Bug#535258: can't set directory access right from Windows - samba share access - order by pertinence

[Samba] problems with samba upgrade from 3.5.4 to 3.6.9

Hi @ all, we use samba as a fileserver on CentOS and an OpenLDAP server on Ubuntu 10.04. The samba server shared only files, so we can access with the win7 clients (and OpenLDAP credentials) to the files on the linux environment. So after upgrade ...

Message posted on the March 8th, 2013 - 5:40 AM ET

[Samba] Limit of mapped users

Hi, I have a list of 57 Active Dicretory users mapped to a single local samba user (username map). The 58th is unable to access the samba share. I can shuffle the users at will, #58 loses. Any ideas? Usernames are between 7 and 8 characters long. ...

Message posted on the February 27th, 2012 - 4:30 PM ET

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 problem accessing domain member samba serve r on different subnet

We recently ran into a similar issue. If you have any microsoft "Live" components installed on your 7 box, samba servers must be contacted by numeric IP address rather than netbios (or even IP mnemonic) name. ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2010 - 9:40 AM ET

Bug#569837: samba: The nmbd daemon is not started

Package: samba Version: 2:3.4.5~dfsg-2 Severity: grave Tags: l10n Justification: renders package unusable on my two computers with debian unstable, the nmbd deamon is stopped after the boot. So when i browse the network, the computer is not seen on ...

Message posted on the February 14th, 2010 - 12:50 PM ET

[Samba] Samba/Windows "you do not have permission to access this"

I'm constantly running into the above error message when accessing files on a samba share under Win7. Files are fully accessible under Linux ie the group permissions are being honoured but Windows just locks me out if I'm not the owner. file: ...

Message posted on the August 1st, 2012 - 7:10 AM ET

[Samba] Samba performance

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use samba in a small video post production house but we are not getting the performance we expected. Our setup: - CenOS 5.6 x86-64 - samba.x86_64 (3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 and 3.6.0rc1) - Intel based server (One 4 core Xeon ...

Message posted on the May 25th, 2011 - 11:10 PM ET

[Samba] File names with unusual characters and linux smbfs clients

I had a weird problem today that brought to light an issue that I didn't realize was happening on my samba servers. I had a windows user save a file to a samba share with an "em dash" character in the file name (em dash is unicode U+2014). ...

Message posted on the December 2nd, 2011 - 4:40 PM ET

[Samba] browsing across subnets/vpn

I am setting up a client with vpn to access a samba share. The samba server (which is both file and WINS server) is also the vpn machine, so nothing too complicated as far as routing goes, and the vpn stuff (openvpn stuff) all seems to work fine, ...

Message posted on the April 14th, 2010 - 3:20 AM ET

[Samba] Samba issues with Solaris 10

Hello, I am configuring Samba for the first time and I have configured it on a Solaris 10 server. I believe I have everything setup correctly. The smbd daemon is running and I performed a test with the smbclient. The problem I'm now having is ...

Message posted on the March 16th, 2010 - 6:00 PM ET

[Samba] RPC_S_PROCNUM_OUT_OF_RANGE

Hi, I had a linux server installed with samba 3.0.9-2.6 (SuSE 9.1) and a samba shared folder among 12 PC under WinXP/Win7. The linux server has been replaced by a new one a week ago. The new machine runs samba 3.5.4-5.1.2x86-64 with the same ...

Message posted on the February 3rd, 2011 - 9:20 PM ET

Lucid Lynx Samba w/ AD auth problem

Hi there, I tried configuring Samba with AD auth (towards a SBS 2003) but I cannot seem to access Samba with an AD account. I used https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto . After adding an AD account using "smbpasswd ...

Message posted on the September 1st, 2010 - 4:08 AM ET

[Samba] vfs_gpfs module errors

Hi I'm encountering an error with some of my Windows clients when using CTDB and samba to access a GPFS hosted share. We see the following error all the time. [2011/03/14 12:31:16.549084, 1] modules/vfs_gpfs.c:1099(vfs_gpfs_ntimes) ...

Message posted on the March 14th, 2011 - 9:10 AM ET

[Samba] Sharing a caching NFS mount with samba?

I am trying to set up a caching link between two points, that can be shared with windows and *nix. In both locations, I have linux-based servers with data, which have caching NFS mounts (that is, mount -t nfs -o fsc, with cachefilesd). These ...

Message posted on the March 3rd, 2011 - 5:30 PM ET

[Samba] (no subject)

Hi, When I try to save a new execl file to a samba share, I 've got an error "unable to access to file", but the file is currently well saved. No problem with open office nor ms word. A wireshark trace indicate "Query_path_info/ ...

Message posted on the April 15th, 2010 - 6:10 AM ET