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> SAMBA Digest 1994 > >For information on unsubscribing see http://samba.org/listproc/ >Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) A message you sent has inappropriate language and has been blocked. > by <MailAdmin@transport.qld.gov.au> > 2) Re: samba question > by RICK_@t-online.de (JUERGEN ANZER) > 3) Problems With Configure Script On Solaris 2.6 > by "Matthew Jamison" <xmj@cypress.com> > 4) Case sensitive passwords in win95? Possible? > by Rob Naccarato <rob.naccarato@sheridanc.on.ca> > 5) Re: Input/output error > by James O'Kane <jo2y@jprc.com> > 6) Large uptime > by Joel <jwknight@cyberlink.bc.ca> > 7) Re: can't get in Network Neighborhood - need help > by Greg.J.Pinto@trw.com (Greg J. Pinto) > 8) FW: Samba Performance > by Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> > 9) FW: Samba Performance > by Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> > 10) FW: Samba Performance > by Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> > 11) RE: Samba Performance > by Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> > 12) Re: Input/output error > by Matt Chapman <m.chapman@student.unsw.edu.au> > 13) windows nt -> samba server on unix: slow login > by ravi narayan <ravi@streamcenter.com> > 14) RE: Samba Performance > by Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> > 15) Samba 2.0.2 + Linux 2.2 -- copyfile() support? > by PayPC System Mail Subscriber <spammail@quanta.paypc.com> > 16) Permissions problem > by "Dave Walton" <walton@emusic.com> > 17) very confusing problem > by Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE> > 18) SWAT - should not touch "include=" Option > by "Emrich Michael (QI/LBS3-Rt) *" <Michael.Emrich@de.bosch.com> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: 23 Feb 1999 03:23:43 +1000 >From: <MailAdmin@transport.qld.gov.au> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: A message you sent has inappropriate language and has been blocked. >Message-ID: <199902221734.DAA26076@avalon> > >The message you sent with subject "SAMBA digest 1993" to >david.m.cole@transport.qld.gov.au >contains words or phrases which contravene QT/MR policy on >the use of email, i.e. profanities or sexual references, and >has therefore been blocked. > >Please edit and re-send. If you believe this was blocked in error >please contact the Department of Transport Operations Management Centre >on 07 3834 2095 for assistance DO NOT REPLY directly to this message as it is >generated from an automated server. > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:45:00 -0800 >From: RICK_@t-online.de (JUERGEN ANZER) >To: "Joseph P. Harbison" <jomedusa@apex.net> >Subject: Re: samba question >Message-ID: <36D07E5C.F7E@t-online.de> > >Joseph P. Harbison wrote: >> >> i don't know if you can help but i am having the same trouble you >> posted... > >I?ll try, but I?m not a samba-expert too. > >> i can't browse my linux box...i see the machine but it is not >> accessible.... > >You cannot browse... but you can see? Where can you see the linux-box? >In Search->Computer? > >ACCESS is done by <smbd>, whereas BROWSING is done by <nmbd>. What does >your log.nmb and your log.smb say (located somewhere in ../var/..)? > >> i have read you post but don't understand >> what you mean by changing the directory permissions... > >On my Unix-system, there was no r/w permission on >/var/locks/browse.dat, so browsing failed... > >> i am using win98 with my linux box.....i don't log into the win98 >> machine.... > >First let?s make step by step: >What version of Linux are you using? >What version/distribution of samba are you using? >What?s in your smb.conf file? >Are you using plaintext or encrypted passwords on your win9x clients? >Have you increased the debug level in your smb.conf (log level=11 in >your global section) and what does your log files say when >browsing/accessing the shares? > >best regards >rick > >-- >snail: ANZER GmbH - Pieperstr. 14 - 32791 Lage - Germany >email: rick_@t-online.de >voice: (0049) 5232 / 9777-21 >fax: (0049) 5232 / 78094 > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:45:04 -0600 >From: "Matthew Jamison" <xmj@cypress.com> >To: <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Problems With Configure Script On Solaris 2.6 >Message-ID: <002f01be5e93$760fc120$453d54c0@melchizedek.Miss.Cypress.Com> > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0030_01BE5E61.2B755120 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I am having a Problem when I run the configure script in the source >directory. I works for some time and then come back with the following >error . > >ERROR: No locking available. Running Samba would be unsafe >configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config > >Does any one have any suggestions on how I can fix this? > >Matthew > >-------------------------------------------- >Matthew Jamison xmj@cypress.com >System Administrator Cypress Semiconductor >601-324-4609 (CSDC) >-------------------------------------------- > >------=_NextPart_000_0030_01BE5E61.2B755120 >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > name="Matthew Jamison.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="Matthew Jamison.vcf" > >BEGIN:VCARD >VERSION:2.1 >N:Jamison;Matthew;;; >FN:Matthew Jamison >ORG:Cypress Semiconductor (CSDC);CSDC (cad) >TITLE:Systems Administrator >TEL;WORK;VOICE:(601) 324-4609 >TEL;WORK;FAX:(601) 324-4614 >ADR;WORK:;Starkville MS;1 Research Boulevard, Suite >200;Starkville;MS;39759-9740;United States of America >LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=3DQUOTED-PRINTABLE:Starkville MS=3D0D=3D0A1 Research >Boulevard, Suite 200=3D0D=3D0AStarkville, MS 39759=3D >-9740=3D0D=3D0AUnited States of America >URL: >URL:http://www.miss.cypress.com/~xmj >ROLE:IT=20 >EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:xmj@cypress.com >REV:19981202T094349Z >END:VCARD > >------=_NextPart_000_0030_01BE5E61.2B755120-- > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:00:51 -0500 (EST) >From: Rob Naccarato <rob.naccarato@sheridanc.on.ca> >To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au >Subject: Case sensitive passwords in win95? Possible? >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9902221356080.27259-100000@viking.sheridanc.on.ca> > > >I'm finding a large amount of cpu time on my DU4.0D boxes when win95 >clients attempt a login. I'm guessing that the large percentage is due to >crypting the password presented to Samba by the client for the many >iterations defined by "password level" (mine's set to 8). I guess one way >to reduce the load would be to configure win95 so that it does not >uppercase the entire password, but send it in the case that the user typed >it in in the first place. This way, I can set "password level" to 0. > >Anyone know of a way to do this, or is this wishful thinking? > >Thanks. > > >Rob Naccarato "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages >Sys Admin because they know they can be impolite without >Sheridan College having their skulls split, as a general thing." >Oakville, Ont. Canada - Robert E. Howard > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:43:14 -0500 (EST) >From: James O'Kane <jo2y@jprc.com> >To: "Eloy A. Paris" <eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com> >Subject: Re: Input/output error >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902221529360.8962-100000@thelia.jprc.com> > >This seems to work, but this is a less than ideal because the plain-text >password gets written to disk as part of the shell history. Couldn't >something be done with /etc/smbpasswd to do this? >-james > > >On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > >> It looks like your connection to your NT box has been closed after you >> have been idle for too long. NT does this. >> >> If this is the case, you can solve the problem by supplying the password >> to access the share in the smbmount command: >> >> smbmount //sol/internal_webpages password -U jo2y -W JPRC \ >> -c "mount /home/jo2y/mnt" >> >> peloy.- >> >> James O'Kane <jo2y@jprc.com> wrote: >> > What could be wrong here? >> > >> > >> > [jo2y@thelia jo2y]$ smbmount //sol/internal_webpages -U jo2y -W JPRC -c >> > "mount /home/jo2y/mnt" >> > Added interface ip=207.86.147.157 bcast=207.86.147.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 >> > Server time is Sun Feb 21 12:02:56 1999 >> > Timezone is UTC-5.0 >> > Password: >> > Domain=[JPRC] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0] >> > security=user >> > [jo2y@thelia jo2y]$ df >> > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on >> > /dev/hda5 995115 593446 401669 60% / >> > /dev/hda1 15522 5356 10166 35% /boot >> > /dev/hda6 2920188 971542 1948646 33% /home >> > //SOL/INTERNAL_WEBPAGES >> > 1586560 990176 596384 62% /home/jo2y/mnt >> > >> > [...10 mins later...] >> > >> > >> > [jo2y@thelia jo2y]$ cd mnt >> > [jo2y@thelia mnt]$ ls >> > ls: .: Input/output error >> > [jo2y@thelia mnt]$ cd .. >> > [jo2y@thelia ..]$ pwd >> > /homes/jo2y/mnt/.. >> > [jo2y@thelia ..]$ cd ~ >> > [jo2y@thelia jo2y]$ smbumount mnt >> > Could not open mnt: Input/output error >> > [jo2y@thelia jo2y]$ smbumount /home/jo2y/mnt >> > Could not open /home/jo2y/mnt: Input/output error >> > [jo2y@thelia jo2y]$ >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:46:17 -0700 >From: Joel <jwknight@cyberlink.bc.ca> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: Large uptime >Message-ID: <19990222134617.A2933@cyberlink.bc.ca> > >Hello list. > >I admin a small network with a samba 1.9.18p10 server running under Linux >2.0.34. The server processes domain logins, WINS requests and is the LMB. >Everthing had been running very smooth for months then all of a sudden, >none of the client (win 9x) machines could login; the error was "No server >found to processes your domain logon." Further investigation proved that I >could indeed ping the Linux box and I could even do a 'net view \\server' >and get a list of all shares. A thorough investigation turned up nothing >out of the ordinary save for the fact that when I restarted samba, it did >*not* force an election. The log files show that it sets up the >interfaces, etc, but thats where nmbd stops. I finally broke down and >rebooted the server and nmbd forced the election and domain logons worked >as always. > >Now, the only thing I can think of is that this server had been up for >approx. 