Samba

[Samba] printer device settings not saved for normal domain users on ubuntu 9.10
Hi, We recently upgraded our print server from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and the print server does not work properly. We are running samba 3.4.0 as PDC, file server and print server with open ldap. The problem that the default printer settings like duplex unit and memory size are not applied to the normal users w... 18 Mar 2010 00:30

[Samba] user authenticating then not getting a profile
Evening, samba on fedora core 5 samba 3.3.3 client vista, fully patched openldap as the backend for samba samba in the pdc role Trying to help a user sign on and off more quickly I deleted the user's profile in \\samba\$USER\profile, created a directory at \\samba\profiles\$USER. I created both the $USER an... 17 Mar 2010 19:58

Is samba right for me?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:08:38PM -0400, Chris wrote: I am currently a college student looking for ways to prepare myself for any Server Administration job once I get out of college. I've been going back and worth between Freenode IRC channels (#linux and ##windows) trying to decide what to learn. On on... 17 Mar 2010 17:24

[Samba] Is samba right for me?
I am currently a college student looking for ways to prepare myself for any Server Administration job once I get out of college. I've been going back and worth between Freenode IRC channels (#linux and ##windows) trying to decide what to learn. On one hand, we have Windows Server 2008 R2, people in #linux keep on ... 17 Mar 2010 17:24

[Samba] domain member, how to change passwords?
Hello list, I'll give a detailed explanation below. The quick question is: How can I configure a workstation (running Linux) so it can change user password on the PDC? Details: At work we are migrating from Windows to Linux and we decided to have user's /home exported with NFS4 (no kerberos yet). User dat... 17 Mar 2010 15:57

[Samba] Authentication mystery
List, things are strange here. We have a PDC (Windows based) that is out from our office and in our local network we have machines (windows xp, some with SP2 and others with SP3) that log in the domain and others don´t. We´ve been using samba just to share some directories in our internal development server. The mys... 17 Mar 2010 15:57

Permissions problem with Windows Vista / 7 clients, Debian Samba 3.4.7 server
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Josh Kelley <joshkel(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm having a very strange permissions problem with Samba 3.4.7 (installed via backports.org) running on Debian Lenny: If a Windows 7 or Windows Vista client tries to use Windows Explorer to access a user's home directory with permi... 17 Mar 2010 13:38

[Samba] Microsoft Office File Converter Problem
Hi, I have a samba server 3.4.0 running on a ubuntu karmic and there is a problem with the File Converter of Microsoft Office. When someone opens a .docx or .xlsx file with Office 2003 + File Converter, does some changes and tries to save the changes an error occurs: (something like) The file is locked for... 17 Mar 2010 09:06

[Samba] Samba4 join existing domain
Hello, I get this error message when i try to join my Samba4 server to an existing domain: """ ./net vampire domain.local -Uadmin --realm=domain.local Password for [WORKGROUP\admin]: Become DC [(null)] of Domain[DOMAIN]/[domain.local] Promotion Partner is Server[dc1.domain.local] from Site[Default-First-Si... 17 Mar 2010 07:59

Samba issues with Solaris 10
Do the samba logs indicate anything? Are there any messages in the windows event logs indicating a problem? On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Dancy, Reginald <Reginald.Dancy(a)cowen.com> wrote: Hello, I am configuring Samba for the first time and I have configured it on a Solaris 10 server. I beli... 17 Mar 2010 10:13