similar to: Interminttant trouble with DFS shares on XP clients and 2.2.8a

Hi all, I'm using Samba 3.0.6 (on IRIX 6.5). This is just a 'let you know what I've discovered' message really. I've just installed upgrade a laptop here to SP2 of Windows XP. It then started failing to make network connections. After much fiddling about, I tracked it down to DFS shares. This PC can now connect to the DFS root OKay, but doesn't recognise the entries

Hi all, I'm trying to get a Samba server (which is a member of a Samba controlled domain) to store WinXP Pro user's profiles. The XP user is authenticating against a 2003 Active Directory server, which then tells it to store it's profile on my Samba server. The 'profiles' share exists and is writeable and under some circumstances we can get profiles to be stored there,

Hi all, Looking for a solution to the following:- # smbpasswd -x jh--- build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! username jh--- with uid 1774 is not in unix passwd database! Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user jh---. Does this user exist in the UNIX password database ? Failed to modify password entry for user jh--- # Ths user has already been deleted from the /etc/passwd (in

Hi all, Can you use Samba to store an XP Pro profile? I'm running Samba 3.0.2a (compiled from source) on Solaris 9. Compiled it against OpenLDAP 2.1.30 and MIT Kerberos 1.3.3 (both compiled from source from fresh downloads today). Am now trying to get Windows XP Pro to store profiles on to this box. The smbd and nmbd seem to run fine. Every time XP Pro goes to create a user's

Hi all, I'm running 3.0.6 on IRIX 6.5 (compiled from sources) Runs fine for almost all purposes. But I thought I'd have a look at the extra Samba-3 printing facilites today, and they've thrown up some real issues. 1st point. I still haven't managed to get to the bottom of this one, but I can't always add a printer drive to a Samba-served printer. I've been

Hi there, And thank you for your info. Most useful. The problem is that the time is WRONG on one of your machines. Let me explain how. > > C:\Documents and Settings\rr> echo. |time > > The current time is: 16:14:53.89 > Enter the new time: Your PC thinks it is 16:14 this is fine. > > ok TIMEZONE = (GMT +5.00) iSLAMABAD KARACHI, TASKHENT So your PC is in a

Hi all, I'm extremely puzzled by the behaviour of one of my Samba servers. It's been working fine for yonks, and this morning (abuout 11:32) it just stopped. (mostly) Connecting to shares still works. Navigating the tree till works. Changing (DOS) attributes still works. But actually opening files and reading the contents doesn't work. The client just times out (Win 3.11, and

Thank you very much, it was the setting on the RS6000. Whoever originally setup our box didn't specify the BST time offset correctly. The system was reading TZ=GMT0BST0,M3.5.0,M10.5.0 Thanks to everyone that contributed to solving a simple and obvious error !!!! :) Mike ________________________________________________________________________________________ >From "John Ryan"

Hi, I'm am trying to configure our samba server to use dfs. It authenticates against active directory but it gets the uid mappings from nis via the local nsswitch. I think I have configured dfs ok as smbclient[1] seems to work ok with my minimal config[2]. However I can't access it from Windows XP[3], I get "network path was not found" when using "net use" from a

Hi all, I've been working (hard) on password sync (with NIS) here and it's now ready to roll. However, there's a problem. If I use '% smbpasswd -r nnpdc' from the UNIX command line, then the password change program runs as root and the NIS gets updated. If I use 'c:\> net password \\nnpdc' (from an Win98 box) then the password change program runs as the user

Hi All, We appear to have a CUPS problem that is breaking our (LPRng) based printing. We now have loads of errors of the form:_ [2007/03/08 12:21:36, 0, pid=23877] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused filling up the log.smbd file We using printing=lprng in smb.conf, and there isn't (nor has there ever been) any

Hi all, We're at the preliminary stages of investigating this, but I can't find any references to it on a Google etc. Anyway. We've just moved from 3.0.6 to 3.0.13 and users report a file being missing. On investigation it turns out that (as far as we could tell in a 5 minute minor panic) the last file in a directory is not included in a wildcard search. (last file is defined

Hi all, We're still suffering here with odd performance issues on our Samba 3.0.24 install here on our big chunky Solaris 9 box. The user perceived issue is slow performance (whilst browsing in Windows Explorer, or opening files from within applications etc.etc.) The obvious symptom on the server is a collection of smbd's at the top of the 'top' listing. 4 or 5 or so taking

Hi all,. I'm getting this:- [2002/03/08 10:26:28, 8] lib/util.c:(1274) fcntl_lock 6 34 0 1 2 [2002/03/08 10:26:28, 8] lib/util.c:(1314) fcntl_lock: Lock call successful [2002/03/08 10:26:28, 5] tdb/tdbutil.c:(475) tdb((NULL)): tdb_brlock failed (fd=7) at offset 4 rw_type=2 lck_type=6 [2002/03/08 10:26:28, 5] smbd/connection.c:(156) claiming 0 [2002/03/08 10:26:28, 0]

Hi all, We've recently upgraded our main production Samba server (Solaris 9) to 3.0.24 (compiled from source) We're now getting a spate of problesm which look like:- [2007/03/19 12:02:11, 3, pid=436] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(691) NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2 2600] NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[] [2007/03/19 12:02:11, 3, pid=436]

Hi all, Am I the only person to have fallen over the following 'gotcha' ? Upgraded to 1.9.18p8 from 19.9.17p5 on Friday. Came in this morning to discover all Printing had died. Eventually tracked this down to the 'printcap name' setting in Samba jad changed. It default was '/etc/printcap' (it must have been as printing was fine up 17p5 and all previous versions).

Hi all, 'Using Samba' (and it's companion 'Pocket Reference') both say that the default for the 'writable' option in smb.conf is 'YES'. But, http://ie.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html says the default is 'no'. Which is right? Mac Assistant Systems Adminstrator @nibsc.ac.uk

elsewhere in the file, which I doubt) the problem probably lies with printcap. Your smb.conf looks OKay (except for the 'path' mentioned above). >This is Printcap: >This Works. ># HP DeskJet 1220c printer: >HP1220c:sd=/var/spool/lpd/HP1220c:rw:sh:rm=hp1220c:rp=raw: > >This doesn't work. ># HP OfficeJet K80:

Hi all, I'm running Samba 1.9.18p8 on an SG Challenge (L) with IRIX 5.3 Every so often (maybe once a month (ish)) samba goes mad, and we get loads and loads of 'smbd' processes created which fill up the process table, causing many 'fork() failed: too many processes' errors. Eventually, with a slice of luck we can get to execute a 'kill' command on them and the

Hi there, I've just tripped over a problem I thought only existed in WfWg3.11. On Win95 clients connecting to a 1.9.18p8 Samba server (IRIX 5.3) the first logon dialog box seems to have a problem with mixed-case passwords. If I have a lower case password, then I can just enter it in the Win95 'Microsoft Network' logon dialog at startup, and all the shares are reconnected. If I