[WBEL-users] SAMBA

[Craig White]

meant to send to list...top posting response moved to bottom for logical
flow

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:30, Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 20:42, Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
> >----
> >I am gathering that you are using samba server as PDC. I haven't a
clue
> >what you are using for passdb. Normal configuration would have you
> >creating a user named Administrator. I am also assuming that you have
> >set unix sync = yes
> >
> >smbpasswd -a Administrator #adds user Administrator
> >smbpasswd Administrator #sets password for user Administrator
> >edit /etc/samba/smbusers to look have a line like
> >root = Administrator #you can have more users if you like
> >
> >Then the user Administrator should have root equivalent.
> >
> >Log on to Windows machine as Administrator, password, domain_name
> >
> >This should give you full Administrator privileges to the machine.
> >
> >Start -> Settings -> Control Panels -> Administrative Tools ->
Computer
> >Management
> >
> >Groups, edit the Administrators Group (or better yet, Power Users),
> >Click Add, Click Advanced, Click 'Find Now' You should be able to
locate
> >any of the 'Domain Groups' you have created.
> >
> >If you don't have domain groups, you will need to create them.
> >>From command line on Linux, type 'net groupmap list' this will show
you
> >the domain groups. 
> >
> >For Samba documentation, see www.samba.org - click on the
documentation
> >link, see the Samba 3 How-To
> Thanks Craig and Johnny for your help, but I am still at a loss. I am
a 
> windows admin and am struggling with modifying text files to achieve 
> what I need to. I am currently using Webmin to manage Samba. After 
> playing around with it for a while, I realized that Webmin was not 
> modifying my smb.conf file at all. Is it supposed to? Maybe that is 
> where all my problems start and end. I tried to install SWAT and run
it. 
> If I try to access it with Konqueror, I get an error saying that 
> "Connection to host localhost is broken" after logging in. I dont know
> what that means. If I use Firefox instead, I get a blank page after 
> logging in. So I went back to smb.conf and gedit. I tried adding the 
> lines one-by-one and still no luck. I did have the line that says root
= 
> administrator in smbusers. But still no luck. I am thinking of
starting 
> over again from scratch and making sure that I get it right from the 
> beginning. I am refering to hughesjr.com currently. Any other docs
that 
> are simple enuff for a part time windows admin to understand?
----
If you are a windows admin, this shouldn't be all that difficult. The
people that seem to struggle are those that really don't understand
Microsoft Networking - Microsoft Domains.

1 - forget swat, webmin for now
2 - use an editor - gedit is probably OK, I don't use it.
3 - why not post your smb.conf to the list? - better yet, learn some
command line methodology, it will serve you well. For example...
su -
smbpasswd -a Administrator
smbpasswd Administrator 
testparm -sv > /tmp/configuration.txt
echo "**** ***** *****" >> /tmp/configuration.txt
echo "net groupmap list" >> /tmp/configuration.txt
net groupmap list >> /tmp/configuration.txt
chmod 777 /tmp/configuration.txt

and then copy/paste the file into an email here.

4 - Use the real samba documentation - what other people do has to be
taken with a grain of salt and may not be applicable.
Documentation sources...
<http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/>

Official Samba 3 How-to
<http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/>

Samba 3 by Example
<http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/>

These are far and away the best information available on Samba and can
be purchased (my recommendation) or downloaded as PDF, or use the html
links that I provided.

Probably, the setup that would be most like to yours in Samba 3 by
Example is
<http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/Big500users.html#chap05net>

and in that example, it lists the line...
passdb backend = tdbsam

no reference to secrets.tdb and I haven't a clue where you got that
from. By now, your 'secrets.tdb' could be corrupted...you might want to
check it with the tdbdump tool - perhaps you need to move it, delete it,
or simply start over with all the 'config files'

Craig