144 days. Are the problems we experienced somehow related to that? >Perhaps a problem with the 2.0.34 kernel? I am interested to hear other >people's stories running samba under Linux 2.0.x with long uptimes or from >anyone who can shed some light on my mini-mystery. > >Thanks in advance :-) > >-- > > Joel Knight jwknight@cyberlink.bc.ca > > PGP Key: hkp://keys.pgp.com/jwknight@cyberlink.bc.ca > KeyID 2048/38C24864 > Fingerprint 6D7D 1E4F 728B ACDA 6557 F3EC 85BB BA7C 38C2 4864 > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:03:46 -0500 >From: Greg.J.Pinto@trw.com (Greg J. Pinto) >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: Re: can't get in Network Neighborhood - need help >Message-ID: <36D1C632.1A3F60CA@trw.com> > >I saw this message posted while I was catching up on previous digests. >We've had similar problems with Samba machine showing up in the Network >Browser. Some would, while others (running the same version and >virtually identical smb.conf files) wouldn't. About a month ago I saw a >post on here about the length of the Server Description tag in the >smb.conf causing this problem. I shortened the length and a lo' and >behold, the server was now appearing in the Browse lists on our Windoze >hosts. Not sure if this was already relayed to you, but I didn't see it >in subsequent digests. > >Greg > >> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 06:04:52 +0200 (EET) >> From: Andrei >> To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au >> Subject: can't get in Network Neighborhood - need help >> Message-ID: >> >> >> I am currenlt using samba 2.0.2 but i remember having this problem >> with older releases too. Everything works fine but no matter what i do >> (user/share security level ; domain master=yes/no ;local master=yes/no >> etc.) the windozes (win98) can see my samba server only if i do >> start/find - computer. They can't see it in Network Neighborhood... >> >> Linux 2.2.1 >> >> Thanx. >> >> --- >> Andrei Postolache, and@lspvs.sorosis.ro, +40-35360249 >> An ideal world: no stupids, no 16800 bps connections and Windows works. >> > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:31:06 -0500 >From: Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> >To: "'samba@samba.org'" <samba@samba.org> >Subject: FW: Samba Performance >Message-ID: <F07E2BC09FE3D111A45900A0C9A94C93053433@mail.rrsinfo.com> > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Seese >Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 4:12 PM >To: 'Jeremy Allison' >Subject: RE: Samba Performance > > >Sorry things are a little crazy around here. I forgot to add. > >We are running RH 5.2 and samba 2.0 I plan on upgrading to 2.02 this >evening. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com] >Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 4:03 PM >To: Pankaj Chowdhry >Cc: Jeremy Allison; rseese@rrsinfo.com >Subject: Re: Samba Performance > > >Pankaj Chowdhry wrote: > >> >> I am currently running samba 2.0 on a HP Netserver LH4 Xeon single >> processor. I am having performance problems. Do you have any documentation >> on the test environment and the performance tuning that you used in your >> testing. >> Thanks in advance >> Robert Seese >> RRS Police Records Management Inc. > >Hi Robert, > > Pankaj forwarded your message to me as I was the >person who set up the VA Research Linux server for the >PC Week benchmark. > >Could you elaborate a little more on your configuration >and problems ? > >In addition, it may be advantagous to move the discussion >to samba@samba.org or samba-technical@samba.org so more >minds than mine can work on your problem :-). > >Regards, > > Jeremy Allison, > Samba Team. > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------- >Buying an operating system without source is like buying >a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. >-------------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:31:15 -0500 >From: Robert Seese <rseese@rrsinfo.com> >To: "'samba@samba.org'" <samba@samba.org> >Subject: FW: Samba Performance >Message-ID: <F07E2BC09FE3D111A45900A0C9A94C93053434@mail.rrsinfo.com> > >This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand >this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > >------_=_NextPart_000_01BE5EAA.AD2754C0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Seese >Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 4:10 PM >To: 'Jeremy Allison' >Subject: RE: Samba Performance > > >I migrated 49 gig of image data to the server over the weekend. >Unfortunately all of the performance testing I did was from one workstation. >CPU utilization is at 98 to 100 percent at all times with 30 users >connected. >The server has 512 mb of ram 100mb intel nic >HP netraid controler card with (8) 18gig drives in a raid 10 configuration >and 2 mirrored 4 gig drives for the operating system. >The filesystem performance is good 16 seconds to create a 100mb file "dd >if=/dev/zero of=test.foo bs=1024 count =10000" > >ifconfig shows no collisions or any other sort of error. >Please let me know if you see anything in the attached smb.conf file that >might be a problem. >Thanks! >Robert Seese > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com] >Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 4:03 PM >To: Pankaj Chowdhry >Cc: Jeremy Allison; rseese@rrsinfo.com >Subject: Re: Samba Performance > > >Pankaj Chowdhry wrote: > >> >> I am currently running samba 2.0 on a HP Netserver LH4 Xeon single >> processor. I am having performance problems. Do you have any documentation >> on the test environment and the performance tuning that you used in your >> testing. >> Thanks in advance >> Robert Seese >> RRS Police Records Management Inc. > >Hi Robert, > > Pankaj forwarded your message to me as I was the >person who set up the VA Research Linux server for the >PC Week benchmark. > >Could you elaborate a little more on your configuration >and problems ? > >In addition, it may be advantagous to move the discussion >to samba@samba.org or samba-technical@samba.org so more >minds than mine can work on your problem :-). > >Regards, > > Jeremy Allison, > Samba Team.--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: "Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it." David B. Hazelton Voice: (617) 745-3817 Desktop Support Specialist Fax: (617) 745-3809 Information Technology Services Eastern Nazarene College
>From samba@samba.org Fri Mar 26 15:16:44 1999 >Reply-To: samba@samba.org >Originator: samba@samba.org >Sender: samba@samba.org >From: samba@samba.org >To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.org> >Subject: SAMBA digest 2035 >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >X-URL: http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc >X-Comment: Discussion of Samba software package >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 07:06:56 +1100 > > SAMBA Digest 2035 > >For information on unsubscribing see http://samba.org/listproc/ >Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Remote browsing > by "Matthew Jamison" <xmj@cypress.com> > 2) Subject: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle > by David Collier-Brown <davecb@canada.sun.com> > 3) Samba Newbie having trouble with NT User/Server Manager > by "Benn, Paul" <paul.benn@netapp.com> > 4) MORE INFO: Samba 2.0 and passwords > by Paul Crittenden <crittend@storm.simpson.edu> > 5) =?gb2312?B?QUdBSU6juiBxdWVzdGlvbiBmcm9tIGJlZ2lubmVy?> by "yuqiang" <yuq@wayx.com.cn> > 6) Re: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle > by "Szabo Akos" <fonya@dspnet.hu> > 7) requested 10000 open files > by iordache <iordache@petrom.ro> > 8) RE: Using Printservers with Samba! > by "Burkhard Weeber" <B.Weeber@haushahn-as.de> > 9) Re: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle > by Lars Buerding <lars@mail.oih.rwth-aachen.de> > 10) "admin users" in printer shares... > by Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga <jorgegv@icai.upco.es> > 11) Please send this message on! Thank You! Please forgive mr if this message boder you > by "Colovic Igor" <cigor@EUnet.yu> > 12) [SAMBA] "cant find test code" > by Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> > 13) Can't see anymore Unix server from NT PC > by isabelle_michard@mail.schneider.fr > 14) 'close command' patch available > by Andy Bakun <abakun@reac.com> > 15) HP LJ6 prints blank page at end of W95 print job > by Paul Sherwin <psherwin@telinco.co.uk> > 16) Win98 goes to sleep on Samba > by "Nate Keegan" <nkeegan@ci.prescott.az.us> > 17) printing as "nouser" > by Xiong Ying Yang <xiong@SCO.com> > 18) Re: name_query failed: Samba 2.0.3 > by Michal <m.jezierski@usa.net> > 19) Re: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle (PR#15142) > by Jeremy Allison <jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> > 20) Creating a Briefcase on Samba shares? > by "Ernie Oporto" <ernie_oporto@mentorg.com> > 21) Cannot Compile Samba 2.0.3 > by "Nicholas Waltham" <nick@wwf.org.co> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:00:38 -0600 >From: "Matthew Jamison" <xmj@cypress.com> >To: <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Remote browsing >Message-ID: <001401be76fa$276e6380$453d54c0@melchizedek.Miss.Cypress.Com> > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0015_01BE76C7.DCD3F380 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >I am attempting to set up remote browsing on 2 different subnets. I am >using 2 Solaris boxes using samba 2.0.2. Each subnet has different a >different workgroup. on subnet "A" the workgroup is "workA". On subnet "B" >the workgroup is "workB". I have the following lines in the smb.conf. > >On subnet "A" on samba server A >os level = 66 >domain master = yes >local master = yes >preferred master = yes >wins support = yes >dns proxy = yes >hosts allow = subnetA subnetB 172.0.0.1 >remote announce = subnetB.255/workA >remote browse sync = "samba server B" > >On subnet "B" on samba server B >os level = 33 >domain master = yes >local master = yes >preferred master = yes >wins support = yes >dns proxy = yes >hosts allow = subnetB subnetA 172.0.0.1 >remote announce = subnetA.255/workB >remote browse sync = "samba server A" > >Using a Windows98 system from subnet "A" I can find the remote system and >browse it. From the same Win98 system I click on entire network and it >brings up workA and workB workgroup. When I try to access through the >workgroup it responds with > >workB is not accessible. > >The computer or sharename could not be found. Make sure you typed it >correctly, and try again. > >What I want to be able to do is browse workgroups and see all the system on >the other subnet. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this >work? > >Matthew > > > >-------------------------------------------- >Matthew Jamison xmj@cypress.com >System Administrator Cypress Semiconductor >601-324-4609 (CSDC) >-------------------------------------------- > >------=_NextPart_000_0015_01BE76C7.DCD3F380 >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > name="Matthew Jamison.