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Hi the list (again) Got a pretty major issue now Did the samba link to AD on a couple of redhat es3 servers using samba 3.0.14a Everything seems ok Except when I do a getent passwd username Server 3 getent passwd ross ross:x:10006:10000:ross:/home/ACADEMIC/ross:/bin/false Server 2 getent passwd ross ross:x:10006:10000:ross:/home/ACADEMIC/ross:/bin/false Server 1 getent passwd ross

...is kit. or if its not the kit what can it actually be? ive tried turning oplocks on and off to no avail. it still has this issue. any ideas on the "read_data(436)" and "failure for 4. Error = No route to host" ? Any help offered very gratefully recieved. With thanks Ross McInnes

...y like a power supply takeoff. I've talked to the good folks at dell about this, and they are as clueless as ever. Has anyone run into this problem before and, if so, have you found the secret cable that turns the power supply on the board into a regular ide cable? Cheers, -grant -- Grant McInnes <grant.mcinnes@utoronto.ca>

Hi all. Everything has been running great, untill 2 weeks ago when I applied redhat errata including a new kernel. (done it loads of times before) Rebooted and all seemed ok (it was half term for me, so maybe 20 users in at the very most) It wasn't until last week people started to complain about how long it was taking to log in. unfortunatly everytime I tried it went in straight away. The

...in today to work on it again. I fired up Asterisk about 20 minutes ago, and *without changing anything*, it all works fine now. Any ideas as to what the <censored> that was all about? I'd really like to know or at least have an idea becuase if it happened once..... Thanks Barclay McInnes

...nt4 clients and on average have about 100-150 users at peak times. it also has the wins server option enabled (so that it acts like a wins server) I have no other ideas to try or even think to search for, so any advise, questions and maybe answers would be gratefully received. Faithfully Ross McInnes

...e attending the conference this week and would not mind taking a minute or two to talk to me about the two topics above. I am interested in who is providing what kind of support for which flavors of Android and I am also interested in the same question for windows. If you want respond directly to mcinnes at adobe.com if you want. Jim McInnes

...my server. I'm running RH 8.0 on a Xeon 1.4Ghz with 2GB RAM, too. My CPU usage was pretty low (>90% idle) but the CPU load average was at 14. For now I'm waiting for the next time it happens to get some more information. Best regards, Reiner -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ross McInnes (Systems) [mailto:sysrm@stvincent.ac.uk] Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 16:34 An: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: [Samba] Tall tale of woe.... For the last year or so i have been having problems in general with samba (various versions) on the same box. Dell 2500 Xeon 1.8 with 2gb of ram...

...n311 window, so im assuming its has some sort of dos issues with the 8 character's, but in windows and in a command prompt under 2k it looks as it should i.e StudyScan. So why is samba truncating it to be "S1STSC~B" instead of "STUDYS~1" ? Any help gratefully received Ross McInnes

...ward. $ pdbedit -P "password history" -C 3 Doesn't work. Andrew said, it isn't implemented yet. Samba doesn't store password history... I don't know how it should be done, but it would be very nice to have it. regards, Rauno Tuul > On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:28 AM, Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote: > > > Recently we were audited and as part of that they looked at > our systems > > and policies etc and produced a report. > > > > As part of that report they mentioned about forcing users to change > > thier > > passwords every 90 days...

Hi all got a bit of and odd problem with ACL. Ive read up on a few bits in the samba howto and read some threads on here about it. Im not sure if this is a bug, something ive not done, doing wrong etc so anyone that could shed some light on it that would be great. Basically the windows box handles all user account processing and during creating a script for all this it will attempt to change the

Hello, When I try to build using rpmbuild --bb samba3.spec after installing the SRPM and modifing the samba3.spec and adding --with-acl-support my RPM file comes out to be just over 52 megs. How can I strip it down to be the regular size? I remember rebuilding from SRPM and it created a debug rpm as well. It didnt do that this time. Any ideas. Spencer

...er to /etc/passwd with that password and then invokes smbpasswd -a $username $password which no longer works with the 3.0.9 version of smbpasswd! Why has this mind bogglingly useful function been taken out?? Is there a way I can put it back in or use a 3.0.5 version with out issues?? Cheers Ross McInnes (A now bald) system admin

Hi, On Samba 3.0.2a on debian stable with a 2.6.5 kernel, each time I use APW to configure my printers, smbd takes more and more memory and the kernel does an Out of Memory (I have 512 Mo RAM). It's Xerox printers. Is the problem known (and corrected in 3.0.3rc1) or is it new ? Thanks for the answer. Cordialy, -- Yohann F.

idmap_init: using 'rid' as remote backend Probing module 'rid' Probing module 'rid': Trying to load from /usr/local/samba/lib/idmap/rid.so =============================================================== INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 50910 (3.0.21b) Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba3-HOWTO From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf

Hi list Got an odd "problem" here. But, ive followed the howtos etc getting pam authentication to work etc Ive just setup imap, the domain username is "test" When I run getent passwd im returned with DEV-DOMAIN+test:x:10012:10023:test test:/home/DEV-DOMAIN/test:/bin/false When I logon onto the windows 2k3 AD as test, it all logs on, sees the Home drive on the samba

I tried today to setup WinXP Pro to logon to my Linux Domain Server running RedHat Enterprise 2.1 with samba version 2.2.8a. WinXP is complaining it can not locate the domain server or is unable to authenticate with the server. Everything is working fine for Win9x, Win2k, and WinNT systems. When setting up the XP system it was able to connect and create a system account (jeff-system). Can

...amba] Tall tale of woe.... In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312151155320.1532-100000@stvincent.stvincent.ac.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312151155320.1532-100000@stvincent.stvincent.ac.uk> Message-ID: <3FDDD372.2020709@samba.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote: | half way through writing this reply the server just panic'd and halted. | on the screen was (or there abouts) | smbd process PID 19579, stackpage = f300f000 | calltrace [<c013e86b>] __kmem_cache_alloc | followed by | e1000_alloc_rx_buffers | e1000_alloc_rx_i...

Hi there, I can''t seem to access the fixture name as a class variable from my specs. I have to set the variable in the spec setup. ... [fixtures] my_fixture: id: 1 ... [rpsec] @my_fixture.id.should == 1 ... [error] You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.id ... [my setup] RSpec-0.7.5.1 (r1395) - BDD for Ruby Rails

Hi all. Quick question, (background 1st) Using Win2k3 AD with samba as a service (filestore) Added a user called sb05 C:\>net user sb05 User name sb05 Full Name Someone Bright Comment stu000000 User's comment Country code 000 (System Default) Account active Yes Account expires Never