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diff --git a/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html b/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html index 3f680b78d7..6e37fbcba5 100644 --- a/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html +++ b/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.59.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-Config.html" title="Chapter 3. Configuration problems"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 5. Common errors"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Config.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-ClientApp"></a>Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</h2></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2808466">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2808495">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2808433">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808466"></a>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</h2></div></div><p> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 3. Specific client application problems</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-Install.html" title="Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 4. Common errors"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 3. Specific client application problems</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Install.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-ClientApp"></a>Chapter 3. Specific client application problems</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2815105">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2815137">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2882001">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815105"></a>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> When installing MS Office on a Samba drive for which you have admin user permissions, ie. admin users = username, you will find the setup program unable to complete the installation. @@ -11,14 +10,14 @@ rdonly by trying to open it for writing. Admin users can always open a file for writing, as they run as root. You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R" to fix the owner. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808495"></a>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</h2></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815137"></a>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be installed onto workstation clients. </p><p> The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves -running <b>X:\setup /A</b>, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy. +running <b class="command">X:\setup /A</b>, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy. </p><p> This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target @@ -45,8 +44,8 @@ set the following parameters on the share containing it: browseable = yes public = yes </pre></li><li><p>Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows -workstation as follows: <b>\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</b> -</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808433"></a>Microsoft Access database opening errors</h2></div></div><p> +workstation as follows: <b class="command">\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</b> +</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2882001"></a>Microsoft Access database opening errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Here are some notes on running MS-Access on a Samba drive from <a href="stefank@esi.com.au" target="_top">Stefan Kjellberg</a> </p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Opening a database in 'exclusive' mode does NOT work. Samba ignores r/w/share modes on file open.</td></tr><tr><td>Make sure that you open the database as 'shared' and to 'lock modified records'</td></tr><tr><td>Of course locking must be enabled for the particular share (smb.conf)</td></tr></table><p> -</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Config.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 3. Configuration problems </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 5. Common errors</td></tr></table></div></body></html> +</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Install.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 4. Common errors</td></tr></table></div></body></html> diff --git a/docs/faq/FAQ-Install.html b/docs/faq/FAQ-Install.html index 411656bc76..0bb21ed543 100644 --- a/docs/faq/FAQ-Install.html +++ b/docs/faq/FAQ-Install.html @@ -1,55 +1,4 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.59.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter 1. General Information"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-Config.html" title="Chapter 3. Configuration problems"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Config.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-Install"></a>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2808542">I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2811456">Some files that I KNOW are on the server don't show up when I view the files from my client!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2811470">Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2860743">My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2860797">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2806029">Printing doesn't work</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2807904">My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2807925">Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2807990">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2811127">How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808542"></a>I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</h2></div></div><p> -See Browsing.html in the docs directory of the samba source -for more information on browsing. -</p><p> -If your GUI client does not permit you to select non-browsable -servers, you may need to do so on the command line. For example, under -Lan Manager you might connect to the above service as disk drive M: -thusly: -</p><pre class="programlisting"> - net use M: \\mary\fred -</pre><p> -The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from -client to client - check your client's documentation. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811456"></a>Some files that I KNOW are on the server don't show up when I view the files from my client!</h2></div></div><p>See the next question.