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I appreciate all the help I received from this Mailing List. However I am receiving work email to my cell phone now and I am being overwhelmed with the mailing list emails. Can some one let me know how to unsubscribe from this mailing list. Thank you -- Jose Mendez Computer Resource Specialist HNRC 619-543-8090

i am having a real problem with users exchanging passwords on the network and then logging on as that user while the original user is on the network. in adition to making some changes to the password system i would like to force the system to disallow multiple logons..can't find it anywhere in the documentation, but i am almost sure that it must be possible. most of the clients are win98

I am totally new to using CentOS. Linux in Genera really. I have decent experiencing with terminal code for Macs though. Here's the deal my Boss wants us to move more toward linux for some of our basic users. All I was supposed to do was install CentOS 5.2 and Open Office and disburse the machines. Simple enough right. So I did this with no issue. I ran the interface and installed only

okay so i have the script provided by joel. i have changed them slitely so that each user gets his or her own file, because if two users try to log on at the same time, the script can't differentiate between atempts. so you get mixed lines. as in user1 starts with line1 but then user2 might have his first line right after. we wanted to be able to distinguish. now that we can see who is

using samba 3.0.14a on debian. when customizing a default user profile to be placed in /etc/netlogin/default user, i copied a profile from a user, made some changes like locations to proxy servers, paths to various network shares, etc.. and the changes only seem to work in the user themselves is a member of the admin group, if i remove them from the admin group all the changes i made in the

i am using a script with awk which only works to add the first user from my csv file. when running with out the -s switch the output seems to be correct using echo to test. here is the script #!/bin/bash cat users.csv |awk 'BEGIN {FS=","}{print "echo smbpasswd -a -s "$1"\n"$3"\n"$3"\n"}' |/bin/bash this script successfuly adds the first

I would like to deny users access to the pdc based on the hostname. so if username1 logs into computer1, that is allowed, if the user logs of, and goes on to computer2, it will be denied because computer2 is a staff machine we have students that will sometimes try to use staff machines and i want the login to fail. i have lots of log entries that look like. [2007/06/21 15:44:44, 0]

using samba 3.14a, windows xp sp2 configured with roaming profiles. the profile seems to download properly but the start menu seems to be empty of shortcuts. anything tht requires reading of files seems to be acting strangely the files exist on the server but somehow they are not read on the workstation all of the /profiles/username directories are configured exactly the same. drwx------ 13

okay so after trying a bit to understand how all of this works i think i need a bit more support. thanks to joel, my problem where users can log on multiple times looks like it has a solution. to prevent this, he outlined a process by which one can monitor the process IDs of samba users, then user smbstatus grep for that user, find the process id, and then do whatever i want with them. in this

Hello listers, I am using samba 3.0.24 on Ubuntu. I need to deny users from logging on to the domain and any shares from more then one machine. The users are now able to login, walk over to another machine and log in again user the same username and password for as many machines as they like. I do want them to be able to login to any machine on the network so deny hosts won?t work for my

I am trying to setup the samba server to ping machines on the network via the netbios name. i have the following lines in smb.conf under global wins support = yes domain logons = Yes preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes local master = yes os level = 34 my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like. hosts: files wins dns I added the address of the samba server into the wins configuration tab

using samba v3 windows xp sp2 clients. i have profiles working to some extent, that is when i create a new user on the server, when that user logs in, the profile gets downloaded from the server from the /etc/netlogon/default user directory. any customizations that the user makes work just fine and get saved to the profiles share under profiles/username when the user tries to go to a different