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I'm trying to set up a samba PDC. I've been following the directions in "The Official Samab-3" book. I still don't understand how to add users! I'm using tdbsam and I set up all the add user scripts and what not in the smb.conf. pdbedit won't let me do anything unless I add the user with adduser(what's the point of the scripts?) and even when I add the user by

Hi, i have a Samba PDC (no LDAP) and added add user script to my config. I can create the user with no problems, login is possible but the /home/samba/profile/user dir is not created. Any hints on that? script commands i added: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m '%u' -g ntusers -G ntusers -s /bin/false delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u' add group script =

Hi all, I am using samba 3.5.8 on a linux machine. I am not able to join the domain of a windows 2003 server in ADS mode. I am getting the following error message: # /usr/local/samba/bin/net ads join -U Administrator%password -I 10.25.66.71 Failed to join domain: failed to find DC for domain ABCDOM.PQR.COM # I am not sure what the issue here. It works absolutely fine when I try to join the

Hi all, I have a really strange PDC issue: windows clients are able to join and to login, however some clients have permissions issue on their local machine, for example they cannot modify settings suck as menubar, folder view, set quick start shortcuts ecc... so they cannot use the pc. However if they create a desktop file or folder on logoff their profiles are correctly updated. On the same

Morning, I have three machines, two xp and one win2k, that join the samba pdc fine. I have tried to join others to this same samba pdc using the same accounts for authentication without success. The xp machine first says the user does not exist, I click ok and go back to the screen for the domain account authorized to join the domain and press ok (or next) again and this time the xp box says the

Hello, After setting up Samba 3.5.6 on CentOS 5.5 (built from sources) I have noticed a strange problem. Windows 2003 servers participating in this Samba domain do not receive domain groups list when I, say, try to assign security credentials for a file/folder. When I choose domain as source, search reveals only technical group names and individual domain users names. No domain group names

Hy, I have set up a samba PDC with tdbsam, for a office, everything seems to be ok, users logon to the pcs with their user domains, the policies are working ok, but once they login, when they try to access a share in the samba pdc server, it asks againg for user and passwd, Any idea why its doing this?, you cant access also the netlog on share, so no scripts are working :**. Another doubdt i

Hi , I use Samba 3.4.7 PDC + ldap backend . I can't put the machine if I don't specify the wins server on Pc-client. I try different name resolve order , but nothing change ? Can you help me ? My global is : [global] workgroup = workgroup netbios name = SERVER server string = Server Samba wins support = yes browse list = Yes remote announce = 10.0.0.255/workgroup

Hi , I use Samba 3.5 PDC + ldap backend . I can't put the machine if I don't specify the wins server on Pc-client. I try different name resolve order , but nothing change ? Can you help me ? My global is : [global] workgroup = workgroup netbios name = SERVER server string = Server Samba wins support = yes browse list = Yes remote announce = 10.0.0.255/workgroup

Hi @ll, can someone enlight me , i could log in the domain and profiles are created well on samba, but after second login, win client says i cannot copy //linux/Profiles/testuser to c:\Dokument ... so its starts with local copy after login i am able to browse the Profiles share on samba but if i wanna open a files the client makes a explorer failure , it seems to me that this is a permission

I've this problems. I'm using on my smb.conf # Sincronizacion de cuentas LDAP, NT y LM # unix password sync = Yes ldap passwd sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/sbin/smbldap-passwd -u "%u" passwd chat = "Changing *\nNew password*" %n\n "*Retype new password*" %n\n" [2009/09/03 14:05:16, 1] smbd/chgpasswd.c:change_oem_password(1057) Sep 3 14:05:16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have seen this problem posted several times and the common answer doesn't seem to be doing it for me. Here's the error: Trying to load: ldapsam_compat:ldap://127.0.0.1/ Attempting to register passdb backend ldapsam Successfully added passdb backend 'ldapsam' Attempting to register passdb backend ldapsam_compat Successfully added

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am trying to rename a computer on my samba domain but it fails telling me I hadn't rights to do it. Obviously, I use the same admin account (root) than the one which add this computer on the domain some seconds before. I am using samba 3.0.24 on Debian etch with a openldap SAM backend and smbldap-tools scripts using these conf params :

I've upgrade to Samba 3.0.4 a System wich it's running SLES 8. The System is working with LDAP and smbldap-tools 0.8.4 for managing users and groups. I'd like to manage the user and group with usrmgr.exe running into a Windows 2000. When I tried adding new user the programs didn't work and it's reported an error. The log system running in the PDC [SLES 8], reporting:

Hi, i have a Ubuntu x64 10.04 Server. Samba configured as PDC. Since today i experience that roaming prfiles can't copy one file to the server and shout an error message. It's no specific file, mostly its one in my Thunderbird Profile. Does anybody know what could this cause to happen? My smb.conf: [global] printing = bsd netbios name = PDC server string = PDC (%h)

Hi, I have searched for days on Google and can't find a clear answer to my question. I have a NT4 PDC which I am migrating to Samba 3 (Version 3.4.2-47.fc12) on FC12 with kernel(2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686). I am using tdbsam as my passdb backend. I setup Samba as a BDC and then joined to NT4 Domain succesfully. When I go to vampire the accounts I get lots of errors and some user accounts get

Good evening, I have a problem with SAMBA domain, I have many pc's with S.O Windows when I try to put then on a samba domain, then don't locate my domain. The OpenSuse Linux 10 show me any lines on the logfile, i'm put these lines below. I'm have OpenSuse Linux 10 + SAMBA 3 with LDAP authentication. Below the SMB.CONF + Slices of a LOG file. Thanks to all !

Hi, I have followed the worked example in the HOWTO documentation for the small Engineering Office which demonstrates how to configure Samba-3 as the PDC for an NT domain. I have setup a RHAS 3.0 Linux box and have configured Samba as per the instructions in the book. Using an NT 4.0 client workstation I can sucessfully login as the user grma (It authenticates against the Samba PDC OK) but I

Migrating a working Samba 2.2.8a Domain Controller to 3.0.2a Using smbpasswd file compiled using gcc 3.2.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Used working 2.2.8 configuration ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- #authentication as PDC workgroup = XNET domain logons = yes domain master = yes

Hello, Samba 3.5.8-68 on F15 64bit with all latest updates. Part of smb.conf file: set primary group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -g %g %u add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g 100 %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g add user to group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -a %u %g add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/nobody -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u delete user