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Hello, When I add "server signing = mandatory" to my smb.conf file (AIX V6.1, 6100-04-11-1140 running Samba v3.6.5) that has "encrypt passwords = no", my windows client no longer can connect. It fails with system error 64. The windows system is running XP vers 2002 with service pack 3. The security settings are set to: Microsoft network client: Digitally sign communications

We have a cross platform environment with a Windows 2008 server running Active Directory and many of our workstations are running ubuntu 10.10 using winbind for user authentication. The version of samba running on these boxes is 3.5.4 We are looking to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 which runs samba 3.6.3 I am able to connect to the DC, and am able to see the users running the wbinfo -u command, but

In my smb.conf file, I currently I have a user share definition as: [userdir] path = /samba/%U writeable = yes The problem is, the user pool is in the tens of thousands, so it is not practical to have that many directories within /samba. I'd like to somehow dynamically configure the path with subdirectories, using the first, and second letter of the username as the first and

Just when I thought I had idmap changes correct for 3.6, I realize I have a setup that's not quite right: getent passwd ->No AD users getent passwd DOMAINA\\aduser aduser:*:1001601:1000513::/home/aduser:/bin/bash Shouldn't "getent passwd" show both local and AD users? Samba has had such an identity crisis over the years with idmap documentation. Depending, on where you