</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811470"></a>Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</h2></div></div><p> -If you check what files are not showing up, you will note that they -are files which contain upper case letters or which are otherwise not -DOS-compatible (ie, they are not legal DOS filenames for some reason). -</p><p> -The Samba server can be configured either to ignore such files -completely, or to present them to the client in "mangled" form. If you -are not seeing the files at all, the Samba server has most likely been -configured to ignore them. Consult the man page smb.conf(5) for -details of how to change this - the parameter you need to set is -"mangled names = yes". -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2860743"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</h2></div></div><p> -This indicates one of three things: You supplied an incorrect server -name, the underlying TCP/IP layer is not working correctly, or the -name you specified cannot be resolved. -</p><p> -After carefully checking that the name you typed is the name you -should have typed, try doing things like pinging a host or telnetting -to somewhere on your network to see if TCP/IP is functioning OK. If it -is, the problem is most likely name resolution. -</p><p> -If your client has a facility to do so, hardcode a mapping between the -hosts IP and the name you want to use. For example, with Lan Manager -or Windows for Workgroups you would put a suitable entry in the file -LMHOSTS. If this works, the problem is in the communication between -your client and the netbios name server. If it does not work, then -there is something fundamental wrong with your naming and the solution -is beyond the scope of this document. -</p><p> -If you do not have any server on your subnet supplying netbios name -resolution, hardcoded mappings are your only option. If you DO have a -netbios name server running (such as the Samba suite's nmbd program), -the problem probably lies in the way it is set up. Refer to Section -Two of this FAQ for more ideas. -</p><p> -By the way, remember to REMOVE the hardcoded mapping before further -tests :-) -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2860797"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><p> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter 1. General Information"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 3. Specific client application problems"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-Install"></a>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2816137">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2816189">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816137"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> This message indicates that your client CAN locate the specified server, which is a good start, but that it cannot find a service of the name you gave. @@ -58,68 +7,7 @@ The first step is to check the exact name of the service you are trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's docs on how to specify a service name correctly), read on: -</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2806029"></a>Printing doesn't work</h2></div></div><p> -Make sure that the specified print command for the service you are -connecting to is correct and that it has a fully-qualified path (eg., -use "/usr/bin/lpr" rather than just "lpr"). -</p><p> -Make sure that the spool directory specified for the service is -writable by the user connected to the service. In particular the user -"nobody" often has problems with printing, even if it worked with an -earlier version of Samba. Try creating another guest user other than -"nobody". -</p><p> -Make sure that the user specified in the service is permitted to use -the printer. -</p><p> -Check the debug log produced by smbd. Search for the printer name and -see if the log turns up any clues. Note that error messages to do with -a service ipc$ are meaningless - they relate to the way the client -attempts to retrieve status information when using the LANMAN1 -protocol. -</p><p> -If using WfWg then you need to set the default protocol to TCP/IP, not -Netbeui. This is a WfWg bug. -</p><p> -If using the Lanman1 protocol (the default) then try switching to -coreplus. Also not that print status error messages don't mean -printing won't work. The print status is received by a different -mechanism. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2807904"></a>My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</h2></div></div><p> -Your guest account is probably invalid for some reason. Samba uses the -guest account for browsing in smbd. Check that your guest account is -valid. -</p><p>See also 'guest account' in smb.conf man page.</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2807925"></a>Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </h2></div></div><p> -This can have several causes. It might be because you are using a uid -or gid of 65535 or -1. This is a VERY bad idea, and is a big security -hole. Check carefully in your /etc/passwd file and make sure that no -user has uid 65535 or -1. Especially check the "nobody" user, as many -broken systems are shipped with nobody setup with a uid of 65535. -</p><p>It might also mean that your OS has a trapdoor uid/gid system :-)</p><p> -This means that once a process changes effective uid from root to -another user it can't go back to root. Unfortunately Samba relies on -being able to change effective uid from root to non-root and back -again to implement its security policy. If your OS has a trapdoor uid -system this won't work, and several things in Samba may break. Less -things will break if you use user or server level security instead of -the default share level security, but you may still strike -problems. -</p><p> -The problems don't give rise to any security holes, so don't panic, -but it does mean some of Samba's capabilities will be unavailable. -In particular you will not be able to connect to the Samba server as -two different uids at once. This may happen if you try to print as a -"guest" while accessing a share as a normal user. It may also affect -your ability to list the available shares as this is normally done as -the guest user. -</p><p> -Complain to your OS vendor and ask them to fix their system. -</p><p> -Note: the reason why 65535 is a VERY bad choice of uid and gid is that -it casts to -1 as a uid, and the setreuid() system call ignores (with -no error) uid changes to -1. This means any daemon attempting to run -as uid 65535 will actually run as root. This is not good! -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2807990"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><p> +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816189"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com. </p><p> Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings. @@ -173,22 +61,4 @@ time zone is also set appropriately. [[I don't know how to do this.]] Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time zones. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811127"></a>How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</h2></div></div><p>Question: -“ On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer". - Enter ["\\ptdi270\ps1"] in the box of printer. I got the - following error message - ”</p><p> - </p><pre class="programlisting"> - You do not have sufficient access to your machine - to connect to the selected printer, since a driver - needs to be installed locally. - </pre><p> - </p><p>Answer:</p><p>In the more recent versions of Samba you can now set the "printer -driver" in smb.conf. This tells the client what driver to use. For -example:</p><pre class="programlisting"> - printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L -</pre><p>With this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string -exactly right.</p><p>To find the exact string to use, you need to get to the dialog box in -your client where you select which printer driver to install. The -correct strings for all the different printers are shown in a listbox -in that dialog box.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Config.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 1. General Information </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 3. 