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This is running in vmware, and I noticed occasionally wmware reports that the cpu is being maxed out by a virtual machine. Logging into the virtual machine and running top confirms that the smbd process is maxing out the cpu. If I leave it alone for a while, eventually it starts dropping connections and not letting people into the file server. Killing the process with kill -9 does no good, it

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain and I need to create a group policy to assign an msi install to a computer. This has always worked fine on a Windows share, but now the install fails after moving to a Samba file server. I'm guessing it's some sort of permissions issue. Does anyone know how to make this work? James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas

Here's the situation: We have users who are members of groups and those groups are sometimes members of a 2nd level of groups. If a folder has permissions assigned to a 2nd level group, then the user can not access the share. Doing a "getent group | grep user | grep 2nd_level_group" also returns nothing. Samba seems to not be recognizing that a user is a member of a group under

hello I'm having the following problem: On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files. Another user has read-write access to these files. When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the read-write user has only read-only access. If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has

I'm trying to decide on a linux distro to use for our enterprise Samba server. I like that there is a deb repo for Debian from samba.org, but I'm more comfortable with CentOS (Redhat). I just want to be sure I have a well supported Samba server and I need at least the 3.0.20 version so I can use the "inherit owner" property. I also want automatic updates for bugfixes and

We are running a fileserver (Samba version 3.0.10-1.4E.9) on CentOS 4.4. No AD, clients are Windows XP and OS X. Linux acl's are used for access to directories and files. Each top-level folder belongs to a primary group with mode 2770. The acl's restrict access to lower level directories. We need to pass the acl's down the directory tree or else users may have unexpected access to

One computer will show the previous versions of files just fine, but every other computer I've installed the Microsoft Shadow Copy Client on will not show any previous versions. The Previous Versions tab is just blank. In the samba log, I get this: [2006/11/28 12:02:02, 0] modules/vfs_shadow_copy.c:shadow_copy_opendir(81) shadow_copy_opendir: SMB_VFS_NEXT_OPENDIR() failed for

What is the difference between %u and %U? The documentation says they both return the value of the connected username, but will they return different values? James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

This is samba 3.0.23c running on RHEL 5.0. Starting a few months ago, the server started periodically slowing to a crawl. The cpu would be maxed out and top would show the load between 5 and 10 (it's usually way under 1, like 0.3 to 0.5). Any way to figure out what is causing this? This is a 3.2 ghz P4 and a 'pgrep smbd' returns 141 processes. We only have about 300 users who

I imagine we can save some space on our file server by cleaning up all the files that are saved multiple times by different people. There is already the fdupes command in linux that will scan a directory tree and report what files have duplicates. This could be easily scripted to turn those duplicate files into symlinks to one file. The problem is see, then, is what would happen if someone

Our samba server authenticates to Windows 2000 Active Directory and I have ea support enabled on the share and on the file system. The OS is Debian Stable, fully updated and using Samba 3.0.23c from Backports. Now copying and accessing files is plenty fast, but when setting up permissions on directories that contain 100 GB or so of files and subdirectories takes like 60 minutes from the time I

Hi everybody, I need to setup a couple of new servers with RAID 1 & another with RAID 5, witch card will have built in support (no need for drivers). It can be for ATA or SATA drives (any preference on ATA or SATA ?). I'm looking for a PCI card , or a motherboard with built in card. I been looking at the : 1. "3ware 64-bit PCI to SATA RAID Controller Card, Model "Escalade

What is the difference between Heimdal and MIT as far usability goes? MIT seems to be the default on major linux distrobutions, but I here a lot about people preferring Heimdal, but I can't find any reasons why. Is one generally more stable/faster/reliable than the other? There is already a blank wiki page at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_%26_Kerberos so if anyone has any good

I''ve got something that I''m not sure is actually doable. I have a very complex model relationship with a lot of parent/child/grandchild/ greatgrandchild etc stuff going on. Is there a way to do a route like this? tld.com/ projects/:project_name/:sequence_acronym/:shot_number/:department/:eleme nt_name/:version/ where: project is the parent of sequence sequence is the

I had been thinking this would be a good idea, but figured if it could be easily done, then it would be done already. Then I came across this article: http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/ which has this to say: ----------------------- The mapping between POSIX and Windows ACLs described here is found in this form in the SuSE and the UnitedLinux products, while the official

Hello all, I've been using Samba for a few years now and have finally come across a problem that I can't seem to sort out myself so I thought I'd use your intelligence instead... Heres the situation. I've got a Linux box (2.4.17) acting as a PDC for some dual boot Linux/NT boxen. Currently users have a single home directory (over NIS to Linux and Samba to Windows) with separate

I'm not sure where to post this. I subscribed to R-Sig-Debian this morning, I hope the email excerpt below proves this: Welcome to the R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org mailing list! To post to this list, send your message to: r-sig-debian at r-project.org General information about the mailing list is at: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian If you ever want

I couldn't get samba to run on my system, after launching smbd in debuging mode I got: dadecal@tramontana:/usr/local/samba/bin$ ./smbd -d 10 ./smbd: Version 2.2.0-alpha2 : Must have effective user id of zero to run. What is this about? -- ______________________________ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: dadecal@s2-selling.com Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2

New kernel packages are available for CentOS-3 x86_64. Refer to https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-689.html. RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.ia32e.rpm RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm RPMS/kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

Here is the result from getent: user@SERVER01:~$ getent group | grep 10208 DOMAIN\group1:x:10208: BUILTIN\administrators:x:10208:DOMAIN\user1,DOMAIN\user2,DOMAIN\user3,DO MAIN\user4 What is up with that? Is there some way I can manually change the gid of one of these? The group1 is a new group that I just set up btw. James Dinkel