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We have a few win9x workstations, that have spurious login problems. They get the message: No domain server was available to validate your password you may not be able to gain access to some network resources. The passwords are definetly correct and the problem will sometimes disappear after 5 - 10 retries, but almost always after a full restart of the win9x PC, very occasionally it takes as

Hi All, Is there a way (speak command/wsh script) that allows a win9x workstation that is logged into a samba domain server (running onlinux for example) to see from the workstation what owner a certain file or directory has? Under win2k the "dir /q" command does this adequately. And if this is possible, is it then possible for someone to change the ownership of a file to another

Hi folks, Is there any software metering hints and tricks that people could give me? We would like to implement something that woudl allow us to only allow a limited number of concurrent connections to some programs in samba shares. Please don't be afraid to respond back with the obvious answers as I seem to miss them. Urs RAU

I am trying to use 'wpkg' omn win xp sp2 machine, a windows package installer service, to access shares on my domain server. 'Wpkg' is running as a local service on a windows xp box that is joined to a domain, and I would like this local 'wpkg' service that is running with local systems rights to access files on a samba domain share. I have played with a number of options

I am using 3.0.13 and have temporarily run out of disk space on the main samba server, so I have NFS mounted some space from another machine. into a directory that is accessible under samba. When I try to save directly from ms word 2003 sp1 (and same from word 2000) it tells me: on the win98se and win xp pro sp2 clients: "Microsoft Office Word" Word cannot complete the save due to

You could do what we do - just replace the local machine policies each time you rev the policy set. They're stored in c:\windows\system32\grouppolicy. Using gpscript.exe (Google for it, don't have a specific site) you can dump the contents of either registry.pol file to text. You can also recombine textfiles back into a .pol file, and subsequently rev the gpt.ini file so your new .pol

Samba admins, I have stumbled across a FREE & interesting utility that allows one to create Policy Templates straight from an registry export "*.reg" (unicode or ansi), thank you Yizhar Hurwitz. http://www.new-ofek.co.il/yizhar/ Hope somebody else finds this usefull too. Urs Rau PS: Now if anybody knows of a unix commandline util/script that creates both User and Machine

Sorry to those of you that have received duplicates of my messages over the easter weekend. I had subscribed to the nntp server of my isp (pipex uk) and searched for "samba" it showed a few hits but "gmane.network.samba.general" showed as containing no posts but "mailing.unix.samba" showed a bit more than 20'000 so I subscribed to that and sent a slurr of

I much regret in many ways having to ask this question below. But our business needs now demand more than we think we can deliver using open source software exclusively. What is the best way to 'suck up' all of the domain group and user data from a current samba 3.0.21a PDC into a microsoft windows 2003 server? We have two basic needs that demand we now introduce active directory servers

Is there a switch or config setting somewhere that would allow me to start up more than the default 4 xen DomU instances? I am finding that the CentOS 5 (x86_64) installation only allows me to start up 4 virtual machines at a time. (It is definetly not a lack of cpu resources, memory or disk space.) Any help or pointers, would be much appreciated. Regards, -- Urs Rau

On win XP Pro workstations it would be so convenient if the domain logon script which is stored on the samba pdc could be made to run with Administrative (or System) privileges. I know that I can interactively run another security context by choosing "run as user" but how could I achieve this non-interactively and domain wide whilst a "limited account" is loggin in? Thanks

Urs & Mike, If you install the NT server tools for Win9x from off the NT server CDROM - I think you can probably download these also - this gives you the explorer shell extension. It gives your a security-permission/ownership dialog. This will probably work for Win95 now but I'm not too sure. I know that in the last couple of days the user manager app for 95 will now work correctly.

Does the following setup have any chance of ever working without to many problems? Our mix of ~ 40 workstations (win98se & xp pro) get the home drive mapped in the netlogon script when connecting into the domain for win9x net use h: \\linux\homes for win xp net use h: \\linux\homes /persistent:no relevant sections of our redhat 7.3 w/ samba 2.2.8 smb.conf are: [global] ;; server name

For historic reasons we have a DOMAIN name of 'WORKGROUP' on our one server only samba PDC. Now that we have upgradced to 3.0.25 We would like to change this to something more sensible, but are concerned what the consequences will be for the Win XP Pro workstations that are currently joined to this domain. which of the following scenarios will we likely face after the change? scenario

When exactly did the samba meaning/returns for "logon path" and "logon home" change? (at which version?) We used to have a system that appeared to be working well and it was as follows logon script = logon.bat logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = h: logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile domain logons = Yes and the [profiles] share had the following [profiles]

Looking at the warnings about not running samba 4 (tp3) in a working environment, because of the missing file printing features make me wonder if one could get away with only using the AD controller features of samba 4 for now and have a samba 3.x DC, that has joined the samba 4 controlled Active Directory domain, handle the file and print sharing. How much of an issue would the missing samba4

I have a samba problem on a redhat 9 box that appears to be clearly linked to a new kernel 2.4.22nptl when using "kernel oplocks = yes". I am trying to install a printer driver on a win98se box that tries loading the driver files from a share on the 2.2.8a server. The installation fails as win98se cannot read all the files as it would like to. I have two things I can do to avoid the

What I would like to achieve is having a symlink under a mapped share on my main server (called linux) which would transparently read or write the data stored under that dir across the network to another samba server (called backup). What I have done sofar. I have one main samba server called "linux" that is the PDC and one backup samba server called "backup" that has

I cannot print across my subnets using microsoft win9networking. I have two subnets 192.168.0 & 192.168.1 of which the linux running samba server is the router using two ethernet cards . Workstations on both subnets share their printers from win95. Win95 machines from both sides of the subnet can telnet to both ethernet cards on the server and can also ping all machines across the two

Maybe my printers being offline with samba 3.0.13 on some xp pro workstations is not a bug after all, maybe it was a (mis)feature in samba-2.2? My problem is that I can't easily test on < 3.0.13, because until a few days ago I had been running 2.2.12 and all was fine, then. No printers showed as offlne. But then I upgraded to 3.0.7 for a day or two immediately followed by an upgrade to