samba - Nov 1998 - SAMBA digest 1883

> I am an analyst for a large corporation and am interested in using Samba
>  in
> a project for mine.  I need one piece of the puzzle answered for me
>  though.
> Can anyone tell me what is the maximum size of a file system can Samba
>  see.
> I'm talking in Terabytes.  If anyone could answer this for me, I'd
truly
> appreciate it.  Could you send any responses to mnoll@eds.com.
If I might be presumptious, I think the answer is "infinite",
at least if you use the "max disk size" option in smb.conf.  This
would theoretically be used to tell your DOS/Windows/Unix machine that
the remote disk is small enough for your addressing to handle, while
the remote machine has the task of actually handling the addressing
and file-directory structure properly.  Basically a networked bit
bucket to throw things at.  I assume Samba announces it's actually full 
through a different response than disk size, so this should work fine.

> hello,
> I was wondering if anyone has had the same problem I have or if anyone
> knows what is going wrong.
> I have 1.9.18p10 and everything is working fine exept the browsing..hold
> on dont stop reading just yet. I know there is tons of docs on browsing
> and problems with it, but this seems to be different than anything in
> the docs..
> The samba server doesn't show up in a regular browse list but if I use
> "find computer" it shows up no problem.
> 
> I have Advanced File and Print Server on an SCO box that is acting as
> the PDC (I believe my problem lies here) and in the log.nmb I get a
> message "process_lanman_packet: on subnet 192.168.1.8 ignoring browse
> packet command code 4 from MHI#00600<20> IP 192.168.1.2 to
AFPS<00>"
> where .8 is the samba server and MHI is the SCO box and AFPS is the
> domain name.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions or even tell me I am stupid and where to
> look in the docs, It would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to show
> everyone that this little pile of free software can outperform Novell
> and then some.  :)
I have the exact same problem at work

SCO AFPS 3.5.2 (from memory) running on SCO Openserver 5.0.4 box

Connecting to the samba boxes works fine, but they don't show up the browse
list
when the AFPS box is acting as a PDC.

Switched it over to being a BDC and the samba boxes show up again.

Win95 machines show up in the browse list fine, so I'm almost wondering if
it's
a conspiracy :)

Andrew

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Andrew Howell
Perth, Western Australia			       andrew@it.net.au