similar to: NT PDC file server -> Samba PDC file server

Please forgive newness here. Have accepted job as network administrator coming from a helpdesk type position. One task in front of me is upgrading an NT domain. I want to use Samba to replace it, and have been reading the Howto, FAQ's etc. The current NT domain is a singularly named "WMHS" left over from before organization got a dedicated Internet connection. Now they have a

Hi, I want to send mail trough my rails application. Currently I am able to send messages with content-type="text/plain". But when I am trying to send messages in html format, the recepient receives messages but it''s in the plain text format with heml tags also gets displayed in ythe message. How to avoid it? & how to send html message through my application? Please

Hallo, in 3.0.8pre2 the smbstatus command always shows connections _and_ shares even if using the switches '-p' for showing processes only or '-S' for showing shares only or '-B' for showing locks only: test2 # smbstatus --help Usage: [OPTION...] -p, --processes Show processes only -v, --verbose Be verbose -L, --locks

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.8 code base. It is *not* intended for production use but rather is provided to allow people to test the bug fixes and new features in the upcoming 3.0.8 release. Use at your own risk. Common bugs fixed in 3.0.8pre2 include: o Several bugs in the spoolss printing code. o Inconsistencies in the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.8 code base. It is *not* intended for production use but rather is provided to allow people to test the bug fixes and new features in the upcoming 3.0.8 release. Use at your own risk. Common bugs fixed in 3.0.8pre2 include: o Several bugs in the spoolss printing code. o Inconsistencies in the

Hi all, I've noticed that since I started storing drivers in [print$] the printer name (as visible to Windows) changes to the driver name. I really want to suppress this behavior as I named the printers for clarity about where/what they are. Is there any way to suppress it? Using CUPS to share out the printers. Thanks, Misty

I have a samba 3.0.8pre2 server in a "standalone server" mode which is replacing %D with the server's netbios name instead of workgroup. I tested this with a root preexec script and connecting to that share from a remote client in the same workgroup. Is this expected? Would %D only be replaced with the domain/workgroup name if the server were a PDC, BDC or domain member server?

What should be the filesystem permissions for the profile share? Something like 0700 user:group for the directory? I'm getting permission denied errors from winxp pro sp2 and samba 3.0.8pre2. Does it have something to do with "profile acls"?

Hello, I'm using samba as a Domain Controller, and i have the following question: It is possible to change an object's (file/dir) GROUP from Windows Explorer on a Samba server? I tried editing/changing via Security tab the unix-mapped Special Permission trio ($user, $group, Everybody) but it fails when I tried to save with the "Unable to save permission changes on <object>.

Greetings, I've a need to run 2 instances on one box. I've spent the better part of 2 days looking for docs and howto's and reading the FM. However, I think I'm making too much out of it, thinking that there is more to it than there really is. the first instance is to serve the users, the second instance is for the backup system. I'm running fedora core 2 with samba