Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly

Everyone, Both the Microsoft Network Monitor (sniffer) and "Nbtstat -r" shows that Windows XP is not acknowledging the broadcast packets from the Samba box, Well, that's an interesting statement... So, XP spouts a request to the ...

Message posted on the December 29th, 2010 - 12:00 PM ET

Print servers and how to share a printer

You should know that you don’t have to permanently leave your PC/MAC running to be able to share your printer with others on the network! With an independent print server, each network post will be free to access one or more printers on the ...

Review published on the April 22nd, 2008 - 6:56 PM ET

Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly

Excellent information, thank you. Unfortunately, none of it solved my problem. Start sniffing the machine as you do a "Network Neighborhood" search. You might also check and see just where and how lookups are being done for NETBios ...

Message posted on the December 28th, 2010 - 5:50 PM ET

Bug#669891: samba: Samba need to be start manualy at boot

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: samba Version: 2:3.6.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, On a recent install of wheezy (with gnome-shell) I can not browse samba shares from my computer ...

Message posted on the April 21st, 2012 - 2:40 PM ET

[Samba] winbind ubuntu 9.10 crashing machine

Hi all: I've got a couple Ubuntu 9.10 machines that are suffering from a recurring failure of winbind that essentially crash the machine. When the system is in the "crashed state", one can ping the system, but all forms of login fail. ...

Message posted on the May 10th, 2010 - 1:20 PM ET

Bug#516047: samba-common: minor small fixes, smb.conf

Package: samba-common Version: 2:3.2.5-4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz Index: s/refersh/refresh/ /it's case insensitive nature/s/'// /builting/ s/g// add comma, s/a/an/ add commas use "its" instead of "of ...

Message posted on the February 18th, 2009 - 7:30 PM ET

[Samba] Samba4 alpha >20 version: Samba & smbd daemons !

In Samba4 alpha 21 and 22 Smbd daemon has to be run except Samba daemon to get access to your shared NetBios resources (folders) .That is in case of alpha versions after 20, Samba daemon starts in its own smbd daemon automatically and with with some ...

Message posted on the May 28th, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET

[Samba] Questions for minimal AD DC, DNS setup and Posix use

Our plan is to have one AD DC running in Head Office, RODC's at Branches and a second writeable DC at a contingency site. Fileshares will run on separate servers. The Windows 2003/2008 Servers use authentication services from samba4 and run ...

Message posted on the January 31st, 2013 - 2:00 AM ET

[Samba] Prevent smbd from consulting winbindd

Colleagues, I am running smbd in a setup described in http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html#id2604553 under "Winbind is not used; users and groups are local". Samba is running in the security=domain ...

Message posted on the January 16th, 2012 - 1:50 AM ET

[Samba] Logging denied connections from outside LAN

Greetings - I have an interesting issue that I am trying to understand. This may not be a direct Samba related issue, but the results of the issue are showing up in the Samba log, so I thought I would start here. Please direct me elsewhere if ...

Message posted on the January 23rd, 2013 - 3:20 PM ET

Re: [Samba] Samba 4 "Services for UNIX"? [SOLVED]

To get the automount schema to work with the git checkout of samba 4 I had to modify the automount schema files and separate the attributes from the classes. I also discovered that it's required to have the ntSecurityDescriptor , instanceType, and ...

Message posted on the January 9th, 2013 - 8:00 PM ET

[Samba] Access and group issues on domain member server (PDC is Samba as well)

Hi List, I created a domain member server in my samba domain. I start to realize that there are some issues when colleagues could not access some folders in the their shares. After searching for a solution I found that on that member server I have ...

Message posted on the August 1st, 2012 - 6:30 AM ET

[Samba] Migrate samba to new server

Hi, i have a really old server running samba 3.0.11 (PDC, tdbsam backend) and i'd like to update my server and start using samba 3.6.7 from sernet, my question here is. What files do i need to migrate from one version to another, do i need to ...

Message posted on the August 28th, 2012 - 5:50 PM ET

[Samba] samba_dnsupdate?

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Now for the next question. I think (hope?) that I am quite close now. In order to add a machine to ...

Message posted on the April 9th, 2013 - 11:30 PM ET

samba need start