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Hy, I have a SMB Server runing for 2 Year, now is the time to move to a new more powerful machine . I set up the old smb Server without character set convertion. Now, I'd like to introduce character set conversion on the new server. So, how do I move the files from old to new server with keeping permission, creating and touch date, but translating the character set. Scenarios: - Copiing

I was thinking of putting a slightly bigger HD on my Linux server and would like to know the easiest way. I know that ghost works well on FAT32 partitions, but does it work on Ext3 partitions too? Id rather not reinstall if I don't have to, so any and all suggestions are appreciated. TIA Kev

Hi. I''ve defined a virtual user "kenneth", and depending on a variable in the node definiton I''d like to add the users to different groups. Consider this example: ###### Code start node "server.example.com" { $server_type = "typeA" realize User[kenneth] } @user {"kenneth": ensure => present, uid => 1000,

...th broken UTF-8 (which most often looks like multiple-encoded UTF-8, but with one "wrong" byte which prevents reversing the string back to regular UTF-8). As an example, look for the topmost entry in ypxml which has 85.239.108.31 in its listen_url - that should be a radio station Welle T?ringens Rock with the letter "?" being broken. To keep the posting short, I have written a short page with information what I was able to debug so far: http://bilbo.online.bg/~assen/icecast-addon/unicode.htm I'll be grateful if anyone could shed some light about such entries in yp.xml and i...

OK, found it myself. sambaPwdLastSet should not be Zero. ============================== Release Notes for Samba 3.0.2a February 13, 2004 ============================== Samba 3.0.2a is a minor patch release for the 3.0.2 code base to address, in particular, a problem when using pdbedit to sanitize

Hello ! My problem is : I have very slow transfer if I copy files from server samba to windows 2000. In the opposite direction transfer is very good. Please help Greet All

Hy, im using Samba as PDC. When im logging into another W2K machine with MMC an try to change the password of a service, windows is bringing up the error: "A device attached to the system is not functioning." To be exact, this is error: Winerror.h, 0x000001f = 31 (ERROR_GEN_FAILURE) If you change the Password of the service on the machine itself (sitting in front of the machine)

Hello im trying to migrate from Samba 2.2.8a to 3.0.9. The Server is a PDC using ldap and winbind. I used the convertSambaAccount script to convert the ldap schema from old to new. I shut down the old smb server and started the new one. The share one the new server are accessible from my still running W2k machine. If I start another machine und log in as a user, that was logged in before from

Trying to get one Samba server to serve several printers through CUPS and host a virtual PDF "printer" at the same time. I've gotten them working separately, but not together, and I think I know why. In the smb.conf man page under "print command": "With printing = cups, and if SAMBA is compiled against libcups, any manually set print command will be ignored."