similar to: upgrade broke XP workstation logins, variably

I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script one would have to store password used for domain access, and since that is the server's root password, I really don't want to hard code that into a file. Is there a way to set (temporarily) a Samba server so that it will accept (admin/anything) as

> The domain user does login eventually. Mostly. Roaming Profiles are > very broken on W7: the top level "Vista.V2" directory is created, but > nothing is stored back into it on the server, and the logged in domain > user ends up with a C:\Users\Temp profile. Thanks to Drew Vonada-Smith the roaming profiles are working again. The problem was that information stored in

I recently ran into a situation where a Samba upgrade apparently broke the machine records in the smbpasswd file, with the resulting symptom that domain logons on those computers would fail about 95% of the time. (A very strange symptom, how it worked sometimes is still a mystery to me.) Similarly, this would fail: % smbclient -L saf01 -U 'saf/mathog%(password)' session setup failed:

Upgraded a Samba server from 3.0.28a-2 to 3.4.7-0.2. Initially the XP workstations could not log on (not finding machine account) then discovered a new "passdb" variable, so added to smb.conf: passdb backend = smbpasswd and also changed all browseable -> browsable. Restarted the server. Domain logins worked. Test files saved to desktop are retained between logins (are stored in

I recently took over maintenance of a linux computer which is drawing power from a "Maruson Power Net 1500" UPS. However, there is currently no monitoring or control of the UPS by this (or any other) computer. Can nut control this device? There are serial, usb, and EPO connectors on the back of the unit. (There may be a manual but I'm going to have to hunt for it.) Thanks, David

Setting up nut on a system where an LVM volume holds the root filesystem.. What is the appropriate device form to use with "mdadm --readonly" in halt? This is on a CentOS 5 system. So far I have found three possibilities, but I do not know which one (if any) will still be valid that late in the halt procedure: 1. /dev/md0 (from posts on the net) 2.

Yesterday I migrated a Samba server from one machine running Samba 3.0.13 (on Mandrake 10.0) to another running 3.0.20-3 (on Mandriva 2006). The contents of: /etc/samba/* (all the .conf files) /usr/local/samba/private/* (secrets.pdb, smbpasswd) were moved intact from one machine to the other, as was all of the user data. I even checked md5sums - no changes to any of the samba files. Then

After doing some system work, including upgrading the Samba server to 3.0.28a from 3.0.24, upgrading the kernel to 2.6.24, and changing the firewall rulesk, the XP workstations which belong to that domain, the right click "run as ..." option is slow to bring up a dialog. The phenotype is this: right click some program (for instance, a shortcut to the "command prompt")

Well this is even more interesting. Parts of the profile are not being saved back to the server, at least for existing users. For instance, 1. login 2. change the start menu to "classic view" 3. rearrange the desktop 4. logout 5. login again start menu is back as it was and it isn't classic view any more. Very strange. Wipe the test profile on the server and the copy on the

> Date: 30 Nov 1998 20:22:27 GMT > From: mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu > To: mlist-samba@nntp-server.caltech.edu > Subject: W95/98 connect to any SMB share as another user? > Message-ID: <73uuq3$s7j@gap.cco.caltech.edu> > > map H: as \\machine1\share1 as username=John, password=JohnsPassword map > M: as \\machine2\share2 as username=Jane, password=JanesPassword >

This is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for a convenient way to manage N "identical" Windows PCs, using as much as possible 1 command to do the same thing on all of them. The capabilities I'm looking for, preferably in a single tool are, given a designated master machine and N clones of that master: 1. Compare all (or to a specified depth) files below some directory on the

Somebody please forward this, if this is not an appropiate place to ask the OpenSSH developers for a new feature. As many of us have seen, any sshd left open on the internet eventually becomes the target of password guessing attacks. I am aware of tools for scanning the security logs, and manipulating iptables to block ongoing attacks, but I am not aware of a way to configure sshd itself to

A samba server (2.0.2 linux/intel) is the primary domain server for "SAF". 5 workstations (nt 4sp3 intel) belong to this domain. In order to trash the event viewer, do the following: As administrator: 1. select any file (on C:, this has nothing to do with samba file sharing) 2. properties 3. audit 4. add at this point it tries to look up the users in SAF, fails, and Dr. Watson

Dovecot 2.0.13 on a 64 bit linux. We have an archiver account on one machine. Most mailing lists that handles go directly to it and everything is fine. However, there is one campus list that will only send to real people. So for that one I subscribed. When one of these messages comes in, which is 1-2x per week, I copy it to an export folder and then manually run a script which does: cat

Hi, How does one configure NT 4 workstation so that it will take the username/password pair typed in by the user on the console, and pass it to a PDC (in this case, Samba) for workstation/Domain login verification? Further details: The server (1.9.19, yes, I know that's alpha) is configured to be a PDC. We have several hundred Unix accounts, for which both the username and password are

Just in case anybody else ever needs these, here are my semi-automated powershell cloning scripts for Windows domain clients for Samba domain servers. ftp://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/windows/Cloning.zip They are not very polished, but do what I need, and could serve as a starting point for other sites. These have been tested only on XP SP3. These scripts do not use sysprep, so the

We're running an older version of Samba on an Irix machine, and just got 2.0.2 working (finally!) on our Intel/Linux box. The odd thing, is that findsmb gives different results on the two systms. On Irix it lists the NetBIOS names with OS descriptions, but on Linux it lists the IP name and no OS description. I went through it line by line and found the first difference at: ../nmblookup -r

Our XP SP1 (patched with everything but SP2) workstations are logging events like: "Windows has detected that offline caching is enabled on the roaming profile share - to avoid profile corruption (etc.)" Following some goodle threads this was added to smb.conf (attached) csc policy = disable but the event still occurs, although only when something has been saved to the profile before

Short description: when upsmon starts it logs this to /var/log/messages: Jul 11 12:35:55 sorcerer upsmon[23902]: Startup successful Jul 11 12:35:55 sorcerer upsmon[23902]: user monuser not found Near as I can tell upsd is running properly. Long description: Centos 5 system (x86_64), built nut 2.2.2 from stable source with ./configure --with-usb --with-user=nut --with-group-nut make

I have a couple of Windows Vista Computers that i freshly (re)installed, updated to SP2 + all updates, and joined to my domain... i also got an empty profile on the server (the storage folder is there, but there are no files inside) When i log into the domain Windows creates all files and folders just fine and stores a cache of that profile in c:\users\username (like it should), And when i log