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I have about 60 PC's running windows XP behind vpn routers in different locations. I find that they lose connection or sync (or whatever the right word is) to the domain periodically, probably when the vpn shuts down due to low demand. The result is that any domain user not already in the local password hash cache cannot log in and any local share with domain permissions on it will not

Hi list, I can't make idmap talk to my LDAP server. And I haven't found an updated howto. Some entries from log.windbindd-imap: [2012/04/13 20:05:40.500475, 5] winbindd/idmap.c:153(smb_register_idmap) Successfully added idmap backend 'ldap' [2012/04/13 20:05:40.501112, 5] winbindd/idmap.c:153(smb_register_idmap) Successfully added idmap backend 'tdb' [2012/04/13

I have: *389 Directory Server (v1.2) with about 100+ current and active users. *Separate SAMBA server that I would like to use LDAP credentials to authenticate with. Found guides for using LDAP credentials with SAMBA here: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba http://sangacollins.wordpress.com/posts/directory-server/ What I have been able to do: Added the samba schema

I know this has come up a bit in the past, but consider this situation: Two Samba4 DC's - and I want to "mirror" the data shares to the "backup" DC in case we lose the primary DC and it's file shares. [A cheap, dirty, poor-mans semi-CTDB. How did you ever guess that Red Green was helping me?!] The easiest way is probably rsync'ing the data. However, will that

Hi. I have two servers located in two different time zones. I want to know if there is a way to keep the shares synchronized. Right now what i thought is to run rsync from Server A to Server B . However the issue is say Server B has a new version of the file in server A and that should not be overwritten but should be copied back to server A. How to go about this? Regards Janantha

Dear All, I have implemented samba to right now in test environment to be implemented in production as? samba file server so far its working grt but I have one issue i have right now one share and want only the users who have access to the share to see it and the others should not when I log into the user who has no access I see the share and when i double click it ask me for username and

Hello all, Im Fran, and im from Spain. Im currently using an english book to setup my samba server, and im having problems understanding it. I explain my problem. I dont want to use root to join clients to the domain; i prefer creating a plain user. Ok, so, the steps i follow are: net groupmap add unixgroup=srvadmins ntgroup="Server Admins" net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain