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for some strange reason, our wins servers occasionally drop samba servers out of there name space. to deal with this, I cron'ed a restart of samba at midnight everynight. This was a quick solution, but a lousy one. I would rather have some way to have samba regularly send name registration requests to wins. Is there a way to do this? barring that, is there some interface I can query on samba

...s not being seen as a BDC on the network, and as such is not processing the domain logons. (All profiles/user homedirs are stored and mapped to server2 currently, even though logon script is executing from server1. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/

Hi all, has anyone had any experience with samba3 on a X86_64 system. Are there any significant performance benefits ? cheers Stephan

.... actually reading through the source code or something? Just some reading I wouldn't mind taking the time to do; the more I can familiarize myself with the internals of samba, the better admin I may become :) -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/

...ems with MS Excel and Word running on samba 3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is a production environment). ... Will advise and let you know if the problems persist, or if we find any new ones. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/

...eate/save files with the permissions as expressed (group read/write/[execute for dir]). Thereby allowing all members of 'groupname' to access any file put in the share by any other user in the same group. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/ -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+nvidican=wmptl.com@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+nvidican=wmptl.com@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Laing Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:48 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Problems saving Excel sheets using Office...

Hey all, We're having some trouble saving Excel documents on our Samba Fileserver. We are moving people over to our Samba box, and have moved most of our documents over. Now, we have people opening their Excel documents, but are unable to save them. When something is saved, we see this message: Your changes could not be saved to 'document.xls', but were saved to a temporary document

...re are a few clients (namely dos machines mostly), which are not on the samba domain and use the same physical network to access a novell Netware Server via IPX, however all windows clients use tcp/ip exclusively. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Heads up everyone: Due to the win98 explorer bug (https://bugzilla.samba.org/bug/2501), we will be release 3.0.13 on Thursday morning, March 24 (GMT-6). So if you have any outstanding bugs in the 3.0.12 that we should know about, let us know now. Please file any defect reports at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Thanks. cheers, jerry

Subject isn't exactly samba, but samba people usually know a lot about windows bat scripting. Here's my problem: Currently our domain login script is doing this (among other things): ifmember.exe "WINDOWS-DOMAIN\Projects" if errorlevel 1 ( net use p: \\server1\projects ) This works fine. The problem is I'm moving the projects storage to a different server called server 2

...preciated, if more information is required just let me know, figured before I spun wheels I'd make note of what's going on first. We're running two samba servers using ldap backend for domain/users/etc. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/