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Date: Saturday, July 24, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: SAMBA digest 2178
> SAMBA Digest 2178
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>Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) strange share violation
> by "Marek Les" <marek@ryston.cz>
> 2) Re: Printing from UNIX to WIN?
> by Kevin Ivory <Ivory@SerNet.de>
> 3) AW: SAMBA digest 2177
> by Axel Neumann <amn@cromemco.com>
> 4) Re: Paradox on a Samba share
> by Paulo Almeida <seth@mail.telepac.pt>
> 5) Samba and Quickbooks
> by "Rickey Bell" <RickeyBell@TechnicalSolutionsSC.Com>
> 6) Re: Security preferences with Samba 2.0.5
> by Kevin Ivory <Ivory@SerNet.de>
> 7) Samba 2.0.5a problems
> by Craig Huckabee <huck@cs.wisc.edu>
> 8) security level flag...
> by "Fabio Iovine" <f_iovine@hotmail.com>
> 9) Unable to mount Win98 shares from Samba server
> by "Joe Capote" <jcapote@rapidcontent.com>
> 10) Re: rookie needs help (browsing samba from NT)
> by "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold@coyote.rain.org>
>
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>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:17:19 +0200
>From: "Marek Les" <marek@ryston.cz>
>To: samba@samba.org
>Subject: strange share violation
>Message-ID: <19990723071716Z12864028-455+379@samba.anu.edu.au>
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>hello there !
>
>I have one problem. We have a catalogue on a CD which is being used
>frequently so it's copied on a Novell network. But now we have to move
>it on a Samba box. But when two (or more) users try to run it, the
>second user (and all the rest) gets a message that the program
>couldn't access one file. The first user runs it perfectly.
>
>Here is a snippet from a log file:
>
>=cut>
>[1999/07/19 18:19:11, 2] smbd/open.c:check_share_mode(742)
>
>Share violation on file
>(0,4,2,901,common/Katalogy/AVNet99/SES_DATA/SESDATA.DDB,fcbopen = 0,
>flags = 0) = 0
>
>=cut>
>I don't know what's wrong.. I tried to set Locking to No with no
>success.. I tried Fake Oplock with no success..
>
>The _interesting_ thing is that on Novell it had the same problem but
>the solution was to set the files with the flag SHAREABLE ("flag *
>sh") !
>
>Now IMHO nothing equal exists on Linux.. so, please could you help me
>??
>
>I'm running Linux 2.2.10-ac5, Samba 2.0.4b (from Rawhide) ..
>
>btw: I have no problem with more users reading the same file, just
>with this catalogue program..
>
>thanks in advance!
>
>Marek Les
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:51:18 +0200
>From: Kevin Ivory <Ivory@SerNet.de>
>To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba@samba.org>
>Subject: Re: Printing from UNIX to WIN?
>Message-ID: <E117a6x-0002sR-00@intern.SerNet.DE>
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>Hans-Joachim Leidinger wrote:
>> archiv. But i can not found the right information, how to set samba,
>> printcap etc. to print a job from unix to winprinter.
>
>The tool you are looking for is smbprint and comes with the Samba
>package. The documentation is in the comments of the script.
>
>Kevin
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>
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>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:49:00 +0200
>From: Axel Neumann <amn@cromemco.com>
>To: "'samba@samba.org'" <samba@samba.org>
>Subject: AW: SAMBA digest 2177
>Message-ID: <01BED501.5B5CE210.amn@cromemco.com>
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>When the world was much younger, Stephen L Arnold
<arnold.steve@ensco.com>
>painted some strange hieroglyphs like this:
>
>>When the world was young, Axel Neumann <amn@cromemco.com> carved
>>some runes like this:
>
>>> I just want to inform you about a severe problem that I have
>>> found with Samba 2.0.5 installed on a SCO OpenServer 5.04.
>>[snip]
>
>>> INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 13646 (2.0.5)
>>[snip] ^^^^^^^^^
>
>>I don't have any SCO experience, but have you read the Sig11
>>FAQ? Getting a signal 11 error (or signal 6, etc) when compiling
>>with gcc usually indicates a hardware problem (eg, bad cache, a bad
>>memory chip on a SIMM, CPU overheating).
>
>>Maybe your signal 11 is coming from a completely different source,
>>but it's an interesting read anyway:
>
>>http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
>
>>HTH, Steve
>
>>******************************************************************
>>Stephen L Arnold http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
>>#include <std_disclaimer.h>
>>******************************************************************
>
>Sorry to inform you that you are wrong. You will find the reason for my
>signal 11 in the first part of Jeremy Allison's information about was
has
>been fixed in 2.0.5a.
