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We run Samba on our internal LAN (about 20 workstations, mostly XP), and until last night, we were using 2.2.6. I've since updated to 3.0b1, hoping to fix some *very* strange XP weirdness we're seeing. The one XP Home client works just fine. But of the rest (all XP Pro), we get some erratic behaviour -- some people can't print, some people take ages to mount drives, and some people

I've just moved our current Samba installation to LDAP (to try to combat some other issues), and I've run into a large number of problems. One of them is that I'm quite new to LDAP. I've made our entries to be: organizationalPerson inetOrgPerson posixAccount sambaSamAccount I know that the 'Samba (v3) PDC LDAP howto' is out of date, and the Samba

Hello, I am trying to setup a network of 5 XP computers with roaming profiles. I've got a profile set up on the server and I can log on. The problem is that the log in time takes about 10 mins and the log out takes just as long. Here is a link to the log file from the samba server. I have made comments on it to show what is happening on the terminal.

So, with the updated HAL, I'm now able to negotiate an IP address via DHCP over the WLAN. Huzzah! But I've got two questions (now that I can use the card): ath(4) doesn't contain a list of media nor mediaopt settings that can be used. Some are detailed down in EXAMPLES, but there's no comprehensive list. (As well, and this is minor, the speeds are explicitly listed for 802.11a

I've just updated a low-volume fileserver to 5.4-stable (as of Sep 13), and ever since, whenever I try to move or copy a directory onto one of its NFS shares, it causes a crash. I do not have a crash dump (no dumpdev enabled, unfortunately), but I can reproduce it quite easily. The client is a 6.0-BETA3 machine, but I have no other NFS clients to test from (easily). Is this something known

We're in the midst of setting up a Samba 3 system as our PDC. I come from a Samba 2 world, where the passdb backend was smbpasswd. What's the ... er, 'best' passdb backend at this point? To qualify best, there's no limitations on the type of storage used (LDAP, MySQL, XML, etc). I'm just looking for something that's going to make integration with a 2000/XP domain

We're in the midst of setting up some XP workstations and came across a rather large security problem... Essentially, when bob logs into a workstation (samba acting as the PDC), then alice logs onto the workstation, alice can peruse bob's [homes] share. Anyone know how I would go about disabling this? I'm at a complete loss -- the only thing I could think of was the Cached Logon

I tried updating the BIOS on my K8WE (S2895) yesterday to 1.03, but after the update, FreeBSD (RELENG_6 dated March 26) would randomly freeze after booting. As I was updating from v1.01, I suspect it may be the updates to the nVidia SATA firmware that caused the issue, as things generally froze shortly after the background fsck processed kicked in (with, obviously, the exception of the first

We've just set up an internal domain, and had a single XP Pro machine join without any difficulties. But we need this machine (and the other handful with it) to use Roaming Profiles, which is posing something of a speed issue. I have logged on, killed the 'You do not own the profile' tidbit, fixed up permissions, and finally gotten XP to read the profile from the SAMBA server

I really don't know where to start on this one... We have an XP Pro workstation. The user on this workstation is, say, 'bob'. Earlier this year, bob would log in to his workstation with a different password than was on the Samba machine. I /think/ that's what's causing the problems, but I'm not sure. Anyhow, we had specifically mapped drives on bob's workstation

Hi, I have a Samba print share set up, with a "print command" specified that just cats the file to /dev/ulpt0. This share is accessed by the guest Samba account, which I have set to be the 'smbguest' username. I can manually run the print command as root, and the file prints. I can manually run the print command as 'smbguest' (through sudo) and the file prints.

Hi, I am playing around with automatic printer driver download to Windows 2000 clients from Samba 2.2.8a-1 which doesn't seem to work. Whenever I right-click on the printer and say "connect", it displays: The server on which the printer resides does not have the correct printer driver installed..... Here is my smb.conf file: [Global] workgroup = DEBIAN_FANS load printers = yes

I am new to Samba, but not to Linux. I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I have installed Samba and it appears to be working, at least as far as I have tested it. However, I have hit a snag in my testing. I have searched Google for several hours but I have not found a solution. On a Linux machine (named "annwn") running Fedora Core 6, I have set up a share, using

Hey, everyone. I'm running Samba 2.2.8a on a Debian Linux 3.0 box and for some reason, when someone tries to delete something they can't, it does give them the access denied message the first time. When they try to do it again, no message appears and it seems to be deleted (it disappears from the list), but when they refresh the list, it appears again. My file system is as follows

I've just found out that Samba (rather correctly) implements a nice and low password expiry date through the tdbsam backend, and I believe the "maximum password age" value. However, I can't, for the life of me, actually /set/ this thing. I've tried this: # pdbedit -u <username> -r -P "maximum password age" -C 100 And without the -r, and with various

Hey, I had a problem with rebooting XP and joining the samba domain, which was controlled by my gentoo linux box. I worked for days for a solution, and found it....!!!! The problem was that I could join the domain fine, but had to reboot, and then found i was rejected from joining then. It appeared like the domain was invisible to the XP box. I pulled my hair out, scoured the web

Samba 3.0.2a-Debian I have a somewhat working PDC server, but have some difficulties adding more users. I managed to create a user, anna, a couple of days ago, it she works fine from my wireless laptop. To sort out some problems I have with the logon.bat script [see sambalist "Netlogon script executes randomly"], I am also including my desktop computer to the domain. I've run

I've been trying to get Platypus (the ISP billing software by Boardtown) working under wine on-and-off for the past couple of months. Last time I checked, there were some Visual FoxPro problems. Those have now been resolved, but I get an 'insufficient memory' error as soon as Plat tries to contact the SQL database. Has anyone gotten it to work under wine yet? Anything I should

Maybe this has been asked many times, but I could not find it in the list archive (in this case could someone please address me to the right thread?) I've an XP professional client (SP1) connected to a 2.2.7a samba server running on a redhat 6.2 box (kernel 2.2.22). I can log on and access samba shares, but the XP box keeps losing these connections. Log file just tell me that:

Hey, I worked for days on this, and I want to share the solution I stubled across. I got this error message from my wife XP laptop: "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, contact your system administrator for