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Error was Cannot assign requested" in the logs</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811288"></a>Not listening for calling name</h2></div></div><p> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 4. Common errors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 3. Specific client application problems"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-features.html" title="Chapter 5. Features"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. 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Common errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2816075">Not listening for calling name</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2815985">System Error 1240</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2816025">smbclient ignores -N !</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2814553">The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816075"></a>Not listening for calling name</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> </p><pre class="programlisting"> Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN Not listening for calling name @@ -15,85 +14,39 @@ global section of smb.conf. It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to be confirmed, but that is less likely. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811329"></a>System Error 1240</h2></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815985"></a>System Error 1240</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> System error 1240 means that the client is refusing to talk to a non-encrypting server. Microsoft changed WinNT in service pack 3 to refuse to connect to servers that do not support SMB password encryption. </p><p>There are two main solutions: </p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of -the samba HOWTO Collection</td></tr><tr><td>disable this new behaviour in NT. See the section about +the samba HOWTO Collection</td></tr><tr><td>disable this behaviour in NT. See the section about Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection </td></tr></table><p> -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811215"></a>smbclient ignores -N !</h2></div></div><p> -“When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command -<b>smbclient -N -L</b> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816025"></a>smbclient ignores -N !</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +“<span class="quote">When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command +<b class="command">smbclient -N -L</b> the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server. It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our NT servers. -” +</span>” </p><p> No, it does not ignore -N, it is just that your server rejected the null password in the connection, so smbclient prompts for a password to try again. </p><p> -To get the behaviour that you probably want use <b>smbclient -L host -U%</b> +To get the behaviour that you probably want use <b class="command">smbclient -L host -U%</b> </p><p> This will set both the username and password to null, which is an anonymous login for SMB. Using -N would only set the password to null, and this is not accepted as an anonymous login for most SMB servers. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811270"></a>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</h2></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2814553"></a>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Some OSes (notably Linux) default to auto detection of file type on cdroms and do cr/lf translation. This is a very bad idea when use with Samba. It causes all sorts of stuff ups. </p><p> To overcome this problem use conv=binary when mounting the cdrom before exporting it with Samba. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874350"></a>Why can users access home directories of other users?</h2></div></div><p> -“ -We are unable to keep individual users from mapping to any other user's -home directory once they have supplied a valid password! They only need -to enter their own password. I have not found *any* method that I can -use to configure samba to enforce that only a user may map their own -home directory. -” -</p><p>“ -User xyzzy can map his home directory. Once mapped user xyzzy can also map -*anyone* elses home directory! -”</p><p> -This is not a security flaw, it is by design. Samba allows -users to have *exactly* the same access to the UNIX filesystem -as they would if they were logged onto the UNIX box, except -that it only allows such views onto the file system as are -allowed by the defined shares. -</p><p> -This means that if your UNIX home directories are set up -such that one user can happily cd into another users -directory and do an ls, the UNIX security solution is to -change the UNIX file permissions on the users home directories -such that the cd and ls would be denied. -</p><p> -Samba tries very hard not to second guess the UNIX administrators -security policies, and trusts the UNIX admin to set -the policies and permissions he or she desires. -</p><p> -Samba does allow the setup you require when you have set the -"only user = yes" option on the share, is that you have not set the -valid users list for the share. -</p><p> -Note that only user works in conjunction with the users= list, -so to get the behavior you require, add the line : -</p><pre class="programlisting"> -users = %S -</pre><p> -this is equivalent to: -</p><pre class="programlisting"> -valid users = %S -</pre><p> -to the definition of the [homes] share, as recommended in -the smb.conf man page. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874436"></a>Until a few minutes after samba has started, clients get the error "Domain Controller Unavailable"</h2></div></div><p> -A domain controller has to announce on the network who it is. This usually takes a while. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874451"></a>I'm getting "open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Cannot assign requested" in the logs</h2></div></div><p>Your loopback device isn't working correctly. Make sure it's running. -</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-features.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 4. Specific client application problems </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 6. 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Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax -manual carefully.</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874628"></a>Tools for printing faxes</h3></div></div><p>Your incomed faxes are in: -<tt>/var/spool/fax/incoming</tt>. Print it with:</p><pre class="programlisting"> +manual carefully.</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2814785"></a>Tools for printing faxes</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Your incomed faxes are in: +<tt class="filename">/var/spool/fax/incoming</tt>. Print it with:</p><pre class="programlisting"> for i in * do g3cat $i | g3tolj | lpr -P hp @@ -52,9 +13,9 @@ g3cat is in the tools-section, g3tolj is in the contrib-section for printing to HP lasers. </p><p> If you want to produce files for displaying and printing with Windows, use -some tools from the pbm-package like the following command: <b>g3cat $i | g3topbm - | ppmtopcx - >$i.pcx</b> +some tools from the pbm-package like the following command: <b class="command">g3cat $i | g3topbm - | ppmtopcx - >$i.pcx</b> and view it with your favourite Windows tool (maybe paintbrush) -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874681"></a>Making the fax-server</h3></div></div><p>fetch the file <tt>mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter</tt> and place it in <tt>/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/</tt>(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)</p><p>prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2882696"></a>Making the fax-server</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>fetch the file <tt class="filename">mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter</tt> and place it in <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/</tt>(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)</p><p>prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file edit fax/faxspool.in and reinstall or change the final /usr/local/bin/faxspool too. </p><pre class="programlisting"> @@ -63,7 +24,7 @@ if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" </pre><p>find the first line and change it to the second.