similar to: Joining XP SP2 to a Samba PDC

I have been trying for 2 months to get my samba server to add machine accounts 'on the fly" I have added both of these to my smb.conf add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 102 -s /bin/false Neither of these seems to do anything. I have around 250 computers to add, so adding the machine

I have Fedora Core 4 installed and have configured the smb.conf file as a PDC. the problem i have is that i will be adding 250 win XP sp2 machines to this PDC and I need to be able to create the machine account on the fly. However no matter what i do i can't get my Win XP machines to connect without manuelly adding the machine accounts which will not work for me. When i try and connect from

Hi, try to add these scripts in your smb.conf file: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/userdel %g %u set primary group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -g '%g'

I'm trying to set up Samba as a PDC for some Win7 clients, and could use some help. I can successfully join the domain, with the message "Changing the primary domain DNS name of this computer to "" failed.", but I am still told that it was successful. However, when I try to log in, I am told "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain

Greetings, I've been pulling my hair out on this problem for several days and I'm not really any closer to a solution. I hope someone out there can help me. I'm trying to set up a samba PDC on a Fedora Core 2 box using an LDAP backend (on another server). The base install of everything is working fine. At the unix level LDAP connectivity is configured and working properly for

_____ I am having some issues getting my vista client to automatically reconnect to samba after a reboot. The client OS is Vista Business 64Bit SP1. The server is running on Ubuntu (latest version) and Samba 3.2.3. The symptoms are this. I browse to the server via \\name or \\IP_address. I then select a share, map network share to say z:/ It will usually prompt me for authentication just

I have been running our companies XP Pro systems on our Samba domain controller (version: 3.0.10-1.4E) with local administrative rights up to this point. Everything has worked fine. We are getting larger now and I'd like to make the logins locally restricted (I want them to have XP's "Users" rights and "Remote Desktop Users" only). When I restrict the accounts

Hi, I've recently reinstalled our Samba server with a view to getting it working as a PDC using the tdbsam backend. I've successfully connected a number of XP Pro SP2 clients to the domain and can login ok, but I'm have problems getting the clients to read/apply an NTConfig.POL file I created following the instructions at http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html I'm seeing

Dear all, I have created two virtual machines on my computer (With Vmware 5.5.3). One is running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Samba 3.0.22. The other one is runnung a WinXP SP2 client (name: test01). I can browse the shares of the Samba Server. Furthermore I can connect to them with different user names. When trying to join the client to the domain I get an error message that the

Hi, I've just upgraded an old samba 3.0.23 on an old Fedora Core 5 to samba 3.5.4 using an rpm built from the source. Everything works fine, but when i start the server i get some error messages(see below). Before i start the server there is no connection (tested with lsof and fuser) on the 139 and 445 ports, smbd or nmbd aren't running. With the old version i never had this

I've having trouble getting XP SP2's to join a domain. Whenever I try to join, at the point I'm asked for a user name and password with permission to join the domain, I enter root and root's password, then get the dreaded "Unknown user or bad password" error message. The clients are a mixed bunch with some 98's, 1 Win2K, a few XP SP1 (I know, I know!, but

Hello , I am trying resolve the problem when I try begin daemon smbd , show this message in my log.smbd , Somebody know what cause this problem ? What access denied ? [2009/10/13 15:37:54, 0] services/services_db.c:svcctl_init_keys(420) svcctl_init_keys: key lookup failed! (WERR_ACCESS_DENIED) [2009/10/13 15:37:54, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1057) ERROR: failed to setup guest info. Case somebody

Good day good people, I have troubble with printing. I have samba 3.0.14a-Debian, on Debian Stable Sarge. There is my smb.conf # Global parameters [global] dos charset = CP852 unix charset = ISO8859-2 workgroup = IRIXAS server string = Samba Irix a.s. null passwords = Yes obey pam restrictions = Yes pam password change = Yes passwd

Hello Everyone, I am having some trouble and would greatly appreciate some assistance. I apologize if this has been on the list before I am however down to two hours before due date. I have use samba before with no problems but this is the first time I have had to do it with LDAP. The problem is no users appear to be authenticating and there are no errors in the logs. I followed the

I have tried every possible configuration suggestion I have found on the net, but still can't get my windows PC's to see *nix shares (running Kubuntu 9.04 and Samba 3.3.2 with a Gadmin-Samba GUI 0.2.7) and Win2000 and WinXP. The *nix box can see and use the shares from the various W-boxes, but not visaa-versa. Here is my smb.conf: [global] netbios name = Mercury1 server string = Samba

Hi All, I've happily had Samba (3.0.24) operating as DC for my Win2k/XP network for years. I've just upgraded to Vista and eveything seems to be working fine (shares, domain logons) apart from roaming profiles. Just after logging on, the following error appears in a bubble from the system tray: "Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary

Dear Samba Team, There are three issues happening in my Samba 3.6.6 Issue 1: After upgrade, when upload file which is more 100mb to Samba, it shows error "File name too long cannot copy" in windows xp. Tried to use 3 different pc to upload different files more than 100mb, it also fail to transfer the file and show the error. Tested to upload file which is 25mb or 50mb, it is okay, no

I have read over the lists and search the web, I know this question has been asked before, but I've not been able to fix my problem so I'll ask here. I have been successful in joining the XP machine to the domain however it when I try to login to the domain windows instantly kicks up the message: "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domaincontroller is down or

Hello everybody. I am having troubles to log on a samba domain from winxp and win 2000 workstations. I patched the registry with the requiresignorseal=0, changed the local and group policies (following various comments found on the web), and added the machine account for samba (obviously, /etc/passwd too). I tried with samba 3.0.7, 3.0.10 and 3.0.13, Winxp with and without sp2, and win200

I have Samba and LDAP up and running, but I'm having problems editing the password policy using pdbedit. (I'm running 3.0.22) I've had a look at the man page for pdbedit but I don't really fully understand what it does in relation to passwd backends. Does pdbedit update just one backend and expect a user to export the updates to other backends? I think I've set up ldap as