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Operating Systems AIX Samba Installation Post 302182554 by farl on Monday 7th of April 2008 01:42:59 AM

04-07-2008

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Samba Installation

Need assistance installing Samba on AIX 5200-10 with a host name of banora.

Downloaded samba-3.0.4.0.bff off the Bull Freeware site
and installed it with smit okay.

Am using the IBM Redbook SG24-6004-00 Samba Installation, Configuration, and Sizing Guide July 2000 based on ver 2.0.6 as this is the only detailed AIX/Samba installation guide I could find.

The book says to test the installation, which failed.

I did the following.
# find / -name smbclient
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient

# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L banora
Error connecting to 192.168.0.144 (A remote host refused an attempted connect
operation.)
Connection to banora failed

# ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1: (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp seq=O ttl=64 time=l ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp=seq=l ttl=64 time=l ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp seq=2 ttl=64 time=l ms
192.168.0.1 PING Statistics 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/1 ms

# ping 192.168.0.144
PING 192.168.0.144: (192.168.0.144): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.144: icmp_seq=O ttl=255 time=O ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.144: icmp_seq=l ttl=255 time=O ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.144: icmp seq=2 ttl=255 time=O ms
192.168.0.144 PING Statistics 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0/0/0 ms

The /etc/samba/smb.conf and /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf files are as follows.

[global]
workgroup = OPEN SOURCE
server string = Samba 3.0.4.0
security = user
encrypt passwords = Yes
smb passwd file = /var/samba/private/smbpasswd
log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
mangle case = Yes
[homes]
force user = %U
read only = No
hosts allow = 129.183.
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[public]
path = /tmp
guest ok = Yes

The Redbook says that inetd.conf should include smbd, nmbd, and SWAT entries with the SWAT entry to be uncommented. I can find none of the entries in inetd.conf.

Using Seamonkey I ran http://banora:901 but nothing came up in 5 minutes. I suppose this is because of no SWAT entry in smb.conf

Have a series of AIX and Windows machines on a P2P network and was looking to use Samba to communicate between them.

Would appreciate some help to get the samba-3.0.4.0.bff installation up and running.

Cannot proceed to chapter 3 Basic Configuration as cannot get SWAT up and running.

Thanks

farl

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tdbbackup.tdbtools

TDBBACKUP(8)						    System Administration tools 					      TDBBACKUP(8)

NAME

       tdbbackup - tool for backing up and for validating the integrity of samba .tdb files

SYNOPSIS

       tdbbackup [-s suffix] [-v] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(1) suite.

       tdbbackup is a tool that may be used to backup samba .tdb files. This tool may also be used to verify the integrity of the .tdb files prior
       to samba startup or during normal operation. If it finds file damage and it finds a prior backup the backup file will be restored.

OPTIONS

       -h
	   Get help information.

       -s suffix
	   The -s option allows the adminisistrator to specify a file backup extension. This way it is possible to keep a history of tdb backup
	   files by using a new suffix for each backup.

       -v
	   The -v will check the database for damages (currupt data) which if detected causes the backup to be restored.

COMMANDS

       GENERAL INFORMATION

       The tdbbackup utility can safely be run at any time. It was designed so that it can be used at any time to validate the integrity of tdb
       files, even during Samba operation. Typical usage for the command will be:

       tdbbackup [-s suffix] *.tdb

       Before restarting samba the following command may be run to validate .tdb files:

       tdbbackup -v [-s suffix] *.tdb

       Samba .tdb files are stored in various locations, be sure to run backup all .tdb file on the system. Important files includes:

       o    secrets.tdb - usual location is in the /usr/local/samba/private directory, or on some systems in /etc/samba.

       o    passdb.tdb - usual location is in the /usr/local/samba/private directory, or on some systems in /etc/samba.

       o    *.tdb located in the /usr/local/samba/var directory or on some systems in the /var/cache or /var/lib/samba directories.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

       The tdbbackup man page was written by John H Terpstra.

Samba 3.6							    05/28/2012							      TDBBACKUP(8)