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Hi, Does anyone know of a document that gives details on how to set up Bind 9 and DHCPD 3.x so that dns is updated when clients log on? I saw this is not in the howto collection (http://www.bibsyst.no/samba/docs/man/DNSDHCP.html#id2981727) so I was kind of hoping someone else has some notes. I would be greatfull for any tips and links. Tarjei

Hi, I'm about to migrate a lot of files from a windows server to a new, shiny samba-server. I just got a small problem : What is the best way to do this? I'e tried rsync, but it croaks on some files with names like "somethign :some.eml" the same does cp. What I'm wondering about, is has anyone else had these problems, and if so, how did you solve them? Do you have a

Hi, I would like to make Sambaadmins aware of the simple and powerfull program dnsmasq. It makes setting up a caching dnsserver + dhcp-server that maps local machines to the local domain a breeze, something that is missing in the samba howto collection (http://www.bibsyst.no/samba/docs/man/DNSDHCP.html#id2981727). I've been running it for two months now, so I felt it was time to recomend

Hi, I seem to remember somewhere that Samba 3 can be configured so that you do not need real users for computers, that these users only exists in some tdb database. How is this possible? Can someone describe how to do this? Many thanks, Tarjei Huse

Occasional problems arise where the .pst file just will not copy from the users profile on the server. Doesn't seem to be related to the file size. Has anyone had issues with outlook and Samba PDC - (win2k clients). Solutions that have worked have ranged from complete loss of the .pst file to restarting users profile from scratch. thanks Alex Genna

Hi, Having set up a few Samba-ldap installations, I always end up with the feeling that OpenLDAP ACLs is what took time. The following patches / scripts might help someone else. I would appreciate some input on the access.conf.pl file so that it is even better tuned. Mr Tournier and the sambateam: Please include the files you find usefull. The attached files are: slapd.conf.pl : A simple

Hi, I'm trying to remove a printjob that is currently blocking the printque for one of my users. I've tried to access the printer from the user and delete it there, but this doesn't help. Cups does not show the job at all. I therefore tried to access the printspool via sambas net printq command. With net, I can find the job, and the jobid, but when I try to use net rap printq

Hi, I've finally gotten my LDAP password backend up and running, and finally figured out the SID 1000/1001 thing for Samba admin. However I'm unable to join the workstation to my domain. Using any random user in the WXP dialogue, I get the "Access is Denied" error. Fair enough. Using the user with sambasid and sambagroupsid s-*-1000/s-*-1001, I get the error "The Username

Hi I have installed samba 3.0.7-1 on debian sarge. I have configure it as standalone. I put a share as follows: [share] writeable = yes browseable = yes public = yes path = /home/samba The permission on /home/samba is as follows: chmod 777 /home/samba Now on my windows XP, the share is listed when i browse. I am also able to copy a file to the share. But i cannot open the file and it just

Hi, I'm trying to build a PDC and BDC to elimenate Windows NT on a network and have load balancing and fault tolerence for users. I've compiled samba 2.2.4 on two servers, working with openldap 2.0.23 with a master and a slave. Replication on LDAP servers works fine. I've set up a domain controller and wanted to set the other server as BDC in case the PDC goes down. Each time i put

Hi all, it is possible that converting the NT4 PDC to Win200x Active Directory. And converting to OpenLDAP directory? Does such an converter exist? Thanks, Roland

Hi I'm getting some instability on my samba 3.0.1 installation. Here's the backtrace I found in my log: Feb 2 19:10:41 grisen smbd[26068]: [2004/02/02 19:10:41, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(857) Feb 2 19:10:41 grisen smbd[26068]: audata1 (192.168.1.121) couldn't find service utskrifter Feb 2 19:10:41 grisen smbd[26068]: [2004/02/02 19:10:41, 0]

Hi all, I am running samba-server-3.0.6-4.1.100mdk, openldap-servers-2.1.25-6mdk, lib64sasl2-plug-digestmd5-2.1.15-10.1.100mdk. I have searched through the lists and I am wondering if I am the only one doing this kind of set-up.. Anyway question is as follows: In my ldap server I have normal posix accounts with plain text password that are sorted out by a sasl-regex in the slapd.conf and

I have Samba 3.0.4 with LDAP, *no* winbind running on AIX 5.2. My workstation joined the domain!!! woohoo! But before I get too excited, I still have a fundamental issue to overcome. Please read on... Ok, I know what the following snippet means now! [2004/08/02 07:53:47, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(483) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: CRP4$ [2004/08/02 07:53:47, 4]

Hi, I got a problem using Samba 3.0.2a w Openldap as passwordstore. When my machines tries to reset their machinepasswords, they report the following error: Eventid: 3224 : stub contained bad data while trying to change the machine password. (please relate to the eventid as the text has been partly translated from norwegian) What I am wondering about is the following: a) Has anyone else

Hi, I''m just wondering if there are any speed or stability differences between running a system directly of a LVM partition versus a xvd partition? Basicly: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/LVM/root,xvda,w'', ] vs disk= [ ''phy:LVM/root,hda1,w'',] Any tips? I tried searching the archives but I didn''t find anything. Kind regards, Tarjei

Hi, I've configured Samba as PDC. It is to serve Windows 98/2000/XP workstations. Firstly everything works fine but with adding new users to the domain there occurs serious trouble. The network printers begin to refuse access. And then I noticed that the workstations begin to refuse access too. smb.conf --- [global] netbios name = OBLR workgroup = X125 server

Hi, I'm running a samba server version 2.2.3a compiled from source. The server has been up running now since august. Now, I've suddenly been hit by a vierd bug. Several files that were opened by NT clients has been corupted. How? THE samba logs has been written into the files!! Obviusly this is a major problem. Has anyone suffered this problem ? Has it been fixed? Tarjei

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I''m looking into using puppet to deploy different python applications to different servers. I want to be able to sandbox the different applications using virtenv. A basic setup would be: 1. create user 2. install the virtual environment for that user - -> as the user: virtualenv /userdir 3. Install package dependencies. - -> as

Hi, I'm having problems joining a W-XP client to my PCD. This is on Samba 3.0.1 w/ LDAP passdb, Suse 8.2. When I join the client to the server, I cannot add the Administrator to any of the local accounts. Instead I get an error stating that there is a "broken trust relationship" between the client and the server. Has anyone experienced this before, and know why it happens? I am