similar to: Power users on Samba 3.0.1.

This link: http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#LOGONPATH States that: "Windows clients can sometimes maintain a connection to the [homes] share, even though there is no user logged in. Therefore, it is vital that the logon path does not include a reference to the homes share (i.e. setting this parameter to \%N\%U\profile_path will cause problems)." I am still

Hi Folks, I have a RH9 machine running Samba 3.0.0 (Had the same situation when running 2.2.8) and I am not being able to make my W2K SP4 clients or XP join the PDC. I keep receiving the following message: "The following error occurred validating the name "ADIDOMAIN" The condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem. For information about troubleshooting

I set up printing IAW: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/printing.html I've confirmed the drivers are being installed to /etc/samba/drivers/W32X86. Yet I am unable to print even a test page. I get the following error: "Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print trouble shooter for assistance? Access is denied." And I get the following errors in my samba

If anyone has Samba setup to run as a PDC with Solaris 8 or 9 could you drop me a line? I have a few questions I would like ask. Our shop is looking at trying to implement this option with our SMB master. I didnt want to clutter up the list with more than one request. -- Thank you Todd Johnson ============================================== = Steven ?Todd? Johnson = =

I'm running Samba 3 as a PDC on a Solaris 9 box. I am able to create profiles and add stuff to the profile (by logging in for the first time), however nothing ever seems to get deleted from the profile. For example, if I remove both the local profile and the profile as it exists on the PDC, and then login the new profile gets created perfectly. If I then add a "Temporary

Just wanted to say kudos to the samba team for a great job on samba 3. Im still reading up on all the nice features with samba 3, but so far, I really like it. Just wanted to say great job! Jason

Alright, I can be a bit thick sometimes, but by RTFM or other documentation I've solved a problem. ISSUE I had been having problems with profiles, I use using the following profile: <edited> [global] preferred master = yes domain master = yes local master = yes security = user domain logons = yes logon path = \\%N\%u\profiles logon drive = H: logon home = \\%L\%U logon script =

Hi all, After recovering the former SID that I hadn't had in mind while changing the Linux distro (thanks to Thomas for his help), now I still have some problems. I can't still get any user to login but the ones that must be in cache in the clients (thanks again Thomas). So, I'll give you the logs to see if anybody detects something strange... The users can perform a 'smbclient -L

I'm getting the following errors in my error logs: ERROR! vuid 100 did not map to a valid vuser struct! At the time this error was being created I was trying to add a domain user as a local admin. I was trying to get the browse list of domain users up, but being denied. Cheers Jeff -- Jeff Gardiner [ gardiner@nospam.imaging.robarts.ca ] System Administrator - Imaging Research

I have a pair of CentOS 6.4 servers running Samba 4.0.3 as DC, and a set of member file servers, also CentOS 6, running Samba 3.6.9, joined to the Samba4 domain and running sssd. Birds sing and violins play. Everyone is happy. Until... A share definition such as: [g_sysmgr] path = /fs/europa/g_sysmgr valid users = +sysgrp works fine from both Linux and Windows clients, eg: %

Is there something special I need to do to let root add computers to the domain in 3.0? When I try to add the workstation I get an error about 'user not found' even though I can logon to a workstation joined to the domain as 'root'. I was able to add computers to the domain with 2.2.8 with an 'add user command' entry and 'domain admin group = root' in my

Hi all. I'm trying to migrate our NT4 domain to Samba-3.0.1-rc3. My smb.conf: [global] netbios name = vp workgroup = NUSAUS server string = Samba Server %v bind interfaces only = true # interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 interfaces = 10.146.1.100/24 passdb backend = tdbsam log level = 5 log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m max log size = 50 name resolve

Relevant part of "net3 groupmap list" is System Operators (S-1-5-21-1617713866-2789119093-1479812082-1007) -> sys In howto there is the following example net groupmap modify ntgroup="System Operators" unixgroup=sys net groupmap modify ntgroup="Power Users" unixgroup=sys You can add System Operators but trying to add Power Users fails. If you do it in reverse

Hello Is here anybody who is able to manage his NT4.0 domain on hid Samba 3 PDC with User Manager for Domains? Can you please tell me what things must be checked to be sure USRMGR.EXE administration (User Manager for Domains aka Domain User Manager) works? I am unable to make it working and tried already these Samba versions: 3.0.0 3.0.0rc1 3.0.0rc2 3.0.0rc3 3.0.1pre3 3.0.1rc1 2003-12-04 head

hi all. recectly i made the migration from samba 2.2.8 to 3.0. everything is working fine, except that i dont know how to grant administrator privileges in win 2000 clients. with 2.2.8, i used DOMAIN ADMIN GROUP parameter ( domain admin group = @adm) but its been removed in samba 3.0, and i dont know what to do. any help will be apreciated thanks in advance sebastian ------------ Internet GRATIS

Hello, i have some problems migrating a Windows 2000 PDC to a Debian GNU/Linux Samba Server, i want to migrate it to a LDAP backend.. but as i'm kind of newbie with ldap and samba migration stuff, i preffered to migrate it to tdbsam first and try it for a while, if everything works fine, then switch to a ldap backend. The problem is that Essential Windows Groups are automatically created, so

Hi All I have Samba 3.2.11 installed on Suse (sles 10) machine. I am playing around the group mapping functionality. When I map a linux group to nt group. I can see that groups is visible on windows client. But, if I restart the smbd daemon (while changing the scurity mode for ads to user or vice versa), I can no more see the mapped group to the the Windows client. Though, I was able to see

Please don't flame me. I did attempt to search before posting this question (through Gmail), if there's a better way, please let me know! I followed this article for implementing a Samba PDC: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10_p4 Question 1) The only accout that appears to be able to add an account onto the domain is the root account. There must be a way to change that

Hello all, I am having a some problems with groups. If I use this command "net rpc group list -Uroot%not24get" as the root users I get an error. "Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1 The username or password was not correct" If I try to add groups I also get the same error. and I don't know if this is relevent or not but when I try to join win groups and Unix groups

Hi Everyone, I have a small project going on. I'm about to migrate Redhat 7.3 to Debian Etch (smbd version 3.0.23d-2+b1). I've already managed to migrate Redhat 7.3 to Debian Sarge (smbd version 3.0.14a-) without any bigger problems. However, when I migrate to Etch I face a small problem. The last thing I want to do before I start samba is to grant my linux/samba admin, NT 'Domain