[NMLUG] Couple of samba questions.

[josephg1974 at yahoo.com (Joseph Green)]

Just a few thoughts.

Are you using Active Directory? 
What share level are you using on your Linux box.
Did the shares work before you upgraded the machines
to winxp.
Which account is accessing the share.
Does it have the correct permissions?
Have you created the samba accounts?








--- Tim Emerick <timothyemerick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a couple of questions if anybody can help me
> with them.\
> 
> 1. I've been upgrading some 70 pc's at work from
> win9x to winxp pro.  My
> print/file server is redhat/samba.  For some reason
> I am not able to access
> print and file shares that are on WinXP Pro machines
> from either Samba,
> Win9x, or DOS.  All OS's other than WinXP can't seem
> to get past the password
> prompt.  WinXP can see and use my Samba shares
> though.  Anybody know if there
> is a WinXP setup that I am missing that will allow
> Samba (and other non xp
> os's) to access a WinXP share?
> 
> 2. After converting all these machines I will need
> to write a short script to
> change some info in a text file on each machine. 
> I'm not exactly sure how to
> write this as a bash script or as a DOS batch file
> so hopefully I'll get some
> good ideas here.  Here are the step.
> 
> a. Read a list of Win XP Pro machine names from a
> text file.
> b. Search the admin share (c$) for all occurences of
> a particular file
> (session1.wic).
> c. replace the text in each found file with another
> text.  In this case I'll
> be looking for an IP address and substituting
> another IP address.
> d. log everything that was done, good or bad, to a
> log file.
> 
> I was thinking of using sed to do the text
> replacement.  I have a win32 port
> of sed that works on WinXP and I know that it exists
> on my linux box.  Using
> linux over dos hinges on getting problem #1 fixed. 
> Here is a conceptualized
> dos batch file that will do what I want.  I've not
> read up enough on sed to
> know if that is the tool I need or how to use it. 
> That is my next step.
> 
> net use x: \\machine1\c$ (supply userid/password. 
> similar to mounting a smb
> share)
> 
> dir x:\session1.wic /a /s /b > foundfiles.txt
> (equivalent of "find / -name
> session1.wic" but searching through hidden
> directories)
> 
> use sed to read in foundfiles.txt and replace text
> in each file with
> something else.
> 
> TIA for any help or pointers anybody can give me.
> 
> Tim Emerick
> 
> 
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