</p><p> make sure you have pbmtext (from the pbm-package). This is needed for creating the small header line on each page. -</p><p>Prepare your faxheader <tt>/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader</tt></p><p> +</p><p>Prepare your faxheader <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader</tt></p><p> Edit your /etc/printcap file: </p><pre class="programlisting"> # FAX @@ -72,7 +33,7 @@ lp3|fax:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lp3:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxfilter:sh:sf:mx#0:\ :lf=/usr/spool/lp3/fax-log: -</pre><p>Now, edit your <tt>smb.conf</tt> so you have a smb based printer named "fax"</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874774"></a>Installing the client drivers</h3></div></div><p> +</pre><p>Now, edit your <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> so you have a smb based printer named "fax"</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2882789"></a>Installing the client drivers</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via TCP/IP-printing (lpd-system) or via SAMBA (windows printing). </p><p> @@ -111,7 +72,7 @@ uses the found number as the fax-destination-number. Now print your fax through the fax-printer and it will be queued for later transmission. Use faxrunq for sending the queue out. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874858"></a>Example smb.conf</h3></div></div><pre class="programlisting"> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2882874"></a>Example smb.conf</h3></div></div><div></div></div><pre class="programlisting"> [global] printcap name = /etc/printcap print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P %p %s @@ -127,7 +88,7 @@ queue out. create mode = 0700 browseable = yes guest ok = no -</pre></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874883"></a>Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</h2></div></div><p> +</pre></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2882898"></a>Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> We wish to help those folks who wish to use the ISC DHCP Server and provide sample configuration settings. Most operating systems today come ship with the ISC DHCP Server. ISC DHCP is available from: @@ -180,14 +141,14 @@ applied to the resulting DHCP offered settings UNLESS the DHCP server also sets a NetBIOS Scope. It may therefore be prudent to forcibly apply a NULL NetBIOS Scope from your DHCP server. The can be done in the dhcpd.conf file with the parameter: -<b>option netbios-scope "";</b> +<b class="command">option netbios-scope "";</b> </p><p> While it is true that the Microsoft DHCP server that comes with Windows NT Server provides only a sub-set of rfc1533 functionality this is hardly an issue in those sites that already have a large investment and commitment to Unix systems and technologies. The current state of the art of the DHCP Server specification in covered in rfc2132. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874531"></a>How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</h2></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883025"></a>How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> SMB network clients need to be configured so that all standard TCP/IP name to address resolution works correctly. Once this has been achieved the SMB environment provides additional tools and services that act as helper agents in @@ -202,13 +163,13 @@ This can be done, but needs a few NT registry hacks and you need to be able to speak UNICODE, which is of course no problem for a True Wizzard(tm) :) Instructions on how to do this (including a small util for less capable Wizzards) can be found at -</p><p><a href="http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html" target="_top">http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html</a></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874581"></a>How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</h2></div></div><p> +</p><p><a href="http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html" target="_top">http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html</a></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883072"></a>How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Jim barry has written an <a href="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/contributed/fixcrlf.zip" target="_top"> excellent drag-and-drop cr/lf converter for windows</a>. Just drag your file onto the icon and it converts the file. </p><p> The utilities unix2dos and dos2unix(in the mtools package) should do the job under unix. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874612"></a>Does samba have wins replication support?</h2></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883101"></a>Does samba have wins replication support?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> At the time of writing there is currently being worked on a wins replication implementation(wrepld). -</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-errors.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Printing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 5. 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The platforms most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.</p><p> At time of writing, there is support (or has been support for in earlier versions): -</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>A/UX 3.0</td></tr><tr><td>AIX</td></tr><tr><td>Altos Series 386/1000</td></tr><tr><td>Amiga</td></tr><tr><td>Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</td></tr><tr><td>BSDI </td></tr><tr><td>B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</td></tr><tr><td>Cray, Unicos 8.0</td></tr><tr><td>Convex</td></tr><tr><td>DGUX. </td></tr><tr><td>DNIX.</td></tr><tr><td>FreeBSD</td></tr><tr><td>HP-UX</td></tr><tr><td>Intergraph. </td></tr><tr><td>Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</td></tr><tr><td>LYNX 2.3.0</td></tr><tr><td>MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</td></tr><tr><td>Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</td></tr><tr><td>NetBSD</td></tr><tr><td>NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</td></tr><tr><td>OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</td></tr><tr><td>OSF1</td></tr><tr><td>QNX 4.22</td></tr><tr><td>RiscIX. </td></tr><tr><td>RISCOs 5.0B</td></tr><tr><td>SEQUENT. </td></tr><tr><td>SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</td></tr><tr><td>SGI.</td></tr><tr><td>SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</td></tr><tr><td>SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 4</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</td></tr><tr><td>Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</td></tr><tr><td>SVR4</td></tr><tr><td>System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</td></tr><tr><td>ULTRIX.