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="Matthew Jamison.vcf" > >BEGIN:VCARD >VERSION:2.1 >N:Jamison;Matthew;;; >FN:Matthew Jamison >ORG:Cypress Semiconductor (CSDC);CSDC (cad) >TITLE:Systems Administrator >TEL;WORK;VOICE:(601) 324-4609 >TEL;WORK;FAX:(601) 324-4614 >ADR;WORK:;Starkville MS;1 Research Boulevard, Suite >200;Starkville;MS;39759-9740;United States of America >LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=3DQUOTED-PRINTABLE:Starkville MS=3D0D=3D0A1 Research >Boulevard, Suite 200=3D0D=3D0AStarkville, MS 39759=3D >-9740=3D0D=3D0AUnited States of America >URL: >URL:http://www.miss.cypress.com/~xmj >ROLE:IT=20 >EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:xmj@cypress.com >REV:19981202T094349Z >END:VCARD > >------=_NextPart_000_0015_01BE76C7.DCD3F380-- > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:28:01 -0500 >From: David Collier-Brown <davecb@canada.sun.com> >To: samba@samba.org, Marc Remijn <marrem@IAEhv.nl> >Subject: Subject: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle >Message-ID: <36FAAA61.CBFE4CEF@canada.sun.com> > >"Marc Remijn" <marrem@IAEhv.nl> write >> When copying files from the Samba server to a Windows95 client or vv, >> the speed varies dramatically. When I try to copy the same (20MB) file 10 >> times >> some times it copies in less than 10 seconds. The next time it takes allmost >> a >> minute. And most worrying of all quite often the copying just stops halfway >> in >> the middle. The progress bar in Windows just stops. The traffic on the NIC >> also >> stops (the traffic led stops flashing). > > I think you have a hardware problem: several people have > reported bizzare failures, followed by timeouts due to > ethernet cards (one bad NE2000 clone, one card truncating > packets. Another chap had a half-/full-duplex bug. > > Have you any other hardware to test with? > > >> When I use Linux and the smbclient on the client machine instead of W95 I >> also get >> high speed copying all of the time. > > Which reduces the probability, but doesn't, alas, eliminate it... > different drivers. > >--dave >-- >David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people >185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain >Willowdale, Ontario | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb >Work: (905) 477-0437 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com > >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:17:38 -0800 >From: "Benn, Paul" <paul.benn@netapp.com> >To: "'samba@samba.org'" <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Samba Newbie having trouble with NT User/Server Manager >Message-ID: <7F608EC0BDE6D111B53A00805FA7F7DA02D961FB@TAHOE.netapp.com> > >Greetings: > >I'm having a couple of problems that I can't seem to resolve (even after >searching the Samba archives). > >1) When selecting "Shared Directories" from within NT Server Manager, I get the >following error: "The Remote Procedure Call Failed" > >2) When setting the scope to \\servername with "User Manager for Domains," the >scope gets set to domain (the same thing that happens when you try to set a >local scope on an NT domain controller). I don't have Samba configured to be a >domain controller. > >Anyway, I went through Andrew's "Diagnosing Your Samba Server" page and the >server passes all tests except #3; it asks for a password but appears not to >accept it. > >Here's the command output: > >[paul@ipanema ~]$ smbclient -L ipanema >Added interface ip=172.21.24.216 bcast=172.21.24.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 >Password: >session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a >Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) > >Here's a snippet from the 'log.ipanema' file: > >[1999/03/25 16:17:54, 0] passdb/smbpassfile.c:trust_password_lock(119) > trust_password_lock: cannot open file /etc/TMLAB.IPANEMA.mac - Error was No >such file or directory. >[1999/03/25 16:17:54, 0] passdb/smbpassfile.c:trust_get_passwd(288) > domain_client_validate: unable to open the machine account password file for >machine IPANEMA in domain TMLAB. >[1999/03/25 16:17:54, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500) > Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file. >[1999/03/25 16:17:54, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500) > Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file. > > >versions: >Samba 2.0.3 intel >RedHat Linux 5.2 intel > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:52:08 -0600 >From: Paul Crittenden <crittend@storm.simpson.edu> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: MORE INFO: Samba 2.0 and passwords >Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990325165208.00793bd0@storm.simpson.edu> > >Hello all, >In addition to what I wrote this morning I just ran Test 8 from >DIAGNOSIS.txt and it worked but Test 9 didn't. I got invalid password >error. I am not running shadow passwords and passwords are not encrypted. >Please HELP!!!! > >I have asked this before but I have not found a solution. I have one Dec >Alpha running Tru-64-UNIX, formerly DecUNIX, v4.0d. I am running 2.0.2 and >have run 2.0.0 with no problems. SWAT works fine on it also. I have 2 >other systems, one running v4.0d and the other running v4.0b. On those >systems I can connect to guest volumes just fine but anything that requires >a password fails with a "Bad Password" error. SWAT will not let me connect >either and fails with a "Bad Password" error. I have run through the >suggestions in the file DIAGNOSIS.txt. Tests 1 - 6 work fine, tests 7 & 9 >fail and since I have doing this from home I didn't try test 8. My PC's >are running Windows95. I have tried running with security set to SHARE and >to USER and get the same result. I have tried to move the compiled >software from the system that works to the ones that don't and still no >luck. I have even used the smb.conf file, which I will include in this >message, and things don't work. If I try to connect to my share using the >smbclient command I get "Bad Password" errors. I have tried everything I >can think of and am at a loss to explain this. It doesn't make sense to me >that things work on the one system but not on the other two. Any help >would be greatly appreciated. > >Here is my smb.conf file which works on one system just fine but not on the >other two. > ># Global parameters > interfaces = 198.206.243.1/255.255.255.0 > security = SHARE > log file = /usr/local/samba/logs/log.%m > max log size = 500 > socket options = TCP_NODELAY > printcap name = /etc/printcap > guest account = guest > printing = bsd > >[homes] > comment = Home Directories > read only = No > create mask = 0750 > browseable = No > >Paul Crittenden >Computer System Manager >Simpson College >e-mail: crittend@simpson.edu > >Y2K? Why not 3? > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:23:03 +0800 >From: "yuqiang" <yuq@wayx.com.cn> >To: <samba@anu.edu.au> >Subject: =?gb2312?B?QUdBSU6juiBxdWVzdGlvbiBmcm9tIGJlZ2lubmVy?>Message-ID: <009d01be7730$055e6340$6400a8c0@yuqiang.wayx.com.cn.local> > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0098_01BE7772.A1DAF110 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="gb2312" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Hi,there, >=20 >sorry if my "stupid" question had been answered many times in this list. >I am just a beginner to samba and this list.any help on how can I solve >this problem will be highly apprecitated. >=20 > >yuqiang. >=20 >here is my last mail: >=20 >=20 >>Hi,there, >=20 >>I just installed samba 1.9.16p6 on my solaris 2.6 on x86.I can connect >the shared resource on my solaris from windows >9.x,but I can't connect >them on windows nt 4.0(sp3).Whenever I entered username/password,I got a >error which means the >account can not log on from this workstation.I >can not understand the error message(error message from Microsoft are >>always puzzled). >=20 >>any help will be appreciated. >=20 >>yuqiang. >=20 > >------=_NextPart_000_0098_01BE7772.A1DAF110 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="gb2312" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Dgb2312 >http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 >HTML//EN"> ><META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> ><DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi,there,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>sorry if my "stupid" question >had been=20 >answered many times in this list. I am just a beginner to samba and this > >list.any help on how can I solve this problem will be highly=20 >apprecitated.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>yuqiang.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>here is my last mail:</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 >face=3DArial=20 >size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial >size=3D2>>Hi,there,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2>>I just installed >samba 1.9.16p6=20 >on my solaris 2.6 on x86.I can connect the shared resource on my solaris >from=20 >windows >9.x,but I can't connect them on windows nt 4.0(sp3).Whenever >I=20 >entered username/password,I got a error which means the >account can >not log=20 >on from this workstation.</FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial >size=3D2>I can not=20 >understand the error message(error message from Microsoft are >always > >puzzled).</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>>any help will be >appreciated.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>>yuqiang.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> > >------=_NextPart_000_0098_01BE7772.A1DAF110-- > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:56:24 +0100 >From: "Szabo Akos" <fonya@dspnet.hu> >To: <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Re: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle >Message-ID: <s6facd3d.010@ows> > >Hello! > >> the middle. The progress bar in Windows just stops. The traffic on >the NIC >> also stops (the traffic led stops flashing). After a timeout of 1 to >2 minutes >> Windows says 'Cannot copy <filename>: the specified network resource >is no longer >> available'. The Samba server then says that the client closed the >connection. >Try to increase "shared mem size" to 5-6MB. >This was helpfully for me. > > >Ciao: > Fonya > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:06:07 +0200 >From: iordache <iordache@petrom.ro> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: requested 10000 open files >Message-ID: <36FB23CF.972075D1@petrom.ro> > >Hi ! > >Can someone tell me wich event cause this message in log.smb in a >RH5.2/Samba2.0.3 box connected in a Win9x network ? Can this cause >unfuntionality of some DBase programs ? > >'[1999/03/26 07:00:34, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(219) > file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 246 are >available.' > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:00:52 +0100 >From: "Burkhard Weeber" <B.Weeber@haushahn-as.de> >To: <akaplan@tai.com.tr>, "'Samba list'" <samba@samba.org> >Subject: RE: Using Printservers with Samba! >Message-ID: <17ff0c225f71ff66ffffffffffff1bffffffb736fb5b14@haushahn-as.de> > >Hello Alpaslan, > >you have to put in a spool directoy statement for each printer on the print server. >If you don't put in that :sd=<path>: LINUX assumes that the receiving partner is a >true spooler which can handle multiple requests an queues then up itself. >If you put in that :sd=<path>: LINUX first queues up all the requests and sends >them out to the receiving partner one by one. > >Hope it helps > >Burkhard Weeber >C. Haushahn Automationssysteme GmbH & Co. KG >P/O Box 300668 >D-70446 Stuttgart >Email: B.Weeber@haushahn-as.de > >-----Original Message----- >From: samba@samba.org [mailto:samba@samba.org]On Behalf Of Alpaslan >Kaplan (akaplan@tai.com.tr) >Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 8:49 PM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: Using Printservers with Samba! > > >> Dear Sirs, >> >> I would like to know if there is a way to share printers connected to >> print >> servers (Intel Print Servers are used in my company) so that Linux takes >> the spooling job on to himself, using Samba. I succeded to define the >> printserver queues under Linux (by the Intel's PrintServer software) but >> when more than one users try to print on the same printer at the same >> time, a "Printer Queue is Full" message appears. >> >> The versions I've used are Slackware 3.6 for Linux, 1.9.18p for Samba and >> the clients are Win95. I will be very glad if you inform me about the >> subject. >> >> Alpaslan KAPLAN >> Computer Operation Specialist >> Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. >> > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:54:54 +0100 (MET) >From: Lars Buerding <lars@mail.oih.rwth-aachen.de> >To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Re: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9903260933130.556-100000@miraculix.oih.RWTH-Aachen.DE> > > > >Hello