>
>Thanks for giving my an idea of how to start an email ;-).
>
>Bye,
>
>Axel Neumann
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:26:49 +0100
>From: Paulo Almeida <seth@mail.telepac.pt>
>To: samba@samba.org
>Subject: Re: Paradox on a Samba share
>Message-ID: <37984369.6E3618AE@mail.telepac.pt>
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>hi
>
>you must to configure the parameter "net dir" in DBE adminitrator
to the
>same director in all computer that need to run that program
>I think this can resolve you problem
>
>Paulo Almeida
>seth@mail.telepac.pt
>
>Ashley Clark wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to get a program that uses Paradox databases over
Samba
>> shares set up for a company here and I'm smashing my head into a
wall.
>>
>> This is a custom application written with Delphi/BDE accessing Paradox
>> tables on a network share. Previously they used Netware and all was
>> glorious until the box died, since they're version of Netware was
>> bootlegged ages ago I decided to install Linux/Samba and now when the
>> application tries to start on a second computer it gives an error
>> stating, "Network initialization failed. File: PDOXUSRS.NET.
>> Directory: F:\PLUMBING\"
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Ashley Clark
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>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:29:25 -0400
>From: "Rickey Bell" <RickeyBell@TechnicalSolutionsSC.Com>
>To: <samba@samba.org>
>Subject: Samba and Quickbooks
>Message-ID: <00af01bed507$00892d70$3348f9d0@technicalsolutionssc.com>
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>I have a server (LWEB) with a share of a directory (TSI). I copied all
>my quickbooks data files to the directory (from a NT server) and executed
>> a chmod 777 with recursive on directory. I assigned multiple people
>> permissions to the share. When one person opens the file in multi-user
>> mode (the way to do it on NT) it does fine and is much quicker. But,
>> when a second person tries to open the file the Quickbooks program on
>> their computer locks down, or gives a corrupt message. Everything works
>> fine on NT if the files are copied back to it. It sounds like there is
a
>> problem having multiple persons opening a single file on the linux box.
>> Is it like a timeshare problem or what. The server (LWEB) is a Red Hat
>> 6.0 with the standard Samba from the disk. The workstations are an
array
>> of 98 & NT Workstations.
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:01:19 +0200
>From: Kevin Ivory <Ivory@SerNet.de>
>To: samba@samba.org
>Subject: Re: Security preferences with Samba 2.0.5
>Message-ID: <E117ft1-0003if-00@intern.SerNet.DE>
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>I'll leave the first question to someone else.
>
>Jens Bruckmann wrote:
>> Another question is: how can I mount a share of any fileserver. I
>> miss the tool smbmount. So I tried "\\\\server\\share password
-U
>> administrator -c "/bin/mount /mountpoint" but get the
error
>> "command not found".
>
>smbmount is an optional tool (you can only use it with Linux). Ask for
>it during configuration, e.g.
>
># ./configure --with-smbmount
>
>The usage of smbmount has changed (but man-page and README-smbmount
haven't):>
># ./smbmount -h
>Usage: smbmount //server/share mountpoint [options ...]
>Version 2.0.5a
> -d debuglevel set the debuglevel
> -n netbios name. Use this name as my netbios name
> -N don't ask for a password
> -I dest IP use this IP to connect to
> -E write messages to stderr instead of stdout
> -U username set the network username
> -W workgroup set the workgroup name
> -t terminal code terminal i/o code
{sjis|euc|jis7|jis8|junet|hex}>
>As you see, the -c option is no longer there. The mountpoint is now
>(once again) the second argument.
>
>Kevin
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> |_ |\ | | Service Network GmbH | Fax: ++49-551-3700009
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>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:36:14 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Craig Huckabee <huck@cs.wisc.edu>
>To: samba@samba.org
>Subject: Samba 2.0.5a problems
>Message-ID:
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>
>
> I've been trying to run 2.0.5a and I've run into a show stopper
problem.
> When I try to start smbd and nmbd I get the following error message
> in the log files (this example from log.smb) :
>
>[1999/07/23 09:00:19, 1] ../samba-2.0.5/source/smbd/server.c:main(628)
> smbd version 2.0.5a started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
>[1999/07/23 09:00:19, 0]
../samba-2.0.5/source/lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(99)> ERROR: smbd : fcntl lock of file /tmp/samba/smbd.pid failed. Error was
No> such process
>
> *But*, that file and directory do exist (both nmbd.pid and smbd.pid are
there> as 0 byte files).
