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I have made some changes to try and get the PDC working and now I am down to one thing where I believe the problem lies. All such documents on the setup show that the addition of users to the PDC should be added to passwd as well as LDAP but for my system that is not the case. I am running the listed software: Fedora Core 4 OpenLDAP 2.2.23 Samba 3.0.14a This is what currently happens when I

I was wondering, if it's possible to set up Samba as a sort of a domain controller for Linux workstations? I'm thinking of benefits like roaming profiles, managing printers etc. Or perhaps for Linux there are better choices than Samba, when it comes to the office / school use (many users, many classrooms, many workstations etc.)? -- Tomek http://wpkg.org

Does the domain administrator SID always end with -1000? I.e., if the SID for the domain is: S-1-2-33-4444444444-555555555-6666666666 does this mean that the domain administrator's SID would be: S-1-2-33-4444444444-555555555-6666666666-1000 ? How can I get the SID number for any given user? -- Tomek http://wpkg.org WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba

Hello, I run a Windows domain based on Samba 3 and I am searching for a way to distribute/deploy software to clients. I.e., a user logging on to a client, software should be automatically installed or upgraded. Is there any common solution? I heard of MSI packages, but I don't know if it is necessary to create MSI packages of all installations... Thanks Florian

I have two offices in one city; employees work in both of them (once in office A, the next or an hour later in office B etc.). They would like to have the same profile (i.e., if they log off in office A, they would like to have their documents, Desktop, emails etc. in the profile in the office B when they arrive there an hour later). Is it possible with rsync to construct such a "two way

According to the smb.conf man page, the "dos filemode" parameter will allow a user who is not the owner of a file to affect permissions changes on a file or folder provided he has write access to that object. This does not appear to be the case. Users with write access via user or group ACEs receive an "Access denied" error when attempting to make ACL changes via windows,

Hi, We have a Samba 3.0.14 PDC, when a client Win XP SP2 open session without LAN connexion the user CAN log into domain, why ? and how manipulate this features ? I think that client use their own SAM database, is it right ? I am sorry for my poor englsih. Thanks

Hi, Im having a problem while joining my domain. i use samba 3.014a, ldap , samba as PDC. When my XP is joinin the domain, i say's cannot find user name BUT !! when i look in my ldap database, the new computer is created in the OU=Computers i use the idealx setup and tools. It was working, but i changed something and i don't know anymore what i changed. i must be a nss /

I have two serves set up. One will be my PDC (master) and the other will be my BDC (slave). I have openldap setup and replicating the data between the two servers. Everything seems to work fine from the Master, but I have one problem with the slave. From the slave, I can do an ldapsearch and everthing is fine. But when I do a 'pdbedit -L', I get the following: Unknown parameter

Hello all, Here's a good conversation starter. How do people deploy new software (office,adobe,java,etc...) on their client machines with AD? Dom

I use wine from time to time, but I don't know how to deal with "ugly font problem". What I mean, fonts in Windows applications look really bad: http://wpkg.org/uglyfonts.png Is it possible to have "normal" fonts? If so, how? -- Tomek http://wpkg.org WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba

How do you manage printers on Windows workstations? What I mean, suppose you have many classrooms, different printers (which sometimes change) in these classroms - how do you manage which workstation (or a group of them) will use which printer? So far I've been using WPKG for that - as I described here: http://wpkg.org/wiki/index.php/Printer_configuration But somehow I feel it

I'm just exploring the Profile Editor, described on http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html - and policies saved to NTConfig.pol file and copied to the netlogon share work great for Windows XP machines. However, with Windows 2000, they don't work at all. Winh XP machines - policies are applied. I see in Samba logs that the NTConfig.pol is copied from the server to the w2k

Hello, I faced a problem with rsync-ing like this server blue 3-HD's as Linux Sofware-RAID 0 (striping) - Webserver EXT3 server green 3-HD's as Linux Sofware-RAID 0 (striping) - Backupserver EXT3 During the rsync-2.4.6-13 process one of the HD's on blue died. Though rsync decided to remove the mirrored directories from green (the backup-server). This process resulted in a partial

I'm using PXE booting to make operating system installations. There is one problem with it - it won't work when BIOS or NIC doesn't support network booting. Is it possible to put pxelinux somehow on a CD or on a floppy? -- Tomek http://wpkg.org

Hi All, I have a samba 3.0.4 installation on AIX 5.2 ML05. The problem I am facing is that sometimes one smbd is looping and consuming up to 100% CPU time. In the log I see the following entry: =============================================================== [2005/10/18 11:35:34, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37) INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 39316 (3.0.4) Please read the appendix Bugs of

Hi i want create the rpm of the 3.0.21rc1 release for my Mandriva. i have used the same spec of 3.0.20b but i have a small problems : Requires: perl-base >= 2:5.8.5 perl-base perl(Crypt::SmbHash) perl(Digest::MD5) perl(Digest::SHA1) perl(Exporter) perl(FindBin) perl(Getopt::Long) perl(Getopt::Std) perl(MIME::Base64) perl(Net::LDAP) perl(Net::LDAP::LDIF) Conflicts: smbldap-tools > 0.9.1

Hi all, I have been fishing through the archives and have not found a lot of posts about this that were not 'golden oldies.' Do you guys use anything other than brute force to deploy software and updates to your client PCs? I would be interested to know what you are using, whether you use it for initial OS install, software deployment/upgrades, or other things, and roughly how much

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

I've been pulling my teeth out trying to get SAMBA/LDAP configured. Before I ask my questions... Is this the right place to ask about the necessary attributes to put in LDAP for SAMBA to authenticate against? -- Regards. In Christ, Jason Greene Angelus Press IT Manager 2915 Forest Avenue Kansas City, MO 64109-1516 1.800.966.7337 x306 1.816.753.3557 (fax) www.angeluspress.org