I recently upgraded to Samba 2.0, but I have had to revert back to
1.9.18p10 because of problems I could not resolve. I am running Samba
on a Sun Ultra-1 with Solaris 2.6, and I compiled Samba using gcc
v2.8.1.
The problems I was seeing were with saving Excel files. A user might
have a small Excel file and try to save it to their home directory. The
save would work for a long time (5 to 10 minutes) then finally come back
with an error, "Low memory." If the user broke off the save, the file
would be corrupt. I saw similar problems with printing from Excel.
These problems did not occur for every user or for every file (however,
it appeared to be repeatable with certain files), but I could not find
any connection between the occurences.
I have not seen this problem at all with previous versions of Samba. I
am including the pertinent portions of my smb.conf file, in case I have
some glaring misconfiguration for Samba 2.0. The main change I made
between Samba 1.9.18p10 and Samba 2.0 is that I switched to
security=domain so I would no longer have to maintain an smbpasswd file
for Samba.
Thanks if anyone can shed any light on this for me.
[global]
security = domain
printing = sysv
guest account = nobody
status = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
printer driver file = /usr/local/samba/lib/printers.def
lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
share modes = yes
dead time = 15
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o%p -L
lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j
print command = /usr/bin/lp -c -d%p %s ; /bin/rm -f %s
max log size = 1000
interfaces = 168.121.98.169/20
workgroup = JDDW-
local master = no
domain master = no
wins support = no
wins server = 168.121.98.135
wins proxy = yes
dns proxy = no
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
case sensitive = no
remote browse sync = 195.43.13.255 195.43.1.255
remote announce = 195.43.13.255/JDDW- 192.43.1.255/JDDW-
message command = csh -c '/usr/bin/mailx -s Winpopup postmaster <
%s;/bin/rm -f %s' &
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
create mode = 0775
directory mode = 0775
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Jay D. Anderson John Deere Davenport Works
Jay@Deere.com P.O. Box 4198
Phone: 319.388.4268 Fax: 319.388.4159 Davenport, Iowa 52808
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