</td></tr><tr><td>UNIXWARE</td></tr><tr><td>UXP/DS</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808341"></a>How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</h2></div></div><p> +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>A/UX 3.0</td></tr><tr><td>AIX</td></tr><tr><td>Altos Series 386/1000</td></tr><tr><td>Amiga</td></tr><tr><td>Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</td></tr><tr><td>BSDI </td></tr><tr><td>B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</td></tr><tr><td>Cray, Unicos 8.0</td></tr><tr><td>Convex</td></tr><tr><td>DGUX. </td></tr><tr><td>DNIX.</td></tr><tr><td>FreeBSD</td></tr><tr><td>HP-UX</td></tr><tr><td>Intergraph. </td></tr><tr><td>Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</td></tr><tr><td>LYNX 2.3.0</td></tr><tr><td>MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</td></tr><tr><td>Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</td></tr><tr><td>NetBSD</td></tr><tr><td>NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</td></tr><tr><td>OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</td></tr><tr><td>OSF1</td></tr><tr><td>QNX 4.22</td></tr><tr><td>RiscIX. </td></tr><tr><td>RISCOs 5.0B</td></tr><tr><td>SEQUENT. </td></tr><tr><td>SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</td></tr><tr><td>SGI.</td></tr><tr><td>SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</td></tr><tr><td>SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 4</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</td></tr><tr><td>Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</td></tr><tr><td>SVR4</td></tr><tr><td>System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</td></tr><tr><td>ULTRIX.</td></tr><tr><td>UNIXWARE</td></tr><tr><td>UXP/DS</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816450"></a>How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Look at <a href="http://samba.org/samba/archives.html" target="_top">the samba mailing list page</a> </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="samba-faq.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Install.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Samba FAQ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 2. 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How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</H1 -><P ->Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation -from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed -product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be -installed onto workstation clients.</P -><P ->The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves -running <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->X:\setup /A</B ->, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy.</P -><P ->This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but -rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target -shared folder. For this process you need write privilidge to the share and it -is desirable to enable file locking and share mode operation during this -process.</P -><P ->Subsequent installation of MS Office from this share will FAIL unless certain -precautions are taken. This failure will be caused by share mode operation -which will prevent the MS Office installation process from re-opening various -dynamic link library files and will cause sporadic file not found problems.</P -><P -></P -><UL -><LI -><P ->As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed -set the following parameters on the share containing it:</P -><P -><PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" -> [MSOP95] - path = /where_you_put_it - comment = Your comment - volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label" - read only = yes - available = yes - share modes = no - locking = no - browseable = yes - public = yes</PRE -></P -></LI -><LI -><P ->Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows -workstation as follows: <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</B -></P -></LI -></UL -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN194">4.3. 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Common errors</H1 -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN205">5.1. Not listening for calling name</H1 -><P -><PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ->Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN -Not listening for calling name</PRE -></P -><P ->If you get this when talking to a Samba box then it means that your -global "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba -server to refuse the connection. </P -><P ->Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the -global section of smb.conf. </P -><P ->It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning -correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to -be confirmed, but that is less likely.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN212">5.2. System Error 1240</H1 -><P ->System error 1240 means that the client is refusing to talk -to a non-encrypting server. Microsoft changed WinNT in service -pack 3 to refuse to connect to servers that do not support -SMB password encryption.</P -><P ->There are two main solutions: -<P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of -the samba HOWTO Collection</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->disable this new behaviour in NT. See the section about -Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN219">5.3. smbclient ignores -N !</H1 -><P -><SPAN -CLASS="QUOTE" ->"When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command -<B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->smbclient -N -L</B -> -the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server. -It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our -NT servers."</SPAN -></P -><P ->No, it does not ignore -N, it is just that your server rejected the -null password in the connection, so smbclient prompts for a password -to try again.</P -><P ->To get the behaviour that you probably want use <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->smbclient -L host -U%</B -></P -><P ->This will set both the username and password to null, which is -an anonymous login for SMB. Using -N would only set the password -to null, and this is not accepted as an anonymous login for most -SMB servers.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN228">5.4. The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</H1 -><P ->Some OSes (notably Linux) default to auto detection of file type on -cdroms and do cr/lf translation. This is a very bad idea when use with -Samba. It causes all sorts of stuff ups.</P -><P ->To overcome this problem use conv=binary when mounting the cdrom -before exporting it with Samba.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN232">5.5. Why can users access home directories of other users?</H1 -><P -><SPAN -CLASS="QUOTE" ->"We are unable to keep individual users from mapping to any other user's -home directory once they have supplied a valid password! They only need -to enter their own password. I have not found *any* method that I can -use to configure samba to enforce that only a user may map their own -home directory."</SPAN -></P -><P -><SPAN -CLASS="QUOTE" ->"User xyzzy can map his home directory. Once mapped user xyzzy can also map -*anyone* elses home directory!"