Samba Upgrade Issue

[Rick Stevens]

Chris Morton wrote:
> Over the weekend, I upgraded my server from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora.
> 
> For the most part, everything runs.  There is a major problem however.
> 
> I was running Samba 2.2.x.  When I did the upgrade, I no longer had 
> access to my home directory.
> 
> After finally finding some useful documentation, it appears that 3.x is 
> VASTLY different from 2.x.  I THINK the issue relates to LDAP, but I 
> don't know anything about LDAP, and I haven't gotten far enough into the 
> documentation to make heads or tails of what's really going on.

I think you'll find that the difference is in the security.  Samba 2.x
used "security = share" by default, 3.x uses "security = user".

> Can anybody tell me if there's a quick fix for the home directory issue?

Check your log files in /var/log/samba to see what the issue is.  You
may want to install swat and use it to modify your setups.

> Secondly, I have video on the server, but it seems to be at the wrong 
> sync rate(s), because of video artifacts on the screen.  I use an old 
> close out MicroCenter 14" monitor on a switchbox to access the server 
> directly.  Apparently no version of RedHat can probe it correctly, and 
> finding the monitor spec.s is quite the challenge.  I THINK I found a 
> usenet post on Google Groups (in Russian!) with the right spec.s, but 
> unless I'm mistaken the X configuration file has changed some too.  It's 
> listed as an "E447AU" on the back of the monitor.  I ended up picking a 
> Generic 1024x768 monitor just to get video.  What do I need to change, 
> especially to get the frequency right for the resolutions?

You can try redhat-config-xfree86 and reconfigure X.  It allows you to
choose different resolutions and such and test them before committing
them to the config file.  WARNING: You may damage your monitor when you
test modes greater than 640x480 if the refresh and sync rates are wrong.
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