similar to: Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

I am using Samba PDC with OpenLDAP2 and smbldap-tools. As part of my logon.bat, I call a script called ifmember.exe. This script can list out the groups a user is a member of. It is reporting that my root user is a member of the group 'engr.' I don't know if this is a bug with ifmember.exe or if it's an issue in Samba or in LDAP. Here is some relevant data:

All - I'm having a problem with the "valid users" directive working. I have an Accounting share that only the Accounting department should have access to. However, I am unable to lock the directory down so only they can access it. I am running samba-3.0.0-2 from an RPM on RedHat 9.0. Below are details of my trials. This is a pretty urgent need, please. Thank you! smb.conf

Dear all i have successfully setup samba on RHEL 5, but when the server samba offline why the computer client (Wins XP) cannot login? can someone help me how to fix this problem, i won if samba server offline the client still have login with domain, and work by local harddisk here is my smb.conf [global] workgroup = DLS server string = Samba Server Version %v netbios name = PDCDLS log file

I'm struggling with a permission problem on a samba server that is configured to resolve unix uids and gids via nss using sssd. This mostly works. The windows side sees files as being owned by SID=S-1-22-<unix uid of user> and the group is SID=S-1-22-<unix gid of group> This all works fine for files owned by the windows user, or files that are world readable, but fails for

I thought I had things figured out, but guess not. I have multi-user Quickbooks databases that functioned fine on a Novell server but are behaving badly on a Samba share. I have created a separate share for the Quickbook databases, users are running Win XP Pro, latest patches, and the Quickbooks application installed on the desktop. It is a multiuser version. Server is RedHat ES 3, Samba

I'm trying to set up a back-up file server (192.168.123.3) that will rsync files from the main production file server (192.168.123.4). The production file server is set up to run rsync --daemon, and I know it is doing so because on my backup server I can execute rsync 192.168.123.4:: and get the list of modules as follows: etc home samba Here's my /etc/rsyncd.conf file uid =

Hi, I have samba-3.0.11-1 on a Red hat ES 2.1 box. I also have a Win 2003 Server Domain Controller, to which my users should autenticate. My files are all in linux machine (+ also apache, mysql etc) I have also an Access mdb that could be open by several user at same time, based on linked mysql tables. Opening certain masks in access is veryyyyyy slow, so I try to create another share, accessible

hi everybody we have been reading through the archives for quite some time now, and could not find a solution to our problem. please excuse if we overlooked something and our question was already answered elsewhere... we have Samba version 3.0.14a-Debian running on (you guessed it) debian with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. ever since our migration from samba 2.x we have speed issues with an ms

Is anyone else concerned about the fact that rsync doesn't guarantee to produce identical file copies on the the target machine? Don't get me wrong in sounding critical because I think that rsync is a great example of how software should be written. (I often make the observation, as I learn more about Linux, and inevitably find myself comparing open source applications to Microsoft

OK, I just took my first non-root user live on my Samba 3.0.7 system. Printing is via cups, with drivers stored in the print$ share. This user is a local power user. She can add printers, or root can add them. Root can also print from them. If this user tries to print anything (a test page even) she gets a non-verbose error that looks like a permissions error. She can view the queues

Hi there, Can somebody please explain to me why Samba 3 requires 'oplocks = no' on shares for programs like Quickbooks to operate properly with multiple users, where Samba 2 didn't? Without this option, Quickbooks will complain about file corruption when a second user tries to open a file. This option, however, makes the particular share that the option is present in _very_ slow

Hopefully I can write this out so someone understands it. We are currently running a number of Solaris servers, to which windows computers need to connect. Currently they connect via NFS using hummingbird's NFS client. This requires them to have a separate unix account along with their windows account. Our idea is to implement samba 3.0.0 to eliminate that NFS client. My current

Thank you for answering. I am testing Samba 3.0.1Pre1 on RH9 . MS Word 97 keeps opening already opened files without sending any warning as it would normally do when accessing W2K servers. Same program , same files behave differently with Samba and W2K. However, I found that Powerpoint is nevertheless able to sense correctly the situation by always giving such warnings - " test.ppt is

Hi all, There are many posts on many lists about this issue but no definitive answers. For me the issue came up with a new server running CentOS 5 + samba 3.0.35c + openldap. The recent postings I've seen always seem to have either RHEL 5 or CentOS 5 in common with the provided 2.6.18 kernel. The issue is .doc or .xls files saving and then producing an error about not being able to

Hello, I try to enable files locking with samba, but I didn't succeed in. I've red samba official howtos but I'm not sure I've understood everything. (Samba 3.0.14a as aPDC, ext3 with acls, debian) I've tried : enable privileges = yes nt acl support = yes acl compatibility = auto security = user passdb backend = tdbsam lock directory =

I've been looking at several posts for weeks now and finally concluded through testing how to install Samba 3.X into the Windows Active Directory environment. I was completely under the impression that you needed to load Kerbos/ LDAP and a bunch of other stuff. In our case our ADS is running in native mode and I was able to join the domain quite easily. I've tested authentications and

Hi, I use a RH7.2++ samba-2.2.3a-6, kernel-2.4.9-7 PDC configured server. If I open a MS Office file (word/excel), the changes can be saved, but closing the application crashes it. I'v read about oplock problems on this list and in the net; the only solution was to update to 2.2.5 and may be to RH 7.3++. I set oplocks = no, level2 oplocks = no (GLOBAL), hoping that would help - but it

Hi, We have been having a few problems with a M$ Access DB held on a Samba server Samba version: samba-2.2.4-2N1 We have rebuilt a new server, and transferred the database over to the new box, along with word/excel docs etc. Everything is working fine, except the access database, which is running very very slowly (can be over a minute to open a record). Details are a little sketchy, but it

Hello Samba folks, I have recently begun seeing some disturbing behavior from winbind. Winbind will fail to look up users and groups. Examples: The machine is configured to use winbind as a nss module. "getent passwd <username>" will yield no results. "wbinfo -n <username>" will yield "Could not lookup name <username>" "wbinfo -g"

I know this question has been answered here a while back, but I have not been able to find the mailing with the posts on it. -----==========----- I have a redhat server that I am using as a file/print server for student use. I am using samba to help the users with Windows. The problem I have is that when using printing a user can submit a print job, and it prints fine, but cannot see the