Marc! > >> minute. And most worrying of all quite often the copying just stops halfway >> in the middle. The progress bar in Windows just stops. The traffic on >> the NIC also stops (the traffic led stops flashing). After a timeout of >> 1 to 2 minutes Windows says 'Cannot copy <filename>: the specified >> network resource is no longer available'. >> The Samba server then says that the client closed the connection. > >I have got exactly the same problem here. One specific Win98-client can't >copy large files. Other Machines (1*Win95, 1*Win98, 3*linux/smbclient) >don't have this problem. > >I am still using Samba V2.0.1, tried to install a Suse-V2.0.2-rpm, but >it still reports to be V2.0.1, so I hope that this is not the reason for >the problem. > >> Marc > > >Tschau, >Lars > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:22:34 +0100 >From: Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga <jorgegv@icai.upco.es> >To: Samba <samba@samba.org> >Subject: "admin users" in printer shares... >Message-ID: <36FB5FEA.F59317AF@icai.upco.es> > >Hi guys, > >I have noticed that when I specify an "admin users" clause in a printer >share, all print jobs get spooled as root, and not as the user which >sent the job. Since administrative options are related to >pausing/deleting jobs from the queue and not spooling them, I think it >would be very nice that, even when a user has admin privilege over a >printer share, the job appeared as being sent by that user and not root. >All other maintenance could be done as root, as usual. > >I don't think this could be very difficult to implement, it's simply a >matter of becoming the connected user, then spooling the job, in order >to show up as the user in the lpq list. > >I don't know if this can be already done; if it is I'd be very grateful >if anyone could tell me what option to use. If not, I think I'll try and >make a patch. > >Cheers >Jorge > >P.S.: I have just enabled and I'm trying "security = domain" with a >great, great success. All conections go _really_ faster now, despite the >fact that users are asked _ONCE_ for the password, and no more. Keep up >the good work. > >-- >Jorge Gonzalez <jorgegv@icai.upco.es> -o) >ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas /\\ >Administrador de Sistemas _\_v > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:18:16 +0100 >From: "Colovic Igor" <cigor@EUnet.yu> >To: "Zaphod" <omni@antisocial.com>, "TODOROVICH DUSHANKA" <ga6qc@qcunix1.acc.qc.edu>, "Team AnchorDesk" <anchordesk@EMAIL.ZDLISTS.COM>, >Subject: Please send this message on! Thank You! Please forgive mr if this message boder you >Message-ID: <01be7771$f67d5010$0200a8c0@big.co.yu> > > > >TO ALL HONEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD > >Over our heads fly bombing airplane. Our women and kids sitting in the >cellars awaiting bombs. Who has the right to endanger their survival ? >And why ? Who has the right to take into hand the justice and to punish >whole nation according to its own decision? >Serbs are one of the oldest nation in the Europe. With their long >tradition and culture with their own kings and kingdoms. And the whole >history they never attacked other countries just defending themselves. >In last two wars we were allied with USA,RUSSIA,BRITAIN never against. >We lost many lives in that period, over 1 million people died in last >war. For freedom. Against fascism. And now, the same countries with whom >we fighted in last war giving our lives, send their missals, bombs and >planes killing our kids. FOR WHAT REASON? To help those who wish to >separate from our country. To help savage, wild people who always were >enemies with us and our allies and always fights on the side of >fascists! Your government say "To prevent humanitarian disaster of women >and kids." Your government shaw to your TV station the pictures of them >going through the snow. Do you know that there is no snow in Yugoslavia >for months? Here is the spring! >Your children walk carefree on the street. They slip calmly in their >beds. They have the father, the mother, the home. Our kids, small >babies, are sitting in the cold cellars behind afraid, crying, helpless, >not understanding completely what is happened around them. They are not >guilty. We are not guilty because we wont to negotiate honestly and to >offer to those savages the most autonomy possible, the greatest in the >world. but we are not ready to allow them to separate, to take our >territory on which our nation has been borned. Where all historical >monument confirms that this territory is our Serbs cradle! >They can live there as citizens of our country, but they can not take it >from us. NEVER. >You say that we destroy million of them. Do you know, does anybody know >how many Albanians live in Kosovo? Nobody know, because they refuse to >register themselves always when government make the register of all >population in the country. Do you know that in the period from 1980 the >Albanian was the president of Yugoslavia? do you know that they had >their own schools,university,radio,tv, newspapers which has been >financed by the government? >Do you know that many Albanians lives in Serbia, Belgrade, Novi Sad and >work normally? Nobody harm them! >Ask that your politicians. Inform them about truth. And stop killing our >kids! Stop killing in Yugoslavia! Let our kids to grow in piece and be >happy! Let us to work, to build and develop our >economy and be the part of Europe! Respect our pride and history and >press your politicians to >n e g o t i a t e, not to blackmail our country! >Tell to NATO not to be the slave of Albanians. Tell to NATO that they >have no right to intervene >on territory of the country which is not their member and which did not >attack the country member >of NATO. >Give your voice of reason and say STOP! >STOP IN THE NAME OF GOD! STOP IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE! STOP IN THE NAME >OF >YOUR CHILDREN WHICH WILL TOMORROW BE SHAMED OF THEIR FATHERS! STOP >IN THE NAME OF OWN TOMORROW! STOP IN THE NAME OF GOD!!!! > > >Your friends from Yugoslavia living under > >the bombs. > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:02:29 +0100 (CET) >From: Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> >To: samba@anu.edu.au (samba) >Subject: [SAMBA] "cant find test code" >Message-ID: <199903261302.NAA01314@oshima.sonytel.be> > > >Howdy, > >I'm trying to compile samba (either version 2.0.0 or >2.0.3) on SUN (Solaris 2.6/Sparc) and got the following >result when running configure: > >... >checking for int32 typedef included by rpc/rpc.h... no >checking for uint32 typedef included by rpc/rpc.h... no >checking for conflicting AUTH_ERROR define in rpc/rpc.h... no >checking for test routines... configure: error: cant find test code. Aborting config > >I got exactly the same result on an SGI running IRIX 6.2. > >What am I doing wrong? Are those "test routines" part of >samba? > >Nico > >-- >----------------------------------------------- >system failure ... hit any user to continue ... >----------------------------------------------- >Nico De Ranter >Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) >Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) >1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth >Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 >e-mail: nico.deranter@sonycom.com > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 99 09:27:33 +0100 >From: isabelle_michard@mail.schneider.fr >To: <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Can't see anymore Unix server from NT PC >Message-ID: <9903269224.AA922460168@mail.schneider.fr> > > > Hello Gurus ! > > I'm having a problem that I don't undestand because it worked great at > the beginning. > > We have a Unix server Solaris 2.5.1 and a number of Pc stations Win95 > or NT4. > > On my particuliar Pc, I can't see anymore the Unix server through the > Explorer: Network neighborhood, Entire Network, Microsoft Windows > Network... > However, I still have the partitions mounted on reboot but I can't > mount a new one. > My configuration is : Win NT4 SP3. > > The other PC NT or 95 manage to see it. > > Can anyone help me... Is it a problem with encrypted password ? > Thanks > > Isabelle > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:17:37 -0600 >From: Andy Bakun <abakun@reac.com> >To: samba-technical@samba.org, samba@samba.org >Subject: 'close command' patch available >Message-ID: <36FBA511.F7274743@reac.com> > >I've written a patch to samba 2.0.2/3 that adds a new share parameter to >samba named 'closed command' that is similar in functionality to 'print >command', but works on file shares. If a share has a 'close command' >specified, then the given command will be run when a client closes a file. >It takes the standard macro substitutions in addition to %s (or %f) to pass > >it the filename. > >This can be used to create a file share that is a drop off point for files >that need some kind of automated task run on them. >I'm currently using it to rasterize postscript documents generated by >Windows applications. Other people are using it to do anti-virus checking >and log file uses. It would rock if this could get integrated into the >main branch, and possibly in the 2.0.x series also. > >A readme is available at >http://www.reac.com/samba/samba-closecmd.README >and the patch is at >http://www.reac.com/samba/2.0.2/samba-closecmd-2.0.2.diff > >Questions and comments can be directed to me at thwartedefforts@wonky.org. > >Andy Bakun. > > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:27:34 +0000 >From: Paul Sherwin <psherwin@telinco.co.uk> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: HP LJ6 prints blank page at end of W95 print job >Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990326152734.007c3c30@mail.telinco.co.uk> > >I'm trying to use an HP LJ6 as a network printer on a Samba server (linux). >Everything works fine except... whenever a W95 print job finishes, the >printer throws a blank page. I've tried everything short of hex dumping the >output - I've tried using a minimal printcap entry with no filtering, I've >tried using apsfilter... The really odd thing is the binary data itself >can't be being mangled since it prints correctly. If I move the same >printer to a W95 system and print on it using the same settings and W95 >drivers, I don't get the page throw. If I print the apsfilter test bitmap >of a tiger, I don't get the page throw. > >I don't seem to get the same problem using an old HP DJ540. > >As HP LJ6s are so common, lots of other people _must_ have experienced this >problem - come on folks, how did you fix it? > >I'd be grateful if you could copy any suggestions to me directly, in case I >miss them in the list. > >Best regards, Paul > >Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK >Phone +44 (0)1865 721438 http://www.telinco.co.uk/psherwin/index.htm >Fax +44 (0)1865 434331 mailto:psherwin@telinco.co.uk >Pager +44 (0)7666 797228 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:32:00 -0800 >From: "Nate Keegan" <nkeegan@ci.prescott.az.us> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: Win98 goes to sleep on Samba >Message-ID: <Megw.16109900@peru.fabrik.com> > > >I have been running RedHat 5.2 and Samba 2.0.3 for the past week or so. My >network is made up of NT servers and 95/98 clients. So far Samba has been >running beautifully - I can use my Samba shares just like they are NT shares. >My only problem is from time to time my Win98 machine "goes to sleep" and >asks me for either a password or an IPC$ password. Generally this happens >after a period of inactivity such as overnight. In addition my NT domain >account gets locked out when this happens. Other users can still connect to >the Samba server but I cannot until I reactivate my NT account and remove my >Linux box from the domain and add it back in. This has happened three times >in the last week, not a really big deal, but very strange...can anyone clue >me in to how I can resolve this issue. I've included portions of my smb.conf >file and the log file for my machine (cop219) for reference...the log file is >more interesting - I imagine this is largely an NT issue. > >As always thank you in advance > > >running WINS on NT network....NT is PDC >#======================= Global Settings >====================================> ># workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name > workgroup = COP > >snip...... > ># Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See ># security_level.txt for details. > security = server ># Use password server option only with security = server > password server = BACKUP1 > >snip....... > > encrypt passwords = yes > smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd > >snip..... > > unix password sync = Yes > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n >*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* > >snip....... > ># Use only if you have an NT server on your network that has been ># configured at install time to be a primary domain controller. > domain controller = BACKUP1 > ># Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for ># Windows95 workstations. >; domain logons = yes > >snip.... > >[IPC$] >public = yes > >>From the log file for my machine - I am COP219 >============================================================================ >======> >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50) > startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147) > unable to open smb password database. >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500) > Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file. >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127) > password server BACKUP1 rejected the password >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50) > startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147) > unable to open smb password database. >[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500) > Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file. >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127) > password server BACKUP1 rejected the password >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50) > startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147) > unable to open smb password database. >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500) > Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file. >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127) > password server BACKUP1 rejected the password >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50) > startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147) > unable to open smb password database. >[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500) > Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file. >[1999/03/25 20:00:35, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488) > cop219 (195.XX.XX.XXX) connect to service SAMBA as user nkeegan (uid=500, >gid=500) (pid 421) > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:48:28 +0000 >From: Xiong Ying Yang <xiong@SCO.com> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: printing as "nouser" >Message-ID: <36FBAC4B.FFCEA829@sco.com> > >hi, >trying experimenting samba a bit, how can i share a printer so that >nouser connects and be able to print? I am using >security = user >in [printers] i have guest ok =yes > >if anybody connects without a /etc/passwd entry it is treated as nouser. > >I can see that %s gets copied to /tmp if I set "print command = cp %s >/tmp", but >for normal lp -c -d%p %s; rm %s , no jobs comes out. > >does lp print for nouser (shell /bin/false) > > >xiong > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:40:15 +0000 >From: Michal <m.jezierski@usa.net> >To: samba@samba.org >Subject: Re: name_query failed: Samba 2.0.3 >Message-ID: <36FBC643.5E88CE42@usa.net> > >> got one Windows 95 machine that started to refuse to talk to Samba last >> >> Samba name server GATEWAY is now a local master browser for workgroup >> WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.3 >> > >Did you set up the Win95 for workgroup WORKGROUP? And point it to your >Samba WINS server? > >Hope this helps > >Michal > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:14:46 -0800 >From: Jeremy Allison <jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> >To: lars@mail.oih.rwth-aachen.de >Subject: Re: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle (PR#15142) >Message-ID: <36FBC086.3AB155AB@engr.sgi.com> > >lars@mail.oih.rwth-aachen.de wrote: > >> I have got exactly the same problem here. One specific Win98-client can't >> copy large files. Other Machines (1*Win95, 1*Win98, 3*linux/smbclient) >> don't have this problem. >> >> I am still using Samba V2.0.1, tried to install a Suse-V2.0.2-rpm, but >> it still reports to be V2.0.1, so I hope that this is not the reason for >> the problem. > >Almost certainly you are hitting the log file rotation >bug. It was present in 2.0.0 - 2.0.2. Fixed in 2.0.3. >I recommend you upgrade. > >Regards, > > Jeremy Allison, > Samba Team. > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------- >Buying an operating system without source is like buying >a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. >-------------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:43:08 -0500 >From: "Ernie Oporto" <ernie_oporto@mentorg.com> >To: <samba@samba.org> >Subject: Creating a Briefcase on Samba shares? >Message-ID: <000801be77c0$dfca8410$01d3ca89@Warren.MENTORG.COM> > >Is there a way to successfully create a working Briefcase on Samba shares? > >When I create one in a Samba share, it has a regular folder icon with a >desktop.ini file in it. Openning it reveals a plain folder rather than the >usual Briefcase applet. When I create one on a Windows NT network share it >works fine, but all our big filesystems are unix-based Samba shares rather >than NT shares. > >-Ernie > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:54:53 -0500 >From: "Nicholas Waltham" <nick@wwf.org.co> >To: <samba@samba.anu.edu.au> >Cc: <samba-ntdom@samba.org> >Subject: Cannot Compile Samba 2.0.3 >Message-ID: <000501be77c2$8418c850$1500a8c0@wwf.org.co> > >Hi, > I am trying to compile samba 2.0.3 sources which I delayed a few days ago, >unfortunately it won't compile, it looks like there are some sources missing >in the rpc_server source directory... > >Please let me know how I can proceede with compiling the sources. I would >like to try and fix a problem with being unable to change passwords under >windows nt, when I have password syn activated. > >Thanks in advance, >Nicholas Waltham > > >------------------------------ > >End of SAMBA Digest 2035 >************************ >
samba@samba.org wrote:> SAMBA Digest 2037 > > For information on unsubscribing see http://samba.org/listproc/ > Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Re: Copied files filled with zeros > by Paul Allen <paul.allen@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com> > 2) Re: Copied files filled with zeros (PR#15164) > by Jeremy Allison <jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> > 3) Print to Win98, WinNT > by LOC <loc@vietnamnet.com> > 4) copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle > by GiM <gim@xs4all.nl> > 5) Word97 failing to write to share > by Michael Harlow <Mike.Harlow@utas.edu.au> > 6) Samba printers > by lustig hanna <lustig@rafael.co.il> > 7) migration win95 -> win98 > by "Andreas K. Huettel" <Andreas.Huettel@extern.lrz-muenchen.de> > 8) smbpasswd in 2.0 - problems > by Frank Knobloch <frank@inis.de> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:09:00 -0800 > From: Paul Allen <paul.allen@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Re: Copied files filled with zeros > Message-ID: <36FC138C.4EA78B22@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com> > > I posted about a problem last week and haven't seen anything. > Perhaps if I re-state? > > The problem is that a Word document gets filled with zeros when > it is dragged from an NT4 machine onto one of my Samba shares. > The NT machine is running Windows Terminal Server with the Citrix > and NCD stuff that allows the desktop to be displayed on an X > server. My Samba servers are Suns running Solaris 2.5 or 2.6 > with Samba 2.0.0. Here's the config from my earlier posting: > > > [global] > > browseable = yes > > guest account = nobody > > default service = homes > > nis homedir = True > > homedir map = auto_home > > name resolve order = host lmhosts bcast wins > > workgroup = iss-tech > > server string = Samba Server > > auto services = homes > > lm announce = true > > lm interval = 60 > > remote announce = 130.42.151 > > security = domain > > password server = iss-tech-f > > encrypt passwords = yes > > socket options = TCP_NODELAY > > local master = no > > wins server = 130.121.5.43 > > dns proxy = no > > username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/map > > [export] > > path = /export > > browseable = yes > > writeable = yes > > [homes] > > path = %p > > browseable = no > > writable = yes > > invalid users = root > > Has anybody seen this sort of symptom with Samba? It seems unlikely > to be a bug in NT, since even Microsoft users can't tolerate somthing > this bad. Ideas, anyone? > > Thanks! > > Paul Allen > -- > Paul L. Allen | voice: (425) 865-3297 fax: (425) 865-2964 > Unix Technical Support | paul.l.allen@boeing.com > Boeing AR&T Site Operations, POB 3707 M/S 7L-68, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 > --- > Kick, kick, double-pole, glide, breathe, repeat ... Air is crisp, sun > warm under the blue sky-dome. Friends move nearby over fresh powder > through silent woods. Awareness is here, now. Work is a distant echo. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:13:59 -0800 > From: Jeremy Allison <jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> > To: paul.allen@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com > Subject: Re: Copied files filled with zeros (PR#15164) > Message-ID: <36FC14B7.3C909196@engr.sgi.com> > > paul.allen@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com wrote: > > > > I posted about a problem last week and haven't seen anything. > > Perhaps if I re-state? > > > > The problem is that a Word document gets filled with zeros when > > it is dragged from an NT4 machine onto one of my Samba shares. > > The NT machine is running Windows Terminal Server with the Citrix > > and NCD stuff that allows the desktop to be displayed on an X > > server. My Samba servers are Suns running Solaris 2.5 or 2.6 > > with Samba 2.0.0. Here's the config from my earlier posting: > > This could be caused by the resource/data for problem > that got fixed in (2.0.2 I think ?). I recommend you > upgrade to 2.0.3 - it fixes several bugs previous > 2.0.x releases. > > Regards, > > Jeremy Allison, > Samba Team. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > Buying an operating system without source is like buying > a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:16:58 +0700 > From: LOC <loc@vietnamnet.com> > To: Samba Groupe <samba@samba.org> > Subject: Print to Win98, WinNT > Message-ID: <36FC3F99.50728165@vietnamnet.com> > > Hi SMBers, > > I have a problem when trying print to Win98 via Samba: > When I use print script ( included near at the end of SMB-HOWTO) to > print a text file, I've got perfect printout, but when I use it to print > > some html page, I've got ASCII text of PS file that I want to print. If > I print to file then use ghostview to view the file, so it seems to me > that fine! > What is wrong ? > How can I fix it ? My environment: HPlaser 6L, Slackware 3.5, Samba > 2.0.3 > > Another problem is I cannot see the printer attached to NT by "smbclient > -L nt". > How must I set up share in NT to let my Linux box see that shared > printer ? > > Pls, help newbie! > Your any info, advice, help are appreciated very much, > Thanks all of you, > Regards, > TQLoc > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:21:37 +0100 > From: GiM <gim@xs4all.nl> > To: marrem@IAEhv.nl, samba@samba.org, davecb@canada.sun.com > Subject: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle > Message-ID: <36FC8701.5425E0D1@xs4all.nl> > > "Marc Remijn" <marrem@IAEhv.nl> write > > When copying files from the Samba server to a Windows95 client or vv, > > the speed varies dramatically. When I try to copy the same (20MB) file > 10 > > times > > some times it copies in less than 10 seconds. The next time it takes > allmost > > a > > minute. And most worrying of all quite often the copying just stops > halfway > > in > > the middle. The progress bar in Windows just stops. The traffic on the > NIC > > also > > stops (the traffic led stops flashing). > > I have a similar problem: only with Win98. Sometimes the speed of > retrieving files from the SMB server is just unbelievably high. Seconds > later a client can hang for up to 15 minutes. Additionally files are > being corrupted, W98 reports out of disk space on SMB volume, etc. > > I am running Samba 2.0.2 on 2 CPU Linux box :kernel 2.2.3; two network > segments: 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T; HP J3272A 100Base-T Hub; > all network cards are 10/100 Intel EE; 17 Win98 workstations; OpenBSD > firewall box; NT4 Server (soon to go, especially if I solve the problem > with the Samba performance). > > I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions, help. > > Regards, > Gantcho I. Mantchorov > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:09:37 +1100 > From: Michael Harlow <Mike.Harlow@utas.edu.au> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Word97 failing to write to share > Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990327200937.01d32bb0@postoffice.utas.edu.au> > > Help. I am having trouble getting word97 to write a file to a share. > I dont remember this sort of problem in the past. Excel97 works fine, > I can drag-n-drop files into the share, and notepad will open/write > and save-as just fine. I can create folders Word97 however either > says that there is a permissions problem, or to check that the disk > is still in the drive. > > NT4 SP4 to Solaris 2.5/Samba 2.0.3, Word97-SR2 > > This is what smbstatus returns initially. > **** > Samba version 2.0.3 > Service uid gid pid machine > ---------------------------------------------- > > No locked files > > Share mode memory usage (bytes): > 1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total > ***** > > Then after I browse to the share within the Word Save-As dialog box... > > Samba version 2.0.3 > Service uid gid pid machine > ---------------------------------------------- > mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar > 27 17:45:01 1999 > > No locked files > > Share mode memory usage (bytes): > 1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total > > ***** > > Then after I click OK (to save) and word97 brings up the error message > I have this... > > Samba version 2.0.3 > Service uid gid pid machine > ---------------------------------------------- > mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar > 27 17:45:01 1999 > mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar > 27 17:45:48 1999 > mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar > 27 17:45:48 1999 > mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar > 27 17:45:48 1999 > mike mike sggadm 26515 federation (131.217.40.116) Sat Mar > 27 17:45:48 1999 > > Locked files: > Pid DenyMode R/W Oplock Name > -------------------------------------------------- > 26515 DENY_NONE RDWR NONE > /home/mike/sambatest/~WRD0000.tmp Sat Mar 27 17:45:47 1999 > 26515 DENY_NONE RDONLY NONE /home/mike/sambatest/Test.doc > Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 > 26515 DENY_NONE RDONLY NONE /home/mike/sambatest/Test.doc > Sat Mar 27 17:45:48 1999 > > Share mode memory usage (bytes): > 1048224(99%) free + 256(0%) used + 96(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total > > I now have a zero-length file (correct name) > and a non-zero length word temp file. > > drwxrwxrwx 3 mike sggadm 512 Mar 27 19:06 ./ > drwx------ 36 mike sggadm 3072 Mar 27 18:50 ../ > -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 13824 Mar 27 18:46 Book1.xls > drwxr-x--- 2 mike sggadm 512 Mar 27 19:06 NewFolder/ > -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 0 Mar 27 17:45 Test.doc > -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 1858 Mar 27 18:45 Text Document.txt > -rw-r----- 1 mike sggadm 19456 Mar 27 17:45 ~WRD0000.tmp > > ************* > create mask 0740 > force create mode 0400 > directory mask 0750 > force directory mode 0500 > > global SMB.conf locking options are set to defaults: > i.e. kernel oplocks = yes, locking = yes, ole lock comp=yes, oplocks = yes > strict locking = no, share modes = yes. > > share smb.conf locking options are also at default: > blocking = yes, fake oplocks = no, locking = yes, oplocks = yes > strict locking = no, share modes = yes > > ************ > > This is the line from the log file > Share violation on file (1,4,2,26515,sambatest/~WRD0000.tmp,fcbopen = 0, > flags = 2) = 0 > > I can generate a log file of any level showing this in action very > easily. > > Does anyone have a solution or set of smb.conf options I should use ? > > Thanks, Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Michael J Harlow email : Mike.Harlow@utas.edu.au > Computer Systems Officer, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, > University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-78, Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia. > Phone : (03) 6226 2212 or 0419 585 308 fax : (03) 6226 2989 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:50:10 -0600 > From: lustig hanna <lustig@rafael.co.il> > To: samba-bugs@anu.edu.au, samba@anu.edu.au > Subject: Samba printers > Message-ID: <36FD2862.9DED95F3@rafael.co.il> > > We are trying to define some printers from an NT work station defined > as a member in an NT domain. It's seems that samba has some problem in > resolving the IP of the NT workstation. > > The printers are defined On a Solaris 2.5.1 server. > > The NT workstation is using DHCP to get it's IP address, the solaris > print server is also a DNS server in a DNS Domain. > > We can ping the NT workstation (by name) from the unix server, and also > the > unix server from the NT workstation. > > The same printers work fine from a Win 95 not using DHCP. > > Thanks, > > Hanna Lustig. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:29:07 +0100 (MET) > From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <Andreas.Huettel@extern.lrz-muenchen.de> > To: Samba mailing list <samba@samba.anu.edu.au> > Subject: migration win95 -> win98 > Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9903271417360.22468-100000@sun3.lrz-muenchen.de> > > Hi everybody, > > we are currently running a small network with a samba server and a few > Windows _95_ workstations. The server stores roaming profiles for all > users and provides authentification (logon scripts, policy file, ...) > > Now, we are planning to add a Windows _98_ workstation. > > Q1: Will Win95 and Win98 be able to work with the same user profiles, > policy file etc? > If not, what can I do? > > Q2: In general, are there any problems using samba with Win98 > (compared to Win95 which works fine)? > > Thanks in advance for any advice, > Andreas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andreas K. Huettel Andreas.Huettel@Extern.LRZ-Muenchen.DE > 81627 Muenchen huettel@qubit.org > Germany http://www.lrz.de/~huettel/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ====================================================================> News Release January 4, 1999 > > Redmond, Washington > > Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, announced > today that the latest version of their Windows operating system, > Windows 2000, would be delayed until the second quarter of 1901. No > reason was given. > > ;-) > ====================================================================> > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:02:58 +0100 > From: Frank Knobloch <frank@inis.de> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: smbpasswd in 2.0 - problems > Message-ID: <199903271902.UAA00274@inis-2.inis.de> > > We just installed samba 2.0.3 and configured with swat. > > It seems great, but after try to use smbpasswd we get the following error: > > inis-11# smbpasswd -a frank > New SMB password: > Retype new SMB password: > make_smb_from_nisp: NIS+ lookup failure: Error in accessing NIS+ cold start file... is NIS+ installed? > Segmentation Fault (core dumped) > inis-11# > > This machine did not run NIS nor NIS+! It's an Ultra-Sparc1 running Solaris 2.6. > > Any hints? > > BTW: Is it possible to use only /etc/passwd on a samba-machine and can this samba-machine > be the authentication-server? > > Thanks in advance > > Frank > ------------------- > //InIS GmbH * Loesungen fuer Automations- und Verwaltungssysteme > [Addr.: Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 78 ~ D-34119 Kassel] > [Tel..: ++49-561-788090, Fax: ++49-561-78 80 929] > [Mail.: F.Knobloch@inis.de, Web: www.inis.de] > //Never trust existing sources! > > ------------------------------ > > End of SAMBA Digest 2037 > ************************
