Dear Address,
we have some problem with our Samba (v2.0.7). We use it for a short time
only, so we don't have enough experience and knowledge about it. The
operating system on HP computer, on which is installed the Samba, is
HP-UX 10.20. The operating system on PC, which connect to the Samba, is
NT 4.0 sp. 6.
The problem is the following: we have a special card, which can
communicate with PC via serial port. There is a program on PC
(VectorCast's monitor program from Vector Software), which read the data
from the card and execute the corresponding commands (create, open,
close files, read from files and write into files). The used files are
(must be) located on HP, because VectorCast runs on HP. It seems, that
there are syncronisation problems between the PC and HP. The monitor
program has to delete and recreate some file on HP regularly. The
logfile indicates, that the creation is successful, although the file
has not been created.
I have written a small shell script, which check whether the file
exists or not (it runs on PC):
while ! test -f FINISHED
do
if test -f file_name
then
echo "*** file_name" > /dev/null
cat file_name > /dev/null
echo " " > /dev/null
else
echo Missing file_name... > /dev/null
fi
done
In a lot of cases it solves the problem, but not always. (There are
files, which cannot be created in spite of this script.)
We think, that there are syncronisation problem between PC and HP,
but we aren't sure. What do you think about it? (How can we reread the
smb.conf file, when it was changed? I think, there is a better command
than the restart...)
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Ferenc
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Ferenc Kalincs?k
ALSTOM Signaling Ltd.
H-1133 Budapest ?rb?c u. 6.
Phone: +36 1 239 99 19
Mobile: +36 20 528 40 61
Fax: +36 1 359 98 70
e-mail: ferenc.kalincsak@transport.alstom.hu
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