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on sun servers each server has it's own unique ID which is often used for licensing, does such a beast exist on W"K intel servers and how can I find out what it is tarrah for a bit Mowatt

Hi I am using 2.2.8 on solaris 8, when users try to change there own password they get the following. $smbpasswd test_1 $Old SMB password machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: the specified password is invalid. I have disabled the unix password sync and this has...

Thanks for your sugestion, stanhubble. I have tried this already and it doesn't seem to work. I will have to keep on looking.

Hi bob I took your advice and had a look in the event viewer but i can't find anything that's significant. I did a print job on friday and thats it. I think i may have to take this one on the chin and create myself a new account. The main windows manager has gone away for two weeks so i will...

When I left on Friday everything was working normally, back in this morning and it's another crappy monday. I have tried to logon and i get the loading your personal settings the screen goes blue and thats it. I have left it for over an hour and nothing. I have tried loging on at other machines...

Hi I am using 2.2.8 on solaris 8, when users try to change there own password they get the following. $smbpasswd test_1 $Old SMB password machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: the specified password is invalid root can change user passwords ok. Thanks mowatt

Hello world, i appear to be struggling with basic's today but here goes. unix password sync = yes passw program = /bin/passwd I change samba password but nothing happens to unix password. thanks in advance mowatt

I have on user who is altering an imported document. The original document is fine but when they remove tables from it to place in a new document, the new document becomes corrupt. the erro message the instruction "0x301dae31" referenced memory at "Ox0076300" the memory...

I have completley lost my plot. I have a w2k cluster with networked hp printers on it (printer ip's are set up) and i want to be able to print from solaris 8 to these printers. I have installed HP Jetdirect but I'm clueless on what to do next i'm out of my technical comfort zone (where's my...

installed samba for a test then uninstalled. I have tried to reinstall today and i cannot get ./configure to work (no gcc or cc in path) I have /usr/local/bin in path and a symb link from gcc to /usr/bin. Root cannot find gcc but normal account can find ./gcc. Has uninstall done this, it worked...

thanks Annihilannic, why make a rod for your own back!

i am trying to install smaba 2.2.8a in /opt using gcc. when i try to run configure (as root) in /opt/samba2.2.8a/source i get an error canot find gcc or cc in path. i have inserted /usr/local/bin/gcc into the path. and i'm on solaris 8 any ideas please.

when using xstart for a decterm all of the font sizes are fine apart from one term which is really small. how can i adjust the size in just the one term? thanks mowatt [dazed]

Try setting your port to something like 8500, I can't remmember the exact numbers but there are restrictions on lower number ports serving to external users without permission.[2thumbsup]

w2k to solaris 8 using hummingbird v8. when loging in using xdmp broadcast or a x term the blue and white solaris logo is on for ages and stays on in the background even when the xterm is open. only a few machines do this the others are fine. thanx mowatt