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Hi All, What causes this error in /var/log/messages when on XP-Pro client boots up? winbindd[4041]: idmap uid range missing or invalid winbindd[4041]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs winbindd[4041]: [2009/04/02 19:38:22, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(820) rn1 winbindd[4041]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred! Many thanks, -T

Hi All, Can someone point me to a good reference on how to configure "tdbsam" ? Many thanks, -T

Hi All, Now that I have winbind running and wins support = yes in my smb.conf, am I missing something? Like setting up WINS, configuring it, populating it, etc.? Can someone point me to documentation on what to do (administrate) WINS? Many thanks, -T

Hi All, If you would please suffer a Fedora Code 13 question on a CentOS mailing list, I have a Linux customer with Fedora Code 13 who loves it but is about to dump it because he really, really wants iTunes. (He owns an iPod and an iPhone.) None of the Linux utilities quite work right and he wants to buy music from the iTunes store as well. Plus he wants to synchronize his contacts list. So, I

Hi All, Okay. Now I am confused. I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these systems. Supposedly "qemu-img convert" now supports direct conversion from vdi to whatever KVM uses. So I fired up the man page and got really confused. Then I fired up Google and got worse confused. Might I impose on

Hi All, I am confused. In one of the examples of a PDC, the following smb.conf parameter is given: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m -G users '%u' If you have "passdb backend = tdbsam" and the way to add users to "tdbsam" is "pdbedit -a -u username", what is the purpose of the "add user script"? I am thinking it is to add the user

Hi All, What causes this error message in /var/log/messages when an XP-Pro client boots up? nss_wins[27722]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users Many thanks, -T CentOS 5.3 $ rpm -qa \*samba\* samba-common-3.0.33-3.7.el5 system-config-samba-1.2.41-3.el5 samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5 samba-client-3.0.33-3.7.el5 $ uname -r 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

Hi All, I am upgrading my samba server from a workgroup to PDC server. I am doing this to make a Windows 2008 Terminal server happy. Eventually there will be a bank of them (thank you Virtual Box). Anyway, in my test bed, I have a Samba PDC (newly updated to PDC), a Windows 2008 server, and XP-Pro-SP3. Both Windows machines are able to join the domain and log in as users only in the Samba

Hi All, What are guest cores in KVM? Are they fake, like everything else in the guest? Just another process running on the host emulating a core? Or are the guest cores actually connected directly to the physical cores on my motherboard? Many thanks, -T

Hi All, Just a bit of PDC confusion on my part. 1) I do not give machine names a password. Am I correct? 2) I am presuming that machine names are used to limit what machine user names can have access to to the samba server. If Foo has an smb username and computer A has a machine name, but computer B does not, then Foo can enter only through computer A. Am I correct? 3) If I am correct on #2

Hi All, I am using CentOS 5.3 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 clone). CentOS and RHEL being what they are, they always use old stuff to maintain enterprise stability. $rpm -qa \*samba\* samba-common-3.0.33-3.7.el5 system-config-samba-1.2.41-3.el5 samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5 samba-client-3.0.33-3.7.el5 Is it permissible to file bugs on these old version, seeing as Samba is up to 3.3.3? (And, no, I can

Hi All, When I have my smb.conf set to "passdb backend = tdbsam", I get the following errors when "foo" tried to browse a share: [2009/03/29 19:44:02, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators [2009/03/29 19:44:02, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758) create_builtin_users: Failed

Hi All, I just added three users to my tdbsam with "pdbedit -a -u username" (had to do "useradd" first). All three appeared in tdbsam as they should, as verified with "pdbedit -L". But, all three also appeared in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. This is not a mistake, they were not there before. Are "tdbsam" and "smbpasswd" linked? I am confused.

Hi All, I am running Virtual box on a CentOS 5.5 x64 bit host. The guest is 23 bit Windows Server 2008 SP2 (not R2). Virtual Box bug 7606 is causing a customer of mine serious financial harm. http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7607#comment:3 I have tried in vain month or month over month to get Oracle to sell me a tech support contract, so that we can get some priority on this issue.

Hi All, How does KVM handle multiple cores. I have an x5650 with 6 real cores that presents itself to my OS as 12 virtual cores (hyperthreading). Does KVM see 6 or 12 cores. And, can I tell KVM how many cores I want it to use? Am I misunderstanding how KVM works? What I am after is if my guest is 100% busy, I still want some power left over for my host. Many thanks, -T

Hi All, I have been Googling my rear off. Where is the manual for KVM? It seems like the information is just all thrown about. Anyone know of a manual? A pdf? A home page with instructions? I am teachable (mostly). Many thanks, -T

Hi All, On my customer's CentOS 5.5 x64 server, I have Virtual Box installed. To make a side by side comparison, I would like to also run KVM. I read somewhere that this can not be done, but I can not remember where. Am I able to mix the two so I can demonstrate the differences to my customer? Many Thanks, -T

Hi All, I just upgraded a workstation server to a PDC server. I am using tbdsam as my user database. Question 1: As a workgroup server, I created my groups in /etc/group (groupadd). Is this still the case? Do I also need to tell Samba about a different database for groups? Question 2: occasionally I get asked for the user with "administrator's" privileges. Do I need to

Hi All, I am a bit new to Samba PDC. When a M$ tech article says: "Use Active Directory Users and Computers to create a new organizational unit (OU)". What does this mean in Samba PDC talk? Please translate. Many thanks, -T I have a lot of guesses, but I want to hear it from someone who has already done it.

Hi All, My Samba server/firewall has three (two real, one virtual) network cards: eth0.5: connects to a terminal server eth0: internal network with about 10 XP workstations eth1: the Internet Samba is set to talk to only 12.0.0.1, eth0.5 and eth0. I have my firewall iptables rules set so that users on eth0.5 can only use the samba server on my server. They can not share with any other user on