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[CentOS] Re: CentOS-Samba question

by Scott Silva

on 6-3-2008 1:00 PM MHR spake the following: >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <pierce-BRp9yk6zKL1Wk0Htik3J/w(a)public.gmane.org> wrote: >>> win9X has horrible network username habits... you need to determine what >>> username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be >>> in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the same username and >>> the same blank local password.. on the SAMBA server, create that username >>> as a linux user, AND `smbuser -a username`, assign it a smb password. when >>> win98 prompts for a password, thats the username it will use, you get no >>> choice, and win98 should be able to 'save' that password (if you check said >>> box on the login prompt), which causes it to be saved to a <username>.pwd >>> file (I think thats the name of the password cache). >>> > > More progress: > > It occurred to me that somewhere along the line I had not given my > CentOS guest user smb access, so I ran smbpasswd and set the guest > password to match its login password. When I went back to W98, I > tried to add the network printer - it recognized the name > (\\mhrichter\MPP1100) and asked for a password. I gave it the guest > password, and it proceeded to try to install it. I put in the CD, > went through all the (right) moves to install the driver, and then the > moment of truth: > > W98 said I had to reboot. > > I knew I was in trouble. I rebooted, and, lo and behold, the printer > was suddenly offline and unavailable (there was no change to the > CentOS host or the printer at all). > > I deleted the printer to start over, but this time W98 said the > printer was offline when I input the name and the password. > > W98 still can't see the network or any of the shares in the Network > Neighborhood, but at least I can reach for it by name. > > Any doors or windows in this wall? > > Thanks. > > mhr > > PS: I have always said that I don't really hate Window$, I just prefer > working in and on Unix/Linux. I don't think that's true any more, > although I must say that of all the versions of Window$ I've ever > used, XP is the least objectionable. > Vista will raise your disappointment level back up! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

17 years, 9 months

Re: [CentOS] Why are dots in username & groupname no longer allowed?

by Rodrigo Barbosa

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:48:18PM +0100, Remco Barendse wrote: > For some strange reason I am no longer able to create groupnames or > usernames (with useradd and groupadd) that contain a dot. > > Uptill now it was possible to create user&groupnames like c.smith but now > I get these errors: > > [root@server etc]# useradd c.smith > useradd: invalid user name 'c.smith' > > [root@server1 etc]# groupadd c.smith > groupadd: c.smith is a not a valid group name > > Anything without a dot works without problems. > > The box is a (fully updated) CentOS 3.6 x86_64 box with Dual Opteron cpu. As far as I know, dots where never supposed to be valid characters for Unix usernames. The historical reasons are many, including the syntax of some commands that take username as a parameter. Several commands will that username.group as a parameter and, as you can see, the dot can get in the way of that. So, if you ask me, the upstream provider just corrected a long standing compatibility issue. In any case, if you really want to have usernames with dots on it, you can create them manualy, or create them without the dot, and then change them by editing the apropriate files. Best Regards, - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob(a)suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDtSeEpdyWzQ5b5ckRAjusAKCn/y24umoJXFdmTap0i3V5rVlJqACdF3VE nAkBfHHQvUiqsJh5A1y5c/U= =sxRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

20 years, 3 months

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

by Steve Huff

On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Bob Taylor wrote: > Hi, I am writting this message in hope that you can be of a great help to me. My husband that has been on this site died suddenly Feb 4th) and I can not access my computer. He has a user name and password on the system. He has used the Linux and Red Hat to run the computer.... He would boot up the system and then I would do my email, documents, etc. I never thought to ask him his password or username. There is no one in our area that knows how to change the username and password on the Linux system... Can you or some one you may know help. I did find a Red Hat Boot disk... not sure what to do with it!!!! > > I am able to use this email so that is why I am sending this to you ,trying to find help. I can be reached through a friend if you can call me 970 208 3131..... or email... will be OK also............ I hope there is someone to help me get on my computer... Laura Laura, I'd like to offer my condolences. My best recommendation would be for you to contact your local Linux User Group for assistance; a list is available here, organized by country and region: http://www.linux.org/groups/ You may also be able to get assistance from Red Hat; their customer service contact page is here: https://www.redhat.com/about/contact/dir/#custservice -Steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://five.sentenc.es

16 years, 1 month

Re: [CentOS] Gnome Taskbar(s)

by Max Hetrick

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 fredex wrote: > When I install Centos5 in the near future I'm going to want to be able > to restore the old-style panels. Anybody know what I need to change to > make it work in the old way? Poke around the hidden directory in your profile: /home/username/.gnome2 There should be some stuff in there that's specific to your customized desktop. If you are running 4.x now, though, I can't say for sure that copying that over would work upgrading from 4 to 5, since things change in different versions of Gnome. At any rate, look in there. I don't know where else user specific settings are stored for Gnome. Regards, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdzRYHoeeepPau2ERAoDyAKCfI7pZ4WJdhLZa31Hz/pxL9XotVwCffmSv VIWodlHtKg0TUeDBK0ZF6fk= =aoy2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

18 years, 9 months

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

by g

On 06/07/2015 07:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: <<>> > So, I'm not sure how to interpret what you said. Can I get the same > results from a CentOS install using some combination of options? because your are playing with multi flavors, [i bet you like going to baskin-robbins for ice cream ;-) ] a solution for you would be what i did some years back and i was playing with diff flavors, my "/home" partition was mounted in new install as /home2 and i let installation setup a /home in /. after install and booting it, as root i moved the newly created "user" home to the /home2 directory, renamed it to the 'user-flavor', then linked that back into the install /home and renamed it to "username" and changed ownership to "user" which then gave me: /home/username --> /home2/user-flavor so that in /home2 i had: /home2/geo-fc3 /geo-fc4 /geo-mandrake /geo-flavor-x /geo-flavor-y i hope you can see how i did this. i am of terse thinking and do not always go into detail enough. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .

