Samba

Documentation

• Homepage
• Samba HOWTO collection
• my old samba links
• O'Reilly book
• Gentoo Samba Howto
• fully automating the installation of Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
• User Rights and Privileges
• Oplocks
• Samba error messages
• Samba Domain Model
• groups members etc

Samba and ACLs

• http://www.bluelightning.org/linux/samba_acl_howto/

Migration

• NT to Samba migration
• Migration from NT4 PDC to Samba-3 PDC
• http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-December/114772.html
• Migrating profiles

smb.conf

• smb.conf manpage

server role

• server role

Samba and DNS

• DNS Administration

Samba and LDAP

• Automated Samba + LDAP Installation For FreeBSD 7.1
• Samba&LDAP doc
• smbldap-tools
• Samba-LDAP on Debian
• Debian Samba 3 / LDAP / PHP LDAP Admin HOWTO
• samba and ldap
• Part I: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux and Samba Users
• http://swik.net/Samba+LDAP (vague collection of links)
• change password on samba/ldap
• LJ quick howto for samba/ldap
• LDAP Authentication
• Samba3 and LDAP
• Another pam/ldap page, just some broken pics there
• Samba (v.3) PDC LDAP howto
• http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LDAP_SAMBA_PDC_Basic_Setup
• Samba-LDAP howto

Samba as PDC

• Samba as PDC
• Samba PDC mini-HOWTO
• Troubleshooting Roaming Profiles on Microsoft Windows NT/2000
• Samba as PDF on Gentoo
• profile management
• Samba and windows profiles
• UNIX and Windows User Management
• Managing Samba: Remote GUI tools
• HOWTO LDAP SAMBA PDC Performance Tuning
• How to setup PDC using Samba in Debian

net rpc group addmem  "Domain Users" someuser

nt 4.0 reskit to manage domain users!!

cpau.exe to run stuff as other user

remember to add option netbios-name-servers to dhcpd.conf

High Availability

• High Availability
• CTDB
• Setting Up An Active/Active Samba CTDB Cluster Using GFS & DRBD

HOWTO

Automatically create home directory

On Ubuntu:

pam-auth-update --enable mkhomedir

Rename linux domain member

https://marc.info/?l=smb-clients&m=121764337631413

net ads leave -U administrator@MYDOMAIN.COM

Next, change the netbios name value in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, e.g.

netbios name = <NEW NAME>

Restart the samba and winbind daemons

1. /etc/init.d/smb restart && /etc/init.d/winbind restart

Finally, you rejoin it to the domain

net ads join -U administrator@MYDOMAIN.COM

Make sure everything OK.

net ads testjoin
getent passwd
getent group

Check winbind

wbinfo -t
wbinfo  -u

User management

List users

pdbedit -L -v

Software

• http://www.samba.org/samba/GUI/

Terms

• RID
• SID

Commands and tools

net

• Chapter 13. Remote and Local Management: The Net Command

pdbedit

pdbedit -L

smbmount

mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser //servername/sharename /mnt/sharename/

or in fstab:

//servername/sharename /mountpoint cifs noauto,username=foobar 0 0 

If you get very vague warnings on debian this means you didn't install one of many smb* packages, probably smbfs

nmblookup

nmblookup -M domainname

dfree

to show correct disk space/free

• LDAP Account Manager
• mkntpwd.tar.gz
• Samba Account Management Tools

• gsambad too manage samba users

Windows commands

(if not found, install NT 4.0 Resource Kit)

nltest

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158148

FAQ

Cannot update roaming profile

Usually because a file is in use, check out

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs

Dump/check configuration

testparm

Windows complaining about wrong rights on profile

• http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Implement_Samba_as_your_PDC#Configure_Windows_XP_clients
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327259
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221833

No security tab in Explorer

• http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/07/19/missing-or-no-security-tab-found-in-windows-xp-professional/

Windows did not load your profile because a server copy of the profile folder already exists that does not have the correct security

profile acls = yes

Can't join domain

close all shares log in to windows, no anonymous 'login'

on access virus scanning

• http://johannes.jakeapp.com/blog/?p=54
• http://www.dazuko.org

Windows cannot connect to the domain, etc..

Switch to workgroup, set system name first, reboot, join domain again, reboot.

win2k: Error joining domain: User name could not be found

means samba couldn't find MACHINE name, probably a failing add machine script? also check /var/log/samba/log.machinename for Get_Pwnam and "add machine"

create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users

we can only guess

Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup

Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name for the workgroup
find_domain_master_name_query_fail

synching mess

turn off csc policy

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5

add sec=ntlm to options

Find samba config file

smbd -b | grep "CONFIGFILE"

reload samba config

smbcontrol smbd reload-config

1. or all of them:

smbcontrol all reload-config

Can't find pid for destination 'reload-config'

You were using wrong syntax

Failed to join domain: failed to find DC for domain FOO - The object was not found.

start with checking dns

check_account: Failed to find local account with UID

Check for winbind plugins and presence in nsswitch.conf