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Hi Folks: A couple weeks ago, the list helped me develop the way to find the UID of users on my AD system. At the time I did not think that it would be necessary to know the GID of the AD Groups, but I am hitting some snags where I need to change the group ownership of folders etc. I suspect that the necessary command is a variant of the getent command, but man getent has not yielded where I

Hi Folks: I am continuing to work on the samba problems. This is a weird one!!! I have 3 servers with samba running: 2 of them work perfectly and the third one refuses to authenticated I am seeing a lot of the following error [2005/07/21 12:58:21, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1000) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Googleing around has found that it

Hi Folks: I am in the process of moving all of our users over to our new Samba File server which runs FC3. In order to properly secure the home folders, I need to chown them to the UID of the individual user, and chgrp them to the domain users group. I know the GID for the domain users, so no problem there. Is there a way to find a list of the UID for all the users. I know that I can do it

...t up correctly to use the Active Directory. It greatly concerns me to have to ask each user for his/her password to input into smbpasswd, I understand that samba should be able to query the AD security database, but I cant figure out how to make it happen. I can be reached on list, off list at tholmes at mcaschool.net and on instant messenger - yahoo instant messenger - w8tah aol instant messenger w8tahham. I am getting desperate here, as I am facing several hours of creating accounts that I really don't have time to do. Everything is fair game including trashing my current samba confi...

Good Morning: I am having trouble with my samba server on FC3. For some reason I cannot get it to authenticate against the domain, In order for domain users to be able to access resources, it requires me to create samba users and input their windows password for it to work (which is terrible security practice). I have been fiddling around on a development server (which in now being rebuilt

Hi Folks -- I just applied a round of security and service pack updates to my AD domain controller, and all of a sudden, neither of my samba servers will authenticate against the DC -- Its been working quite nicely (using ADS) for the last several months and all of a sudden BOOM -- nothing Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated I backed out the install of Service Pack 1, which does

Good Morning Everyone: Please excuse the crosspost from the Fedora list for those that read both I am running into a bit of a problem, Yesterday, I set up my webserver (FC2) with samba so that I can authenticate against the active directory as per the instructions in http://www.billboswellconsulting.com/files/Authenticating%20Linux%20desk tops%20with%20AD.pdf When I log in to the fedora box

Hi Folks: I am continuing to work with samba on FC3 for use as a file server etc. I have set up my server according to the instructions on http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#id2535778 Here is my smb.conf file [root@srvfs-01 conf]# cat smb.conf [global] workgroup = MCASCHOOL netbios name = SRVFS-01 server string = MCA File Server

Good evening everyone: I am struggling with a problem here. I have a brand new FC3 server set up. My Windows domain is a windows 2003 active directory domain. I have samba configured as below [global] netbios name = SRVWEB-01 server string = MCA Production Web Server printing = cups idmap gid = 15000-20000 password server = srvdc01 idmap

ood Morning Everyone: This question is a bit different from the run of the mill -- HELP ME I GOT TROUBLE questions here on the list, however I am interested in getting this situation working correctly and also need to understand the basis behind the process so that I can implement it properly and extend it as necessary First off -- Some Background I am running a 150 station lan where all the