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FYI:, I'm fairly new to samba (a couple of months now), and have experimented - unsuccessfully - with getting it to work with clearcase. Does anyone have a how-to, or a list of gotcha's for setting up clearcase with samba? Thanks in advance for any information you can send me. Ozzie,

Is there a way to have users of the samba server, but not add them by smbpasswd -a <UserID>? I want the samba server to be a domain member and the users to only authentic from the PDC. These are the steps that I have attempted: Users are in both the Windows domain and the UNIX NIS account 1. smbpasswd -j <Domain> -r PDC -U <admin> Joined the Domain 2. edited the

Is there a way to have users of the samba server, but not add them by smbpasswd -a <UserID>? I want the samba server to be a domain member and the users to only authentic from the PDC. These are the steps that I have attempted: Users are in both the Windows domain and the UNIX NIS account 1. smbpasswd -j AM -r PDC -U <admin> Joined the AM Domain 2. edited the smb.conf

I found the following link: http://rhems.sourceforge.net/ was wondering if anyone knows anything about it. ------------------------------------------- Chris McKeever If you want to reply directly to me, please use cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com http://www.prupref.com ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com

If anyone has time to look at this problem I would appreciate it. I think I am looking for a way to increase the "timeout" in samba (in the smb.conf file) for reporting a "down" link or "can't read xyz file". However I am writing to you folks because this problem has come up while using rsync my problem ========== We have a wan in which links from a

Hi Sean, > smbpasswd > Old SMB password: > New SMB password: > Retype new SMB password: > machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The > specified password is invalid. > Failed to change password for testuser We have exactly the same problem with Samba v2.2.8a. We found out that the password change process works if you set "unix password sync =

I am wondering if there is anyone out there that I can bounce some questions off of in regards to setting this up. I have a wireless network side that I want connect to the secure side wireless(XP) ---------> access-point----(wired-nic-1)----tinc-server------(nic-2-wired)-----secure network wireless(XP) ---------> if anyone has any suggestions or

using samba and ldap - redhat 7.3 trying to work on a short cgi to update samba password (it is a url with attributes username and password). I am not very good at all with perl, so if someone can take a quick ponder and help me out, that would be great. I think that it fails in theory however, because to change other users password, you need to be root ... So I was wondering if anyone knows

Sorry for all the newbie questions... I could have sworn I saw something about a utility that exports the SAM database from NT into Linux.. seems like it is the lego syndrome, saw it while doing WINBIND searches, can't find it elsewise...anyway...could someone point me in the right direction? I want to export my users from NT to linux with passwords....if that is impossible, I also have all

Samba 3.0.9 SUSE 9.1 have a semi-working point-n-print server working, however when I try to add the drivers for a BROTHER 1850, windows explorer seems to crash and then when I try to edit the properties I get a protection fault error I can successfully add the printer (right click CONNECT) to other machines, but it doesnt print and it just fails with properties dialog as well thanks --

SUSE 9.1 samba-3.0.9-2.6 samba-client-3.0.9-2.6 I am getting some errors that I can't seem to track down in any of the archives. I came across this problem when trying to delete a driver none of the printers are listed in the smb.conf - it is all being generated from the cups and the printcap that cups makes on load First enumprinters works: rpcclient $> enumprinters

I had a working Samba installation on my home network. Then I replaced one printer with another. The new printer is successfully installed on my RedHat 9.0 system on /dev/lp0. It is an Epson C82. From the RedHat system all is well. However, I am unable to print to this printer via Windows XP boxes on my network. Samba is working to the extent that Windows can find these printers via

Linux RH 7.3, Samba 2.2.7a NT 4.0 SP6 - Backup Exec 8.5 The linux box is running the Backup Exec client for Unix ('http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/192093.htm') Occasionally, when doing a backup the entire linux system freezes. I have to do a hard reboot without a shutdown, etc. There is 40 plus gigs on the backup, so I dont think a tar and copy would be bery efficient. I am

Is there a trash can, or a way to add one, so that if a user deletes a file off the share it just goes away until a nightly purge is done? Thanks, Robert

I am setting up a SuSe Linux Enterprise 8 server with samba ldap. SuSe comes with samba 2.*.* rpm. I need to reconfigure samba to add --with-ldapsam, so I need to remake the rpm, but i don't know where the samba.spec file is in SuSe. Also if any has been successfull setting up SAMBA LDAP, can you please send me information on how to accomplish this. Thank you

I have a Samba PDC server running on Fedora Core. I also have 3 samba print servers and 1 samba file server setup on RedHat 9 machines. How do I make my RedHat file and print servers to get user information from the PDC so I don't have to set up users on every single server? I appreciate your help! Ambex --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new

It is way too late to be wrestling with this, but being the obsessive compulsive I am..... I can not get an XP machine to join a samba-ldap domain The machine account has been made The XP registry and local policies have been set I continue to get 'specified domain does not exist' I have gone in circles nad can't figure a thing out! If anyone is out there right now (3:49 CST) and

Hi. I'm entering in Samba's world and I need help with this. An Nt4.0 client was upgraded to XP PRO, and Win does not connect to domain (before upgrade worded fine), windows registry was modificated as samba howto explains. This is my smb.conf file of samba v. 2.0.7. Thanks, thanks, thanks. Dr Jekyll [global] ############## workgroup = X security = user status = yes

Samba PDC is up and running. We are not using roaming profiles. My problem is this. How do we make the administrator account have administrative priv's locally on the client PC when they login on the DOMAIN? What is happening now is that when the Administrator logs in it just makes a domain accoutn for the Administrator locally but this new account does not have actualy administrator

When I set: wins support = yes time server = yes my wins service stops working and no computers show up in the network neighborhood..as soon as I change time server = no, they start to re-populate. I have looked around and havent found a definitive answer (apologies if I overlooked it)... but if someone could tell me if this is a documented issue, or just me that woudl be great Thanks