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What does it mean if a windows XP consistently doesn't show up in findsmb even when it does show up in smbstatus? Also, I don't know if this is related or not, but the same machine sometimes shows up in smbstatus with two different PIDs. We've seen this with two different machines, both running XP. Here's smbstatus output (the machine in question is accountingiii): Samba

I'm running Samba 3.0.24 on CentOS 5.0 w/ smbpasswd password database and roaming profiles. A user (running XP w/ SP2) recently got married and has a new last name. So, I need to change her username from bkearny to btalbot. In the past I've just changed their name in /etc/samba/smbpasswd and moved /var/lib/samba/profiles/old_username to new_username and changed ownership of the

Hello, Im using samba-3.0.0rc4 with ldapsam. adding users works fine but when i try to add a machine account i alway get this error: pdc:/usr/bin# pdbedit -v -a -m -u test_pc ldapsam_modify_entry: Failed to add user dn= uid=test_pc$,ou=Systems,dc=ovid,dc=evva,dc=com with: Object class violation object class 'sambaSamAccount' requires attribute 'sambaSID'

I have a CentOS 4.3 box that is giving me some serious problem. During the "yum update" from 4.2 -> 4.3 I lost my connection (okay, I accidentally closed the window). I logged back on and did another yum update, and it appeared as though things completed properly. Everything is working fine, up until one of my hosting clients noted that he is now unable to use ftp to update his web

Kirtland Air Force Base has denied approval for the use of R on its Windows network. Some of their objections seem a bit strange, but some appear to be legitimate. In particular, they have detected registry "vulnerabilities" which are detailed in the attachment. I know nothing about Windows registry vulnerabilities. If any of these issues are legitimate concerns,