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I was just wondering why does samba look for Desktop.ini when i am mapping to my home directory from w2k running samba 2.2.5 on sol2.6 , client is w2k am troubleshooting an weird issue where am not able to see all my unix home directory files on w2k log level10 is showing me that samba is looking for Desktop.ini could this be cousing something weired. thanks in advance

I really appreciate all your responses on this. I might not have fixed it by looking at samba logs but i noticed there was directory in user unix directory with wildcard * as folder name once i removed it, samba showed up all the files and directory. am not sure what would * as folder name caused this behaviour may be samba was trying to interpret * as something else not sure...... or it was

Hi Folks, I'm trying out some ideas for loadbalancing Samba servers with some replication underneath. Right now, we're trying to use DNS round robin, just to see if it works, but it isn't. Our basic config is that we have the same share and NMB server name on every node. Each node has a different IP hostname, which are all round-robin'ed to a single hostname. When we try to

Hi Am noticing smbd processes are running as root and occassionally I see a child process as userid Just curios under what circumstances the smbd runs as user id process ( unix id ) and running as root is a security risk? Thanks in advance -Abdul

Hi, I'd like to reduce the size of the samba binaries. smbd for instance is about 1.5 meg, which is way to much if you ask me. Is there a way to create smaller binaries, maybe by compiling differently? thanx, Dennis ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com

Hi anybody knows the difference between SMB that samba is based on and CIFS that microsoft owns. Windows 2k is based on CIFS right? what version and what is Samba 2.2.5 is based on ? SMB or CIFS thanks in advance

Hola folks, How do I configure a share under Samba 2.2 using DOMAIN security to allow all members of a specified NT domain group access to a particular share? For example, something like: [test] comment = Test Share path = /mnt/share/test nt group = Nice-users, Wonderful Users Where Nice-users and Wonderful Users are NT domain groups? So if User X is a member of Nice-users, she would be

I am running samba-2.0.7 on solaris 2.6 in domain mode Windows clients are 98/nt/w2k I was just wondering if 2.0.7 supports NTLMv2 I am asking this because lately some w2k clients are having issues with authentication... how do i check what if when client is requesting SMBnegprot to the server what NTLM version samba server is responding thanks Abdul Javid

Here is my scenario when a client wants to resolve a name on my local network: CLIENT --> VPN --> SAMBA --> DNS The client is set up like so: DNS1 = ISP DNS1 (204.26.64.1) DNS2 = ISP DNS2 (204.26.80.3) WINS1 = my samba1 (10.10.1.5) WINS2 = my samba2 (10.10.1.8) This all _seemed_ to have worked 3 days ago for roughly 6 months but stopped suddenly without me doing anything. When the

> Hi all, > Is samba implments CIFS. > I thought CIFS is based on SMB > am assuming SMB is opensource protocol > Just wondering if am running samba 2.2.5 does it mean am running CIFS > also what version of CIFS? > when i sniffing SMB packets which commands should i be looking at CIFS or SMB > > thanks in advance

Hello Guys, I am having some problems with configuring SAMBA with regards to performance. We are running SAMBA 2.2.3a on Dual PIII 1Ghz machines with 512MB of RAM. The server is running on a default server installation of Red Hat 7.2. We have a 500Gb RAID 5 drive using the Promise SX6000 Raid controller. Currently we are only getting a throughput of ~5MB/S for writes and ~13MB/S for reads.

Has any version of Samba been tested for compatibility with the new Windows Active Directory? We will be upgrading our NT domain to 2000 and creating Active Directory. Currently our solaris samba 2.0.7 server is configured to authenicate users from our NT domain controllers. Will we encounter problems with the 2000 upgrade? Thanks in advance, Cynthia --------------------------------- Do You

am exhausted for solving this. using samba2.0.7 and 2.2.5 in 5000 nis/nis+ and win2k domain environment samba member server in domain giving access to nfs home directories everything working smooth since last 3 years lately couple of users unix home directory are not completely listed when seen from windows explorer via samba. permission on unix home direcotry are 755 ( i changed to 777 to

Hi! I'm running a RedHat 7.2 server with Samba 2.2.3a - but recently I have a problem that mapped drives on Windows 2000 workstations get disconnected and have problems reconnecting (error message is something like "local device name already in use" when I try to browse the drive in Windows Explorer). Any idea what causes this problem ? Regards, /Brian

Hello, I have read over all of the FAQ's I could find, read all of the documnetation that I could find and still I cannot find an answer to the following problem. When I use the smbclient to check to see if Samba is working correctly I get the following response. This is running on Solaris 7 on a Sun box. If you need any other info please let me know. Any help would be very much

I've noticed that my W2K clients connect to Samba much more quickly if I run it on port 445 instead of 139. However, my WNT clients then won't connect at all. I read somewhere that it was possible to forward the requests on port 139 to port 445. Anyone know how to do this or how to listen to both ports simultaneously? Thanks, Jason Joines Open Source = Open Mind

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,

Hi! Just another question... I've an Samba-PDC (2.2.5 --with-ldapsam) - and of course a BDC (at least I hope that I get this running soon) with an LDAP-backend (users/machins/groups). If I want to create something like a "Subdomain" with some - but not all - of the LDAP-users, can this be done, and if how? for example if we have a domain EDU (for educational users - students

Hi all I wanted to send a message to users when they are mapping, to migrate to different samba server I am assuming preexec will do this, users are w2k clients, i would like w2k clients to get a message, like a popup windows box with message once they map to thier unix home directory how would i do that, does preexec will help me here thanks

Hi, We a re planning to migrate from the Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server to the Windows 2000 version sometime within the next few weeks. From the newsgroups and have gathered that the MULIPLEUSERSONCONNECTION registry option that allowed each connection from the Terminal Server to start a separate smb process has been disabled in the 2000 version. Is there any work arounds that can be done in