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...ing MS windows files mounted through Samba Product: rsync Version: 2.6.2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: jlindenmuth@paytimepayroll.com QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org We are using rsync for remote mirroring of filesystems. One of the servers we are mirroring is a Windows 2000 server mounted via Samba. rsync appears to be locking the files on the windows server - whenever rsync is running on a file...

Hi, maybe this is a newbie-question, but ... here we go: I read the documentation for winbindd several times now but didn't get far. We run Samba as primary domain controller for several dozen clients and over 3000 users and never used winbind, so my question is quite simple: What does winbind provide and when do i need it? I assume that winbind is only used when i use samba as a client in

We are having difficulty setting permissions with Samba 3.0.2. Whenever we use the DOS attrib +r command to make a file read only (or through the file properties) we get an "Access Denied" error for all users except the owner. This happens even though we've setup our smb.conf to allow Administrator root access (smb.conf below), and the file is rwxrwxrwx. Here is our smb.conf file:

The DOS copy command does not seem to work as expected with Samba. There are 2 bugs (or issues with our configuration): 1. Copying with a wildcard does not maintain dates (e.g. 'copy G:\SMBNET\file?.txt G:\SMBNET\OUT\' changes the dates to today on Win98 and prior) 2. Copying with a wildcard for a single file creates an incomplete file (e.g. 'copy G:\SMBNET\large?.exe file7.exe'

Hello, We are trying to add a 2nd samba server to our domain. We are using an NT 4.0 PDC and connecting to the PDC using winbind. Our network is relatively small - 25 computers. We have no Active Directory servers, no WINS servers, and the existing samba server running 3.0.11 has been running for 18 months with no issues. We are completely stuck trying to add a second server. We've