similar to: Strange Samba permissions

I had this problem some last year and never got it figured out. Now it is bugging me. It seems that sometimes when a student writes his/her file to a directory, it will not keep the correct group. It puts his/her main group as the group owner and that fouls things up. Here is what I have. Unix Permissions /school 3777 admin.teacher /school/bhs 3777 admin.teacher /school/bhs/reese

Was wondering if someone could tell me if this is correct. I want to set up some DFS shares. I have 3 servers with SAMBA/LDAP on them. My first is basically my PDC and the other two are my BDCs. I assume that I will have to set all of this up on each server, so that no matter which server catches the logon, the logon script will get run. Also, if one of the servers was to go down for a

My passwords have expired again in my LDAP/Samba setup. I have been reading in the Samba How-To and just want to make sure this is what I need to do before I try it. If I want to have my passwords expire in the year 2015, do I need to do the following to all of my users? pdbedit --pwd-must-change-time="2015-01-01" --time-format="%Y-%m-%d" username Using the ldap-usermod

Well, I am still having problems with my samba server. For some reason, I cannot add all of the users in. I am running a batch useradd program. I can get about 450 or so added in, then it gives me an error that the user does not exist when I go to add the last 60 or so. My batch program actually reads in the users name and then does something like: /opt/IDEALX/sbin/smbldap-useradd -a -u

I have a samba server setup with LDAP. Before I was using LDAP, I could get a list of users and groups with my perl script by using the getgrent and getpwent routines. I cannot use this anymore, because for some reason, these routines do not see all of my users. They only see up to a certain point. If I do a 'getent passwd' from the command line, it only shows up to certain number of

I am working on my permissions and something does not quite make sense to me. Here is what I have set. /DIR (Unix permissions are 3777) Then in samba I have the following [dir] path = /DIR read only = no valid users @teach @student create mask 3660 directory mask 3770 Then from a windows workstation, I create a new directory inside 'dir', and call it 'teach'. The

There was another tech coordinator that asked the following on our list: > Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to give students read/write permissions to a certain drive letter without giving them the ability to delete other (or thier own) files. Currently I have chmod 1770 permissions (read write, but only owner can delete) and one owner (the teacher) for all the files, but

Hi there, i have a samba PDC with a mix of w2l and XP clients connecting. FOr some reason the network logon scripts will not execute. I have made sure they are dos format, and the permissions are correct..... yet I can;t get it to work! Here is my samba.conf: [global] workgroup = IHPR server string = Samba Server log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50

I have set up Samba so that all users on my small network can read from my one of my Linux shares as well as write to that share. However, when user A saves a file to that share, user B can't open it -- and vice versa. How can I set up samba so that all files written to that share can be read, modified, and deleted by all users? Thanks in advance for an answer to this question.

I get the following error when I check my mail a lot. I can keep refreshing until all errors are gone, then I am alright. This started happening when I turned on the serverside sorting in squirrelmail. How do I check to see which mails are causing this problem? ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: COPY 10223:10223 "INBOX.Trash" Reason Given: Internal error [2006-02-22

I have finally managed to sneak my way through setting up a Samba-3 and LDAP server. Everythng seems to be working fine. Don't really know much about LDAP, but I needed it and am learning to use it. Here is my question: I have two buildings (BLD1 and BLD2). The server in BLD1 is my server that is up now. I want to put a server in BLD2 that will use the users from BLD1, but will be

Ok, I seem to have everything back to normal, except for one thing that seems strange to me. I have 3 samba servers going for my domain, all using the LDAP database for usernames. I have my logon script that maps drives according to the groups that the users are in. I put the logonscript on each of the servers. I was assuming that whichever server accepted the logon, that would be the

If I want to make it to where a user cannot change his/her permissions on a file or directory, are 'nt acl support' and 'security mask' what I need to be using to do this? For example, I have it set so that when a student saves his file or creates a directory, both he and the teachers can access it, but no one else can. I want it to stay that way. I don't want the

I have a Samba 3 server setup using LDAP for the backend. I keep getting a message that the passwords will expire. This happened about a month ago and I did not worry about it, because my XP machines kept telling me this last year, but they never expired. I figured it was something to do with XP and not my Samba server. This year though, with my new server, they did expire and I had to

It's both in 2.6 and recent 2.6 (for RH ASS2.1 you'll probably need to copy the latest 2.4 defintion, but I don't care for obsolete junk). Index: src/super.c =================================================================== --- src/super.c (revision 1014) +++ src/super.c (working copy) @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ /* get first two blocks */ for (i=0; i<2; i++) { - bhs[i] = getblk

I have fought with these before. I finally got them down the way that I wanted them, but I was wanting to set this up a bit different. I want to make sure that there is no way to do this without actually having to assign a bunch of different drive letters to shares. I basically one one Drive letter assigned to the top of the directory. Underneath that directory there will be several others and

It would be nice to know how often we get checksum failures. Even better, how many of them we can fix with the single bit ecc. So, we add a statistics structure. The structure can be installed into debugfs wherever the user wants. For ocfs2, we'll put it in the superblock-specific debugfs directory and pass it down from our higher-level functions. The stats are only registered with

I am not sure if this is where I need to ask this or not, but I am lost to where to start even. I had 7 computers in one lab that would not login. It gave the standard "computer account password bad or domain not found". I had another 9 computer in my other lab do the same thing. It seems that they have suddenly started losing the domain. I can add them to a workgroup and then

I have my new servers up and going with Samba and LDAP on them. Now I have to add my users. Here is my problem. I have written a perl script that reads a file and adds users to different groups depending on what grade they are in and it also generates a random password, that it exports to a master list. The old script would add the user to unix and then to samba, along with the password

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