Win Pop-Up message

Panagiotis Malakoudis pmal at space.gr
Mon Aug 9 12:05:56 GMT 1999


Does anyone know how I can setup samba to send a Pop Up message to all the
window client that are connected notifing them whenever the smb daemon will
shutdown?All this must be implemented under linux.

Thanx in advance.
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Malakoudis Panagiotis
System Administrator
Space Hellas S.A.

Telephone:6547400
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----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Keller <kellermg at potsdam.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 3:29 AM
Subject: Re: Samba Fileserver at daily use?


> Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> >
> > Matthew Keller wrote:
> >
> > > Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.  My specific circumstance is a legacy AIX system where users
have
> > > > been split into initial departmental groups with a umask of 002 and
sgid on shared
> > > > directories so departmental groups can freely read/write files.  I
can't change this.
> > > > On the NT side, I have a legacy NT domain where logon scripts run
under the
> > > > permissions of "Domain Users" and need to be applied to everyone
authenticated
> > > > to the domain, but not guests & web users of MS IIS.
> > > > I'm experimenting with LDAP to define NT groups that are not mapped
to any
> > > > unix group and it seems promising.
> > > > But I had hoped someone had found a way around the 1024 byte
> > > > limitation in group lines so we wouldn't have to maintain yet
another server.
> > >
> > >         The standard way around this in UNIX is to break users into
subgroups,
> > > and shove them into the master group. I'll explain.
> > >
> > >         Let's say you add the users to 'Domain Users', but there are
too many
> > > (example below):
> > > users:1:person1,person2.....person99999
> > >         You can always add GROUPS to other groups, so you could break
it up as
> > > follows:
> > > users1:12:person1,person2....person200
> > > users2:13:person201,person202....person400
> > > users3:14:person401,.....person500
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > users:1:@users1, at users2, at users3......@users9999
> > >
> > >         Did that make sense? I'm pretty tired....
> > >
> >
> > If you're talking NIS, I'm going to have to research it.  Right now
these systems
> > don't use it.  This is something I can implement though.
> > I guess I'm being dense or I would have picked that up right away.
> > Thanks.
>
> No, not NIS. Straight /etc/group file.
>
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>
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>   Distributed Computing and Telemedia
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