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Hi, At our campus we have ~40 machines. If a new program is needed we install it on a single machine and replicate this one to the others. The whole process is automated: (Wake-On-LAN) (with pxe) booting a kernel via grub. booting a minimal ram based linux and doing: netcat server port > /dev/hda If we send a WOL packet the restore process starts. The problem is that we have to rejoin each

Hello all, when I do a signature request to puppetmaster, if no domainname is configured then puppet gets it from /etc/resolv.conf. Even if the "search" line is commented. I had to delete the search line in resolv.conf to obtain a signature request with hostname only, and then it appears with a final dot (hostname.). Is it that puppet does not like being domainless ? Many of my

Dear Members, I would like to share my success story with a scheduled samba4 upgrade. Our faculty domain contains one dc and two fileserver, plus the pc labor windows machines(7 room * 25 machines). We use debian on the servers and installed samba4 from stable backports. Experiences: * i could successfully apply the samdb.py and user.py pathces from Rowland Penny. After that, the user creation

Hi all, I am trying to use samba with daemontools. (and it's brother runit: http://smarden.org/runit/). I do not want to talk much about runit itself. The main point is that samba *must* run in foreground mode (no fork, no detach from terminal). It is fine up to this point. I found an option '-F' and if I start with smbd -F It will run in foreground so it's OK. But I want to

Dear Members, Today i upgraded my small domain which ran on debian 7 to debian 8. The samba version does not change, it stays at 4.1.17 After the upgrade i noticed, that the ssh password auth does not work on the member servers. Excerpt from the log: Aug 18 14:46:31 medea winbindd[707]: STATUS=daemon 'winbindd' finished starting up and ready to serve