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Hi, we do have a Voiceboxserver which forward recorded avi messages to the mailserver account of users. I'v tested it for my account 10 minutes ago and everything works. Some users don't get the messages shown up in there mailclient while the logs show a delivery of that mail. May be some mail caches are messed up? We use Thunderbird 2 and the users concerned use imap. Where may I

Hi, recently we upgraded a central RHEL 5 fileserver to the latest RH EL 5.1 rpms, including samba. (samba-3.0.23c-2.el5.2 update to samba-3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4) Now some users have the problem, that opening a word or excel file saved on a samba share takes up to 30 seconds. Today I could verify this on the users desktop XP PC. This problem occures only from time to time, so it may be also a

Hi, now that a lot off software is updated e.g. RedHat EL and dovecot got finaly final :-) we plan to upgrade our mailserver from RHEL4 dovecot 0.99 to RHEL5 with dovecot 1.0rc15 - the rpms provided by Red Hat. I've read the upgrading Dovecot manual from here http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot, but yust to get things right I'd like to ask some questions: Simply spoken, we use the

HI, I recently upgraded an wu-imap server to dovecot dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.3 without big trouble (the subscribed mailboxes had to be added by hand...) But today users told me that there where some problems; e.g. a user tried to delete a message and got this error: Oct 19 09:43:13 mail imap(jmeinken): File isn't in mbox format: /home/mitarbeiter/jmeinken//Trash This didn't happen

Hello G?tz, could you do a closer look at your smbd (maybe with truss or strace) to see what exactly happens? or maybe it would be enough to watch traffic between your client and server (and traffic between your server and nameserver, domaincotroler (if involved)) best regards, chris -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: samba-bounces+christian.masopust=siemens.com@lists.samba.org

Hallo, I recently installed a new server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with samba 3.0.23c. I coyied the userdata from the old server I nfs-mounted. Now some directories and filenames show up broken or messed up (e.g. instead of, "Martin, Vogth" it is something like MbGErr) mounted on windows xp explorer and mac osx finder. local on the server the names are correct listed (ls).

Hi, we have a strange problem: two of our users informed me, that they aren't able to send word-.doc-files anymore while othe attachements work fine. The e-mail gets deliverd, but the attachement is dropped. This happens using the latest thunderbird 1.5.x and mac os x. The e-mail is also not saved in the send-drawer. If the users send the same e-mail to the same recepient using an other

Hi, I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used the wu-imap-server. dovecot starts and I can subscribe to my old imapfolders, but if I send mails to my account, this new mail arent downloaded. If I quit Mozilla and restart Mozilla, the recently send mails are in my inbox. We use also a webmailsystem, so I could verify that the mails are in the inbox without

Hi, I have one server in a DMZ with an public IP. The three-leged-shorewall is configured using proxy arp, to access this server from the internet and the local network. That works for e.g. http... From the server I can ssh to the firewall or ftp to the internet, but I can''t ssh or ftp into the local network. (may be there is something wrong with the routes...?) I don''t

Hi, how many gusets can I run with Centos 5.2? RH EL 5 is limeted to 4 guests while the advanced server is unlimeted. We like to migrate a couple of small physical servers and some test/development-systems to virtual systems. Thanks for any hints. Best regards G?tz Reinicke -- G?tz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke at

Hi, we run a dovecot mail-server with about 50GB of e-mail and at the moment users are responsebil for macking ther own backup of e-mails. But I'd like to have also a backup of the mail, beckause not all users do ther backups ... We use mbox-format-mailboxes. Any ideas how to backup the mailboxes without stopping the server, doing a backup to disk/tape/...? Thanks for any ideas ant

Hi, I have one user who should be able to _view_ all open files and connections on a samba server. He should not be allowed to login to the server by telnet or ssh to use smbstatus, nore should he be able to use swat as long as he could view the configfile. So my question: is there a way to configure swat for one user to only view the opened connections? Or dose someone has an other idea?

Hi, we run a RH9 samba 2.2.8 ext3 Server and have some problems with MacOS X Clients: They aren't allowed to write directories containing files to any of our shares. I connect to the sambaserver with smb://servername/sharename and a samba user. This user is allowed to create new folders and he can copy files into this folder. But if he tries to copy the local folder containing files to

Hi, after the update from wu-imap to dovecot, opening e-mails on the imap server seems slower than with wu-imap. I haven't measured any speed yet, but clicking on a message in a folder takes sometimes a couple of seconds to open the mail. Any ideas or performance tips or information you need? Regards G?tz -- G?tz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax

Hi, we run a RH 9 Server with samba 2.2.8 as a PDC. Win 2K/XP Clients can log in without a problem, logonscripts work fine. Now I'd like to update to Fedoroa Core 1 with Samba 3.0.0. I have read the update chapter of the "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO", but have the simple questions: will the new samba server work "out of the box" with the "old" configuration,

Hi folks, I installed a new samba-PDC-server (dual athlon, raid,...) with Redhat 9++ and samba 2.2.8a from rawhide. I copied all (?) configfiles (/etc/samba/*) from my old server an adjusted some shares. The old server (RH 8, Samba 2.2.6, single PIII) was working for a couple of month without a probelm; I could create mashineaccounts on the fly from windows 2K and XP Pro, profiles and

Hi, because the fedora project switcht from wu imap to dovecot, i followed this step. Today I'm very unhappy about this step, because there are more problems for me than advantages... But today the biggest problem is, that a lot!!! of mailboxes are damaged. within three year no mailbox was damaged using wu imap. The errormessage is: imap(cstrang): File isn't in mbox format:

Hi, we run a Red Hat EL 5.2 mailserver with dovecot as the imap server. Mails are stored in mbox format and there are about 134GB of mail. At the moment users copy their importent mail to their workstation accounts wich are backed up nightly. What are your suggestions to back up the mails not copied? Thanks for any comments. BTW: Dose changing the mailbox format from mbox to Maildir or dbox

Hi, we run a samba 2.2.8 server and like to migrate to a faster, new server running samba 3.0.2a. I thought to copy all files from the old to the new one mounting the new shares by nfs. For a test I copied some files using scp. A problem concernes the german umlauts: on the old server they aren't displayed if I "ls" the files while browsing the share works fine. If I copy the

Hi, I'v been googling around for information using a samba server as authentification and fileserver for mac os x clients. At the moment I have all useraccounts and (home-)shares configured on the samba server and I can manually connect to the server from the os x clients. My Questions: Has someone a how to configure a loginscript for mounting the samba shares? Or has someone a how to