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I am interested in setting up Samba file services for our location and I am looking to find a "Best Practices" approach and configuration for use with an Active Directory controller. I have had some luck in setup Samba with local accounts, but Linux will be used increasingly in the months to come and I would like to build a file server that will validate file system access against AD

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

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'm running Samba 3.0.2 (a?) on Linux. For the most part, it's working great. I have set up Samba as a PDC and also just as a workgroup server. However, under both scenarios I'm seeing a troublesome behavior with Windows XP machines that have many users who frequently log on and log off. If User A logs off Windows XP and User B logs on 30 or 40 seconds later, sometimes

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

Hi! I'm looking for a way to disable a directory shared. I think that I can set null valid users parameter but I would know if a boolean parameter exists. Thanks, Fabio -- Dott. Fabio Marcone 2T srl Telefono +39 - 0871- 540154 Fax +39 - 0871- 571594 Indirizzo Viale B. Croce 573, 66013 Chieti Scalo (CH)

Sorry if this sounds like I'm confused. I am. I am new to Samba and Solaris. I've got Samba 3.0.10 running on Solaris 9. The only windows box I can see or access the shares from is my Windows 2003 ADC which happens to be the only box running NetBIOS in the domain. I have started up a WINS server and added the servers IP to the samba.conf file. The samba server has registered in

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

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

Since I upgraded from RedHat 9.0b / Samba 2.2.8 to Samba 3.0.10 I have problems with the roaming profiles of my students. Although the log-files show no errors at all, several users reports me that they are loosing files. One time I saw the problem myself, when a user logged in and had not a single file in her 'Personal Files' after logging out and logging in on the same host the whole

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

Trying to net rpc vampire an NT4 server Think I am good to go but I keep getting errors - obviously problem with NextFreeUnixId attribute - which is created... dn: cn=NextFreeUnixId,dc=myhomelenders,dc=net objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: sambaUnixIdPool uidNumber: 1000 gidNumber: 1000 cn: NextFreeUnixId sn: NextFreeUnixId structuralObjectClass: inetOrgPerson Every item gets this

John, The restrictanonymous setting was the primary culprit in Ash's issue. I think he's using basically the same setup as I am; no winbind/LDAP involved. I'm thinking there's some initial handshaking that requires an anonymous connection to PDC, and it's being blocked if the restrictanonymous setting is too high. I sent a note to Ash (& the list) asking for the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have 104,000 users, some of which are in the OU: ad.network.local\AD\People\IFAS\Hort Is there an easy way to find all the users in this OU and grant them access to a share? Or do I have to list each user individually? And if so, can I use net user to list the users in an OU? - -Tom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6

Hi all, I just replaced a client's SUSE 8.0/Samba 2.2 DC with a SUSE 9.2/Samba 3.0.9 DC. Drives were giving trouble, and since that box was a first attempt at a linux DC there was a lot of room for improvement. I copied the profiles and home directories over to the new machine, chowned them to the new users. I also did extracted the securid from the old DC and set it to the new one