get a reg-file or a command which should be run on the user's machine during the logon process as an administrator. How could I do that except adding these things to the netlogon directory directly? -- Andrey Grebennikov, Russia

Hi! I use the CTDB and I suppose it should restart the Samba service when it has gone down. I pointed the "CTDB_MANAGES_SAMBA=YES" in the config, so where is the problem? Why doesn't it follow Samba?