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Hi, we want to use ldapsam:trusted=yes to improve performace as nss_ldap is killing our ldap server doing enumeration. once i enable it smbd dies silently... this is the last part of a ./smbd -d 10 -i NT user token: (NULL) UNIX token of user 0 Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups smbldap_search: base => [ou=groups,ou=filestore,dc=sunderland,dc=ac,dc=uk], filt er =>

Hello, I'm having problems getting the SAMBA domain to trust an NT domain. The following is how I went about the exercise: 1. On the NT domain, I added the SAMBA domain A/C in the TRUSTING DOMAINS list, providing a certain password. 2. On the SAMBA domain, I executed the following command feeding the same password given in step 1, but without success: [root@cobra root]# net rpc trustdom

Folks, I like criticism! Please give me lots of it - particularly in respect of the updated "Samba-Guide". It should now be up on the Samba mirror sites. You can download it from: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf I have incorporated all feedback into this book. Did I get it right this time or should I give up? So far, not a word of feedback is deafening! Is it

If i do a.... bash~#smbpasswd -a -m uos-staff i get a.... Segmendation Fault if u use the idealx scripts this appears in log.smbd (in using samba 3.0.7 with ldap support) Help!! =============================================================== [2004/11/09 11:51:07, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37) INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 2018 (3.0.7) Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO

Hello List! I have a ldap based samba pdc with a few windows xp prof clients and a few user accounts. All the users have Domain User permissions. Is it possible to give a Domain User admin privileges on a single box? Lets say i have Machine A, B, C and D. Then user Foo should have normal Domain User Priviles when he logs into A, B and C. BUT when he logs into Machine D, he should have admin

Have IdealX.org lost their domain? it seems to have been pinched by some company selling domains. Site is partially mirrored at Idealx.com but stil links to idealx.org. Replace idealx.org urls with idealx.com but the samba downloadable stuff isn't there at the moment. Duncan

Hi, i have samba 3.0.10 installed with LDAP. I noticed few days ago that my adminsitrator account has expired. I think it's because of the sambaPwdMustChange field of LDAP. I changed the passwd now i have the value 1108741705 in it. What does it mean (when will i be prompted again to change my passwd) and do i have to put in this field so that the password will never expire ? Thanks for

Hello, This post is similar to what I posted yesterday '"smbclient -L host" to list IP addresses - possible?'. I have a PDC in one place and many workstations in different other places connected using WAN/VPN. These workstations have rather changing IPs assigned by DHCP. Sometimes I need to connect to these machines using VNC, for example, connect to machine AC-PC001 to

Hi developers i have noticed a spelling mistake when you execute a net groupmap add command. For example bash# net groupmap add unixgroup=uni-staff-planningfinance ntgroup=uni-staff-planningfinance type=domain comment='All Planning and Finance Staff' No rid or sid specified, choosing algorithmic mapping Successully added group uni-staff-planningfinance to the mapping db You

Hi, i plan to mass creat user in ldap to use with samba I tried with ldiff like the structure below, the user is created but no home directory is created, user in not member on any groups. 1) how to do with ldiff file to put a user member of a group ? So i plan to use smbldap-useradd => home drectorie is created with the appropriated rights, user is member of "Domain Users" :

Hi, We're being hit by occasional very high load (up to 23 on a SUN Fire v440) on our LDAP server coming from a query of (objectClass=posixAccount). This currently returns over 54,000 entries ... This is coming from the getpwent() call in util_getent.c:getpwent_list() This is coming from srv_samr_nt.c:get_memberuids() But we're having trouble working out what triggers this call: it

For whatever reason I am trying to configure the following environment and am running into trouble towards the end of things. Hopefully I am overlooking something basic, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 1. Redhat AS 2.1 server running Netscape Directory Server 5.2 2. RHEL3 system using Samba 3.0.8 acting as a PDC integrated with the Netscape LDAP server 3. Win2k/XP clients as

We are running scripts using smbclient to get some data of NetAPP filer and we run into the output below. After doing some digging, I found that there is a incompatibility between NetAPP Data ONTAP OS and samba. Is this still the case or there is a fix for it. We are running 3.0.10 Any ideas would be great George Client started (version 3.0.10). Connecting to 169.177.18.109 at port 445

Hi all, We have samba 3.0.11 installed on suse 9.2, we are in the middle of a project of rolling out samba to about 15,000 users in our university, samba is configured to auth via LDAP (Sun One Directory Server 5.2), For some reason samba is doing this query... [13/Apr/2005:10:41:04 +0100] conn=9823 op=2 msgId=3 - SRCH base="dc=sunderland,dc=ac,dc=uk" scope=2

Hi, This one is for the samba team i think... Intro... Im using Sun One Directory Server 5.2 as my LDAP, so i used the samba-schema-netscapeds5.x schema, also samba 3.0.8. I tried to change my "sambapassword" on a windows client, however i was getting errors saying i didnt have permission even tho sambaPwdCanChange was set to 1, so i looked in the log.smb and found the error was a

hello i have setup two domains UNI-STAFF and UNI-STUD, both point at same ldap for auth and have different domainSID's What i would like but dont know how to do is.... *Both domains to appear in the Windows Domain logon Box *Accounts (in LDAP) which have the UNI-STAFF sambaSID to be able to logon to the UNI-STAFF domain (or UNI-STUD as i think this is how trusts work) *Accounts (in

Hi, Running 3.0.10. I have two PDC's running both with two BDC's, i have a oneway trust account setup on my PDC's, do i also need to setup up the trusts on the BDC's encase of a PDC failure? If so how do i do this? regards -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Wilson Systems Administrator IT & Communications Service University of

Hi, i have just compliled 3.0.11 (configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --with-ldapsm; make && make install) i added to smb.conf privileges = yes but when i do a "testparm" i get "Ignoring unknown parameter "privileges"" which will mean i cant use "net rpc rights" commands! Any ideas --

Hi, which file do all the privileges live which have been created.....i want to be able to copy it to my BDC so it can take over if the PDC crashed?? regards -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Wilson Systems Administrator IT & Communications Service University of Sunderland Unit1 Technology Park Chester Road Sunderland SR2 7PT Tel: 0191 515

Hi, I have setup samba 3.0.7 with LDAP and NetApps Filers as our file store. We are going to lots of departmental shares, firstly we want only people from their own dept to have access to their department share, but users from other departments may need access to other dept shares, i would like to set up permissions on each dept share so a group is applied, then every user is added to the