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I've got a Samba 3.0.4 server running on RedHat 8.0 as a PDC. It's the only domain controller on the network, and the only WINS server on the network. The problem is, when I browse the network neighborhood, I see the NetBIOS name of the server ("SERVER") appear as a workgroup/domain (though there are no hosts listed in this phantom domain). It also appears as a computer under

Having a little trouble with SWAT in Samba 3.0.3. When an option in smb.conf contains quotes, for example: add group script = /path/to/addgroupscript "%g" SWAT will, upon parsing smb.conf, display add group script = /path/to/addgroupscript and committing it causes the quoted portion to be dropped in smb.conf. Note that anything in double quotes (or, rather, after the first double

I've found that with roaming profiles enabled, some users experience extremely slow logoffs when using NT/XP/2000. I've discovered that this is usually due to very large email folders in the user's profile. OUTLOOK: As Outlook saves ALL messages in a single .pst file, any activity in Outlook will result in the .pst file being changed and therefore needing to be synchronized with the

Chapter 5 of Samba 3 By Example ( http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html ) states thusly: ----- Configuration of MS Outlook to Relocate PST File Microsoft Outlook can store a Personal Storage file, generally known as a PST file. It is the nature of email storage that this file grows, at times quite rapidly. So that users' email is available to them at every workstation

I have a Samba 3.0.4 server configured as a PDC. NetBIOS name of the server is "SERVER"; name of the workgroup is "AEC". Problem is that there's now a phantom workgroup called "SERVER" when I try to browse the network. Since there's no clients configured in this workgroup, any attempts to browse this workgroup fail. When I attempt to use User Manager for

Mr. Gowda, Please review the following prior posts: "HOW TO: Migrating users' locally-stored profiles from one domain or workgroup to a new domain" http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-December/115326.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-December/115413.html Note that I have only performed this migration where the users had locally-stored profiles. If you are

A few tips when submitting to this or any mailing list. I may be preaching to the choir, but some of you can't carry a tune. 1) Make your subject short and descriptive. Avoid the words "help" or "Samba" in the subject. The readers of this list already know that a) you need help, and b) you are writing about samba (of course, you may need to distinguish between Samba PDC

The man page for rsync(1) states: --password-file This option allows you to provide a password in a file for accessing a remote rsync server. Note that this option is only useful when accessing an rsync server using the built in trans- port, not when using a remote shell as the transport. The file must not be world readable. It should contain just the password as a single line.

Replying on list so others may help or benefit... Arne, It's been a while since I've done one of these migrations, but here's a couple of things to try: - Make sure the clients' primary DNS server is an Active Directory Integrated DNS (in a single-DC environment, the DNS is usually the same machine as the W2K3 domain controller) - In the clients' Advanced TCP/IP

This might be a stupid question, but I ask only because I can't think of a good reason... Why do so many vendors' builds of Samba not include libnss_wins, the WINS/NetBIOS name resolution library? I find that it is very helpful for my Linux/Samba servers to be able to resolve hostnames by WINS. It also seems to improve domain browsing performance dramatically to have the library present

I'll start off with my question: how do you change a user's SID? When I issue the command: [root@server root]# pdbedit -u testuser -U \ S-1-5-21-4000410194-515421893-615041212-2006 I see testuser:516:Test User [root@server root]# Then, I do "pdbedit -Lv testuser" and it still shows the old SID. Now, I'll give you a little background. Previously, this server (NetBIOS

First of all, let me say "I know it's been fixed in Samba 3." That's for those of you who think I'm talking about the requiresignorseal registry hack in Windows XP. I'm not. I ran into an issue when using Windows 95 clients with a Windows 2003 server. (Why not Samba? The customer needs terminal services for some windows-only programs.) Because Windows 2003, by policy,

I've decided to share my experiences with the list in hopes that it will help someone else doing something similar avoid the problems I experienced, and hopefully, have a better experience. Here's the scope of my project: Original installation: - Samba 2.2.x series server - Workgroup security (read: local security, not domain security) - no domain controller - password database is

Hello, all-- I've a question regarding using WINS for resolving names while on the unix box. As I understand it, you're supposed to add something to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, but it's not clear to me whether it's supposed to be 'wins', 'winbind', or 'winbindd' as in the following example: hosts: files wins nisplus nis dns hosts: files winbind

Hi I'm currently prowling for some IMAP tools to help me maintain our mailboxes. I'd prefer "pure" IMAP, i.e. no messing with file system directly, but would settle for more crude ways if need be. Specifically I am looking for: - Expunge tool: Outlook does not seem to auto-expunge messages in any way shape or form. So I'd like to run a daily cron to expunge all

Ben S. wrote: >Hi Jonathan, > >I saw your post in the linux.samba newsgroups with the above topic heading. >Looking through the posts I could not see any replies. > >We also have a customer with the exact same requirements, and I though that >I would quickly ping you to see if you had any luck with migration. > >Any experiences of suggestion are appreciated in advance,

Migrating Users Profiles When Changing Domain Affiliation: A Primer I. Introduction NOTE: This applies to Windows NT-based systems with locally-stored user profiles. Windows 9x and Me do not manage user profiles in the same way. Quite often we find the need to change a workstation's affiliation, either from a workgroup (that is, the workstation is not in a domain environment) to a domain,

I presently have a Samba server (3.0.21b) set up as a member server in an NT4 domain (with a real Windows NT4 PDC). We are migrating to an Active Directory domain (with a real Windows 2003 domain controller). We have set up a two-way trust between the old NT4 domain "CLUNKY" and the new ADS domain "SLEEK" (aka sleek.local). The Samba server is a member of the CLUNKY domain

At the risk of being called a turncoat and traitor in Sambaland, I ask, "how do I migrate from a Samba 3 domain to a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain?" A customer has determined that they wish to use the groupware features of Microsoft Exchange. They already have the licenses they need, so there's no point in convincing them that Samba will be cheaper or that some

It appears that you cannot include groups from trusted domains in the 'valid users =' directive on a share. Here is the scenario as I experienced it (names have been changed to protect the innocent): Configuration: - Samba 3.0.21b as a member server in a real NT4 domain (security = domain) called 'NTDOMAIN' - NTDOMAIN has a two-way trust with Windows 2003 Active Directory