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I am trying to upgrade samba from 2.2.7-security-rollup-fix to 3.0.14a and am having some issues. The server is Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) with Kernel 2.4.18-3 I have download the samba source, compiled, and installed it, but none of my older files seem to be updated. I noticed that the new version is installed to /usr/local/samba but most of the old files are in /usr/bin (such 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

All, First off I would like to say the book "The Official Samba-3 HowTO and Reference Guide" is awesome I purchased it off Amazon a couple of weeks ago. Ok now on to my problem. I have samba installed and configured and joined the domain no problem. When I run wbinfo -u I can see my domain users, when I run wbinfo -g I can see all my domain groups, BUT if I run

Hi, I have the following directory shared for the user "pcbadmin". He/she can mount and read/write without any difficulty: [pcbdata] comment = PCB Design Files path = /home/pcbadmin/pcbdata valid users = pcbadmin public = no writable = yes Question: How can I make the same directory only readable by the rest of the users ? TIA, Ben

Folks, Over the past few weeks the Samba-HOWTO-Collection and the Samba-Guide have been significantly updated. Over the next 48 hours I hope to complete this process. Today I have added a new chapter to the Samba-3 by Example book (the Samba-Guide). within 24 hours all mirror site should be hosting the current update. I would very much appreciate review of the new chapter 8 and the

1. Does anyone know what may be happening here? When I try to map a drive from a PC, I get the following error: "The account is not authorized to log in from this station.". I can map the drive just fine from my PC. Does anyone know what may be going on here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 2. Also, whenever I use SWAT, it takes a long time for the information to be

Dear List, while debugging the problem that users cant change file acls from windows clients, I found out that Samba (ver- sion 3.0.13 on debian sarge) tries to look up the SID (of the user who should be added to the acl) as a sambaGroupMapping in the LDAP. Does anybody can tell me: - why samba tries to match a SID of a user as a GroupMapping? This will never work as a user can never be a

Hi: My english is very bad but I will try to explain that it We need. We work at Library of Ministry of Economy. We use one Linux Server with Samba 3.07 (mainly it has data files, CDS/ISIS databases and It application (from Unesco)). Right now, the administrator are Information System's people from Ministry.We need in some case not only to track what user are connected and what files they are

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

Hi, I am using Samba 3.0.10 PDC with LDAP as password DB. Before we use smbpasswd as passwd DB and every time I need to add a machine account into /etc/passwd so that the mahcine can join the domain. My understanding for LDAP is, this step is not needed any more since we will put all machine account into "ou=Computers". But I am proved to be wrong. Is this the way Samba works? I

Hi, Say if there are DomainX and DomainY, both are not in trusted relationship. Can a Samba server join both DomainX and DomainY? I can't find any related information on Internet. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks! Yimin

Hello, I am configuring PCs on Windows W2K to access to a LINUX Server where Samba is mounted Is-it possible to do this ? Directory_1 : Browseable (then visible with the Network Favorits) -Sub_Directory_1a : NOT Browseable (unvisible) BUT Writable -Sub_Directory_2a : " " " If not, then just this ? Directory_1 : NOT Browseable (unvisible) BUT Writable

I am hoping someone can help here. I noticed a really odd issue. WINS resolution doesn't seem to work between my PDC and BDC, both Samba 3.0.14a boxes running on Debian. I have nsswitch.conf configured properly, I think. Here are the nsswitch.conf settings. PDC: hosts: files dns wins BDC: hosts: files dns wins On the BDC, I have the parameter wins server = 192.168.0.2, the address

Hi all, I'm confused of small files (no bigger than 50k ) transfers speed through samba,which is very slow on my machine. Bellow is a real case, -- SuSE professional 9.2, kernel 2.6.11,Samba 3.0.14a,reiserfs -- Dual AMD Opteron,4G mem,Giga byte LAN -- 2 raid 5 make up of 16 SATA hard disks -- set readhead to 1024 I tested raids speed using bonnie++ and get 450 Mbytes/s at 16GB files

I'm running FC3 and Samba 3.0.14a. I'm trying to work through Exercise 2.3 of the on-line Samba-3 by Example, and mostly things ore OK, but I can't get my print share to show up when I run smbclient -L localhost -U %. Everything else shows up correctly (although I do get two workgroups to appear, as there is another workgroup to which I used to belong before I separated from it (I

Hi, I have posted a couple of questions on this problem but have not had any replies. I would be very grateful if anyone can give some help with this. Running Samba 3.0.14a with winbind and acl support Solaris 8 NT4 domain. Trying to run Samba 3 with security = Domain using pass through authentication no LDAP backend. Samba appears to work for users but we are getting lots of the following

Hello, I've just updated from Samba 2.2.8a to 2.2.12 and now I've regconized that my user authentication does not work anymore. We have an Active Directory Domain and I tried the following lines in smb.conf: security = domain password server = dc1,dc2 encrypted passwords = yes With these lines all authentications fail. When I change my configuration to security = server password server

I have SAMBA 2.0.7 running on about 20 Solaris 9 servers around the US. One location is experiencing interruptions for Windows XP clients who map to the SAMBA server. There are no known changes to Solaris or SAMBA to explain the change. The problem is very random. I have seen postings that discuss how XP uses ports 139 and 445. Is there a way to block port 445 in SAMBA 2.0.7? The

Hi all Thanks for everyones help so far with trying to get these all working. I am now at the stage where I can logon to the domain and access a samba share with out having to enter in a username password (i.e samba is using AD to authenticate) My system is setup like so: Windows 2k3 PDC (so I get group policy features, bad password attempts, account expiry etc) Samba 3.0.14a on RH es3 linux

This one doesn't make any sense to me. What's worse, it seems to occasionally work and sometimes not. I am attempting to log into a domain (DOMA let's say) and I only have an account on DOMB. When DOMA's Samba PDC attempts to create a UNIX account for me, this is what happens: [2005/01/04 15:47:15, 3] auth/auth_util.c:smb_create_user(53) smb_create_user: Running the command