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I have an XP home (falcon) and an XP pro (tatooine) machine, both behind a rh9 box (hoth) acting as firewall. I've been trying to get samba set up on the linux box. I think I have it mostly working except that the XP boxes won't list hoth under "My Network Places - Microsoft Windows Network - MSHOME", and I cannot access hoth by name at all from the XP-pro box (by IP, I can

Dear according this wiki http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ldapsam_Editposix i have enable EditPosix extension but i receive this error Ignoring unknown parameter "idmap domains" How can i fix it ? Here it is my smb.conf : [global] workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = PC-DTOUZEAU server string = %h server disable netbios =no syslog = 3 log level = 10 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

After upgrading my Debian box to Samba 3.0.23, I'm no longer able to connect to it from my Mac OS X 3.9 machine. I can still connect from the linux box TO the mac, but not the other way around. I need to be able to mount the linux volume on the mac. I've had to downgrade to samba 3.0.22 on linux to get it to work. My home network is a simple 2 machine setup with a wired connection. My

I built an embedded box which uses mount.cifs to mount network shares. I've shipped several of these and all are working fine except for one, which gives me permission denied on certain files: root@Mnemosyne:~/mnt/bgrp1/c/Ballance Group Folders/Scully/Client Photos-Scully# cat "Office Pics 002.jpg" > /dev/null cat: Office Pics 002.jpg: Permission denied

I am noticing the following entry in my /var/log/message file: Mar 5 04:03:31 dbserver1 nmbd[7317]: name_to_nstring: workgroup name MSHOME,DATABASESRV is too long. Truncating to MSHOME,DATABASE It is in there a lot. Is this something I should try to fix? Thanks Randy

I built a small embedded samba server based on Samba 3.0.26b. I tested it locally with XP Pro running in a vmware VM. All worked fine, so I shipped it. Turns out the person using it is running XP Home. Here's her note: I have restarted the computer and waited ten minutes and still nothing. All that comes up is the mshome under the Microsoft Windows Network. So it looks like all

Hi, I have a network in my room with three computers right now, two connected to a Lynksys router, that router is connected to a wider network, then to the internet. The three computers i have in my room are: laptop running Windows Server 2003, connected to a wireless router desktop running Windows Server 2003, connected to the router in my room desktop running Mandrake 9.2 connected to the router

Greetings, I've used samba for many years now on various platforms and its worked very well. I'm now trying to use 'virtual servers' to combine several smb servers on one machine and have been following the clear and simple instructions here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_07.html (I've also cross-referenced these instructions with various posts to

Let's see I've got a network about 10 PCs running XP and 1 running Linux. I had setup Samba and it was running like a charm. XP pcs could access linux box through network neighborhood and access 2 shared dir and edit/change files. Really not sure what has gone wrong. I am using Samba 2.2.8a I run both smbd and nmbd as daemons. When I run ps -aux they show up. root 1553 0.0

I am having a problem getting users that were added in smbldap-useradd to be able to login. After I add them they are visible, but you can see I get this error - pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for test10 I believe that this has something to do with nss_ldap. because doing a getent passwd, it doesn't display any smb info. Any debugging info or help would be amazing, I'm

After reading docs several times I still can't get Windows ME machines to map to my Red Hat 9 Linux machine. I can connect from the Linux machine but not to it. I'm connected through an SMC firewall/router and have tried with the firewall shut down. I can ping the Linux machine from Windows but NBTSTAT -A does not recognize the Linux box. My smb.conf file is: [global] workgroup =

xp home can join the domain just needs a bit of hacking read http://www.ntcompatible.com/story8718.html regards ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Damien Dye BSC(hon) IT and Telecommunications Engineer Mckenna Group Lawn Road Industrial Estate Lawn Road Carlton-in-Lindrick Worksop Nottinghamshire United Kingdom S81 9LB Email :

Hello all. I have recently set up Samba on my Rehdat 9 machine. I have on my home network 2 computers, one running Redhat 9 (with Samba as mentioned), and the other running Windows 98 2nd ed. My RH machine can read and access shared directories on the Win98 machine just fine. My Windows machine can see my Redhat machine on the smb, but cannot access the shares. In other words, when I go to

Greetings, I'm having difficulty setting up an 'Anonymous Read-Write' SAMBA server on a new system with a stock FC2 installation for use with WinXP Pro systems. I'm using the following software on the 'fileserver': - Linux FC2 installed from the FC2 iso's: kernel 2.6.5-1.358 - samba-common-3.0.3-5 - samba-3.0.3-5 - samba-client-3.0.3-5 - samba-swat-3.0.3-5

Am pretty new to CentOS and linux. I am trying to be able to share network drives and connect to a windows workgroup with CentOS. Machines are as follows. Workgroup has been changed from WorkGroup or MSHome to my own setting All of the client machines are formatted with NTFS Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 2000 Linux CentOS Iomega Network Drive (nas)

Hi, there, I have 2 machines ( running Linux Red Hat 8.0 and Windows Xp individually), which share a broadband Internet connection through a router. After installing Samba 2.2.7.a on Linux machine, I can use "smbclient" to access Windows machines, see the files and transfer files. But from Windows machine, I can only see the Linux machine under "My Network Place" -->

I am having problem with Samba 2.x. I am be able to login to Samba without a problem :). When I login to "Shahid" account it directed to "/home/shahid" but I can still can see another user home dir too? why that so like I login as "shahid" account then can see "/home/shahid" but why I can see " /home/test" too - it shouldnt be? Each user

I have a networking problem where I am not certain if the problem is samba or bind. I am still pretty much a nb at linux. The machine in question is running openSuSE 10.2 and is named rd1. I had samba working fine before I started to make it a WINS server and DNS host. I have a small LAN with no real administration functionality. The network is used for simple file sharing and dial-up

Dear sir or madam, i've got a problem connecting a Linux machine with a Windows Me internet and file share. This problem i didn't got it with SuSE 7.2. From SuSE told me that have been some changes on SAMBA from 7.2 to 7.3. I'd like to ask you if some one could help me. I am looking forward for your anwser. Yours faithfuly, Bill Giannakopoulos P.S. I can see the Win PCs but i

Hello People, I do hope that this is not a really old problem that everyone is totally sick of hearing; it is a pain in the neck problem for me right now. I am just a Samba user. Help will be much appreciated 8-) I have been using Mandriva 2007 Linux and have installed Mandriva 2008; Samba has stopped working as described below. What is wrong? * The hardware is a local LAN controlled by an