10 years, 9 months

Re: [CentOS] Horde mailboxes with Virtualmin and CentOS 6

by Ljubomir Ljubojevic

Vreme: 12/09/2011 08:27 PM, Weplica piše: > I'm sorry if it is off-topic, maybe not. > > I have CentOS 6, webmin/virtualmin panel and I just install Horde 3/imp 4. > > In my virtualmin panel I have many email configured, but when I acces > Horde and I try to login with email/password or user/password, Horde > tell me login or password not good. > > What I have to do to synchronize Horde and virtualmin mailbox? > With Virtualmin you have to use username *with* @domain.name, have you tried it that way? I use Virtualmin, but not the Horde. Virtualmin uses /home/domain.folder/homes/username/Maildir location to store each Maildir (I think I intentionally changed default behavior to Maildir format). Link with potential solution: http://www.virtualmin.com/node/5068 http://www.virtualmin.com/node/5526 http://www.virtualmin.com/node/14175 If you need help with Virtualmin contact me off-list. Horde I never used, but I am good investigator. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant

14 years, 3 months

[CentOS] Delay in SSH login..

by siva m

Hi, I have CentOS 4.3 running on my AMD Athlon XP(32 bit) PC and Windows 2000 running on my other Intel P3 PC(These 2 PCs are connected using a network switch). Basically I use the one running Linux as back end server and everything was fine so far. But recently I am experiencing some delay in loggin in to CentOS through SSH. The Putty client which I use generally opens up asking for username prompt(no delay in that) but after entering the password it takes atleast 10-15 seconds gap before I logged in. It was fine before and I am sure I didn't made any changes to linux configuration. Can anyone please help me with this issue. By the way I always use the IP address like($ ssh user(a)192.168.0.xxx without any hostname) thanks Lin

19 years, 11 months

[CentOS] /usr/sbin/usermod -p doesn't update MAX_DAYS - workaround?

by Sean Carolan

I have a large group of Linux servers that I inherited from a previous administrator. Unfortunately there is no single sign-on configured so each server has it's own local accounts with local authentication. Normally I use ssh keys and a handy shell script to change passwords on all these machines with the usermod -p command. We are able to update the password on on one server and push the encrypted password out to all the others. If, however, we turn on password aging with "chage -M 90 username" then try to update passwords with usermod, the aging info for the account is not updated even though the password has been changed. Apparently this must be done manually for each and every server with the passwd command. This is not practical. In the long run we're going to try and get some kind of centralized authentication, but in the meantime does anyone have an idea for a workaround? Thanks Sean

16 years, 2 months

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

by Christopher Chan

Sorry to hear that a member of the list has passed away. Google tells me that 970 is the area code for Colorado so maybe members of the list who live there might want to give her a hand with the computer. On Tuesday, February 23, 2010 02:40 AM, Bob Taylor wrote: > Hi, I am writting this message in hope that you can be of a great help > to me. My husband that has been on this site died suddenly Feb 4th) and > I can not access my computer. He has a user name and password on the > system. He has used the Linux and Red Hat to run the computer.... He > would boot up the system and then I would do my email, documents, etc. > I never thought to ask him his password or username. There is no one in > our area that knows how to change the username and password on the Linux > system... Can you or some one you may know help. I did find a Red Hat > Boot disk... not sure what to do with it!!!! > > I am able to use this email so that is why I am sending this to you > ,trying to find help. I can be reached through a friend if you can call > me 970 208 3131..... or email... will be OK also............ I hope > there is someone to help me get on my computer... Laura > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

16 years, 1 month

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host

by Marko Vojinovic

On Saturday 10 January 2009 23:03, John R Pierce wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years > > (yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but still...). What I need is remote > > access to it to perform regular system maintenance, virus cleanups, > > occasional software installations, reboots, config changes, etc. > > > > Of course, rdesktop would do it, or vnc server or something else. The > > problem is that this machine is behind a NAT, and I cannot access it > > remotely from outside (and I need access from whereever on the planet I > > may happen to be). > > if this remote XP machine is behind a NAT server that you can log onto > with SSH, then, from your local machine... > > ssh -L 3390:private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine:3389 > username@ip-or-hostname-of-remote-NAT-server Well, first, private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine is dynamic, given by my ISP's dhcp server, so I cannot have 100% guarantee that it will always be the same. And I have no easy way of finding it out if it does change. Second, and more serious, I have no access to the NAT server, the ISP controls it. I may try using my username/password combination, but I am not sure what structure the ISP has. I mean, they may well have a NAT inside a NAT inside a NAT... However, I'll try it out to see if this kind of port-forwarding works in my case. :-) Thanks for help! Best, :-) Marko

17 years, 2 months

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