search for: tisdall

...ntis@testukmcsstor1//:~$ rpm -qa | grep nss- nss-tools-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos pkinit-nss-0.7.3-1.el5 nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos Looks like this may be more of a libnss problem than a samba one, but can anyone suggest how I can start to troubleshoot? Thanks in advance, Ben Tisdall

...actual directive I'm using save for the FQDNs: passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://master.example.com:1389 \ ldap://slave.example.com" Strace didn't produce anything useful. Version is Samba 3.0.23a-1.fc4.1 Probably something very silly but I'm out of ideas! Cheers, -- Ben Tisdall

Hi, I have OpenLDAP working here generally without problems for a variety of applications including the management of Samba. Functioning user accounts can be created via 'smbldap-useradd' with the proper samba attributes being added in LDAP, however... Something odd is happening when I (or samba) tries to create a machine account with 'smbldap-useradd -w test1$' - an entry is

...comment = "STAFF read/write, others read" path = /space/data1/orgdata valid users = root, @staff read only = No create mask = 0664 force create mode = 0664 directory mask = 0775 force directory mode = 0775 Thanks, -- Ben Tisdall

...is problem is 100% reproducible & so severe that clearly it's either something specific to the system in question or some silly error or omission on my part. Unfortunately I'm stuck as to what this might be & any pointers to further debugging would be very much appreciated. -- Ben Tisdall

Hi, I am trying to create a Samba share on /media/winshare with the owner as amandabackup instead of root. But as soon as I mount the Samba share on to the mount point, the permissions for the owner get reverted back to root instead of amandabackup. Attaching a snapshot of how it looks like. http://www.nabble.com/file/p10894282/samba%2Bquery.jpg -- View this message in context:

...essdata/quickbooks valid users = root, @finance read only = No create mask = 0660 force create mode = 0660 directory mask = 0770 force directory mode = 0770 [WebForms] path = /var/www/html/_docs_ valid users = xxx,xxx,xxx read only = No create mask = 00 force create mode = 0664 -- Ben Tisdall RedCircle IT Ltd, London NW1. www.redcircleit.com ben@redcircleit.com +44 (0)20 7387 0351 +44 (0)7932 745803

Pardon me, I meant to include this information: bentis@redress3:~$ net rpc -d1 group members "Caseworkers" Password: [2007/05/29 20:53:13, 1] utils/net_rpc.c:run_rpc_command(170) rpc command function failed! (STATUS_SOME_UNMAPPED)

...G "%g" "%u" add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null "%u" logon script = login.bat logon drive = P: domain logons = Yes preferred master = Yes wins support = Yes printing = CUPS #idmap uid = 15000-20000 #idmap gid = 15000-20000 Cheers. -- Ben Tisdall RedCircle IT Ltd, London NW1. www.redcircleit.com ben@redcircleit.com +44 (0)20 7387 0351 +44 (0)7932 745803

I've user directorys set to: chmod 700 chown username:"Domain Users" Users can access stuff fine. However, I'd like the samba root user to be able to access these shares as well. How might I go about this? Example permissions drwx------ 2 jdom Domain Users 4096 2007-07-01 09:32 jdom/ [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only =

Hi there, Is anybody has ever made this: Migrate samba 2.x users (and their unix accounts) to an openldap? I've found plenty of how to for building a blank samba/ldap authentication system, but nothing for migrate existing samba 2.x account (but samba 3.x)... smbldap-tools are useful for creating groups etc., migratetools are useful for unix account, but what about samba 2.x? Is anybody