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Can you please unsubscribe this email address from your mailing lists please? Thanks.> -----Original Message----- > From: samba@samba.org [SMTP:samba@samba.org] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 5:50 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA > Subject: SAMBA digest 2240 > > SAMBA Digest 2240 > > For information on unsubscribing see http://samba.org/listproc/ > Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Samba can't keep NT shares mounted > by Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu> > 2) Does smblib still work? > by Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> > 3) Problem copying files to samba mount. > by Kenny Cho <Kenny.Cho@Corp.Sun.COM> > 4) Printers Folder > by "Panagiotis Malakoudis" <pmal@space.gr> > 5) Re: No samba server in 'network neighborhood' > by Peter Ruser <ruser@consultec-dr-ernst.de> > 6) Re. Tweaking Samba for Perfomance > by Peter Ruser <ruser@consultec-dr-ernst.de> > 7) Re: Transfering large files > by Alastair Broom <abroom@valleyt.co.uk> > 8) read/write of Excel file is denied > by EC - Bridget Lung <blung@penang.png.intel.com> > 9) Re: read/write of Excel file is denied > by Neta Hedberg <neta.hedberg@sigit.se> > 10) Website development and IE4 > by Reimond Rombey <reimond@rombey.de> > 11) > by Simon Dray <Simon.Dray@bbsrc.ac.uk> > 12) Printing troubles. > by Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt@acu.ac.uk> > 13) Re: Printing troubles. > by "Brian Ginter" <brian.ginter@southern-air.com> > 14) My question on creating binaries > by Simon Dray <Simon.Dray@bbsrc.ac.uk> > 15) Re: Printing troubles. > by Giulio Orsero <giulioo@tiscalinet.it> > 16) Re: Password change from Win95 clients > by "Manuel Lindauer" <lindauer@merkur.net> > 17) I Still Need Help > by Eric Songer <esonger@lads.is.lmco.com> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:56:15 -0500 > From: Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Samba can't keep NT shares mounted > Message-ID: <37E523BF.383A581F@unt.edu> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I don't know who this problem belongs to, samba or Linux, but it's a > common one, judging by the responses in my INBOX to a previous post. > Plus, it's a fairly serious one; many applications require smb shares to > be mounted continuously and without interruption. It's been a recurring > problem which seems to have been pushed off to the side as not > important, even though it's a serious flaw. Just where, I don't know > (i.e., kernel smbfs or samba/smbmount). > > I know there must be *someone* who has a clue. Various proposed causes > include password caching, the use of uid_t instead of __kernel_uid_t in > the smbumount code (what that has to do with keeping a share mounted, > I'm not sure), and blistering silence from those that write the code and > know it best. > > Pasted below is the body of a previous unanswered post. If any of the > experts could help, I and others would really appreciate it. > > > Running NT 4.0 WS SP 5 and samba 2.0.5a on Linux, 2.2.12 kernel. > Whenever I mount an NT share from Linux, it times out after an > indeterminate period of time. This has been a continuing problem, the > only workaround being to perform something requiring disk activity on > the NT box, bypassing the cache (i.e., ls > /dev/null doesn't work, but > df does). This must be done on a regular basis--every two or three > minutes. > > Error messages > me2v:reliant me2v$ ls winnt > ls: winnt: Input/output error > > from /var/log/messages: > Sep 15 20:09:14 reliant kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-32, setting > invalid > Sep 15 20:10:25 reliant kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3 > > This was after only about 1 and 1/2 hours, give or take 15 minutes. > > This has been a recurring problem since I moved to 2.0.3 from 1.9.18 way > back when, and plenty of other people have had it, also. The typical > response is that it's a password caching problem, but the password > caching fixes, if any, haven't fixed the problem. > > I would like to know 1) Is there something in NT that could be causing > this, and what that is/how to fix it, or 2) how to fix it once and for > all from the Linux side (besides not using samba, that is). Or is there > a smb.conf undocumented option somewhere that would help? > > I don't know if this is technically a Linux problem or if it's a samba > problem, since historically smbmount has not been officially part of > samba (although it's distributed and compiled with samba), so I wasn't > sure who to post to. Hopefully, someone has found a fix, or at least > knows what the problem is... > > Incidentally, I'm pretty sure it's not an NT service pack problem, since > this has been a recurring problem with no service packs, and with SP3-5. > -- > Matthew Vanecek > Course of Study: http://www.unt.edu/bcis > Visit my Website at http://people.unt.edu/~mev0003 > For answers type: perl -e 'print > $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' > ***************************************************************** > For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow > except me. I'm always getting in the way of something... > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:38:40 -0400 > From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Does smblib still work? > Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990919153840.00982bd0@mail.pacificnet.net> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The latest smblib I saw was from 1996. Does it still work with modern > Samba? > > Thanks > > Steve Litt > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:06:36 -0700 > From: Kenny Cho <Kenny.Cho@Corp.Sun.COM> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Problem copying files to samba mount. > Message-ID: <37E5B2CC.9ADC9F8A@ha1pal.corp.sun.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi Samba Gurus, > > Here's my problem. > > I"m running samba 2.0.4a on solaris 7. Any windows client can mount > their home directory OK via (\\samba_server\unix_login_name). They can > also pull data out of their samba mounted home directories OK. But if > the vice versa scenario happens, 2 things either happen. I either get > an "access denied error, Make sure the disk is not write-protected or > the disk is full", or if it does copy the file over, it doesn't set it > to the right owner and permissions. I just upgraded the samba version > from 1.9.14 and I've never had this problem. I'm wondering if it's a > version incompatibility w/ samba and if there were any default changes > on some of the flags. Here's my smb.conf file concerning the global and > homes shares. > > [global] > wins support = no > wins server = 129.144.174.80 > printing = sysv > printcap name = /etc/opt/samba/printcap-samba > load printers = yes > guest account = nobody > preserve case = yes > short preserve case = yes > status = yes > security = share > read prediction = yes > socket options = TCP_NODELAY > share modes = no > netbios aliases = pc-cup03 saccharine > workgroup = green > local master = no > guest ok = yes > server string = "UNIX File/Print services for CUP-03" > interfaces = 129.144.54.21/255.255.255.0 129.144.55.21/255.255.255.0 > 129.144. > 56.21/255.255.255.0 129.144.57.21/255.255.255.0 > 129.144.94.21/255.255.255.0 129. > 144.95.21/255.255.255.0 > > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > read only = no > create mode = 0750 > > Any help is very appreciated. > > Kenny Cho > IR systems administrator, IT Operations > Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:55:10 +0300 > From: "Panagiotis Malakoudis" <pmal@space.gr> > To: <samba@samba.org> > Subject: Printers Folder > Message-ID: <001d01bf032c$b314ea80$0502000a@space.gr> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-7" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Greetz fellows, > I'm trying to emulate the printers folder found under "My computer" by > using > samba. I really cannot see if it is even possible to do this with samba. A > want to setup a machine with Slackware and samba and I also want to use it > as a printer server managing 10-15 printers. I don't want the printers to > appear mixed with all the direcory sharings but in a folder of their own. > Any ideas on how this can be done? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Malakoudis Panagiotis > System Administrator > Space Hellas S.A. > > Telephone:6547400 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:27:41 +0200 > From: Peter Ruser <ruser@consultec-dr-ernst.de> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Re: No samba server in 'network neighborhood' > Message-ID: <37E5E1ED.A1794367@consultec-dr-ernst.de> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > With my configuration I could only see the samba-server in > network-neighbourhood after disabling the network dummy-device. (This > can be done via ifconfig for testing or removing it from the > configutation files, in case of SuSE it is in the rc.config). > > -- > Consultec > Dr. Ernst GmbH > > i.A. Dipl. Ing. Peter Ruser > > Oehleckerring 2 > D-22419 Hamburg > > Tel: 040 / 533 200 60 > Fax: 040 / 533 200 62 > mailto:ruser@consultec-dr-ernst.de > http://www.consultec-dr-ernst.de > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:29:41 +0200 > From: Peter Ruser <ruser@consultec-dr-ernst.de> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Re. Tweaking Samba for Perfomance > Message-ID: <37E5E265.B80E1571@consultec-dr-ernst.de> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >I've got the following performance-problem. Especially large copies > from > >the server to the client take a very long time to compleet. How can > that be? > >Why is that so slow? Much slower than the same action from a Windows > server. > >I use Redhat 6.0 / Samba 2.0.5a and Win95 as a client. > > To avoid the difference in download and upload speed from/to a samba > server use > TCP_NODELAY = Yes > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:18:21 +0100 (BST) > From: Alastair Broom <abroom@valleyt.co.uk> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Re: Transfering large files > Message-ID: > <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909200912460.11758-100000@vtl2.ferry.valleyt.co.uk> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 scode@scode.webprovider.com wrote: > > > I've been seeing some weird problems with transfering large files from a > > Samba (2.0.4a[1]) server to Windows clients. Sometimes (but not always) > the > > Windows client will stop copying the file after a few megs and claim > that > > the share is no longer available (it is, of course). > > > > Does anyone have an idea what might be causing the behavior? > > > See my message to the list on Sat 18th Sept > about "oplock and SCO 5.0.4" which is essentially the same problem. > I found that setting "oplock = False" in the smb.conf made the problem go > away, but thats not exactly ideal. > > What OS is your samba running on ? > -- > Alastair Broom Valley Technology, Edinburgh, Bonnie Scotland > abroom@valleyt.co.uk > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:52:04 +0800 > From: EC - Bridget Lung <blung@penang.png.intel.com> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: read/write of Excel file is denied > Message-ID: <199909200952.RAA28569@penang.png.intel.com> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi, > > One of my users is having this problem. He saved an MS Excel file on the > UNIX > disk and he always experienced cannot write to the file even if it is his > file. I am not sure if this is the SAMBA problem or the NT problem(we are > using Windows Terminal Server Edition). Sometimes, he experiences these > message "cannot open read only file" or "this file is opened by > administrator, > open it as read only". All these problem related to MS Excel. I couldn't > see > any error in the SAMBA log file, but would like to know if anyone of you > have > experienced this? > > Please advise. > > regards, > Bridget > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:15:34 +0200 > From: Neta Hedberg <neta.hedberg@sigit.se> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Re: read/write of Excel file is denied > Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990920121534.0163dec0@mh.gislab.kiruna.se> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello > I had a similar problem some time ago. > The solution to our problem was that this one user had mounted our common > directory the wrong way. He had mounted the directory above our common > directory and therefore everything he saved in the common directory got > the > permissions of the directory