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Dear Samba Experts. I an quite new to samba but know the basics of creating chares and permissions, I think!!! Been digging into HOWTO for pdc logon using windows boxes. Having great difficulty in getting win2k to complete and logon to a samba 2.2.5 PDC configuration. Win98 is ok and runs the logon scripts as required. I have attached the smb.conf used and can confirm the directory

Hi! Could you help me about a problem with Jffs Filesystems and Samba...? Fitst of all, we are working on a MBX860 board with a MPC860 micro and our Linux OS is Hard Hat Linux PPC 2.1. We compiled/configured the Samba 2.2.4 on our system wihout problem with a gcc 2.96 version... ...we have a folder on a Jffs Filesystem on our second flash partition (1 MB size and 800 KB free); this folder

Hi: I've already installed a samba server as a PDC server. I can log on to the sertver with w95&98 but Not with win2000 professional. I've samba 2.2.2 I'll attach my smb.conf to you. I've also tested win2k + SP1 + SP2 but I couldn't make it. Please HELP Me. details : Red Hat linux 7.1 Samba 2.2.2 No firewall ..... Windows Error message : "The account that you

Hello all samba users and programmers, Since I changed my system and reinstalled samba funny things happen in my net. I used to work with a Gentoo system and now I've got installed a Knoppix 3.2 Debian, but by now I don't think it's interesting for the problem I've got. What I did was: - install samba 3.0.0-final - copy the old smb.conf file to the path in the new system

Hi, Let me say first of all that I greatly appreciate and applaud the work that you are doing. I am currently running Red Hat 8 and trying to configure the latest Samba (3.0.5) release on my home network consisting of two win2k machines (a desktop and laptop)and the Red Hat desktop sharing a DSL connection via Netgear ethernet bridges and router. As things stand right now: A. I Can:

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.

hello, there are 3 problems i've been having with samba for a very long time. i was hoping to get them resolved once and for all. my smb.conf file is attached. 1) my printer is shared via samba and i'm using the cups print system. i can see the printer from my win2k and winxp machines, but it says "unable to connect, access denied". how do i remedy this problem? 2)

I'm trying to setup a share on my samba server that will allow me to write to the disk on my windows 98 box. It seems quite simple but I get the access denied error messages whenever I try to create or write to the file. I created the disk on my samba server as a DOS 16 bit file system. Here is my smb.conf file: [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup =

Hello, I've got a samba/win98 problem. This occurs with samba 2.05a and slackware linux 7.0 and freebsd 3.4-release and samba 2.06. I've got two machines, one a pure 98 machine, the other split 50-50 linux and freebsd. All is looking well, samba is my local master, will always win elections etc. Both machines show up and all is good until I restart samba. At that point no matter which

I am having a hell of a time getting a group of Samba servers working together as a domain. My desired setup is to have one Samba PDC (LION) in control of the ANIMALS domain and then have the other Samba file server (HYDRA) join ANIMALS. Simple enough. My smb.conf files are attached. I have added a HYDRA$ machine account to LION per the usual directions. I then follow the simple directions

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

-- 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

Hello! I work at a school in Norway, and am experimenting with a Linux box as a server for our Win95 network. Most things seem to work like they should, except one important thing: The user profiles are _only_ stored on the local machine... I am running Internet Explorer 4.01 with the Users function enabled. The network setup is as follows: Samba box as WINS server. "Log on to Windows NT

Just setup Fedora 7, Samba is sharing files for Windows XP users, Samba is sharing printers too - the user's can add new printers to their XP machines, but when they try to print they get various messages, (Including no message at all) and no printouts. Remote printing can be done by a Mac, using lpr printing. Also local users can print using lpr. Have included my smb.conf file.

These are the contents of the file: #======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = Myworkgroup # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Samba Server # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which

Hi Could I request home help with logon drive mapping. I am able to join make a (win2k) PC join a domain with samba as pdc. I am able to logon but I DO NOT GET the HOME DRIVE. I am able to get to my file via network neighbourhood. ON the PC I HAVE an OPTION to MAP my HOME DRIVE, but I would like the home drive to appear as the "H:" drive in "My Computer" after I log in.

I have set up a Samba server (Version 3.0.10-1.fc2) on a Fedora 2 box, but it appears to always be allowing anonymous login now and when I try to log in with a valid user it keeps telling me the login failed. Can someone tell me why this is happening and also, why are authorized users not able to log in? Here's the content of my smbusers file: root = administrator admin apache = fred nobody

Hi, Here is my situation. I share several directories as public, and some other that must be read-write but with authentication (it does not matter is the client supplies the username or not, although it would be nice, but the password is essential as not everybody must have write permission). So what i first did was use the server with "security=user". WindowsXp does not see my shares

Hello ! We have Samba 1.9.18p3 intalled on Digital Unix 4.0, and succeed to connect from Win95 to some directory on that Digital. However, when we try the same from NT system installed on the very same PC, the connection fails, with the following error message: "System error 1240 has occurred. The account is not authorized to login from this station" Username and domain are the same

Hello, We have serious problem with (maybe) samba, but first of all here is used configuration: SCO open server 5.0.6 Samba version 2.0 clients - windows 95/98 situation: on SCO we are creating files. and application on windows is checking existence of file on mapped network disk. however problem is, when I change that file on SCO (by vi for example). After that on SCO I see timestamp change, so