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I am trying to create a master share that contains all the other shares. I created a group that needs read+write permission to all the other shares. However, rather than adding this group in each share configuration, I was wondering if there is a way to overwrite the permission. I tried this but gave read-only access. Also in the linux level, I don't have this master group as the owner. Any

Until now, we've been using samba to push out unix files to windows users. With Security = domain, this works perfectly. Now we'd like to go the other way ie mount on the linux side our PC files. Using mount -t smbfs -username=administrator //pc-server/users /PCuser works but all files appear to be owned by root so users can't write to their own files. I can add dmask=777,

I have 19 servers with this smb.conf share definition working: [export] comment = Exported Files path = /tmp/export guest ok = Yes On the 20th server however, this just doesn't want to work. I've gone through the basics of guest access and permissions more than a few times trying to figure this one out. Approaching this from another angle, I tried the following

Hello all, Does anybody share HP Deskjet 6940 and HP Deskjet 6988 off a samba server successfully? I currently using Samba versions 3.0.24 Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn in my production environment. I also the issue occurs on my laptop which is running Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 which uses Samba 3.0.26. The issue is when my users try to print multiple copies they can not through the samba server. These printers

Hello, I have installed a Samba 3.0.24 with LDAP. I have the following problem when I want to run the XP ACL Editor on a file in shared directory, I always have the same reponse : it can't write authorization changes. Acces denied. The directory involved is a local directory /home/samba/partage and it have the following rigths : 0777 Here is my smb.conf :[global] workgroup = sc

Is it possible to have a "password-less" share available to only certain users? I've been searching all over and could not find anything.

Any possibility to apply policies on WinXP machines using samba 3.2.3 ? In samba documentation in : http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/PolicyMgmt.html There is references to apply policies in NT/2000 Server and winxp clients, but it's not clear to me that will run fine or not using samba 3.2.3+winxp machines. If exist a way, How ? I was create a local policies using

I've got a paranoid client who has a samba server on a small LAN who wants to know if and when any of his employees 'transfer' (read, copy off etc) any more than a certain threshold of data a day from the server, I think he's worried that some employee may grab a lot of stuff off the server and then share it with his competition. I tried to explain that this wasn't a very

Hello all, I am trying to change the linux login password through the smbpasswd command by placing following parameters in smb.conf file: unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = "*enter old password*" %o\\n "*Enter NEW password*" %n\\n "*reenter New passwd*" %n\\n "*password changed*" But its not changing the unix

Hi Samba team, I feel user will feel more confortable when they can mount folder (via mount.cifs or mount.smbfs) under particular shared folder. Example: I have a share folder call department, all department's folder arrange inside so I have a share folder call \\server\department if I have a linux client under purchasing, I 2 command to get the correct place, and I feel it is giving more

smb.conf states "This user must exist in the passwd file, but does not require a valid login" What exactly does this mean? As I understand it, adding a user with 'smbpasswd -a nobody' automatically gives it a valid login. My reasons for asking are; I added myself to passdb.tdb with my passwd. I added the 'nobody' user to passdb.tdb with no passwd. I then logged in to

On Tue, August 5, 2008 8:12 pm, Michael Heydon wrote: > This is what happens when you rename a user, it is the same in XP and probably 2k as well. The only way that I know of to really change a No, this does not happen on Windows 2000. Note that I'm still running Windows 2000 because it runs very nicely under virtualization with only 256 MB allocated to the VM. ;) -- For a good laugh,

Hi, Im trying to run samba as a non-root user and I was wondering if this is even possible, and if not what is preventing it from being ran as a normal user??

Hello, I've a samba 3.0.24 and a share in ext3 with acl. I've set on a file the following permissions on a file a.txt : vssamba:/# getfacl /mnt/samba/partage/a.txt getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: mnt/samba/partage/a.txt # owner: herve # group: users user::rwx group::r-- other::r-- The rights for share "Partage" are : [partage]

Using samba-3.2.4, on Fedora 9. I want to create a universally writeable, browseable share. If you're on the network, you can use it. No passwords, any user. Which I tried to do with this smb.conf, which doesn't work from Windows: [global] workgroup = NEW_NET server string = asterisk server in closet netbios name = Video_Server_in_Closet bind interfaces

I'm trying to install some income tax software to a Samba (Debian 3.2.5 i386) share and I'm getting the above error. I've tried resolving it through the Windows knowledge base, which suggested it was the Windows Installer running as a local system account but even granting guest access to the directory and granting everyone rwx rights didn't help. They also suggested

I've got a NFS directory that's shared among my RHEL5 servers that I'd like to give access to a couple of Win2K servers, also. The easiest way to do so is to NFS mount the directory on my Samba server, and export the directory as a Samba share. It works. Kind of. But it redefines 'slow'. Copying the file from a normal Samba share takes under 10 seconds on a slow network:

Is it possible to use "map to guest" in a single share? We have 2 or 3 shares where I want this behavior, but for most I would like to not use it due to issues with home directories with bad users. I would simply try moving that line to a share definition to see what happens, but I don't want to break a live server to test (and have no spare Samba boxes right now). Tim B

Hello In /var/log/messages I have got a lot of errors such as : "recycle: touching .recycle/jankowski/500/500_U/21-10-5U.~TIF failed, reason = Operation not permitted " ~~.tif it's a temp file and I noticed that samba deletes this files to recycle . My smb.conf comment = Rastry public = yes invalid users = @geodeta,@ewidencja, path = /home/samba/rastry

When I stop the BDC all clients log on to the PDC. And to my confusion when I restarted the BDC today and made a testparm on both PDC and BDC both showd role domain pdc --> Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC Here my smb.confs: PDC: [global] security=user smb ports = 139 logon script = logon.bat logon path = \\%L\%U\profile\%U logon drive = S: domain