SAMBA digest 2158
Dominique Muller
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Thu Jul 8 08:36:12 GMT 1999
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> 1) msaccess and samba prob solved - thanx
> by "Paul Thomsen" <paul at nungalinya.edu.au>
> 2) Re: File Locking (PR#18687)
> by Jeremy Allison <jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
> 3) Re: oplock problem (PR#18690)
> by Jeremy Allison <jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
> 4) File Locking
> by Chris Burgess <burbros at uq.net.au>
> 5) Re: Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba
> by "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold at coyote.rain.org>
> 6) Re: Installation of Samba on SVR3 unix
> by "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold at coyote.rain.org>
> 7) Can you run samba with NT server not being pdc...
> by "Lanny Baron" <beef at cybertouch.org>
> 8) RE: samba - passwords MD5
> by McNally Dermot-R3564C <r3564c at europe.mot.com>
> 9) Re: Installation of Samba on SVR3 unix
> by Pete <pete at maverick-dbms.org>
> 10) Re: samba - passwords MD5
> by Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>
> 11) 'path' entry and printing in smb.conf
> by Julian Richardson <JRichardson at softwright.co.uk>
> 12) Re: 'path' entry and printing in smb.conf
> by Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>
> 13) Re: oplock problem
> by David Collier-Brown <davecb at canada.sun.com>
> 14) Re: Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba
> by Duane Davis <duane.davis at aeris.net>
> 15) Migrating from 1.9.19-prealpha
> by Andy Smith <abs at maunsell.co.uk>
> 16) Weirdness
> by "Sanborn, Ed" <esanborn at northchurch.net>
> 17) RE: Weirdness
> by Walter Dorciak <walter at agpr-usa.com>
> 18) Re: 'automatic' Printer driver installation...
> by Ries van Twisk <rvt at dds.nl>
> 19) Help: Access to samba shares through IIs ftp
> by JFreeman at cornell-iowa.edu
>
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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:47:48 +0930
> From: "Paul Thomsen" <paul at nungalinya.edu.au>
> To: <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: msaccess and samba prob solved - thanx
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> Yeah installing the latest 2.0.4b rpm solved everything... even =
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> Thanks to Jeremy Allison....
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> ------------------------------
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> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:25:19 -0700
> From: Jeremy Allison <jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
> To: Mattc at genesis2000.com
> Subject: Re: File Locking (PR#18687)
> Message-ID: <3782905F.5102A191 at engr.sgi.com>
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> Mattc at genesis2000.com wrote:
> >
> > The program is the one our comany makes, called Genesis 2000 for
> windows. I
> > am currently engaged on testing for this on the Samba server platofrm.
> I am
> > using the built-in samba package on Linux Mandrake 6.0. Smbd ver
> 2.0.3.
> >
> > We experience problems with file locking. Our program is based on
> dbase
> > technology, running clipper command set (for the DOS front end) and
> Codebase
> > (For windows front end). During login to the database, The database
> > containing the active users does not unlock, meaning that only one
> person
> > can login.
>
> Unfortunately, all distributions based on RedHat 6.0
> have a glibc locking bug that affects the Samba they
> ship - with exactly these symptoms.
>
> I have worked around this bug by modifying the Samba
> code for a glibc2.1 build - this new rpm may be found
> on the Samba site (www.samba.org) as a Samba 2.0.4b rpm
> package.
>
> I would recommend you get this version and test against
> that, I believe it will solve the problems you are having.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Allison,
> Samba Team.
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Buying an operating system without source is like buying
> a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:27:49 -0700
> From: Jeremy Allison <jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
> To: tkuba at seznam.cz
> Subject: Re: oplock problem (PR#18690)
> Message-ID: <378290F5.F5F8732B at engr.sgi.com>
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> tkuba at seznam.cz wrote:
>
> > This program is installed locally on win9x/NT and shares its
> databases. We
> > tried to place databases on novell, on NT server and on win95 acting
> as
> > server and everything worked fine. But when we tried to run this
> program
> > with databases on samba server under linux, the problems began. It was
> > possible to start several instances of program on the same computer,
> but
> > when we started program on another computer, the program returned
> something
> > like "On another computer is running operation that needs exclusive
> access
> > to databases. Stop this operation and try to run program once again".
> That
> > error message should appear only if somebody is trying to re-index or
> > backup databases.
> > The only way we were able to run the program on more than one machine
> was
> > to set "fake oplocks = yes" which isn't very happy in network
> environment.
