Sugumar:
I assume you got my address from the MUUG roundtable posting, so I will post my reply there. I am new at setting up Samba, so others may have more accurate or helpful information for you.
I basically followed the example in http://www.quickfixnotebook.com/ which is well worth buying from Copperfields if you have a number of setup issues to deal with using Fedora Core. I think most of the examples in the first edition are for FC1, but the author is aware of FC2 and FC3.
Using FC4, I had trouble with SE Linux enabled. Only after extensive Googling did I find that SE Linux was the cause of my woes in setting up Samba. Contrary to the web info I found, re-enabling SE Linux afterward did NOT allow proper directory sharing, and I continue to boot without SE Linux enabled.
The Samba Howto http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ is helpful, and there are examples of smb.conf files in the fast start section including one for a domain controller http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#id...
To answer your questions: 1) to make your Samba server a PDC, you need to set its priority higher than that of your competing Windows machines. The smb.conf setting os level = 65 is generally sufficient. I am also using domain master = yes security = domain but I think security = domain is not necessary to make Samba your PDC. Take that info with a grain of salt.
2) I am using passdb backend = tdbsam No configuration of the database was required. Everything was just there. I am not using LDAP - it looks like there is considerable setup, and it is probably not necessary unless you plan on scaling up to a large network with subnets on it.
If you are using a similar system and this is even remotely helpful, I would be glad to post or send my smb.conf file.
sugumar c wrote:
hello
How to configer samba PDC server and how to useLDAP server
pls explan. i am waiting for your replay
bye sugumar.c
--- Dan Martin ummar143@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote:
The problem is SE Linux.
I finally found the solution to this problem on Google by adding more search terms
http://readlist.com/lists/redhat.com/fedora-list/14/73268.html
This two services was working OK before my update from FC3
I think that it was having something to do with
SE, because to
solution this I had to turn off SE, reboot, then turn on
SE & reboot again,
this (I think) relabeled the entire file system &
after this; no more
problems with the smb & ppp0 services getting
working ok.
I booted after turning off SE, and it works - after many frustrating hours of looking for the problem in Samba.
Dan Martin wrote:
I have been playing with Samba 3 on FC4 for over 3
days now, and it's
starting to get not fun.
Samba appears to be up and running and the network
is functional.
When I browse the network on my Windows machines
(one is Win 2000 pro
the other is NT4) I am prompted for a
username/password, then the
server shows on the network. I can open its
folder, and I can browse
a tmp share inside (path /tmp) subject to the
permissions of the
subfolders.
When I try to access the home folder named "user"
I get the error
\Linuxserver\user is not accessible. The network
name cannot be found.
It appears that authentication is working, as I
can login at the
prompt, and the subfolder representing the home
directory is named
after the user. Permissions under Linux should
not be an issue, since
I have granted universal access to /home and all
subdirectories. If I
try to browse folders that I do not have access
to, I get a different
error - access denied.
Since the default mapping of the [homes] share did
not seem to work, I
have even tried setting the smb.conf parameter path=/home/%S to no avail.
I have tried numerous other things, and a Google
search turned up
dozens of dead ends.
Does anyone have ideas re
- the above problem
- how to 'flush the cache' so that I don't have
to log on and off on
Windows every time I try a change in Samba 3) how to determine on the Linux machine which
windows user is
accessing from the network so I can confirm
authentication is correct
(like a 'who' command for Samba)
-- -Dan
Dr. Dan Martin, MD, CCFP, BSc, BCSc (Hon)
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