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Greetings, I've used samba for many years now on various platforms and its worked very well. I'm now trying to use 'virtual servers' to combine several smb servers on one machine and have been following the clear and simple instructions here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_07.html (I've also cross-referenced these instructions with various posts to

I have a networking problem where I am not certain if the problem is samba or bind. I am still pretty much a nb at linux. The machine in question is running openSuSE 10.2 and is named rd1. I had samba working fine before I started to make it a WINS server and DNS host. I have a small LAN with no real administration functionality. The network is used for simple file sharing and dial-up

Greetings, I'm having difficulty setting up an 'Anonymous Read-Write' SAMBA server on a new system with a stock FC2 installation for use with WinXP Pro systems. I'm using the following software on the 'fileserver': - Linux FC2 installed from the FC2 iso's: kernel 2.6.5-1.358 - samba-common-3.0.3-5 - samba-3.0.3-5 - samba-client-3.0.3-5 - samba-swat-3.0.3-5

Dear according this wiki http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ldapsam_Editposix i have enable EditPosix extension but i receive this error Ignoring unknown parameter "idmap domains" How can i fix it ? Here it is my smb.conf : [global] workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = PC-DTOUZEAU server string = %h server disable netbios =no syslog = 3 log level = 10 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

I have an XP home (falcon) and an XP pro (tatooine) machine, both behind a rh9 box (hoth) acting as firewall. I've been trying to get samba set up on the linux box. I think I have it mostly working except that the XP boxes won't list hoth under "My Network Places - Microsoft Windows Network - MSHOME", and I cannot access hoth by name at all from the XP-pro box (by IP, I can

bonjour, je tente de faire fonctionner samba sur une dreambox. Voici les erreurs dans le log: Got device type ????? 2005/10/27 22:25:41 Denied connection from THIERRY_SIDONIE (192.168.2.34) to hdd 2005/10/27 22:25:41 error packet at line 165 cmd=117 (SMBtconX) eclass=2 ecode=4 voici le fichier smb.conf: [global] log file = /media/hdd/log/samba/log.%m socket options =

After reading docs several times I still can't get Windows ME machines to map to my Red Hat 9 Linux machine. I can connect from the Linux machine but not to it. I'm connected through an SMC firewall/router and have tried with the firewall shut down. I can ping the Linux machine from Windows but NBTSTAT -A does not recognize the Linux box. My smb.conf file is: [global] workgroup =

hello list, i am running Samba on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. i am able to mount network folders using sharity-light from one of my other freebsd boxes 'piper' on the network with the command: shlight //cessna/videos /usr/home/iain/vidoes when logged in as the user 'iain'. there is a corresponding user on the Samba server 'cessna'. i created a user 'sasha' on

I want to set up a Samba Server (Cactus_3) as member server in our NT4 domain (PDC is Cactus_1, BDC is Cactus_2). We have about 50 client workstations most of which are WinXP but we have a few Win2K and Win98 machines. Shortly we will migrate off the NT4 servers but in the meantime we wish to test some real time scenarios. It is for this reason that I want SSO so the tests are transparant

There is router/vpn server with 2 static NICs - Lan (local area network) , and Wan (wide area network) . Also pptpd/xl2tp, iptables is installed at router. Forwarding, proxyarp and broadcast relay is set up at router. Samba4 4.1.x is installed at router. There is no any Wins in Lan. So, there are Ran (remote access network) clients (client-to-server) being conneted by pptp/l2tp using

There is router/vpn server at Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with 2 static NICs - Lan (local area network) , and Wan (wide area network) . Also pptpd/xl2tp, iptables is installed at router. Forwarding, proxyarp and broadcast relay is set up at router. Samba4 4.1.x is installed at router. There is no any Wins in Lan. So, there are Ran (remote access network, that is Vpn) clients (client-to-server) being conneted

Hello all. I have recently set up Samba on my Rehdat 9 machine. I have on my home network 2 computers, one running Redhat 9 (with Samba as mentioned), and the other running Windows 98 2nd ed. My RH machine can read and access shared directories on the Win98 machine just fine. My Windows machine can see my Redhat machine on the smb, but cannot access the shares. In other words, when I go to

Let's see I've got a network about 10 PCs running XP and 1 running Linux. I had setup Samba and it was running like a charm. XP pcs could access linux box through network neighborhood and access 2 shared dir and edit/change files. Really not sure what has gone wrong. I am using Samba 2.2.8a I run both smbd and nmbd as daemons. When I run ps -aux they show up. root 1553 0.0

Dear Friends: I am trying to join a Suse 9.1 Server running Samba 3.07 to an NT4 Domain. One part I am confused about is the command "net rpc join -U" ... is the username to be used with this command the name of an administrator on the NT4 PDC? Does that administrator need to be an user on the Samba Server and a member of the "root" group? I successfully join using

Hello everybody, am newbie in samba, i need some help. I just installed samba into my Ubuntu 7.10 server machine. I can set up shares etc. but only with default user.... I tried to add new users: sudo useradd user or sudo adduser user then smbpasswd - a user and added user = "user" in /etc/samba/smbusers added share: [demo] comment = Network user path = /home/user browseable =

Hi, I'm setting up openSuse samba on my home network (ethernet) so my linux and the two winXP machines can file share. The linux machine is also where all the backups for all the other pc's are stored. My workgroup is MSHOME. When I start up my winxp pc I can see the linux machine in My Network Places > Entire Network > Microsoft Windows Network > MSHOME However, after a few

Hello, There is a small document, which (I hope) useful to others samba user to avoid mistakes, wrong path, that i take, to reach my goal. This document is covered by license: xkcd501[12]. 1. Target 2. Situation 2.1. Software versions 2.2. Software setup 3. Data migration 3.1. alternatives 3.1.1. robocopy 3.1.2. xcopy 3.1.3. net 3.1.4. smbfs/cifs 4. Migration 4.1. Start samba 4.2. ACL vs ACL

Hi, I am using Samba to share my computer over a windows network. I can access any computer(there are over 400 computers) on LAN but no one can access. They can't do it.. I am pasting the output of testparam for your reference..Any pointers will be helpful linux-fh4f:/etc/samba # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section

I've got a simple anonymous read/write samba server with the following configuration: # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = FILESERVER security = SHARE server string = NAS Server log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 [data] comment = RAID5 Share path = /data force user = nobody force group =

Hey, I'm having problems with samba. It has never worked properly on my server since I've had it installed.. Its for a home server, running xbox-Linux Fedora Core 6. I've just uninstalled every trace of the old samba, and started a fresh. With the latest samba sources I found on the website. The nmbd starts fine, but smbd never starts, and in the kernel log, I get the following