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I have a very simple setup on a Solaris 8 server, running Samba 3.0.1 (see smb.conf below). A desktop PC running Windows 98 (SE?) happily connects to and prints to my one shared printer, but an XP Pro laptop takes a loooong time to install the local driver and then just says "Access denied, unable to connect". I already told it to use a client driver and disabled spoolss. Here's

Sun has changed the organization of their web site a lot over the years, and I just noticed that a URL included in the HOWTO is broken now. Perhaps there are others as well. In section 39.6.2 "Winbind on Solaris 9" (p. 503), Solaris 9 users are directed to download a patch from the following URL: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112960;rev=14 But the Sun

I'm scratching my head, and thinking that I overlooked something: how do I tell my Sun compiler (on Solaris 8 2/02) to look for files in /usr/include, etc.? For some reason -- a steam-rollered environment variable, I guess -- the compiler won't look there. I get lots and lots of "cannot find include file" messages whether ot not I try ot use --with-pam or --with-winbind. I

I am getting errors when I try to start smbd which say that port 445 is already in use, but nothing else is using it. In the log, the full error is: -----start log.smbd---- [2004/02/02 11:03:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(662) bind failed on port 445 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0. Error = Address already in use ------end log.smbd----- In my /etc/services file, I have these entries:

On page 206 of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection PDF, in the seventh paragraph, the word "use" appears to be missing from the sentence, "When Samba is being used as the PDC and BDC the of an LDAP..." -- but that could just be me. -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI

I follow the procedure for the integration of Samba 3.0.13 in Ads environement, but when I enter the command "net ads join -U administrator" system return me this error: ------errrrrrror-------- morgoth:/usr/local/samba/bin# ./net ads join -U administrator administrateur's password: [2005/04/01 16:34:48, 0] utils/net_ads.c:ads_startup(191) ads_connect: No such file or directory

I'm going to download Samba 3.0.2 and compile it, and I'm curious what, if any, recommendations you have for a compiler. I initially tried to use Sun's Forte compiler when I cewt up 3.0.1, but that was a dead end. I can download GCC from all over the web -- so which version is best? Thanks for any suggestions. -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales

Arnold asked: > > I'm just missing the former [Solaris packaging] functionality. > Can anyone explain why this was changed and if it is > possible to get it back? > Perhaps because Samba is bundled with the OS now and fewer people need to get it from a 3rd party? Just guessing... -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University --

Hi all, I installed a samba 3 PDC with LDAP. I created a system account in LDAP (smbldap-useradd -m testuser). When I try to login on my system as testuser (ssh testuser@PDC-SRV.DOMAIN.ORG) I get the following message: ssh: connect to host PDC-SRV.DOMAIN.ORG port 22: Connection refused. However, if I connect to my system using with the root account(ssh root@ip_address) that successes. Would you

I can't get 3.0.1 to fully compile on my Solaris machines(2.6 and 2.8) Below is an example the error I am getting. Note, that it errored out earlier with the same problem, I typed make again and it went on to the next file, got the same error about a file with extension .o.o not existing. The actual error: --- Compiling lib/replace1.c with -KPIC mv: cannot access lib/replace1.po.o.o ***

Samba server: SUN/Solaris 8 Samba version 3.0.10 Domain: Active Directory with a W2K PDC My Samba server is a Domain Member Server, connected to the Active Directory Domain with the "net rpc join" unix command. All the MS-Windows SMB client from the Domain can connect an use, without any problem, the shares of the Samba server. When I use, on an MS-Windows client or the PDC, the

I asked this question a while ago, but never got any response. Since then, I've researched the problem some more, so I can give a much more concise description of what's happening. I'm mounting the home directories of the users upon login (using pam_mount) from the Windows server. However, none of the users can run X Windows. It says there's a problem with the .Xauthority file.

I plan to install Samba 3 on a Solaris 8 server in order to publish some local queues to a few Windows users -- but no file sharing. Is it as simple as configure; make; make install and then share out a few queues? I'd like to add password protection to these pinters, but I can't decide on whether to hand off all authentication to our Active Directory server or just to use one shared

Hello, all; I need help with getting lpstat _not_ to run. I'm running Samba 3.0.1 on a Sun Solaris 8 server to share out a few print queues, and it works a treat. I also run a print spooler & job management product called Xi-Text, which displaces several of the stock lp* binaries; their implementation of lpstat (among other programs) doesn't completely replicate Sun's

I have Samba 3.0.1 running on Solaris 8 on a 4-CPU SunFire V480m and printing to a Printronix 5005B line printer is pretty slow -- as in five nmostly-empty 9"x5" pages per minute. (I only share out three local print queues and no filesystems on this Sun to Windows XP and some 98 clients.) I would like to speed up the throughput, but I'm seeing a couple of errors. First, I found

Hi, all; I compiled Samba 3.0.11 on Solaris 8 with MIT Kerberos 1.3.6 and OpenLDAP 2.2.23. I joined our Active Directory domain, but only the various `net ads` commands work, while any `wbinfo` commands fail. Where can I start searching for this? My log.winbindd says that the server failed to fetch the shared secret. Oddly, it also says that it's trying to contact a Domain named

John H. Terpstra wtote: > > Unfortunately, the complexity barriers of Samba plus LDAP is > proving a lot more than some sites are willing to endure. > And yet the integration of Samba & LDAP is so powerful, so attractive, that many of us cannot resist battering ourselves senseless against it like moths at a bulb. :7) > > For those of us who have found the right solution

Good afternoon; I need to set up a custom form (paper size) on a printer that I share out with anonymous access from v. 3.0.1 on Solaris 8 to Windows 98 & XP Pro clients. Should I change the server to require a password and then set this (according to pages 236 ff. of the new Samba book) and change it back, or is there another way? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -wde -- Will

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

I seem to recall the existence of a utility to convert (dump?) TDB files into text format so one could peruse the contents. I also seem to recall that one could do the reverse - build a TDB from a text file. Is this true? Does this utility exist? Would I have to hack my own out of the TDB code in Samba? Best Diego