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hi, i've been trying for like two weeks to figure out why samba doesn't run properly. from the logs it looks like smbd will start followed by nmbd. then nmbd will exit for no apparent reason. i'm able to start samba manually with the command '/etc/init.d/samba start'. right now i'm assuming nmbd is the reason why samba doesn't load. i'm running samba version

Hi. I got this email-address from BUGS.txt file of the samba distribution. I read it carefully. I got configured and working samba, I work with samba above one year. I still have a problem, and, according to the samba log output, I think it's probably a bug. When I try to use the shares with audit support, I have my Far disconnected and telling me that something is wrong. I have that

hi, i've been trying for like two weeks to figure out why samba doesn't run properly. from the logs it looks like smbd will start followed by nmbd. then nmbd will exit for no apparent reason. i'm able to start samba manually with the command '/etc/init.d/samba start'. right now i'm assuming nmbd is the reason why samba doesn't load. i'm running samba version

Hi Sunmanagers I still have a problem with my samba printing mechanism. When I log on some windows machines it will not print. I have found out that when I print from some machines while the print queu is stopped then the jobs are saved there as root. When I print from other machines they are saved as my name. I can print from dos by using echo something > \\server\printer. I can print with

Hello all, After upgrading to 3.0.23c on my FreeBSD 6.1 box Samba stopped working on any connections. When connecting to smbd, tcp session is established (SYN, SYN+ACK, ACK) then a client send a NEGOTIATION packet, and after some timeout (about 10-15 seconds) this tcp session is closed (by the client) because no response to NEG. packet was received. Then after 75 seconds (counting from the

Hello, i have installed the samba Version 2.0.7-2 on an UNIX-System with HP-UX 10.20 the HP-Patch PHCO_20441 is also installed. the connection as Fileserver with Windows 95 / NT is correctly the connection with Windows 2000 is not correct when i use the command "net use e: \\hp108020\hp_pc" is an error occured (this command is active from an batch at Windows-login) the translated

-- I have been through your diagnostics pages and FAQ, but I don't think it answers my question, or maybe because I am new to this, I just don't get understand. Well here goes: I have installed samba v2.0.7. I have tested several user accounts (From the NT domain "vortex") with mapping drives from the PC's (running Windows NT) with no problems at all. The problem I

I have a (mostly) windows environment into which I am attempting to integrate a SAMBA based printer server (Solaris 2.5.1 SPARC). I'm running SAMBA 1.9.18p10. I need the print server to do two things: 1. Perform as local network browser/WINS server for the local subnet it is on (10.255.8.128/27) 2. Register itself and clients on it's subnet with the browsers/WINS servers/whatever

Hi all, I was installing redhat Linux 9 some days back in my test machine. And later i tried to configure samba into that so that i could share my linux directories in windows machines. After the configurations are done i was able to see the linux machine in the Network Neighbourhood. when i click that linux machine there was an error message like this: //Local host is not

SAMBA WEIRD PRBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!! this is my environment: SERVER runnning Centos 3.1 with all the updates applied, sharing files using samba, rpm version 3.0.4, release 6.3E Clients running Mandrake 10.0 Download edition with all the patches applied, clients to the file server mentioned above. Samba is version 3.0.2a, release 3mdk Here is my server smb.conf files **********SMB.CONF START

Hey guys. I have been trying to get samba and LDAP with win2k SP3 clients to work together and have just not be able to get it to work. I followed the suggestion of adding a guest user to LDAP with an rid of 501, but it hasn't help. Here is what happens. If a user logs in and they don't have a profile the computer will save one to the server when they log out without any problems.

I have a persistant problem at a client site. This is the error I am getting in /var/log/messages: Dec 10 09:03:41 fileserver smbd[7652]: [2003/12/10 09:03:41, 0] lib/ util_sock.c:read_data(436) Dec 10 09:03:41 fileserver smbd[7652]: read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer No errors in log.smbd Here is the Layout: Three clients: Win2000 Win2000 WinXP Pro Server:

Hello. I have been looking through the archives of the lists and I didn't find what I was looking for so I figured that I will post what my problem and maybe one of you gurus can give me a hand with it. I have Windows 2000 SP3 clients that are joined to a domain with the samba server acting as PDC. I am using samba 2.2.7a compiled with ldapsam support and I am storing all user

when i try to copy a folder 2MB size containing many files and folders it takes me abt 20min long , while if i copy one whole sole 12MB pdf file it takes me 10 mostly. why? my config file: ========================= # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable

hi. i am rani ahmed, a palestinian (superlinux if u recall). i use redhat 9.0 and samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0. i know that i should update my samba but i dont think my problem has to do with updating. the file given is my samba config file. btw: i think ur software is better than microsoft's file sharing. i mean that scientifically. i am using DNS server (named). my unix domain is superlinux.com

I'm running Samba 3.0.4 with Kerberos 5 v 1.3.4. I'm accessing Win2k shares from the Samba box without a hitch, but whenever I try to open up Samba shares on the Win2K clients, I get a password prompt. If I access the shares via the IP address of the Samba machine, there's no problem. I don't know if this is relevant, but my Win2k PDC is showing the following error on a

i try to configure samba 3 as NT4 BDC or domain member with a whitebox linux i follow http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/docs/s/samba30/htmldocs/howto/NT4Migration.html but get following error [root@whitebox root]# net rpc join -S serveur -w LSCOT -U Administrateur%xxx Joined domain LSCOT. [root@whitebox root]# net rpc vampire -S serveur -U Administrateur%xxx Fetching DOMAIN database Failed to fetch

Hey guys... I've been beating my brains out trying to determine the cause of this problem, read tons of stuff online but have not been able to make any headway. My RH9 server bit the dust and I had to completely rebuild it. Built it as a Fedora Core 2 server running Samba version 3.0.3-5 and re-imported my old smb.conf file, smbpasswd file and such. Re-created my share and gave it 777

Hello. My configuration is a RHS 7.1, samba 2.0.7, Win Me 4.90.3000. My smb.conf file: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from vincent (192.168.0.2) # Date: 2001/11/26 11:50:51 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = EVISTEL netbios name = SERVER server string = Samba Server encrypt passwords = Yes ssl CA certFile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt debug level = 3 log file =

Hi there. This is with regards to samba-3.0.23c, on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p12 Previously I had Samba up and running without any problems. Then I decided to do a tiny upgrade by simply switching to a new motherboard, while keeping all other hardware and software aspects the same. However, after the upgrade, netbios name resolution seems to have stopped working somehow. \\servername lookups no