similar to: What are these failed to create errors?

Hi All, I am getting the following error in /var/log/messages when an XP Pro client enters the network: nss_wins[8369]: [2009/04/06 15:17:23, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(810) Apr 6 15:17:23 rn1 nss_wins[8369]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users I have been told in the past to add "idmap uid" and "idmap gid" to my smb.conf and I have (no symptom

Hi All, When I have my smb.conf set to "passdb backend = tdbsam", I get the following errors when "foo" tried to browse a share: [2009/03/29 19:44:02, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators [2009/03/29 19:44:02, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758) create_builtin_users: Failed

Hi, I have a very small setup, one XP/clinet and one Vista/client and a Ubuntu/samba server. I like to cleanup my log.smbd but I can't figure out how! I have everything up and running and I can access the share's from the XP client. I googled around and it seems that I should bind some Windows group/user against Unix group/users with something like 'net groupmap add rid=2512

Hello, I recently upgraded from Samba 3.0.22 to 3.0.25c on Solaris, and after doing so I noticed a sudden proliferation of new error messages in the Samba log, such as: [2007/08/27 15:36:03, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(1200) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2007/08/27 15:36:03, 0]

Hi All, Samba 3.0.37 is working on my Solaris 10 (Sun Fire T5520) Sparc server but /var/samba/log/smbd.log displayed the following error: $ tail -f log.smbd smbd version 3.0.37 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009 [2011/03/15 11:04:44, 0] auth/auth_util.c:(844) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators [2011/03/15 11:04:44, 0]

Hi everybody, I have been struggling to get my Windows XP box to be able to access my samba server. When samba starts, I see the following my my /var/log/samba/log.smb file: smbd version 3.0.25b-2.fc7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2007 [2007/07/31 20:22:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to

Hello, I am running Samba 3.0.33-3.28.el5 configured like this: [global] workgroup = mywrk realm = myrealm security = ads name resolve order = lmhosts host bcast allow trusted domains = no socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8576 SO_SNDBUF=8576

Hi All, What causes this error message in /var/log/messages when an XP-Pro client boots up? nss_wins[27722]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users Many thanks, -T CentOS 5.3 $ rpm -qa \*samba\* samba-common-3.0.33-3.7.el5 system-config-samba-1.2.41-3.el5 samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5 samba-client-3.0.33-3.7.el5 $ uname -r 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

Strange problem, Trying to run a samba server as a PDC, I have created samba users and shares. I can access the shares however I am unable to connect to the domain. If I switch my settings on a win xp machine to make him a member of the domain then I am asked for a username and password. I have created a root samba user and if I connect like this user I get the following error: The following

I have a friend that had a samba server go down. They switched to another server and are having problems with people logging into it from Windows 98. If the same user logs in from WinXp then everything works otherwise they get an error. He also said that the smb.conf files were the same on both servers. >From the errors it almost looks like some sort of permission problem, but since it logs

Hi, I tired to add second AD domain to provide access to my samba share from RHEL5u3 server. Share access is working for primary domain and still users from second domain doesn't have access to shares. wbinfo -u shows user details from both domain. I could see below errors popped up in logs. Updated krb5.conf with both domians realms. do we need to update any additional steps in smb.conf for

Hi, Since I install Samba 3.0.23d on my Centos5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 #1 SMP I've the following messages in my logfile: Oct 3 16:45:22 smbd[6174]: [2007/10/03 16:45:22, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785) Oct 3 16:45:22 smbd[6174]: create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators Oct 3 16:45:22 smbd[6174]: [2007/10/03 16:45:22, 0]

With a recent upgrade to Centos 4.6 my system's Samba was also upgraded to 3.0.25b. Now I get the following errors in my log every day. > **Unmatched Entries** > auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators : 1430 Time(s) > auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758) create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users

Hi! First, let me apologize for the length of this message. I wanted to include as much relevant info as I could and it got a bit lengthy. For reasons that I won't bother to detail here, I ended up volunteering to upgrade the server at my kids school. It's a small private school with an all-volunteer tech support staff (me!). We currently have about 40 computers serving about 150 people.

I'm getting following response below to the command 'net sam createlocalgroup demo -d 3': [2008/09/16 16:03:46, 3] param/loadparm.c:lp_load(5065) lp_load: refreshing parameters [2008/09/16 16:03:46, 3] param/loadparm.c:init_globals(1445) Initialising global parameters [2008/09/16 16:03:46, 3] param/params.c:pm_process(572) params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file

I believe I have a config problem, but let me first explain what I'm trying to accomplish and then I'll dump all the logs, etc. w2k3 r2 domain server: hilbert.math.purdue.edu samba server: gram.math.purdue.edu realm: MATH.PURDUE.EDU domain: MATH Currently my entire environment is all Solaris, with users stored in LDAP and home directories shared via NFS. I am using Sun's Identity

Hi All, Can someone point me to a good reference on how to configure "tdbsam" ? Many thanks, -T

Hi, Since I upgraded Samba from 3.0.23b,1 to 3.0.23c,1 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE system I've the following messages in my logfile: Sep 20 17:02:46 snoozy smbd[58430]: create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators Sep 20 17:02:46 snoozy smbd[58430]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users Anybody knows a fix? Thanks in advance, -- Bert van de Grift

Hello, I've build the latest samba version(3.0.28a) as shown below on my NSLU2 running debian etch. ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-logfilebase=/usr/local/samba/log make make install That worked without any error messages and I start samba as shown below: /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D /usr/local/samba/sbin/winbindd -B /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D So far it seems to work but I found some

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm trying to combine my LDAP Server (workin Unix authentication) with SAMBA on an Ubuntu Hardy system. For now I have a smb.conf and followed the steps in http://download.gna.org/smbldap-tools/docs/samba-ldap-howto/. I had to do some modifications beacause my LDAP DIT is not empty. So I had to adapt the changes smbldap-populate would to