similar to: Re: cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients -time stamp issue

Hello, I have setup up samba on my pc and everything is working great. I setup my writable shared folders I can view other servers/pcs on the network using gnome but sometimes I need to debug some networking issues and I would like to for example: ping myserver4 ping: unknown host myserver4 Is there a way to setup up linux to use samba for name resolution? The only way I know right now is to add

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:13:07AM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > > Try to add "-S delldebian2" to that command line > > > > net rpc join -I xx.x.x.xx -UAdministrator -w mydomainname -S delldebian2 > Enter Administrator's password: > [2009/07/24 08:46:47, 0] utils/net_rpc_join.c:net_rpc_join_newstyle(393) > Error in domain join verification

I am somewhat confused... I understand that the preferred method to mount a Samba share with a Linux client is to use "mount -t cifs" rather than "mount -t smbfs". I get the impression that smbfs is samba.org developed code where as cifs is from elsewhere. Thus the point of confusion. Why is samba.org not developing the preferred code in this case? A sub question to that

I am confused on the various account creation methods in samba. I am running Fedora Core 8 and Samba 3.0.26a-6. 1.) I can create a user with pdbedit -a I can create a user with smbpasswd -a I can list the users with the pdbedit -L command Where is the file with the users that the above commands create and pdbedit -L lists? 2.) In SWAT under "server password management" I created a use

My LAN has a single linux/samba server as a PDC/file server, and several windows workstations. The workstations get their IP addresses from a Linksys cable router DHCP server. I can't get the linux machine to resolve the NETBios names of the windows machines. >From the Linux machine I can see the Internet through the DSL router, I can ping the windows machines by IP address, but

I'm following along in the guide, trying to make printer drivers available from Samba. But when I right-click on a printer in Windows XP and select the "properties" tab, it's disabled: http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=BMeeHijW2w%2FyTvDsjpQbEQ%3D%3D So how do I enable this so the client can upload the drivers? So far I have tried: * Add the name of the user as "printer

Hi guys! when I move a file inside a share (for example, from \\server\myshare\dir1 to \\server\myshare\dir2), Samba manages it in order to make the move inside the server. That is, its very fast because the file never gets downloaded to the client. My problem is that when moving a file across different shares, it gets first downloaded to the client and then copied back to the new location. For

First: this is my first post on this list so any suggestions, let me know. I recently had to make the move from SMBFS to CIFS when I upgraded from Fedora 4 to 5. Changing settings in my /etc/fstab was easy and no errors come up but now I'm having an issue very similar to post I found on your list that got no response back in April: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-April/119813.html

Greetings ... Have a question, was is the advantages of use pam_winbind verses pam_krb5 for Samba user authentaction? I mean, if I point my Linux box Kerberos to a Win2003 AD server, I am able to authenticate my users out of AD, but at the moment still having problems with winbind and nsswitch. Is there an advantage to using pam_winbind instead of pam_krb5? Mailed Lee

I found the solution, or at least a work around, for my posting: "Can not grant SeMachineAccountPrivilege on Debian Etch" I ended up: 1) ssh to Debian Etch as root 2) smbpasswd -a root 3) issue the "net rpc rights grant ..." command SUCCESS!!! So, that raises the question that what MUST be executed as user root verses a member of ntgroup="Domain Admins"? I suspect

Hello, I'm having trouble replacing our old print server (debian sarge) with a new one. When I enable print$ and force user root and give access to nobody, the print$ share is working properly. I can create delete, add files etc from a windows xp machine. What I need now is being able to "go to printers and faxes, right click on the printer, go to advanced, and click new driver"

I know I'm looking at the answer but probably not seeing it on the Wiki? Is there a "manual" for Dovecot? Or ... where do I find all the options for the userdb and passdb options? While trying to get my head wrapped around this I noticed I might have been mixing args between the two. One example has userdb first then the next one passdb. Rod --

I am migrating our mail server from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot. We currently use maildir storage format. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Dovecot's dbox format over maildir? Does anyone have any performance benchmarks for both? What do people use to test performance? We are running on a Mac OS X box (10.5.7) using Postfix 2.6. Thanks, James.

I want to configure samba to produce a common area (i.e. /home/shared) as an assigned drive letter to all users. Thus, in addition to users logging into the domain and having an H: drive for their personal account, they will also get an S: drive (for example) for a common area. How do I configure this in smb.conf? Thanks. Scott

os: debian etch 4.0 samba: 3.025c i am reading through the how-to (using samba 3rd ed), freely available btw at http://book.opensourceproject.org.cn/sysadmin/samba/sambao3rd/ i am interested in setting up a samba pdc for a good dozen windows xp pro clients. (i somehow could not wake up from the windows 2003 sbs nightmare). i have been able to join my debian box to the local windows domain and

Hi, I have a software samba installed in Kubuntu and I have tried to write archives in samba area. I can read archives that are in samba area, but I can't put new archives in this area. The error message access denied: It was not possible write to smb://oxigenio/narciso/fatorial.java root@oxigenio:/etc/samba# uname -a Linux oxigenio 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12

Hello - I just installed Fedora Core 2 the other day and have been trying to mount a share to some XP shares (domain members) without any luck. If I use the following line it works fine: mount -t smbfs -o username="mkipness",password=xxxx,domain=domain //10.0.100.74/c$ /mnt/max-laptop But if I use the the same statement substituting cifs, it doesn't: mount -t cifs -o

Hi all, when trying to mount a windows file share using the commands below, mount exits immediately with message "password too long" before even attempting the mount: mount -t smbfs -o username="a user",password="12345678901234567" "//server/share" "/mnt/target" mount -t cifs -o user="a

Hello While the mounting process is successful, the behavior of remote directories and files is different under CIFS than SMBFS. Here are some of the issues I have encountered: 1) When doing a "file" on a file mounted under SMBFS, it gives a standard output depending on the file type. For the same file under CIFS, it gives the same information with "setgid sticky" before

Hello, I have the following Samba RPMs installed... samba-client-3.0.26a-0.5 samba-3.0.26a-0.5 samba-pdb-3.0.26a-0.5 yast2-samba-server-2.9.33-0.3 kdebase3-samba-3.2.1-68.62 samba-winbind-3.0.26a-0.5 yast2-samba-client-2.9.18-0.3 samba-python-3.0.26a-0.5 I used to be able to do a mount with -t smbfs, but not I get this message whenever I try it. Version