</SPAN -></P -><P ->This is not a security flaw, it is by design. Samba allows -users to have *exactly* the same access to the UNIX filesystem -as they would if they were logged onto the UNIX box, except -that it only allows such views onto the file system as are -allowed by the defined shares.</P -><P ->This means that if your UNIX home directories are set up -such that one user can happily cd into another users -directory and do an ls, the UNIX security solution is to -change the UNIX file permissions on the users home directories -such that the cd and ls would be denied.</P -><P ->Samba tries very hard not to second guess the UNIX administrators -security policies, and trusts the UNIX admin to set -the policies and permissions he or she desires.</P -><P ->Samba does allow the setup you require when you have set the -"only user = yes" option on the share, is that you have not set the -valid users list for the share.</P -><P ->Note that only user works in conjunction with the users= list, -so to get the behavior you require, add the line : -<PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ->users = %S</PRE -> -this is equivalent to: -<PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ->valid users = %S</PRE -> -to the definition of the [homes] share, as recommended in -the smb.conf man page.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN245">5.6. Until a few minutes after samba has started, clients get the error "Domain Controller Unavailable"</H1 -><P ->A domain controller has to announce on the network who it is. This usually takes a while.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN248">5.7. I'm getting "open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Cannot assign requested" in the logs</H1 -><P ->Your loopback device isn't working correctly. 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General Information</H1 -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN12">1.1. Where can I get it?</H1 -><P ->The Samba suite is available at the <A -HREF="http://samba.org/" -TARGET="_top" ->samba website</A ->.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN16">1.2. What do the version numbers mean?</H1 -><P ->It is not recommended that you run a version of Samba with the word -"alpha" in its name unless you know what you are doing and are willing -to do some debugging. Many, many people just get the latest -recommended stable release version and are happy. If you are brave, by -all means take the plunge and help with the testing and development - -but don't install it on your departmental server. Samba is typically -very stable and safe, and this is mostly due to the policy of many -public releases.</P -><P ->How the scheme works: -<P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->When major changes are made the version number is increased. For -example, the transition from 1.9.15 to 1.9.16. However, this version -number will not appear immediately and people should continue to use -1.9.15 for production systems (see next point.)</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Just after major changes are made the software is considered -unstable, and a series of alpha releases are distributed, for example -1.9.16alpha1. These are for testing by those who know what they are -doing. The "alpha" in the filename will hopefully scare off those who -are just looking for the latest version to install.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->When Andrew thinks that the alphas have stabilised to the point -where he would recommend new users install it, he renames it to the -same version number without the alpha, for example 1.9.16.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Inevitably bugs are found in the "stable" releases and minor patch -levels are released which give us the pXX series, for example 1.9.16p2.</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></P -><P ->So the progression goes: - -<PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ->1.9.15p7 (production) -1.9.15p8 (production) -1.9.16alpha1 (test sites only) -: -1.9.16alpha20 (test sites only) -1.9.16 (production) -1.9.16p1 (production)</PRE -></P -><P ->The above system means that whenever someone looks at the samba ftp -site they will be able to grab the highest numbered release without an -alpha in the name and be sure of getting the current recommended -version.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN28">1.3. What platforms are supported?</H1 -><P ->Many different platforms have run Samba successfully. The platforms -most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.</P -><P ->At time of writing, there is support (or has been support for in earlier -versions):</P -><P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->A/UX 3.0</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->AIX</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Altos Series 386/1000</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Amiga</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->BSDI </TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Cray, Unicos 8.0</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Convex</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->DGUX. </TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->DNIX.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->FreeBSD</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->HP-UX</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Intergraph. </TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->LYNX 2.3.0</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->NetBSD</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->OSF1</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->QNX 4.22</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->RiscIX. </TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->RISCOs 5.0B</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SEQUENT. </TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SGI.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SUNOS 4</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->SVR4</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->ULTRIX.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->UNIXWARE</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->UXP/DS</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN71">1.4. How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</H1 -><P ->Look at <A -HREF="http://samba.org/samba/archives.html" -TARGET="_top" ->the samba mailing list page</A -></P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN75">1.5. Pizza supply details</H1 -><P ->Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will -already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask -for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him -pizza. This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is -twenty thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.</P -><P ->Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain -and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do, -which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza -one night, courtesy of someone in the US.</P -><P ->Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit -card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be -collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany -did this.</P -><P ->Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has -no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely -useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has -from Germany :-)</P -><P ->Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional -flavours. 