Does anyone have Samba working on Solaris 2.5.1?
I posted more or less the same question a few months
ago, and didn't hear anything back, but the issue has reared
its head again on my end.
I have Samba 2.0.0 running successfully on Solaris 2.6,
but have failed in repeated attempts to get Samba running
on Solaris 2.5.1. Basic symptom: I can get the daemon
running, but can't connect to any shares, *and* can't use
smbpasswd to 'add' new user id's (smbpasswd just hangs).
Any advice?
Has anyone ever had this working?
Thanks.
Frank R.Brown
Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Frank R. Brown wrote:> Does anyone have Samba working on Solaris 2.5.1?Yes.> I have Samba 2.0.0 running successfully on Solaris 2.6, > but have failed in repeated attempts to get Samba running > on Solaris 2.5.1. Basic symptom: I can get the daemon > running, but can't connect to any shares, *and* can't use > smbpasswd to 'add' new user id's (smbpasswd just hangs). > > Any advice?Try something more recent than 2.0.0? Not that I know of any bugs in 2.0.0 (but if that version was perfect why release anything after it :) What do you connect from? If NT4SP3+ you need encrypted passwords or tell the NT to use unencrypted. Well, you are of course using smbclient to test from localhost, so that can't be it. I believe someone mentioned some problems with copying one installation from one machine to another. Something to do with the SHARE_MEM_FILE in /usr/local/samba/var/locks/ ? Are you trying to run a 2.6 binary on the 2.5.1? Don't know if/why that would cause problems but I guess it could ... Sorry, that's the best my tired brain is capable of right now. /Urban
Urban - Thanks for the information. It's very encouraging to hear that someone has it working (and I would have been very surprised if no one did...). Could you give me some more details about the installation you have working? What version of samba are you using? Where did you get the binary? Did you compile it yourself? Any issues? What kind of stuff are you doing in your smb.conf file? Let me give you some more detail about what I'm doing. I started by downloading a pre-compiled version of samba for solaris 2.6. I'm pretty sure that it came set up as a solaris 'package'. It worked from day one. (Actually, I never got browsing working properly --- i.e., the samba servers aren't reliably browseable --- but I didn't try very hard, because I don't care.) We use nt-encrypted passwords, and have been using smbpasswd to add existing unix-side username/password pairs into samba's nt password file. We use 'hosts deny all', 'hosts allow abc.def.0.0' to add that extra layer of access control to our system. I'm working with one of our unix sa's to get this going. He's really quite good, but new to samba. We now need to run samba on a couple of solaris 2.5.1 machines. Our sa found a 2.5.1 pre-compiled binary. He also found a readme file that said the 2.6 binary would *not* work, so I don't think we ever tried it. We tried it several times on more than one machine, and played around quite a bit. There are rumors in our organization that someone had samba working for a day or two on solaris 2.5.1, but then it stopped working, never to work again, and that those guys then switched over to pc-nfs, or such. Our basic problem now is that smbpasswd hang indefinitely, and attempts to get around this by copying a password file from a working 2.6 installation cause attempts to connect to fail with unfamiliar errors. I'm a little foggy on the details, since the bulk of our attempts were some time ago. I will go ahead and repeat the samba diagnostic procedure (taking notes) and report back anything noteworthy. In the meantime, any info about your working installation and how you got it configured would be very much appreciated. Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se> wrote:> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Frank R. Brown wrote: > > > Does anyone have Samba working on Solaris 2.5.1? > > Yes. > > > I have Samba 2.0.0 running successfully on Solaris 2.6, > > but have failed in repeated attempts to get Samba running > > on Solaris 2.5.1. Basic symptom: I can get the daemon > > running, but can't connect to any shares, *and* can't use > > smbpasswd to 'add' new user id's (smbpasswd just hangs). > > > > Any advice? > > Try something more recent than 2.0.0? Not that I know of any bugs in > 2.0.0 (but if that version was perfect why release anything after it :) > > What do you connect from? If NT4SP3+ you need encrypted passwords or tell > the NT to use unencrypted. Well, you are of course using smbclient to test > from localhost, so that can't be it. > > I believe someone mentioned some problems with copying one installation > from one machine to another. Something to do with the SHARE_MEM_FILE in > /usr/local/samba/var/locks/ ? > > Are you trying to run a 2.6 binary on the 2.5.1? Don't know if/why that > would cause problems but I guess it could ... > > > Sorry, that's the best my tired brain is capable of right now. > > /UrbanFrank R.Brown Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews
Hi I have Samba 2.0.5a runing on Sparc Solaris 2.5, compiled with gcc 2.8.1 by myself. It is very easy, just follow the instructions and voila!!! We have +/- 50 clients and work very fine. I sugest you to compile and install yourself for the Solaris 2.5.1. Do not use cc (does not work for me), use gcc. Roberto At 21:28 29/10/99 +1000, you wrote:>Urban - > >Thanks for the information. > >It's very encouraging to hear that someone has it working >(and I would have been very surprised if no one did...). > >Could you give me some more details about the installation >you have working? What version of samba are you using? >Where did you get the binary? Did you compile it yourself? >Any issues? What kind of stuff are you doing in your smb.conf >file? > >Let me give you some more detail about what I'm doing. I started >by downloading a pre-compiled version of samba for solaris 2.6. >I'm pretty sure that it came set up as a solaris 'package'. >It worked from day one. (Actually, I never got browsing working >properly --- i.e., the samba servers aren't reliably browseable --- >but I didn't try very hard, because I don't care.) > >We use nt-encrypted passwords, and have been using >smbpasswd to add existing unix-side username/password >pairs into samba's nt password file. We use 'hosts deny all', >'hosts allow abc.def.0.0' to add that extra layer of access >control to our system. I'm working with one of our unix >sa's to get this going. He's really quite good, but new to >samba. > >We now need to run samba on a couple of solaris 2.5.1 machines. > >Our sa found a 2.5.1 pre-compiled binary. He also found a readme >file that said the 2.6 binary would *not* work, so I don't think we >ever tried it. We tried it several times on more than one machine, >and played around quite a bit. > >There are rumors in our organization that someone had samba >working for a day or two on solaris 2.5.1, but then it stopped >working, never to work again, and that those guys then switched >over to pc-nfs, or such. > >Our basic problem now is that smbpasswd hang indefinitely, >and attempts to get around this by copying a password file >from a working 2.6 installation cause attempts to connect >to fail with unfamiliar errors. > >I'm a little foggy on the details, since the bulk of our attempts >were some time ago. > >I will go ahead and repeat the samba diagnostic procedure >(taking notes) and report back anything noteworthy. In the >meantime, any info about your working installation and how >you got it configured would be very much appreciated. > >Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se> wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Frank R. Brown wrote: >> >> > Does anyone have Samba working on Solaris 2.5.1? >> >> Yes. >> >> > I have Samba 2.0.0 running successfully on Solaris 2.6, >> > but have failed in repeated attempts to get Samba running >> > on Solaris 2.5.1. Basic symptom: I can get the daemon >> > running, but can't connect to any shares, *and* can't use >> > smbpasswd to 'add' new user id's (smbpasswd just hangs). >> > >> > Any advice? >> >> Try something more recent than 2.0.0? Not that I know of any bugs in >> 2.0.0 (but if that version was perfect why release anything after it :) >> >> What do you connect from? If NT4SP3+ you need encrypted passwords or tell >> the NT to use unencrypted. Well, you are of course using smbclient to test >> from localhost, so that can't be it. >> >> I believe someone mentioned some problems with copying one installation >> from one machine to another. Something to do with the SHARE_MEM_FILE in >> /usr/local/samba/var/locks/ ? >> >> Are you trying to run a 2.6 binary on the 2.5.1? Don't know if/why that >> would cause problems but I guess it could ... >> >> >> Sorry, that's the best my tired brain is capable of right now. >> >> /Urban > > Frank R.Brown > Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews > >
Thanks to everyone who wrote back with encouragement and "Yes, it can be done." comments. My problem appears to be resolved. Basically, I got serious and downloaded a couple of versions of samba binaries that were allegedly compiled for 2.5.1. When I asked the sa with root access to the 2.5.1 machine in question to give me a hand with installing and testing each of these in sequence, he got off his duff, and installed and configured some other version of samba that he had laying around and thought would work. He still won't tell me what he installed or how he configured it, but it does works, so I'm content. I guess it's just another one of those deals where *knowing* it's possible makes it happen. Thanks again. I wrote:> Does anyone have Samba working on Solaris 2.5.1? > > I posted more or less the same question a few months > ago,...Frank R.Brown Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews