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Hey all... I am trying to connect to a Epson FX-85 24-pin printer on my file/print/samba server. I am running SuSE 9.1/Samba 3.0.2a with CUPS as the print spool. When I try to connect to the printer from W2K land, I get this error: "Permission denied" I am at a loss as to where to look (sorry I dont have my smb.conf file posted. I am away from home for a couple of days). ALl else

I am having problems with storing Peachtree Complete Accounting on a Samba share. I know people have reported issues like this before but I have yet to see a solution. Is there anyone here who has successfully set this up (without getting the lock errors)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Donald

Dear SMB-Gurus, I have a problem using a network-printer on a samba server with from a windows2000-computer. The printer is a raw-queue on cups. From any other computers I can use the printer nearly without problems except the printing queue in windows is not accessible (Permission denied...). Whenever I try to send a e.g. word-document to te printer, word exits emidiately without giving an

Is there something special I need to do to let root add computers to the domain in 3.0? When I try to add the workstation I get an error about 'user not found' even though I can logon to a workstation joined to the domain as 'root'. I was able to add computers to the domain with 2.2.8 with an 'add user command' entry and 'domain admin group = root' in my

I'm trying to work out how I can create domain administrators with Samba 3. I currently have the following in smb.conf domain admin group = @smbadmins domain admin users = root jbb User "root" can do administrator stuff on the domain and any local machines it logs in on. Now I want to make a user a member of the administrators group for the domain, so I've added them

Hi all. I'm trying to migrate our NT4 domain to Samba-3.0.1-rc3. My smb.conf: [global] netbios name = vp workgroup = NUSAUS server string = Samba Server %v bind interfaces only = true # interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 interfaces = 10.146.1.100/24 passdb backend = tdbsam log level = 5 log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m max log size = 50 name resolve

Relevant part of "net3 groupmap list" is System Operators (S-1-5-21-1617713866-2789119093-1479812082-1007) -> sys In howto there is the following example net groupmap modify ntgroup="System Operators" unixgroup=sys net groupmap modify ntgroup="Power Users" unixgroup=sys You can add System Operators but trying to add Power Users fails. If you do it in reverse

Hello, i have some problems migrating a Windows 2000 PDC to a Debian GNU/Linux Samba Server, i want to migrate it to a LDAP backend.. but as i'm kind of newbie with ldap and samba migration stuff, i preffered to migrate it to tdbsam first and try it for a while, if everything works fine, then switch to a ldap backend. The problem is that Essential Windows Groups are automatically created, so

hi all. recectly i made the migration from samba 2.2.8 to 3.0. everything is working fine, except that i dont know how to grant administrator privileges in win 2000 clients. with 2.2.8, i used DOMAIN ADMIN GROUP parameter ( domain admin group = @adm) but its been removed in samba 3.0, and i dont know what to do. any help will be apreciated thanks in advance sebastian ------------ Internet GRATIS

Hello Is here anybody who is able to manage his NT4.0 domain on hid Samba 3 PDC with User Manager for Domains? Can you please tell me what things must be checked to be sure USRMGR.EXE administration (User Manager for Domains aka Domain User Manager) works? I am unable to make it working and tried already these Samba versions: 3.0.0 3.0.0rc1 3.0.0rc2 3.0.0rc3 3.0.1pre3 3.0.1rc1 2003-12-04 head

Hi Everyone, I have a small project going on. I'm about to migrate Redhat 7.3 to Debian Etch (smbd version 3.0.23d-2+b1). I've already managed to migrate Redhat 7.3 to Debian Sarge (smbd version 3.0.14a-) without any bigger problems. However, when I migrate to Etch I face a small problem. The last thing I want to do before I start samba is to grant my linux/samba admin, NT 'Domain

Hi All I have Samba 3.2.11 installed on Suse (sles 10) machine. I am playing around the group mapping functionality. When I map a linux group to nt group. I can see that groups is visible on windows client. But, if I restart the smbd daemon (while changing the scurity mode for ads to user or vice versa), I can no more see the mapped group to the the Windows client. Though, I was able to see

Hello all, I am having a some problems with groups. If I use this command "net rpc group list -Uroot%not24get" as the root users I get an error. "Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1 The username or password was not correct" If I try to add groups I also get the same error. and I don't know if this is relevent or not but when I try to join win groups and Unix groups

Please don't flame me. I did attempt to search before posting this question (through Gmail), if there's a better way, please let me know! I followed this article for implementing a Samba PDC: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10_p4 Question 1) The only accout that appears to be able to add an account onto the domain is the root account. There must be a way to change that

Hi I am new to linux & Samba. I would like to setup Samba as a domain controller and using Fedora-ds for authentication. I have read some documents from www.samba.org but I am still in the mist. Here is my dumb questions about Samba as follows. 1. Is CENTOS4.6+SAMBA3.0.25 as PDC +FEDORA-DS possible? 2. Is this HOWTO from

Hello, I have found out that a domain administrator is always mapped to root in the UNIX filesystem: drwx------ 2 jive smbguests 1024 2004-12-23 18:59 jive drwx------ 13 salsa smbusers 1024 2004-12-23 18:58 salsa drwx------ 13 root smbadmins 1024 2004-12-23 18:56 tango jive is a domain guest user, salsa a domain user and tango a domain administrator. Is it possible to change the root

Good Afternoon, How do I set my domain users to became Power Users on the workstations? Is there a way to map unix group "x" on the domain to became nt group "Power Users"? I did some research and I found someone mentioning "take domain users from the users group, and add it to the power user group" but my w2k does not list "Domain Users" under

Hello. After fresh install. Samba and ldap seems to run normally ( I can join win2k workstation to linux samba pdc ). Using yast I create a system group named domadmin But I am unable to map "Domain Admins" to domadmin I am unable to map "Domain Admins" to existing ntadmin group I am unable to mofify mapping "Domain Admins" to domadmin group Thank you for

Firstly I apologise for the length of this query but I am hoping that if I document everything I did someone might respond / be able to help. My Configuration is Samba 3.0.2a as a PDC on Redhat 8. I cannot for the life of me get the "Domain Admins" functionality to work I am hoping that another set of eyes can shed some light on this problem as I have now spent 41 hrs googling /

Hello, i updated my samba to version 3.0.20 on a suse 9.2 system. I thought, some new net rpc commands need samba 3.0.13. But I get faults with the command: amd:~ # net rpc rights grant testuser10 SeMachineAccountPrivilege [2005/08/25 02:45:35, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(2536) Unknown parameter encountered: "enables privileges" [2005/08/25 02:45:35, 0]