similar to: Likelihood of WINS Replication?

I've read that Samba can be a WINS server or a WINS client, but not both. However, wouldn't Samba, when acting as a WINS server also be a WINS client in the sense that it will examine its own WINS database for NETBIOS name resolution? It just wouldn't make sense if it didn't. Maybe the reference I read is more for the purpose of exposing the mutual exclusivity of the "WINS

Is it possible to disable all lookup protocols and only use DNS using samba when all hosts are w2k and a samba 3 domain controller? I am only saying this on the assumption that you can disable wins, netbios, nbt when using DNS and a Microsoft AD as a domain controller. If so what should the smb.conf file look like. thanks

My wins.dat seems to be rather out of date. I'm running Samba 2.2.2 as a wins server with dhcp. When the client address changes, Samba doesn't seem to update wins. The clients are Win2k & WinXP. In the manual page, it suggests that I shouldn't change the max/min ttl parameters. Can I hook dhcp to samba somehow? Rebooting the out of date clients triggered Samba to update

Hello, I am getting ready to migrate from a Novell Server and wanted to use Samba as a PDC. I am planning on using FreeBSD, Samba 3 and LDAP. The problem I encounter is that one of our business applications is only supported on Novell or Windows. What I was hoping to do was configure a Samba PDC and have a W2K server that houses that application join the Samba Domain. Then when I access the

Samba version 2.999+3.0cvs20020906-1 for Debian Somehow the Samba password is aging and is requiring a reset once a month for a couple of users. I can't see anything in the man pages to indicate that the passwords age, so how is Samba doing it, and how do I stop this behavior? One user is on Windows 2000 and the other on Windows XP. The Windows passwords are not aging and neither are

While reading various docs on Samba, there are notes that Samba can sync with other Samba WINS servers, but can not sync with a MS WINS server. Has anyone ever tried, and is there a reason why this doesn't work? ***************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for

Greetings ... A quick question more to confirm a few things reguarding SMB passwords, which I hope might be able to look at for password aging. I saw some discussion on samba-tech list, but nothing conclusive. LM and NT hashs don't have a salt? Do they? ... In other words, a password "password" LM hashed, always comes out as "E52CAC67419A9A224A3B108F3FA6CB6D" not

When configuring samba PDC to use slave ldap, it seems parameter ldap replication sleep did not work, setting any value did not make any different. I have samba PDC and slave/master ldap connected over fast-ethernet switch, ldap replication take less than 2 seconds, however when adding (XP) machine to domain it gives error " The username could not be found". In machine log: Closing

hi: our company want to use samba3+openldap with singal sign on. we have several branches.people would travel arround head quarter and branches with their notebooks. so we don't have roaming users, but we do have roaming computers. we want to use a single domain for every site, and we want every site keep working even when wan link is broken. my plan below: 1. place

What are my options for implementing password aging using samba as my PDC ? I can set the users Linux password to expire, but it doesn't seem to propagate to their samba passwords. I absolutely need this functionality. Is OpenLDAP the answer? Joseph Morin

Hi all. Sorry for a long email, but I am really lost here and need to fix this ASAP. I have just upgraded a samba server to the current Samba 3.0.0 binary for Redhat 9. This has fixed an issue I was having with 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 just dying with no errors, but I have a new problem now and I cant work it out. User's Home directories are showing up in the list of shares (as expected) but when

Summary: We cannot connect multiple users from an win2K/tse box to a samba server using password server authentication . Details: We have samba 2.2.8a on Sun Solaris , connected with an w2k/tse . Samba has been configured to check user/password using an "password server" on the network ( Domain PDC ) . When the first user connect to the win2k/tse all network shares are ok . But when

I have 3.0.2a (with about 75 machines/users) installed as a PDC for my Win2k users and found an oddity. (waiting for a bin version of 3.0.3 for RH8.0) All was fine before I left 2.2.8.... But now when users hit <CTL>-<ALT>-<DEL> and change the password, they get "domain not available". When they log in, they get the logon scripts to execute, and anything else I do to

Hi All, I would like to know if this is possible and if possible what is the complexity. Consider a CIFS client, SAMBA Server1 and Samba Server2. Say a session is established between a CIFS client and SAMBA server1. Is it possible for the SAMBA server1 to transfer/redirect/reestablish the connection to SAMBA server2 without the CIFS client knowing about this? The session between the CIFS

I need to allow [read] access to a Samba server using both IP filtering & UserIDs . For a given list of IP subnets, any user should have access. Outside these 'trusted' subnets, I need to do User authentication. I can handle the User authentication OK in several ways. However, I don't see any way to do the 'short circuit' allow for some IPs, then use User authentication

Hi, I want to ask you, if you release an RPM package for samba 2.2.2 for Redhat 6.2 too, and not only for version 7.1 Thanks a lot Tomas Zeman

I am running several samba servers (2.2.3a and 2.2.7) in various places as pdcs. Everything seems to be running smoothly, but I can't find any way of restricting access to only those uses who have logged on to the domain. Is this possible? ie at the moment, any user can map a drive to \\server\share, put in a valid user/password pair and have access to that share without going through any

I can get authentication to work on linux 7.1 with samba 3.0alpha15 if I make valid users = @"INS+Domain Users", but if I try to set valid users to just a single user: valid users = INS+DavidSha, it fails to give me access. I see the following in log.winbindd. It looks like it is looking for a domain called DavidSha?!? My winbindd separator is +. Can somebody please respond to this.

This is a question before i go into production with my setup. Thanks everyone for the assistance i received while setting up Samba. I am going to have an AS/400 mount an NFS directory on my linux server and it is going to be constantly writing to this share. Also about 400 users are going to be connected to this same share through samba, accessing via windows NT. Has anyone heard of any issues

Hi all ! In the samba-Howto, i was looking on informations on how to set up both a samba PDC and a samba BDC controller with ldap backend. I can read: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Do not install a Samba PDC on a OpenLDAP slave server... Possible PDC/BDC plus LDAP configurations include: . PDC -> LDAP master server, BDC -> LDAP slave server.