Samba

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Samba and LDAP

Samba as PDC

net rpc group addmem someuser "Domain Users"

nt 4.0 reskit to manage domain users!!

cpau.exe to run stuff as other user

Windows complaining about wrong rights on profile

Terms

Commands

  • net
  • testparm
  • pdbedit
  • smbmount or just mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //server/share /mnt/point
  • smbclient
  • smbstatus
  • nmblookup -M domainname

FAQ

Cannot update roaming profile

Usually because a file is in use, check out

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

Can't join domain

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


smbmount

mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser,uid=uidofmountpoint,gid=gidofmountpoint,fmask=775 //servername/sharename /mnt/sharename/

Windows cannot connect to the domain, etc..

Switch to workgroup, reboot, join domain again, reboot.