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I'm having a weird problem which I think may be a bug, but I'm not sure, so I think I'll describe it and see if it rings a bell with anyone. Basically, the story is this: there's a file owned by a Unix user "lshaw" (i.e. me) and whose group ownership is "engineer". Now, I open this file on one Windows XP computer, then go try and open it again on another XP machine. On the second computer, I get the usual "This file is locked by _______, do you want to open a read-only copy?" messag...

...he new server with the exact same usernames and SIDs and hashes that are in use on the old server. (I may clean up the UIDs, though.) However, I've noticed something odd: /etc/samba/smbpasswd on 2.2.7 doesn't contain any RIDs or SIDs. And yet, if I run rpcclient and do "lookupnames lshaw" against the 2.x server, I can see that my (lshaw's) SID is formed of the domain SID plus some RID that comes from somewhere. But, *where* is that RID coming from? I presume it is some sort of persistent mapping, but what stores it? It's not in smbpasswd, because it doesn't cont...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I've uploaded the *final* 3.0.23c roll up patch to http://samba.org/~jerry/patches/patch-3.0.23b-3.0.23c-gwc-2.diffs.gz. I've already cut the 3.0.23c tarballs so unless there is a major problem, this will be the final change set. Please report *any* bugs that you find. I'd like to wrap this one up and do the public 3.0.23c

I've been reading Chapter 9 ("Network Browsing") of the Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, and the documentation is causing me some confusion. Up at the very top of the chapter, it says: WINS is the best tool for resolution of NetBIOS names to IP addresses; however, WINS is not involved in browse list handling except by way of name-to-address resolution. But then

Hey everyone, I'm looking at the IDEALX smbldap-passwd script (the version which comes with samba 3.0.22, in the examples directory), and it seems to want to set the password scheme to an uppercase string, i.e.: {CRYPT}foobarfoobar {MD5}barfoobarfoo However, looking at RFC 2307 ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt ), in section 5.3, it would appear that these are supposed to be

Hey everyone. We have two offices accessing the same Samba server, which is a PDC and file server. The server is located in one of the offices, but the other office is only connected by a relatively slow link (1.5 megabit/s). I'm looking for a way to turn off roaming profiles only for those users which are at the remote site. (It's a tad inconvenient when it takes an hour or two to

So, I'm building 3.0.23b for Slackware (since they don't have it out yet[1]), and I've noticed these two lines in the script that Slackware uses to build Samba 3.0.23 from source (which I'm modifying to build 3.0.23b): # -j options don't seem to work... make Anyone know why that comment might be there? Is it true that Samba can't be built with "-j2" or

Hello everyone, In my new Samba environment, I have a few servers that use LDAP for Unix accounts (via PADL's NSS stuff). This is working fine for Unix accounts, and everything is in LDAP. These servers are also going to run Samba, with the ldapsam backend. I've noticed that ldapsam allows me to maintain a UID<->SID mapping by simply putting the SID in the sambaSID attribute for

Hey everyone, When someone leaves the company, I prefer to disable their account rather than remove it (so that you can see who owns any files they might leave on a filesystem somewhere). I'm using an LDAP backend for Samba, and I'm using smbldap-tools to manage accounts. So, today I was going to disable an account for the first time since switching over from plain /etc/passwd and

Hey everyone, I'm running Samba on Slackware 10.2. As near as I can tell based on looking at the glibc source, my options for Unix passwords (in /etc/passwd, or LDAP -- same options) are these: 1. crypt() with plain old, busted traditional hashing. 2. crypt() with MD5 hashing, via $1$saltsalt$hashhashhashhash format; the crypt() function the special format and automatically uses

Hey everyone, Ran into something positively perplexing today. A user came to me and said that this morning when they checked their mail, they got about 120 strange new messages. Upon further inspection, it seems the "new" messages are all addressed to a certain other different user and are all 3 or 4 months old. And looking in that other user's /var/mail/(username) mailbox, I see

Hello everyone, Today a user (call them 'abc') came to me and described the following sequence of events: 1. They opened an Excel file, made some changes, saved it, and closed it. 2. They tried to open it again and got an error dialog within Excel that says this: File in Use FooBar.xls is locked for editing by 'abc'. Open