[Samba] ntvfs handler = cifs, CIFS-Proxy

[Rowland Penny]

On 01/10/14 23:01, Meike Stone wrote:
> 2014-10-01 23:30 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>> On 01/10/14 20:20, Meike Stone wrote:
>>> 2014-10-01 19:08 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>>>> On 01/10/14 16:22, Meike Stone wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to configure a CIFS-Proxy. My configuration is:
>>>>>
>>>>> [global]
>>>>>            workgroup = MYDOM
>>>>>            server role = member server
>>>>>            realm = MYDOM.NET
>>>>>            netbios name = FS01
>>>>>            server services = +smb +s3fs
>>>>>            dcerpc endpoint servers = +winreg +srvsvc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [test]
>>>>>            ntvfs handler = cifs
>>>>>            cifs:server = 192.168.1.10
>>>>>            cifs:share = projects$
>>>>>
>>>>> but in logfile I ever get following message:
>>>>>
>>>>> [2014/10/01 17:04:05.929403,  0]
>>>>> ../source3/param/loadparm.c:2377(service_ok)
>>>>>      WARNING: No path in service test - making it unavailable!
>>>>> [2014/10/01 17:04:06.146723,  0]
>>>>> ../lib/util/become_daemon.c:136(daemon_ready)
>>>>>
>>>>> It is samba 4.1.12, the packages are from Sernet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I need to compile my binaries on my own, if so,
>>>>> what compiling options I must use?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Meike
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw: Is there anywhere a HOWTO for configuring a CIFS-Proxy?
>>>> Hi, did you provision your samba4 server as a member server ? if not, did
>>>> you write the smb.conf yourself ?
>>> Yes, the samba server is domain member in MYDOM,
>> Hi, yes to what ? the first or the last question ? anyway I think you need
>> to read this:
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_a_Samba_AD_Member_Server
>>
>> Provisioning as a member server is one of the things that doesn't work yet.
> Excuse me, but I don't understand the meaning of your hints.
> The samba server is member in the Domain MYDOM, I told this, because you asked.

I asked you **TWO**** questions but you only answered one and I didn't 
know which one!

I do not think that what you are trying to do will work, you will be 
running the smbd daemon and the alterations that you refer to, are meant 
to affect the samba daemon i.e. a DC that you have provisioned.

Rowland

> I've read exactly this document you mentioned.
> For the join, I used:
> net ads join ....
>
> I see the computer account in the Microsoft ads.
>
> My Problem is, I want to setup a CIFS-proxy, not a fileserver.
> - Despite of setting up the proxy as ad viced in
> https://github.com/ccrisan/samba/blob/master/source4/ntvfs/cifs/README
> I get error messages in the log, that no path is available in the
> service [test].
> After asking Google, i found in
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2012-August/168723.html
> that Andrew Bartlett stated, that cifs vfs must enabled via
>
> server services = +smb -s3fs
> dcerpc endpoint servers = +winreg +srvsvc
>
> in the global section.
>
> I did this, but it didn't helped.
>
> Thanks Mike