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Hi, The following is done on a samba share:- When I want to hide files in on the Windows interface, I right-click the file and check on the hidden attribute, but the file still appears there. Must I rename the file with a dot in front in order to hide it? Any alternative to allow the use of Windows interface to hide it? Thanks. adrian

I am running Samba 2.2.7 on a Red Hat 7.3 box. 1. I have some windows xp computer on my network. With the following settings the Samab can not able to win the election. local master = No preferred master = Yes domain master = No changing to local master = Yes It can. How these settings should work? 2. When samba is running (ps -ax) 1828 ? S 0:00

Our office is running Samba 2.2.x on Red Hat 7.x We have a mixed bag of Win98 and recent W2K clients. The new W2K clients have no trouble connecting to the current shares including a home share: [homes] comment = Home Directory writeable = yes read only = no browseable = no create mode = 0600 directory mode = 0700 hide dot files = yes veto files = /desktop/ veto files = /.*/ inherit

Samba List Serve Users: Is there a document or web link that follow that describes the steps to upgrade Samba from 2.2.5 to 2.2.8? The documentation on samba.org the I have read assumes that the install is a fresh install and not an upgrade. Thanks so much, Mark Roth Systems Engineer Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (304) 598-5430 x6864

G'day, I'd like to know how to restrict access to the [homes] share. Currently, each user is able to read/write to his/her own share, and by typing \\machine\anotheruser can open another user's share and read/write there too. I would like to restrict access so that a user can only read/write to their own share only. Here is some of the relevant config: [global] workgroup = ASDF

Help, I've just downloaded your latest source into my sparc, and it won't run configure. When I enter "./configure" it returns an error message that it doesn't find a valid CC. I looked and I have a /usr/ucb/cc compiler. I'm running Solaris 8 10/0. What can I do to get configure to run???????? Thanks for your help, John Wojtusiak

Apologies if this has been covered already, I can't find any helpful hints after 2 hours searching.... Testparm refuses to work on my e250 box - says it can't find the file? Any pointers to useful docs will be greatly appreciated (other than SAMS books and O'Rielly - been there, done that!), especially any relating to Solaris 8 and SAMBA! TIA Jo

Hello, I am wondering if anyone could help me out with the following questions: 1. How to uninstall Samba? 2. How to install/upgrade/uninstall Samba from Mandrake 9.0 to the latest Samba version via source code (I noticed that MDK9 installed Samba to different places. And the document:"Using Samba" mentioned the file "inetd.conf" but I couldn't find it in MDK9.)

All, I have been terribly pleased with openbsd 3.2 I was using it as a mail/samba server with postifx on a pentium pro 200 with 1 gig of memory. Well I wanted to add a larger harddrive than what I have in it now only 6.4 gig. Well the machine would not see it and for some reason after hours and hours of trying I can't get a tekram 395UW and a 18gig scsi to be the boot drive and having failed

Good Morning I am new to SAMBA and I am just getting started. I tried to do the ./configure and came up with this error. Can anyone tell me what CC is and where do I get it from...I am on IBM RS-6000 using UNIX/aix. # cd /tmp/samba-2.2.8a/source # ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH #

I have read over the lists and search the web, I know this question has been asked before, but I've not been able to fix my problem so I'll ask here. I have been successful in joining the XP machine to the domain however it when I try to login to the domain windows instantly kicks up the message: "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domaincontroller is down or