> > So the problem seems to be with oplocks.
> >
> > Is there some difference between samba's and win9x/NT's oplocks?
> >
> > Does anybody know the solution of this problem?
>
> What version of Linux ?
> What version of Samba ?
>
> Please be more specific if you need help :-).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Allison,
> Samba Team.
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Buying an operating system without source is like buying
> a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:28:22 +1000
> From: Chris Burgess <burbros at uq.net.au>
> To: "samba at samba.org" <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: File Locking
> Message-ID: <37829F25.DC6D1481 at uq.net.au>
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> I am running Windows 95 based accounting software that uses the Btrieve
> Microkernal Database Engine (MKDE) ver 6.15.451.
>
> I have the software stored locally on the clients, and the data stored
> on a SAMBA share.
>
> My question is thus - does MKDE provide all file locking services, and
> if so, can or should I disable file locking services for this share in
> SAMBA.
>
> I have been having trouble with files being corrupted, and this is the
> only thing I can think of that might work.
>
> If anyone has had experience with this, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Andrew R Reid.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:48:03 -0800
> From: "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold at coyote.rain.org>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba
> Message-ID: <19990707034533.B2D9261750 at coyote.rain.org>
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> On 7 Jul 99, "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder at home.com> had questions about
> Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba:
>
> [snip]
> > 0. I'd prefer not to call the shares CDROM0, CDROM1, etc. Is
> > there any way to automatically make a volume label a share name?
>
> You must be a C dude, huh?
>
> I've got a couple NEC changer drives I've used with linux and
> windoze, but I've never shared one with samba (I've got plenty of
> spare 2x drives lying around if anyone wants one...).
>
> The above drives don't work in linux the way they do in windoze;
> you can forget the whole "multiple drive letters for one drive"
> thing. The windoze changer driver only works that way, whereas the
> NEC driver lets you see it as one drive if you want. Then you
> switch slots with a little system tray widget. This is exactly how
> these drives work with linux. It defaults to the first slot, then
> you use the eject command (see man eject) to switch slots. Eject
> will not work if the drive is mounted, so your script will have to
> do something like this:
>
> umount /mnt/cdrom
> eject -c 1
> (pause while the mechanism grinds away)
> mount /mnt/cdrom
>
> to switch to the second slot. Things should generally work better
> if you have a SCSI drive as opposed to IDE, as the SCSI drives
> implement a more consistent command set (or so says the xmcd
> author).
>
> Just my $.02 again, Steve
>
> *************************************************************
> Steve Arnold http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
>
> Linux: It's not just for nerds anymore...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:48:03 -0800
> From: "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold at coyote.rain.org>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Installation of Samba on SVR3 unix
> Message-ID: <19990707034536.A37256174C at coyote.rain.org>
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> On 7 Jul 99, somebody had questions about Installation of Samba on
> SVR3 unix:
>
> > There are several ways of doing this:
> >
> > 1) untar samba on a system supporting long filenames (even PC),
> renaming
> > modules there then copying to the SVR3 system (hard way). Remember to
> > rename all references to the shortened modules (makefile, includes,
> ...).
> > 2) untar on a system that supports long filenames and mount on SVR3.
> > Should be able to compile without renaming modules. (I have not tried
> > this)
>
> If you can uncompress the package without untarring it, at that
> point it's just text. Then you can process it yourself with awk or
> perl (depending on your philosphy/experience).
>
> I think one of my work buddys wrote a tar/tape package for DOS that
> re-named files/dirs to DOS 8.3 names (way back in the dark ages).
> The original poster should mail me directly if I should inquire
> about it (this guy never throws away useful code).
>
> Steve
>
> *************************************************************
> Steve Arnold http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
>
> Things go better with Linux and King Crimson.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:58:52 -0400
> From: "Lanny Baron" <beef at cybertouch.org>
> To: <samba at samba.org>, <samba-technical at samba.org>
> Subject: Can you run samba with NT server not being pdc...
> Message-ID: <000601bec82d$07611900$0302b7d8 at cybertouch.org>
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>
> This might sound stupid, but, if you have an NT server, is it possible
> to
> have your FreeBSD/Samba server do the logons? By that I mean, due to
> Windows boxes constantly needing to be rebooted, can you add users to
> your
> Unix box and if need be add them to the NT box? If you can, how do you
> disable logons in NT? Thereby forcing the user to logon to the
> FreeBSD/Samba
> server?
>
> Can you still use user manager for domains?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Lanny
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:34:33 +0200
> From: McNally Dermot-R3564C <r3564c at europe.mot.com>
> To: jpsp at rccn.net
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: RE: samba - passwords MD5
> Message-ID:
> <F3E32EB13A2CD211A90800805F8B359B0193A933 at szwg04ag.corp.mot.com>
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>
> > I've just installed 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD with MD5 passwords, but
> > it seems samba is unable to authenticate users on the machine:
>
> > [...]
>
> > Does anyone have samba-2.0.3 running with MD5 passwords ?
> > What's that 'module' samba is talking about ?
>
> Yes, and it works. However, the last time I tried, you couldn't just
> install
> using the Samba makefile, you need to patch things so that Samba doesn't
> attempt to use PAM for authentication (FreeBSD has some sort of PAM
> support,
> but apparently not the kind Samba is looking for - Samba Team: any
> chance of
> making Samba not use PAM on FreeBSD until it is known that it will
> work?).
> For this reason, the easiest way to get things working is to install
> Samba
> from the ports collection. If you don't want to do this, you can at
> least
> locate the patches you need in the Samba port definition.
>
> Oh, and of course, you might have better luck if you install the latest
> version of Samba...
>
> Regards,
> Dermot
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:16:14 +0100
> From: Pete <pete at maverick-dbms.org>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Installation of Samba on SVR3 unix
> Message-ID: <99070708230100.30492 at morhp>
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> Thanks for the reply Eugene
>
> > There are several ways of doing this:
> >
> > 1) untar samba on a system supporting long filenames (even PC),
> renaming
> > modules there then copying to the SVR3 system (hard way). Remember to
> > rename all references to the shortened modules (makefile, includes,
> ...).
>
> This was the conclusion I was coming to. I'm going to put a script
> together which will do this, if I can get it working I'll post it to
> the list.
>
> > There are patches you may need to make related to samba running with
> the 14
> > char limit. I too am running Samba 1.9.16p9 on Motorola SVR3.
>
> Which patches are these?
>
> --
> Pete
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> morph at morhp.dircon.co.uk Linux Registered User # 100652
> A member of the MaVerick open source project
> http://www.maverick-dbms.org/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 21:15:03 +1000
> From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>
> To: r3564c at europe.mot.com
> Subject: Re: samba - passwords MD5
> Message-ID: <19990707111511Z12863086-26556+974 at samba.anu.edu.au>
>
> > Samba Team: any chance of making Samba not use PAM on FreeBSD until
> > it is known that it will work?.
>
> for 2.0.4 we changed configure.in so that Samba only uses PAM if you
> use the --with-pam configuration option.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:16:33 +0100
> From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson at softwright.co.uk>
> To: "'samba at samba.org'" <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: 'path' entry and printing in smb.conf
> Message-ID:
> <c=GB%a=_%p=SSA_Softwright%l=EXCH001-990707111633Z-3903 at exch001.softwrig
> ht.co.uk>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Do I actually need a 'path' entry for each printer share defined in my
> smb.conf? Or is 'path' redundant in this case as the only relevance it
> has would be for the printing spool directory, which is defined by my
> /etc/printcap for all my printers anyway?? The man page for smb.conf
> seems to suggest that I do need a path entry, so should this be the same
> as the spool directory defined in /etc/printcap, or do they need to be
> different??
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 21:26:05 +1000
> From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>
> To: JRichardson at softwright.co.uk
> Subject: Re: 'path' entry and printing in smb.conf
> Message-ID: <19990707112611Z12863086-26556+978 at samba.anu.edu.au>
>
> > The man page for smb.conf seems to suggest that I do need a path
> > entry, so should this be the same as the spool directory defined in
> > /etc/printcap, or do they need to be different??
>
> it should be different from the one in /etc/printcap. Not because Samba
> will mind, but your print system may get confused if it finds
> unexpected files in its spool area.
>
> You can use the same directory for all your Samba printers though,
> many people just set them all to /tmp. For tidyness you may wish to
> create a /var/spool/samba and use that for all Samba printers.
>
> Cheers, Tridge
>
> --
> Andrew Tridgell (tridge at linuxcare.com) Linuxcare, at the Center of
> Linux
> Phone/Fax: +61 2 6254 9673 Mobile: +61 412 666 929
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:29:32 -0400
> From: David Collier-Brown <davecb at canada.sun.com>
> To: Tomas Kuba <tkuba at seznam.cz>
> Subject: Re: oplock problem
> Message-ID: <37833A1C.F8B58E9B at canada.sun.com>
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> Tomas Kuba <tkuba at seznam.cz> wrote:
> | It was
> | possible to start several instances of program on the same computer,
> but
> | when we started program on another computer, the program returned
> something
> | like "On another computer is running operation that needs exclusive
> access
> | to databases. Stop this operation and try to run program once again".
> That
> | error message should appear only if somebody is trying to re-index or
> | backup databases.
>
> Sounds like it's realized there is an oplock being held, and
> that therefor anothe rmachine may have the file cached...
>
> | The only way we were able to run the program on more than one machine
> was
> | to set "fake oplocks = yes" which isn't very happy in network
> environment.
>
> have you tries with oplocks turned off? That's the "normal" way
> one runs database-like PC apps.
>
> --dave
> --
> David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people
> 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain
> Willowdale, Ontario | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb
> Work: (905) 477-0437 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb at canada.sun.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:26:35 -0700
> From: Duane Davis <duane.davis at aeris.net>
> To: sarnold at coyote.rain.org
> Subject: Re: Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba
> Message-ID: <3783639B.F42938F5 at aeris.net>
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>
> Stephen L Arnold wrote:
> >
> > On 7 Jul 99, "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder at home.com> had questions about
> > Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba:
> >
> > [snip]
> > > 0. I'd prefer not to call the shares CDROM0, CDROM1, etc. Is
> > > there any way to automatically make a volume label a share name?
> >
> > You must be a C dude, huh?
> >
> > I've got a couple NEC changer drives I've used with linux and
> > windoze, but I've never shared one with samba (I've got plenty of
> > spare 2x drives lying around if anyone wants one...).
> >
> > The above drives don't work in linux the way they do in windoze;
> > you can forget the whole "multiple drive letters for one drive"
> > thing. The windoze changer driver only works that way, whereas the
> > NEC driver lets you see it as one drive if you want. Then you
> > switch slots with a little system tray widget. This is exactly how
> > these drives work with linux. It defaults to the first slot, then
> > you use the eject command (see man eject) to switch slots. Eject
> > will not work if the drive is mounted, so your script will have to
> > do something like this:
>
> I have a 7 CD changer that I had working with FreeBSD at one time.
> I had to make a slight modification to the kernel to get it to probe
> all the LUNs and then was able to mount each LUN seperately.
>
> I don't recomend sharing a changer on a network though. They're too slow
> when more than one user is trying to access it. As cheap as drives
> are nowdays it's better to use individual drives.
>
> The changer is now on my Windows machine and is not shared on the
> network.
> It's also powered down most of the time because windows insists on
> looking at every platter all the time. More of a hassle than it's worth.
>
> Duane
>
>
> >
> > umount /mnt/cdrom
> > eject -c 1
> > (pause while the mechanism grinds away)
> > mount /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > to switch to the second slot. Things should generally work better
> > if you have a SCSI drive as opposed to IDE, as the SCSI drives
> > implement a more consistent command set (or so says the xmcd
> > author).
> >
> > Just my $.02 again, Steve
> >
> > *************************************************************
> > Steve Arnold http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
> >
> > Linux: It's not just for nerds anymore...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:52:37 +0100
> From: Andy Smith <abs at maunsell.co.uk>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: Migrating from 1.9.19-prealpha
> Message-ID: <19990707175237.44594 at maunsell.co.uk>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Hi,
>
> We have been using 1.9.19-prealpha very successfully for over a year and
> have just started migrating to 2.0.4b, the environment is Sun Sparc
> running Solaris 2.5.1 and NT 3.51 & 4.0(/sp3).
>
> On the servers that have been upgraded, the log files are filling up
> with
> some ominous messages, but curiously, users are not reporting any errors
> at the moment. The following are characteristic of the recurring
> messages :-
>
> [1999/07/07 16:25:35, 0] smbd/open.c:open_directory(1153)
> open_directory: unable to stat name = windows/msapps/proof. Error was
> No such file or directory
>
> [1999/07/07 16:26:02, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
> get_share_modes: file with dev 800040 inode 199845 empty
>
> [1999/07/07 16:41:50, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:map_share_mode(410)
> map_share_mode: Incorrect value 100000 for desired_access to file
> \960008\SLD\RCD
>
> If anyone is interested I can send more detailed logs, I am continuing
> to
> investigate but just wondered if anyone saw anything like this before (I
> have seen references to 'desired_access' in the archives but it's mostly
> threads from last year).
>
> It's only the first day with 2.0.4b but my honest opinion is that the
> client
> load against 2.0.4b is hitting the sun a lot harder than 1.9.19
> yesterday,
> maybe that's to be expected with all the extra functionality.
>
> Also, we have a curious change in behaviour wrt case sensitivity for
> our AutoCAD operators. Existing drawing files loaded from a 2.0.4b
> share are immediately referenced by an uppercased name within acad.
> Because we have "short preserve case" set to no, if the filename is
> 8.3, samba duly obliges and writes out a lower case file like before,
> but if the name is longer, samba follows Acad's instruction and writes
> an upper case file name. Has anyone seen anything similar - other
> software we use here (eg word, excel) seems to behave as expected.
>
> Thanks for any leads.
> --
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:16:18 -0400
> From: "Sanborn, Ed" <esanborn at northchurch.net>
> To: "Samba List (E-mail)" <samba at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Weirdness
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> NT 4.0 workstation users are complaining that all of their drive letters
> are
> getting used up by
> what appears to be a rampant network-drive mapping situation.
>
> For example, normally I have three shares network-mapped. Lately,
> ceetain people are complaining that one of their shares get's remapped
> a number of times to take up all the drive letters (except drive letter
> Z).
> So suddenly they have 25 network-mapped drives.
>
> Why? How?
>
> -Ed
>
> Ed Sanborn (978) 691-6496
> Northchurch Communications Inc.
> 5 Corporate Drive
> Andover, MA. 01810 Fax (978) 691-6300
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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:44:33 -0700
> From: Walter Dorciak <walter at agpr-usa.com>
> To: "'esanborn at northchurch.net'" <esanborn at northchurch.net>, Multiple
> recipients of list SAMBA <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: RE: Weirdness
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> I have (or had) the same situation, did not seem to be related to Samba
> at
> all.
>
> The drive got remapped again (and again), when I had a shortcut pointing
> to
> a file on network, and I opened that file. Also the shortcut was
> modified
> (by OS, check the properties) to point to new drive mapping. I changed
> shortcut to read-only and it stopped hapenning.
>
> Walter.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanborn, Ed [mailto:esanborn at northchurch.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 1:33 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Weirdness
>
>
> NT 4.0 workstation users are complaining that all of their drive letters
> are
> getting used up by
> what appears to be a rampant network-drive mapping situation.
>
> For example, normally I have three shares network-mapped. Lately,
> ceetain people are complaining that one of their shares get's remapped
> a number of times to take up all the drive letters (except drive letter
> Z).
> So suddenly they have 25 network-mapped drives.
>
> Why? How?
>
> -Ed
>
> Ed Sanborn (978) 691-6496
> Northchurch Communications Inc.
> 5 Corporate Drive
> Andover, MA. 01810 Fax (978) 691-6300
> http://www.northchurch.net <http://www.northchurch.net/>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:06:21 +0200
> From: Ries van Twisk <rvt at dds.nl>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: 'automatic' Printer driver installation...
> Message-ID: <3783C14D.6CECBA03 at dds.nl>
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>
> Hai,
>
> doesn't use win 95 a hidden share like: \\win95machine\printer$
> (watch the '$' at the end of printer$)
> I think this is a major security hole in windows,
> I gues you should only see printer drivers in here, and not the whole
> \windows\system directory.
>
> Ries
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:09:24 -0500
> From: JFreeman at cornell-iowa.edu
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Help: Access to samba shares through IIs ftp
> Message-ID:
> <C74567F17DEAD111AD5800104B28662BC9B779 at srv1.cornell-iowa.edu>
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>
> It has been one of those days. I need to connect some samba shares to
> an
> IIs ftp server running on NT. I know the ftp server can connect to
> non-local NT shares, but can't get it to connect to samba shares. It
> appears that we do not have the authentication set up properly. Setting
> up
> the ftp server requires us to pick the samba share and give a
> username/passwd to attach the share. When the user connects to the ftp
> server, they will properly authenticate themselves to the ftp server,
> but
> the server kicks them out when it can't provide a valid samba share to
> the
> user. Does anyone have this set up? Thanks in advance.
>
> Setup
> redhat 6.0 patched to 2.2.10
> samba 2.0.4b
> security = domain
> passwords coming from a PDC on NT box.
> Access to shares through network neighborhood working fine!
>
> Jim Freeman
> (lost in NT authentication land, sorry)
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