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Hi there, We map a Sun Microsystems (Solaris 9) drive to a Windows 2003 server. This works fine except for the long UNIX (tm) filenames that are mapped as truncated 8.3 filenames on the MS server. Needless to say for backup purposes this defeats the object. I have scanned the archives but must be looking in the wrong places because I am unable to find a solution to this problem. Can anyone

I'm trying to setup a share on my samba server that will allow me to write to the disk on my windows 98 box. It seems quite simple but I get the access denied error messages whenever I try to create or write to the file. I created the disk on my samba server as a DOS 16 bit file system. Here is my smb.conf file: [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup =

Hello! I work at a school in Norway, and am experimenting with a Linux box as a server for our Win95 network. Most things seem to work like they should, except one important thing: The user profiles are _only_ stored on the local machine... I am running Internet Explorer 4.01 with the Users function enabled. The network setup is as follows: Samba box as WINS server. "Log on to Windows NT

>From a Windows Explorer window I can see my Samba Server machine under MyNetworkPlaces:EntireNetwork:MSWindowsNetwork ... but cannot open it. I get \xxx is not accessible. ... The account is not logged into this station. My XP clients are logged onto to a workgroup. The corresponding linges generated in log.<client> on the server machine are shown below. [2003/02/21 11:59:52, 3]

I'm not sure if this is supported or not, but I can't get it to work. I'm trying to get the smb password and the unix password to sync for mapped users. I have have 'unix password sync' turned on and I have the username mapping file set up. When I change a users password in windows (where the username is the same in windows and linux) the password changes just fine. When I

Hello ! We have Samba 1.9.18p3 intalled on Digital Unix 4.0, and succeed to connect from Win95 to some directory on that Digital. However, when we try the same from NT system installed on the very same PC, the connection fails, with the following error message: "System error 1240 has occurred. The account is not authorized to login from this station" Username and domain are the same

These are the contents of the file: #======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = Myworkgroup # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Samba Server # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which

Hi, I'm just installing Samba for the first time and have a problem with name resolution on my test client. Samba 3.0.8 is installed on a RHES system named 'fileserver1 (.our.xxx.edu)'. The clients are Windows 2000 and XP systems. This is a subnet that is part of a larger campus network. There is no Domain, just a workgroup called 'our_adm'. I have a very simple smb.conf file

Hi, I have installed samba on one of my Unix server( SUN) and I am trying to access the share directory from a NT workstation. Earlier If I had used a guest account and I was able to connect to the share created on the Unix server. Now I want to access with users / groups through NT domain server which I received the following error : The account is not authorized to login from this

I am running Samba 3.0.2 on RHEL 3. I have tried to get Linux passwords to sync from doing updates using smbpasswd command. My smb.conf is below. Am I misunderstanding something? I have turned on password chat debug and have not found any information in the log files. Am I missing something really silly? thanks, steve # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the

Hi, File server - samba 2.2.12 serving win95 and winXP systems. Win95 systems see network appropriately. WinXP systems can see the files when I do run > \\servername\filefolder\ but NOT when I go into my network places... What do I need to do to fix this? notes - a) changing the samba config files at times knocks out the win95 clients.. (config file below) b) winXP pro systems -

I am having a hell of a time getting a group of Samba servers working together as a domain. My desired setup is to have one Samba PDC (LION) in control of the ANIMALS domain and then have the other Samba file server (HYDRA) join ANIMALS. Simple enough. My smb.conf files are attached. I have added a HYDRA$ machine account to LION per the usual directions. I then follow the simple directions

Hi: I've already installed a samba server as a PDC server. I can log on to the sertver with w95&98 but Not with win2000 professional. I've samba 2.2.2 I'll attach my smb.conf to you. I've also tested win2k + SP1 + SP2 but I couldn't make it. Please HELP Me. details : Red Hat linux 7.1 Samba 2.2.2 No firewall ..... Windows Error message : "The account that you

Hi all, I was installing redhat Linux 9 some days back in my test machine. And later i tried to configure samba into that so that i could share my linux directories in windows machines. After the configurations are done i was able to see the linux machine in the Network Neighbourhood. when i click that linux machine there was an error message like this: //Local host is not

I just upgraded from samba 2.2.8 to 3.0.10 on RedHat 9. I am using the exact same smb.conf file as before and now I can connect to the server from linux clients and most windows clients, but _not_ from Win2003 Server Clients. I get alternating messages of: --------------------------- \\hostname is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contanct the

Hi, I had Samba all working, but then I upgraded to samba 2.2.1a and windows from 98 to XP. Printing no longer works, and I don't think guest access works properly either. Probably for the same reason. In windows it appears that connection to the printer is ok, but when you print it goes in the windows print queue and never gets to the linux box. In printer setup it says lp on

Hello Experts I am running Samba on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 8) and users are using thru winodows work station and intermittently their access hangs, Please find attached the messages from /var/log/messages. #uname -a Linux dlhl0211 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5 20:30:30 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux #cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS

when i try to copy a folder 2MB size containing many files and folders it takes me abt 20min long , while if i copy one whole sole 12MB pdf file it takes me 10 mostly. why? my config file: ========================= # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable

Hello, I'm having problems getting samba running on my network. My environment looks like this: samba server: RedHat Linux 6.1 on an Intel platform samba software version: RPM from the RedHat 6.1 install CD samba-2.0.5a-12 Linux kernel: 2.2.12 client: toshiba laptop running windows 95 The message that appears on the win95 machine after a logon attempt is: "No domain

Hi, We are trying to start and use Samba with a very simple configuration. We are just trying to connect to an existing Windows AD Domain and trying to mount filesystems from the AIX 5.3TL12 server to a Windows server. Can someone tell me what the error really means for nmbd and where should I start to look to resolve it? log.samba: smbd version 3.5.8 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell