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Hi, I installed of Samba on Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. Things went smoothly but I got some "failed" ( error? ) messages like account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 4 (maximum password age), returning 0 at the end. Could someone please explain to me what this is. Is it a serious issue??? or problems with the deb package?? Full details below. Thankyou so much. Kind

I am trying to add a GNU/Linux client to a FreeBSD domain controller running Samba. Can some one guide as to how to go about it ? I have managed to add Microsoft Windows 2000 clients to the domain but would like to have some guidance on how to go about adding GNU/Linux clients. I did a bit of searching and could not find a simple how to. A reference URL of sorts would help. Thanks in advance.

I have upgraded to version 3.0.27a on ubuntu 7.10 server and now the getent command wont display the active directory users, but wbinfo will. It worked fine with 3.0.26a and I have not changed my configuration. I do however have this in my winbind log: [2007/12/04 13:39:01, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:request_len_recv(544) request_len_recv: Invalid request size received: 2084 (expected

At the risk of going off topic here... does anyone know how to configure the /etc/pam.d/su file to allow authenticated domain users to be able to 'su' into root. Or atleast how to add them to the wheel groups so that I can su with a non-root, domain user? Guillermo Gutierrez Development Systems Engineer Market Scan Information Systems (818) 575-2000 x2427 ggutierrez@marketscan.com

I am trying to join a windows 2003 domain using a Gentoo samba server v3.0.25rc3 and I am receiving the following message when the join fails: Using short domain name -- MARKETSCAN Failed to set servicePrincipalNames. Please ensure that the DNS domain of this server matches the AD domain, Or rejoin with using Domain Admin credentials. Deleted account for 'SOLIDSNAKE' in realm

whoops, forgot to copy the list on it. sorry. Well, an update. I can log in to the console using any domain profiles, but, I can not access the exposed home directory through NetBeui (My Network Places/Network Neighborhood). Also, how should I configure /etc/pam.d/sshd to allow domain users to authenticate and logon through an ssh client (PuTTY?, OpenSSH?) -----Original Message----- From:

Dear Friends, Is It Possible to Make a *Share* Visible to a List of Users *Only* ? e.g. If have shares Likes Account, Sales, Support Then I would Like make respective *share* visible *only* to persons in respective dept. Thanks and Best Regards.

Hello all, I have setup my gentoo samba server as a domain member server of a windows 2003 Active Directory Domain using winbind. I am able to see all the users and groups with wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g andwbinfo -t does not report any errors. 'Getent passwd' and 'getent group' return local and domain users and groups. My problem is that when I login as a domain user, my prompt

Hi, I post my message here because I can't debug my problem, I hope you have time to help me to find the problem. I'm trying to join my Samba machine to an ADS domain, but my "net ads join" don't work :( There is my logs, if you need more detail ask me. ~# klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: administrateur@TEST.LAN Valid starting Expires

Hello, I am new to this list but I have been learning to use linux/bsd and samba for the past year. so far I have been able to learn enough on my own to be able to successfully set up a functional samba server on FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux boxes. I am trying to learn how to integrate them into an Active Directory windows 2003 server domain. So far I have verified that Kerberos and ldap and winbind

Hello, I just rebuilt the samba server that I was working on and when I try to add the line "winbind separator = \", testparm tells me that its value must be 1 character and then displays its value as the proceeding line. If I change the value to '+', it tells me that the value might cause a problem with groups memberships. If I just leave the value at '/' then it does

I am having trouble with getting my Homes section to work properly. When I browse to the server from a Windows client, I can see my home directory. However, when I try to access it, it challenges me for a userID and password. No matter what I enter, I will not allow me access. Can someone point me in the right direction to solve this? Here are the errors... [2006/03/27 11:19:22, 0]

Hello, I reeeeally need someone's help here. I guide after guide from all sorts of sources but I still cannot get samba to authenticate a domain login via winbind off of the windows 2003 DC on our network. Here is what I can do: I can successfully do a kinit command and can verify the existance on the samba server in active directory on the DC. I can login using domain profiles on the samba

I am migrating from my "old" 2.2.7 samba server to a newer server runnig 3.0.20a and everythig is working except the [homes] share. The server (FILE-CABINET) is a member of the domain, security is set to ADS and, as far as I can tell, kerberos is working. The program wbinfo returns a list of users and groups like it should. getent passwd returns first my local passwd file and then

Help me please, I am getting desparate. I have tried to the follow the following how-to for joining a Gentoo Linux samba server to a windows 2003 domain and cant seem to get the the "getent passwd" command to any domain users. Here is the document that I was following: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Adding_a_Samba_Server_into_an_existing_AD_D omain Here is my smb.conf as well: # Global

Hi, I am setting up FreeBSD with Samba to Windows domain environment to act as a file server. Before put it to a real network, I'd like to do the test. If I made samba join to the test domain, do I able to take off from test domain and join to the real domain without re-install samba? Thanks, Jeffrey

I am running a Debian Linux system with Samba 3.0.23d and the 2.6.8-3-386 kernel. I found a howto for adding a debian samba server to an ADS domain on debian-administrator.org but when I get to the point of actually running the 'net ads join' I get the following errors: 'resolve_name:unknown name switch type dns' And 'ads_connect:No such file or directory' Does anyone

Hitting a big mystery here. I've configured samba properly but I would like to run swat. The /etc/xinetd.d/swat file contains: service swat { disable = no port = 901 socket_type = stream wait = no only_from = 127.0.0.1 user = root server = /usr/sbin/swat log_on_failure +=

I have upgraded to samba 3.0.25 on a Debian Etch system and I am using winbind to authenticate against active directory. It used to work just fine with 3.0.24, wbinfo showed all users and groups, getent used to show all users and groups, and I could 'su' and do all sorts of fun stuff using domain accounts on my Debian box. Using V3.0.25, wbinfo still reports everything as good, but

Hello, I have upgraded my gentoo samba server to version 3.0.23c using the ebuild script on bugs.gentoo.org that was suggested top me on this list. I am having some trouble accessing my "public" folder and I have a "valid users = +users" for that share. I have tried using "valid users= +Solidus\users" as well and that does not work. The first way seems to work just