>
> I get a similar error for both processes. There were no unusual errors or
> warnings during the build (I used gcc) and these same servers are happily
> running 2.0.4b right now. Each server is running Solaris 2.6 (either X86
> or SPARC).
>
> A quick search of the archives shows someone else had this same problem on
> HPUX (I think when the 2.x line of SAMBA was still in beta) but I
couldn't
> find any responses to his post.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem ?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
> PS Another strange factoid - while using 'testparm' to debug this
problem
> I found that the new security mask parameters had some weird defaults
(like> 0377777777). I explicitly set them in my smb.conf in case that was a
problem> but it made no difference.
>
>
>Craig Huckabee E-Mail : huck@cs.wisc.edu
>Computer Systems Lab, Computer Sciences Department
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~huck/
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:05:21 CEST
>From: "Fabio Iovine" <f_iovine@hotmail.com>
>To: samba@samba.org
>Subject: security level flag...
>Message-ID: <19990723150521.25214.qmail@hotmail.com>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>
>Hi all,
>I'm referring to Giulio Orsero's and Steve Arnold's mails
replying to my
>previous mail concerning the same subject...
>
>First of all, the environment I'm workin' on is AIX 4.2.5 + Samba
1.9.18p10
>+ Win 95 Clients...
>
>The scenario is the following:
>a. a public filesystem accessible to all the clients with no restrictions
>concerning read-write permission,
>b. home directories accessible to the owners only from any PC on the net
and>with samba asking for login and password;
>
>As far as the public filesystem is concerned I set the following flags:
>[Users]
>comment = Temporary file space
> path = /Utenti
> read only = no
> public = yes
>and it works fine;
>
>as far as the home dirs are concerned I set the following flags:
>[user name]
> comment = Home of <user name>
> path = /home/<user name>
> public = no
> writable = yes
> printable = no
>and it didn't work.
>
>I tried to set up a username map as explained in the ENCRYPTION.txt but no
>way: every time I tried to access the dir I get a message saying something
>like "Account xxx is not allowed to access the dir..."...
>
>Any "detailed" suggestion?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Fabio
>
>
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>
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>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:22:57 -0700
>From: "Joe Capote" <jcapote@rapidcontent.com>
>To: <samba@samba.org>
>Subject: Unable to mount Win98 shares from Samba server
>Message-ID: <003201bed551$89526be0$2801000a@isyndicate.isyndicate>
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>Hello all,
>
>We are trying to use smbmount to mount shares on our win98 clinets from
>our samba linux box. When the smbmount command is entered, the name of
>the mount point always comes back: no such file or directory. The mount
>works when the mount point is on the samba server itself, but it just
>refuses to mount any remote shares. Any suggestions?
>
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>
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:39:58 -0800
>From: "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold@coyote.rain.org>
>To: samba@samba.org
>Subject: Re: rookie needs help (browsing samba from NT)
>Message-ID: <19990724005616.4753261767@coyote.rain.org>
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>On 23 Jul 99, "Page, Jon T" <Jon.Page@pnl.gov> had questions
about
>rookie needs help:
>
>> I am trying to connect an NT 4.0 workstation to an SGI Unix
>> system running samba. The SGI system is not browsable from the
>> NT workstation. When I try to map a drive from the SGI system to
>> the NT system I am prompted for a connect as identification and
>> password. I can enter either an ID and password for the Unix
>> system or of the NT system but neither seem to allow me to make
>> the connection.
>
>You can see it in the browse list, but can't browse or map a drive?
> Have you tried a Net Use command from the prompt? If samba is
>running in user level security and with encrypted passwords, then
>you should be able to map a drive at the command prompt, and then
>browse. If samba is running with plaintext passwords, then NT will
>need the reg hack to enable plaintext passwords on that side.
>There's a reg file in the samba package.
>
>With the plaintext passwords enabled, I still have to login (again)
>to the samba mapped drive after I login to the NT workstation box.
>After the double login, everything works fine.
>
>Steve
>
>
>> Looking at the samba logs on the SGI system it shows a timeout
>> trying to connect to a password server.
>>
>> I can map a drive from the SGI system to a Windows 95 system.
>>
>
>
>************************************************
>Steve Arnold CLE (Certifiable Linux Evangelist)
>http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
>
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