After considerable experimentation I'm forced to accept that Samba 3 has
problems with the combination of being a domain member, the 2.6 kernel,
and Dell 2850 hardware. It works fine on the 2.4 kernels but fails on
all the 2.6 versions I have avaialble for testing. I have one machine
that I really prefer could stay at 2.6 so my last resort there is to try
a downgrade to samba 2.X
In the past samba has always 'just worked' so I have no experience at
tuning the samba version to the kernel version. The system I need to
downgrade is 2.6.11. Any advice which version of samba will work on
that kernel version?
--
Stephen Carville -- polluting the ranks of skeptics since 1995.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has
never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are
arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
-- H. L. Mencken
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:22:16AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote:> After considerable experimentation I'm forced to accept that Samba 3 has > problems with the combination of being a domain member, the 2.6 kernel, > and Dell 2850 hardware. It works fine on the 2.4 kernels but fails on > all the 2.6 versions I have avaialble for testing. I have one machine > that I really prefer could stay at 2.6 so my last resort there is to try > a downgrade to samba 2.X > > In the past samba has always 'just worked' so I have no experience at > tuning the samba version to the kernel version. The system I need to > downgrade is 2.6.11. Any advice which version of samba will work on > that kernel version?What makes you think it's a problem with kernel version ? Can you give us more info ? Jeremy.
Stephen Carville wrote:> After considerable experimentation I'm forced to accept that Samba 3 has > problems with the combination of being a domain member, the 2.6 kernel, > and Dell 2850 hardware.WORKSFORME, RHEL4, samba-3.0.20a, DELL Poweredge SC420. -- Rex
Stephen Carville wrote:>After considerable experimentation I'm forced to accept that Samba 3 has >problems with the combination of being a domain member, the 2.6 kernel, >and Dell 2850 hardware. It works fine on the 2.4 kernels but fails on >all the 2.6 versions I have avaialble for testing. I have one machine >that I really prefer could stay at 2.6 so my last resort there is to try >a downgrade to samba 2.X >On a previous version of Samba (somewhere in the 2.x series, I think), we had random crashes until we set "kernel oplocks = no". If the problem you're seeing is kernel-specific, you might give that a try. Josh Kelley
I upgraded to 3.0.20a (I'll get 20b as soon as it is available but I _really_ needed to know samba would work on this machine) I tried my previous configuration with the usual failure. After a bit more head scratching, sniffer traces, and poring over the arcane language of one of the Grand Grimoires (_Samba-3 by Example_ in this case), I finally stumbled across the following incantation: # wbinfo --set-auth-user=<Domain Admin Account> Why this should work, I don't know but I can now get logged in from a W2K, XP or Linux box. Thanks to everyone who answered. Stephen Carville wrote:> After considerable experimentation I'm forced to accept that Samba 3 has > problems with the combination of being a domain member, the 2.6 kernel, > and Dell 2850 hardware. It works fine on the 2.4 kernels but fails on > all the 2.6 versions I have avaialble for testing. I have one machine > that I really prefer could stay at 2.6 so my last resort there is to try > a downgrade to samba 2.X > > In the past samba has always 'just worked' so I have no experience at > tuning the samba version to the kernel version. The system I need to > downgrade is 2.6.11. Any advice which version of samba will work on > that kernel version? >-- Stephen Carville -- polluting the ranks of skeptics since 1995. --------------------------------------------------------------- Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. -- H. L. Mencken