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Just a few quick questions: If I make changes to smb.conf, do I need to restart the SMB and NMB services, or is it like Vixie Cron, where it'll re-read the file and adapt changes every minute? Why do I have multiple NMB instances running, but only one SMB? Thanks for the help! Aton

Hello, I have a mixed network of 98 and 2000 machines with RH 7.3 and Samba 2.2.5 The problem I'm having is my logon scripts contain a drive map to the user's home directory: net use H: \\server01\dave$ That works great for the 98 machines, but the 2000 machines map H: and Z: to \\server01\dave$ The 2000 machines also write a profile dirctory in that share, and copy the entire desktop

Hello. Whenever I attach a 2000 Pro workstation to a Samba server, a directory is created under the user's home directory called "profile", and the local profile syncs with this directory. Its not usually bothersome until someone leaves 2 GIG of data on their desktop and when they logoff, Windows syncs the entire 2 GIG of data to the server. How do I disable this? Attaching a 2000

Hi all, I am attempting to get Sage to support their software if the files are on Samba (Linux). They (like a lot of people I've heard) say "We don't support Linux, Goodbye." even when the client is on Win98/NT. We have been having trouble on a particular site, and they refuse to support Sage Line 50 if the files are on Linux which is absurd, because Linux is much more

Hello. I've got a Windows 2000 Pro Sp2 client using Samba 2.2.4-2 on Red Hat Linux 7.3. I've ran chmod 777 * +R on the directory that samba shares; sharing is set as 'share' security. Lots of times, when I move video files from my local hard drive on the Windows 2000 machine to the samba share (mapped to a drive letter, not a UNC), I get an "Access denied, the source file may

I'm getting the following error when I'm trying to do just `./configure; make` with the latest versions of rsync (both 2.6.7 and 2.6.8pre1): gcc -I. -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -c lib/compat.c -o lib/compat.o lib/compat.c:171: error: conflicting types for `inet_aton' /usr/include/arpa/inet.h:74: error: previous declaration of `inet_aton' make: *** [lib/compat.o] Error 1

I have a Samba 3.5 server running on Ubuntu 10.10 I'm have it the server on my Windows 2003 Domain but am having trouble setting up the ACL's. I can set some of my ACL's for users but it doesn't alwasy stick and apparently giving a user the modify right automatically gives them Full user rigths. This is probably related but it refuses to let me give any of my domain users any

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HI 2 ALL, I am a 22 year old student from Holland. I'm trying to implement a HP3000 to a LAN(Windows 4 Workgroups 3.11). I Have 3 questions for the experts: - Can anyone tell me how I can name my HP3000 machine 'BIGSERVER' (when I try to PING BIGSERVER, ping does'nt recognize it) - When I try to start SMBD, I receive the following message: SAMBA: PROPER TZ RECOMMENDED -

Hello all: Here's the problem [on a RH7 running kernel 2.2.17-14 with Samba 2.0.7-21ssl and xinetd-2.1.8.9pre14]: http://localhost:901 does bring up the SWAT login dialog box.. but upon entering root as the user, followed by my root passwd in the next entry... it tells me "Authentication failed. Retry?" I can tell you that I did enter the correct root passwd, because I am root

I use Samba 2.2.0 on small network. I use "security = user" and "username map" to map some Win-users to unix users. I have simple testing file with username mapping: root = vlad It is supposed that when I connect to samba as user "Vlad" with vlad's password I get the root's rigths to shares. Right? But when I try to connect to samba as "vlad"

On a server that has been running smoothly since it was setup, and with no changes to configurations or network or anything, users cannot save a shared QuickBooks file. they have been regularly using, updating and saving to this file for a few months. All users are able to create and update other files in the same share. I have not confirmed if they are able to create and update new QuickBooks

Hi, I've got an interesting problem with my Samba 3.0.2a on Debian Woody. I've created the Domain Admins group as I could read in the documentation, and I added a user to this group called "star". If I login to a Windows 2000 workstation, which is a member of the domain, I can login, but I don't have administrator rights on this workstation. The Domain Admins group is a

Hi, got an account on samba 3.0.14/ldap with the following rigths: jvriesman@hermes:~$ net rpc rights list jvriesman SeAddUsersPrivilege When I do a: jvriesman@hermes:~$ net rpc user ADD tgebruiker Failed to add user tgebruiker - NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED The weird thing is that the user is added, so net says "access denied", but the user is added. I've attached the output of

Dear All, I search for the packages of samba for GNU/Debian sarge with acl compiled inside. In fact I did try the 2 links provided by the web site but it still doesn't work ACL and Samba 2.0.23c (samba.org and entreprisesamba.org). This is an upgrade from the 3.0.14a, with this version the ACL support was ok. No it doesn't work anymore (Samba only see the basic rigths). Regards,

This is my third mail in the last three months and still no-one has answered, while I received some comments from other users about the fact that the problem is known. So if you have any info on how to fix this, please post a message :-) Here is the problem: I used to share a vfat mounted partition with other collegues through samba (2.0.7). Everything worked and still works fine with kernel

I have an existing email system and I'm trying to addapt dovecot into it. It uses the linuxconf virtual email format. The way it is set up is there there are multiple passwd/shadow files - one for eact domain. They are in standard format. The names of these files are: /etc/vmail/passwd.domain.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain.com I tried this: auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/passwd.%d

Hello, I have installed a Samba 3.0.24 with LDAP. I have the following problem when I want to run the XP ACL Editor on a file in shared directory, I always have the same reponse : it can't write authorization changes. Acces denied. The directory involved is a local directory /home/samba/partage and it have the following rigths : 0777 Here is my smb.conf :[global] workgroup = sc

Hi there Our company is using the Linksys SPA-942 Phones, and they are pretty useless. They dont have any central management or provisioning, as well as a pretty bad interface. Can anyone reccomend any voip phones( Cisco, Polycom, SNOM ) that have * Central Management for all the phones (We dont mind if we have to buy the software to manage them) * Programable shortcut buttons, So i can

Having a hard time figuring out something that is supposed to be easy. Tryiong to configure Dovecot so that it provides authentication to Exim for outgoing smtp. Tried different things and getting authentication socket protocol error dovecot_plain: driver = dovecot public_name = PLAIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client server_set_id = $auth1 auth default { # Space