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By: Mick Lohan

Mick Lohan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:20:39 +0000

You might need:

7b: add the group ntadmin: addgroup ntadmin

8.4: optionally add the new user to the ntadmin group: usermod -G ntadmin -a smulcahy

By: Stephen Mulcahy

Stephen Mulcahy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:30:51 +0000

Whoops, you tripped over our spam filter there – not sure why. I’m having lots of trouble with Windows policies on my Samba connected clients – http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-February/129803.html and I’m running out of ideas quickly. About the only thing remaining for me to do is try a different network card in client. I’ll be very upset if I find out that that is the cause.

By: Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:49:43 +0000

I think I read that too Steve but given the move to AD by the time we get around to updating Samba on the DC it’ll be moot. As to how things are: George Bush is screwing with my life here in Toronto but that’s because of the Daylight Savings Time change which Ontario is going along with 🙂

By: Stephen Mulcahy

Stephen Mulcahy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:44:53 +0000

I’ve made 2 minor updates to the smb.conf, I’ve enhanced the ‘hide files’ line and added the same line to the profiles share. This fixes a problem whereby some hidden system files (mainly desktop.ini) were showing up on screen when the user logs in (see http://www-gatago.com/linux/samba/14514952.html for some discussion of this problem).

It sounds like the correct solution if you want full support for attributes like HIDDEN and SYSTEM is to use the samba parameter ‘store dos attributes = yes’ and to mount the filesystems used by Samba with the user_xattr mount option. I’m not sure I need this additional level of complexity yet though (and I’ll need to investigate the user_xattr option further before applying it blindly).

Is anyone else using this?

By: Mick Lohan

Mick Lohan — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:42:04 +0000

Sweet! got it going on my vmware linux box. Makes a simple solution. Thanks

By: Stephen Mulcahy

Stephen Mulcahy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:31:56 +0000

Hey Mark, good to hear from you. Hope all’s well in Toronto. I believe the sign or seal reghack is no longer neccesary, at least thats what someone on the Samba mailing list suggested in this post – http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-February/129773.html.

By: Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:22:29 +0000

We have been using Samba DCs for years and it works quite well. We do have to implement the “sign or seal” reghack on the XP boxen. For various reasons we are going AD soon but the Samba DCs are still chugging away nicely 🙂