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Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</H1 -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN84">2.1. I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</H1 -><P ->See Browsing.html in the docs directory of the samba source -for more information on browsing.</P -><P ->If your GUI client does not permit you to select non-browsable -servers, you may need to do so on the command line. For example, under -Lan Manager you might connect to the above service as disk drive M: -thusly: -<PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" -> net use M: \\mary\fred</PRE -> -The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from -client to client - check your client's documentation.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN89">2.2. Some files that I KNOW are on the server doesn't show up when I view the files from my client!</H1 -><P ->See the next question.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN92">2.3. Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</H1 -><P ->If you check what files are not showing up, you will note that they -are files which contain upper case letters or which are otherwise not -DOS-compatible (ie, they are not legal DOS filenames for some reason).</P -><P ->The Samba server can be configured either to ignore such files -completely, or to present them to the client in "mangled" form. If you -are not seeing the files at all, the Samba server has most likely been -configured to ignore them. Consult the man page smb.conf(5) for -details of how to change this - the parameter you need to set is -"mangled names = yes".</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN96">2.4. My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</H1 -><P ->This indicates one of three things: You supplied an incorrect server -name, the underlying TCP/IP layer is not working correctly, or the -name you specified cannot be resolved.</P -><P ->After carefully checking that the name you typed is the name you -should have typed, try doing things like pinging a host or telnetting -to somewhere on your network to see if TCP/IP is functioning OK. If it -is, the problem is most likely name resolution.</P -><P ->If your client has a facility to do so, hardcode a mapping between the -hosts IP and the name you want to use. For example, with Lan Manager -or Windows for Workgroups you would put a suitable entry in the file -LMHOSTS. If this works, the problem is in the communication between -your client and the netbios name server. If it does not work, then -there is something fundamental wrong with your naming and the solution -is beyond the scope of this document.</P -><P ->If you do not have any server on your subnet supplying netbios name -resolution, hardcoded mappings are your only option. If you DO have a -netbios name server running (such as the Samba suite's nmbd program), -the problem probably lies in the way it is set up. Refer to Section -Two of this FAQ for more ideas.</P -><P ->By the way, remember to REMOVE the hardcoded mapping before further -tests :-)</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN103">2.5. My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</H1 -><P ->This message indicates that your client CAN locate the specified -server, which is a good start, but that it cannot find a service of -the name you gave.</P -><P ->The first step is to check the exact name of the service you are -trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it -exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's docs on how -to specify a service name correctly), read on:</P -><P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Some clients force service names into upper case.</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN112">2.6. Printing doesn't work</H1 -><P ->Make sure that the specified print command for the service you are -connecting to is correct and that it has a fully-qualified path (eg., -use "/usr/bin/lpr" rather than just "lpr").</P -><P ->Make sure that the spool directory specified for the service is -writable by the user connected to the service. In particular the user -"nobody" often has problems with printing, even if it worked with an -earlier version of Samba. Try creating another guest user other than -"nobody".</P -><P ->Make sure that the user specified in the service is permitted to use -the printer.</P -><P ->Check the debug log produced by smbd. Search for the printer name and -see if the log turns up any clues. Note that error messages to do with -a service ipc$ are meaningless - they relate to the way the client -attempts to retrieve status information when using the LANMAN1 -protocol.</P -><P ->If using WfWg then you need to set the default protocol to TCP/IP, not -Netbeui. This is a WfWg bug.</P -><P ->If using the Lanman1 protocol (the default) then try switching to -coreplus. Also not that print status error messages don't mean -printing won't work. The print status is received by a different -mechanism.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN120">2.7. My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</H1 -><P ->Your guest account is probably invalid for some reason. Samba uses the -guest account for browsing in smbd. Check that your guest account is -valid.</P -><P ->See also 'guest account' in smb.conf man page.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN124">2.8. Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system"</H1 -><P ->This can have several causes. It might be because you are using a uid -or gid of 65535 or -1. This is a VERY bad idea, and is a big security -hole. Check carefully in your /etc/passwd file and make sure that no -user has uid 65535 or -1. Especially check the "nobody" user, as many -broken systems are shipped with nobody setup with a uid of 65535.</P -><P ->It might also mean that your OS has a trapdoor uid/gid system :-)</P -><P ->This means that once a process changes effective uid from root to -another user it can't go back to root. Unfortunately Samba relies on -being able to change effective uid from root to non-root and back -again to implement its security policy. If your OS has a trapdoor uid -system this won't work, and several things in Samba may break. Less -things will break if you use user or server level security instead of -the default share level security, but you may still strike -problems.</P -><P ->The problems don't give rise to any security holes, so don't panic, -but it does mean some of Samba's capabilities will be unavailable. -In particular you will not be able to connect to the Samba server as -two different uids at once. This may happen if you try to print as a -"guest" while accessing a share as a normal user. It may also affect -your ability to list the available shares as this is normally done as -the guest user.</P -><P ->Complain to your OS vendor and ask them to fix their system.</P -><P ->Note: the reason why 65535 is a VERY bad choice of uid and gid is that -it casts to -1 as a uid, and the setreuid() system call ignores (with -no error) uid changes to -1. This means any daemon attempting to run -as uid 65535 will actually run as root. This is not good!</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN132">2.9. Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</H1 -><P ->This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.</P -><P ->Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.