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Hi, I need to write a (Perl) script that will access the LDAP server that is bunddled in Samba 4. What DN should I use to authenticate? Best regards, Olivier --

Hi all, I have a Centos 6 box running samba-3.6.9 and I have a problem with files turning to 0 bytes after being edited and saved. One of the users reported that he changed the name of two files and both ended up sized 0 bytes and opening them revealed them to be empty. Has anyone had a similar problem? I've been looking for 3 days and there's obvious pattern to the events

Hi all, Excuse ignorance but I've mainly used Samba DCs in the past and just want to check this before I do something stupid. I have a server 2012R2 domain controller but the functional level is set to server 2008r2. Does this mean that it's running a schema consistent with 2008R2 and that I could hook Samba 4 up to as an RODC or would it still break? Thanks in advance, Julian PB

Hi All, I currently have another thread open on squid authentication with Samba 4 and am going to try authenticating against kerberos instead of NTLM. According to the docs for the web filter I'm using, it's essential for Kerberos to be able to resolve reverse DNS so I've spent the last weekend trying to get this working. Various different documents and howtos exist but none of

Hi All, I'm setting up a Samba AD domain which works perfectly with the WIn 7 server tools and so far everything is going fine. What has me stumped is setting up an LDAP proxy in our DMZ against which I can authenticate our email and web services. I've got port 389 open on my main Samba 4 DC and if I use the domain administrator account to bind the proxy, everything works. In order

Hi List, Looking for assistance with a squid authentication problem against Samba 4. The squid proxy we're using worked fine on our old Samba 3 domain with 500+ users but keeps freezing on our new Samba 4 domain. I've joined the proxy using net ads join and the samba 4 network is a clean build as we wanted to leave any baggage from the old one behind. What we now have is a situation