above. > > So, in case you haven't done that already, you should check the > permissions > of the file in UNIX an check how the user mounts the directory in > Explorer. > > Hope this will be of any help > > Regards Neta Hedberg > > At 19:52 1999-09-20 +1000, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >One of my users is having this problem. He saved an MS Excel file on the > UNIX > >disk and he always experienced cannot write to the file even if it is his > > >file. I am not sure if this is the SAMBA problem or the NT problem(we are > > >using Windows Terminal Server Edition). Sometimes, he experiences these > >message "cannot open read only file" or "this file is opened by > administrator, > >open it as read only". All these problem related to MS Excel. I couldn't > see > >any error in the SAMBA log file, but would like to know if anyone of you > have > >experienced this? > > > >Please advise. > > > >regards, > >Bridget > > > > ------------------------- > Neta Hedberg SIGIT AB > Tel 0980-70028 > > neta.hedberg@sigit.se > ------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:22:32 +0200 > From: Reimond Rombey <reimond@rombey.de> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Website development and IE4 > Message-ID: <37E60AE8.BC2EDD62@rombey.de> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT > > Hi! > > A strange effect: > When I open a html file with a html editor to edit it, ok. > When I check it with IE4, it is ok. > Back to the html editor it asks to reload the actual file because it has > beeen opened by another program. > What? > IE4 writes to html files? > Strange! > > SuSE Linux 6.2, > Samba 2.0.5a, > VMware 1.0.2, > NT4 SP5, > Dreamweaver2, > Homesite4. > > This behaviour is nonsens. > > How can I fix this? > I have no concret idea... > > Regards, > Reimond > -- > Reimond Rombey, Burg 37, D-79733 G?rwihl > http://www.rombey.de - rombey website design > http://www.kreativtechnik.de - Kreativtechnik > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:20:51 +0100 > From: Simon Dray <Simon.Dray@bbsrc.ac.uk> > To: "'samba mail list'" <samba@anu.edu.au> > Message-ID: > <486CF8F0E0BCD211A6B70000F8086178072078@bits-exch1.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Samba Guru's > What would stop me building samba on one machine and > then tar'ing the binaries and copying them to another ? > > Regards Simon > ############################################ > # Simon Dray. # > # BBSRC BITS # > # Technical support specialist (UNIX) # > # (01582)714900 X325 # > # # > ############################################ > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:03:47 +0100 > From: Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt@acu.ac.uk> > To: samba@samba.org > Subject: Printing troubles. > Message-ID: <37E630B3.5561DC74@acu.ac.uk> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > I've recently set up LPRng on my system in preparation for moving my > organisation to a Samba/Linux based printing solution. I have a test > printer properly set up, and issuing lpr commands from the command line > works fine. I also have Samba set up with domain security and all the > file sharing is also working OK. > > Whenever I try to print a test page to my Samba shared printer, I get > the following error message from NT:- > > Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print trouble > shooter for assistance? The filename, directory name, or volume label > syntax is incorrect. > > Needless to say, the NT troubleshooter is it's normal laughable self, > and I'm unable to figure out what's going on at the moment. Any help > would be much appreciated. > > LPRng 3.6.10 > Samba 2.0.3 > > printcap entry for the printer in question:- > > HPLJ4000N-RM23:\ > :cm=LaserJet 4000N in Room 23:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\ > :lp=192.168.1.100%9100 > :sh:sf:\ > :lf=log:af=acct:\ > :if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ > :mx=0 > > smb.conf entry for same:- > > [HPLJ4000N-RM23] > path = /tmp > print ok = Yes > > Mike. > > P.S. Please can you cc me any responses by email, as I'm only on the > digested version of this list. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:12:47 -0400 > From: "Brian Ginter" <brian.ginter@southern-air.com> > To: m.brodbelt@acu.ac.uk > Subject: Re: Printing troubles. > Message-ID: <199909200906.JAA11328@atlas.southern-air.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > On 20 Sep 99, at 23:03, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've recently set up LPRng on my system in preparation for moving my > > organisation to a Samba/Linux based printing solution. I have a test > > printer properly set up, and issuing lpr commands from the command line > > works fine. I also have Samba set up with domain security and all the > > file sharing is also working OK. > > > > Whenever I try to print a test page to my Samba shared printer, I get > > the following error message from NT:- > > > > Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print trouble > > shooter for assistance? The filename, directory name, or volume label > > syntax is incorrect. > > > > Needless to say, the NT troubleshooter is it's normal laughable self, > > and I'm unable to figure out what's going on at the moment. Any help > > would be much appreciated. > > > > LPRng 3.6.10 > > Samba 2.0.3 > > > > printcap entry for the printer in question:- > > > > HPLJ4000N-RM23:\ > > :cm=LaserJet 4000N in Room 23:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\ > > :lp=192.168.1.100%9100 > > :sh:sf:\ > > :lf=log:af=acct:\ > > :if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ > > :mx=0 > > > > smb.conf entry for same:- > > > > [HPLJ4000N-RM23] > > path = /tmp > > print ok = Yes > > > > Mike. > > > > P.S. Please can you cc me any responses by email, as I'm only on the > > digested version of this list. > > I too had a similar experience. What solved the problem for me > was using shorter names for the printers. Instead of > HPLJ4000N-RM23 try lj4000n and see if that helps. > > BRG > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:12:38 +0100 > From: Simon Dray <Simon.Dray@bbsrc.ac.uk> > To: "'Samba Mailing list'" <samba@anu.edu.au> > Subject: My question on creating binaries > Message-ID: > <486CF8F0E0BCD211A6B70000F8086178072080@bits-exch1.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi People > Thanks to all who replied I did not word the question very > well. I had a problem in compiling the binaries on one machine then moving > them to another where they would not work. What I did not know then was > that > the semaphores were not cleared when samba 1.9.18p1 was stopped so I got a > shared memory and semaphores error. Cleared it by rebooting after > installing > the new bins. > > Thanks to everyone > > > Regards simon > > ############################################ > # Simon Dray. # > # BBSRC BITS # > # Technical support specialist (UNIX) # > # (01582)714900 X325 # > # # > ############################################ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: john fairey > Sent: 20 September 1999 11:42 > To: Simon Dray > Subject: RE: Apache web Server for srio5 > > > I guess I'm yer man as far as this is concerned, as srio5 is managed > by me. I presume you've spoken to Colin Edwards regarding why; the when > should be by Mid-October if poss., although if you need me I am on leave > the > first two weeks, and between now and then I've got such things as CSG to > take up some of my time. The final move of BRS from the Vax was due to > take > place early-mid October; how much this influences the web server > installation I'm not sure. > > JF > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Dray > Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 10:40 AM > To: john fairey > Subject: Apache web Server for srio5 > > > > Dear John > who do I need to contact to discuss the why when and how's > of installing the web software onto srio5. > > > Regards Simon > ############################################ > # Simon Dray. # > # BBSRC BITS # > # Technical support specialist (UNIX) # > # (01582)714900 X325 # > # # > ############################################ > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:17:04 +0200 > From: Giulio Orsero <giulioo@tiscalinet.it> > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba@samba.org> > Subject: Re: Printing troubles. > Message-ID: <19990920141753.8D09226E39@i3.golden.dom> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT > > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:03:33 +1000, hai scritto: > > >smb.conf entry for same:- > > > >[HPLJ4000N-RM23] > > path = /tmp > > print ok = Yes > > Add to the smb.conf > printing = lprng > print command = lpr -r -P%p %s > lpq command = lpq -P%p > lpm command = lprm -P%p %j > lppause command = lpc hold %p %j > lpresume command = lpc release %p %j > queuepause command = lpc -P%p stop > queueresume command = lpc -P%p start > > and to the above printer share: > printer name = <printcap entry> > > -- > giulioo@tiscalinet.it > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:19:07 +0200 > From: "Manuel Lindauer" <lindauer@merkur.net> > To: <samba@samba.org> > Subject: Re: Password change from Win95 clients > Message-ID: <000b01bf037b$9fdd3b80$0a00a8c0@Lindauer.net> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: samba <samba@druid.beeline.msk.ru> > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom@samba.org> > Sent: Monday, 20 September, 1999 16:22 > Subject: Password change from Win95 clients > > > > Hello! > > I'm using samba-2.0.5a on RedHat-6.0 in school network. There are so > many > > curious kids :) The network is dedicated for teachers only but for > > security reasons they'd like to change their passwords time to time. > > But all of them didn't ever seen other OS than Win95 :(( > > So my question > > Is it possible to change Samba password from Win95(Win98) client? > > Thenk you! > > > > Best regards, > > Konstantin Klubnichkin > > > > > They can change the password over SWAT, there's a page PASSWORD. But the > connection isn't encrypted. > > Manuel Lindauer > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:48:32 -0700 > From: Eric Songer <esonger@lads.is.lmco.com> > To: Herb Lewis <herb@chomps.engr.sgi.com>, samba@samba.org > Subject: I Still Need Help > Message-ID: <4.1.19990917151217.009fe8b0@strat> > MIME-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > Thanks Herb, > > I'm really close, but I still have the same problem. I removed the > two > shared memory segments and semaphores, then rebooted. The same two shared > memory segments returned. I suspect they belong to some process initiated > at boot time. The error I get from smbd is: > > [1999/09/16 09:50:52, 2] smbd/server.c:open_sockets(183) > waiting for a connection > [1999/09/16 09:57:08, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(590) > ERROR semctl: can't IPC_STAT. Error was Bad address > [1999/09/16 09:57:08, 0] locking/locking.c:locking_init(174) > ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes > > >From smbstatus I get: > > ERROR semctl: can't IPC_STAT. Error was bad address > ERROR semctl: can't IPC_STAT. Error was bad address > ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes > can't initialise shared memory - exiting > > Any additional help would be greatly appreciated. > > Eric > > > ------------------------------ > > End of SAMBA Digest 2240 > ************************
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