</P -><P ->Internally, Samba maintains time in traditional Unix format, -namely, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Universal Time -(or ``GMT''), not counting leap seconds.</P -><P ->On the server side, Samba uses the Unix TZ variable to convert -internal timestamps to and from local time. So on the server side, there are -two things to get right. -<P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time. Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->The TZ environment variable must be set on the server before Samba is invoked. The details of this depend on the server OS, but typically you must edit a file whose name is /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/default/init, or run the command `zic -l'.</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></P -><P ->TZ must have the correct value.</P -><P ->If possible, use geographical time zone settings -(e.g. TZ='America/Los_Angeles' or perhaps - TZ=':US/Pacific'). These are supported by most -popular Unix OSes, are easier to get right, and are -more accurate for historical timestamps. If your -operating system has out-of-date tables, you should be -able to update them from the public domain time zone -tables at <A -HREF="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/" -TARGET="_top" ->ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</A ->.</P -><P ->If your system does not support geographical timezone -settings, you must use a Posix-style TZ strings, e.g. -TZ='PST8PDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' for US Pacific time. -Posix TZ strings can take the following form (with optional - items in brackets): -<PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" -> StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]</PRE -> - where:</P -><P -><P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->`Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->`Offset' is the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. `8'). -Prepend a `-' if you are ahead of UTC, and -append `:30' if you are at a half-hour offset. -Omit all the remaining items if you do not use -daylight-saving time.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->`Dst' is the daylight-saving time designation -(e.g. `PDT').</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->The optional second `Offset' is the number of -hours that daylight-saving time is behind UTC. -The default is 1 hour ahead of standard time.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->`Date/Time,Date/Time' specify when daylight-saving -time starts and ends. The format for a date is -`Mm.n.d', which specifies the dth day (0 is Sunday) -of the nth week of the mth month, where week 5 means -the last such day in the month. The format for a -time is [h]h[:mm[:ss]], using a 24-hour clock.</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></P -><P ->Other Posix string formats are allowed but you don't want -to know about them.</P -><P ->On the client side, you must make sure that your client's clock and -time zone is also set appropriately. [[I don't know how to do this.]] -Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due -to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time -zones. </P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN155">2.10. How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</H1 -><P ->Question: -<SPAN -CLASS="QUOTE" ->" On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer". - Enter ["\\ptdi270\ps1"] in the box of printer. I got the - following error message - "</SPAN -></P -><P -> <PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" -> You do not have sufficient access to your machine - to connect to the selected printer, since a driver - needs to be installed locally. - </PRE -> - </P -><P ->Answer:</P -><P ->In the more recent versions of Samba you can now set the "printer -driver" in smb.conf. This tells the client what driver to use. For -example:</P -><P -><PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" -> printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L</PRE -></P -><P ->With this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string -exactly right.</P -><P ->To find the exact string to use, you need to get to the dialog box in -your client where you select which printer driver to install. 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/faq/samba-faq.html b/docs/faq/samba-faq.html index 47f9a9b7ba..368b4b6e41 100644 --- a/docs/faq/samba-faq.html +++ b/docs/faq/samba-faq.html @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Samba FAQ</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter 1. 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An SMB server allows file and printer connections from clients such as Windows, @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ corrections to the samba documentation mailinglist at <a href="mailto:samba-doc@samba.org" target="_top">samba-doc@samba.org</a>. This FAQ was based on the old Samba FAQ by Dan Shearer and Paul Blackman, and the old samba text documents which were mostly written by John Terpstra. -</p></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt>1. <a href="FAQ-general.html">General Information</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-general.html#id2868206">Where can I get it?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-general.html#id2868226">What do the version numbers mean?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-general.html#id2812633">What platforms are supported?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-general.html#id2816472">How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</a></dt></dl></dd><dt>2. <a href="FAQ-Install.html">Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2814644">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2814696">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt></dl></dd><dt>3. <a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Specific client application problems</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2815240">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2814506">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2814601">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></dd><dt>4. <a href="FAQ-errors.html">Common errors</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2815193">Not listening for calling name</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2815954">System Error 1240</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2815994">smbclient ignores -N !</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2816048">The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</a></dt></dl></dd><dt>5. <a href="FAQ-features.html">Features</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2814469">How can I use samba as a fax server?</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2814427">Tools for printing faxes</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2882827">Making the fax-server</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2882919">Installing the client drivers</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883004">Example smb.conf</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883029">Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883155">How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883203">How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883232">Does samba have wins replication support?</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-general.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 1. 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