Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.
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forcing winbind/samba to use single server
In a network, there are 2 AD servers. We are integrating samba and squid with AD for user authentication. Interestingly one of the servers does not allow us for enough security level. So we have to use one of them. In spite of using IP and realm of…

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Speeding up Winbind group lookups?
I have an RHEL 6 server bound to an AD domain. Everything works fine but group lookups are extremely slow. Some lookups can take over 60 seconds. This is very painful when running sudo and when users ssh in and it needs to verify their group…

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CentOS Samba wont install
I'm having trouble installing samba on my CentOS 6.5 server. I run:
yum install samba
it finds the packages but then the following error messages appears and I cant continue:
Error: Package: samba-winbind-clients-3.6.9-151.el6_4.1.i686 (updates)
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Why does Samba ignore my template shell = /bin/bash setting?
I've got a brand new installation of CentOS minimal, and have installed Samba as follows:
yum install krb5-workstation samba
Firstly, have I got all the necessary packages to become a domain member? The above command also installs for…

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Kerberos authentication of Windows clients and Redhat 5.5 with Samba PDC?
I already realize that configure Redhat 5.5 as PDC (Primary Domain Controller), and the clients (Windows XP and Windows 2003) can join the realm. The realm name of Linux server is EXAMPLE.COM.
Currently, when the time client (e.g., Windows 2003)…

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What's the issue with this Samba setup?
I asked this on superuser, but I realized that may be the wrong place. I am duplicating the question here, I hope this is allowed.
I am trying to share a directory through samba. In smb.conf I have the following:
[global]
workgroup =…

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IIS permissions issue pointing docroot to Samba share
I have an IIS project which is stored on a Samba shared, network mounted with the following line:
X: \\my-samba-server\dev /user:freddie
Connectivity is fine, can read/write files from X:.
In IIS, I'm trying to set it as the Physical path via…

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Samba Server needs to have AD authentication
My Linux server is connected to AD via Bind DN and password (without domain joining). It is using sssd for authentication.
I am able to ssh and login without any issue. I have a proper setup of uid and guid, etc. .. There is no issue with logging…

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Share folder with active directory group permissions
I have a Debian as a member of our AD (which is a 2k3).
I want to share 2 folders from our Debian. 1 with full access for everyone, the second only readable by group "ADM", and "PROD".
Part of smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = MYDOMAIN
realm =…

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Users database empty after Samba3 to Samba4 migration on different servers
I have to migrate a Samba 3 to a new Samba 4 server.
My problem is that the database on the samba 3 server seems a bit empty. The secrets.dtb file is only 20K whereas the “pbedit -L |wc -l”command give me 16970 lines.
On my Samba3 /var/lib/samba is…

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Safety of concurrent samba writes and perl move
I have samba (3.6.3-0.30.1-2920-SUSE-CODE11-x86_64) running on a SLES11 server which receives files from a Windows machine. The samba share is actually a NFS mount from an other server, and I need to use strict locking = no in smb.conf.
For reasons…

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Samba authentication with another samba
I have a samba share with build-in authentication (smbpasswd).
No any central auth (ldap, ad , radius ) in this network.
My task is, start another samba server on second hosts with same user/pass for shares.
Is it possible that samba2 use auth with…

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Throttling individual samba connections
I have a CentOS server set up with Samba on a gigabit LAN connection. I've found that if I copy large amounts of data from the Samba server to a client machine that also has a gigabit connection, that one file copy process completely eats up…

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Unable to browse to SAMBA shares
In my enviroment I have CentOS 5 installed with CUPS and SAMBA. I am unable to browse any SAMBA shares from any machine.
From Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008, I have tried the commands below
net view \\veculx1
net view \\172.19.50.30
However I…

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How do I map a Samba user's home drive via VPN?
Good evening,
I'm not sure if what I'm attempting to do is possible or not, but I figured I'd put the question out there - in case somebody may have already tried this and been successful.
I am in the process of testing OpenVPN as a possible VPN…

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