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Errata for Using Samba

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 53
code at bottom of page

The attribute "only_from" under Red Hat 7.3 only worked if I used
1) either the canonical form of "localhost.localdomain"
2) or the the numeric address "127.0.0.1".
Using the "localhost" value SWAT didn't start at all.

# description: swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool, which
# allows an administrator to configure Samba using a web
# browser interface, with the URL http://localhost:901
service swat.
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
protocol = tcp
??? only_from = localhost ???
user = root
log_on_failure += USERID
server = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat
port = 901
disable = no
}

Anonymous   
Printed Page 173
Example code following paragraph 5

I'm using samba 2.2.8a and trying some of the examples on page 173. The example
following paragraph 5:

smbclient //maya/e -A samba-domain-pw -c "cd trans; tarmode full hidden
system quiet; tar >maya-e-trans.tar"

the redirection character should be the letter 'c' to indicate creation of a tar
backup file, followed by a space.

As a result, the corrected command should be:

smbclient //maya/e -A samba-domain-pw -c "cd trans; tarmode full hidden
system quiet; tar c maya-e-trans.tar"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 374

"Testing connections with net use"
The command
"net use * servername emp"
should be
"net use * \servername emp"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 399
top of page

There is:
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
Should be:
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u

Anonymous