Hi everyone, I run to some confusion here and hope someone give me a answer before I implement it. I am trying to install samba2.05 on my AIX 4.3.1, but the binary file in the web site is for AIX 4.3.2. Can I still use the binary file for my installation on AIX 4.3.1 ? Thanks ! Stephen Wu Output Management Services Tel: (248)696-1413 [8-366] Fax: (248)696-1804 [8-366] Mailto:Stephen.Wu-eds@eds.com
I am running Samba v2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and accessing from MS-Windows 98 and experience the following behaviour: 1. Create new text file on AIX server. 2. View this file on PC 3. Close file on PC 4. Change file on AIX server. 5. View file on PC and the changes made in step 4 are not there. Restarting Samba cures the problem, but this isn't really practical. I first noticed this behaviour several years ago using PC-NFS against AIX, so I guess this is an AIX issue, but not one that IBM would be willing to investigate. Any ideas as to how I go about investigating and/or curing this problem? Regards, Bernie Ledwick Principal Consultant FWL Technologies Ltd Tel: 0161 283 4040 Fax: 0161 283 4051 Mobile: 07850 394 927 Web: http://www.fwltech.com/logistics Mailto:bl@man.fwltech.com
I can reproduce the problem in my lab on AIX and Linux (this is not AIX specific). Looking at the network trace, the client is does not read the file from the server the second time, it only requests a few bytes from the file (at what was the previous end of the file.) This problem does not occur on an NT server, it may be because Samba returns not supported for the IOCTL commands NT tries on the file when it tries to open it. -- Scott Prather MCSE, MCP+I AIX PC Interoperability sprather@austin.ibm.com> > From: Bernie Ledwick <bl@man.fwltech.com> > To: "'samba@lists.samba.org'" <samba@va.samba.org> > Subject: Samba on AIX > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:02:03 +0100 > > I am running Samba v2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and accessing from MS-Windows 98 and > experience the following behaviour: > > 1. Create new text file on AIX server. > 2. View this file on PC > 3. Close file on PC > 4. Change file on AIX server. > 5. View file on PC and the changes made in step 4 are not there. > > Restarting Samba cures the problem, but this isn't really practical. I first > noticed this behaviour several years ago using PC-NFS against AIX, so I > guess this is an AIX issue, but not one that IBM would be willing to > investigate. > > Any ideas as to how I go about investigating and/or curing this problem? > > Regards, > > Bernie Ledwick > Principal Consultant > > FWL Technologies Ltd > Tel: 0161 283 4040 Fax: 0161 283 4051 > Mobile: 07850 394 927 > Web: http://www.fwltech.com/logistics > Mailto:bl@man.fwltech.com > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
Unfortunately the client will not request to read the file again, it only requests a small piece of the file, in the case that I tested it was 1455 bytes at the original end of the file (not the end of the file now that the size has changed). In my testing, if you wat a while (30 seconds to 1 minute) the client will request to read the entire file. I do not believe this to be an issue with caching. The other reply you recieved mentioned using the smbmount commend, that is for mounting a cifs share on your UNIX box, so far I have only seen this work on Linux, I don't think that this is related to the problem you have. The only way I can see to fix this is to support the ioctl command that the Windows client sends to the server. I am not sure why it is not supported at this time. I will copy this to the list to see if anyone has any insight into ioctl support. On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:25:37PM +0100, Bernie Ledwick wrote:> Scott, > > Thanks for that. It seems to be a very basic problem and I am surprised that > it doesn't seem to be more widely recognised. > > I receive the attached reply, which implies that this is expected behaviour, > but it seems to me that the Samba server just doesn't check the update > timestamp of the file and therefore doesn't refresh its cache. At least > that's how it appears to me, and I would have expected the client to request > a file open and the server to send it the new file details, not just request > a few bytes as you observerd. > > As I said, I have observered similar behaviour with PC-based NFS software, > so maybe there is a basic issue with a file open routine somewhere. > > The reason, I do this sort of processing is to allow MS applications to > access Unix application files, e.g. log files, etc. > > Any ideas how we could progress this? > > Regards, > > Bernie. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Prather [mailto:sprather@austin.ibm.com] > Sent: 23 April 2001 16:38 > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Cc: bl@man.fwltech.com > Subject: Re: Samba on AIX > > > I can reproduce the problem in my lab on AIX and Linux (this is not AIX > specific). Looking at the network trace, the client is does not read the > file from the server the second time, it only requests a few bytes from the > file (at what was the previous end of the file.) > > This problem does not occur on an NT server, it may be because Samba returns > not supported for the IOCTL commands NT tries on the file when it tries to > open it. > > -- > Scott Prather > MCSE, MCP+I > AIX PC Interoperability > sprather@austin.ibm.com > > > > > > From: Bernie Ledwick <bl@man.fwltech.com> > > To: "'samba@lists.samba.org'" <samba@va.samba.org> > > Subject: Samba on AIX > > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) > > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:02:03 +0100 > > > > I am running Samba v2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and accessing from MS-Windows 98 > and > > experience the following behaviour: > > > > 1. Create new text file on AIX server. > > 2. View this file on PC > > 3. Close file on PC > > 4. Change file on AIX server. > > 5. View file on PC and the changes made in step 4 are not there. > > > > Restarting Samba cures the problem, but this isn't really practical. I > first > > noticed this behaviour several years ago using PC-NFS against AIX, so I > > guess this is an AIX issue, but not one that IBM would be willing to > > investigate. > > > > Any ideas as to how I go about investigating and/or curing this problem? > > > > Regards, > > > > Bernie Ledwick > > Principal Consultant > > > > FWL Technologies Ltd > > Tel: 0161 283 4040 Fax: 0161 283 4051 > > Mobile: 07850 394 927 > > Web: http://www.fwltech.com/logistics > > Mailto:bl@man.fwltech.com > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > >Content-Description: Re: Samba on AIX> From: John Benedetto <jbenedet@unm.edu> > To: bl@man.fwltech.com > Subject: Re: Samba on AIX > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:58:18 +0100 > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) > > > I don't think it is a problem per se, just "correct" behavior... > > How are you working with the files on the AIX side? It is my understanding > that you need to SMBMOUNT the share to the AIX side as well. If you do not, > weverything could get wonky (that's technese for corrupted), in just the > way you describe. > > I think. > > -john > > >> From: Bernie Ledwick <bl@man.fwltech.com> > >> To: "'samba@lists.samba.org'" <samba@va.samba.org> > >> Subject: Samba on AIX > >> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) > >> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:02:03 +0100 > >> > >> I am running Samba v2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and accessing from MS-Windows 98 > >> and experience the following behaviour: > >> > >> 1. Create new text file on AIX server. > >> 2. View this file on PC > >> 3. Close file on PC > >> 4. Change file on AIX server. > >> 5. View file on PC and the changes made in step 4 are not there. > >> > >> Restarting Samba cures the problem, but this isn't really practical. I > >> first noticed this behaviour several years ago using PC-NFS against AIX, > >> so I guess this is an AIX issue, but not one that IBM would be willing to > >> investigate. > >> > >> Any ideas as to how I go about investigating and/or curing this problem? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Bernie Ledwick > >> Principal Consultant > >> > >> FWL Technologies Ltd > >> Tel: 0161 283 4040 Fax: 0161 283 4051 > >> Mobile: 07850 394 927 > >> Web: http://www.fwltech.com/logistics > >> Mailto:bl@man.fwltech.com-- Scott Prather MCSE, MCP+I AIX PC Interoperability sprather@austin.ibm.com (512)838-3313
Anyone know the method to do a mount of a samba partition on Unix AIX? Alternatives? bye
Anyone know the method to do a mount of a samba partition on Unix AIX? Alternatives? bye
Anyone know the method to do a mount of a samba partition on Unix AIX? Alternatives? bye
>Anyone know the method to do a mount of a samba partition on Unix AIX? >Alternatives? byeI don't think there are currently any. Sorry. ---------------------------- Jim McDonough IBM Linux Technology Center Samba Team 6 Minuteman Drive Scarborough, ME 04074 USA jmcd@us.ibm.com jmcd@samba.org Phone: (207) 885-5565 IBM tie-line: 776-9984
You can alway nfs export the directory and do an automount. -----Original Message----- From: Jim McDonough [mailto:jmcd@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:13 AM To: rodario@supereva.it Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba on AIX>Anyone know the method to do a mount of a samba partition on Unix AIX? >Alternatives? byeI don't think there are currently any. Sorry. ---------------------------- Jim McDonough IBM Linux Technology Center Samba Team 6 Minuteman Drive Scarborough, ME 04074 USA jmcd@us.ibm.com jmcd@samba.org Phone: (207) 885-5565 IBM tie-line: 776-9984 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Hi guys,
I've a strange thing on using Samba on AIX 5.1 (version from the IBM
toolbox).
Samba is working quite well. But each time a user is connecting a samba
share on the windows host I've this type of message in the
/var/adm/syslog/daemon.log...
Dec 10 10:50:25 pnortix secldapclntd: Failed to search 541145906 from the
LDAP server.
The number here seem to change from a session to another.... even from the
same user on the same windows machine.
The only thing I can think is the user unix "nobody" which is used on
the
beginning of a samba connection.... its number is quite large 4294967294
My config file
smb.conf file (name of machine & IP were changed)
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[global]
workgroup = NOMWORKGROUP
netbios name = MAMACHINE
interfaces = x.y.z.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1
bind interfaces only = Yes
security = SERVER
encrypt passwords = Yes
map to guest = Bad User
password server = servernameofwindowsPDC
username map = /etc/smbusermap
lanman auth = No
log level = 3
log file = /var/spool/samba/log.%m
printcap name = /etc/printcap
mangled stack = 100
local master = No
wins server = ipadressofwinsserver
guest account printing = bsd
[log$]
path = /chemin
valid users = user1 user2 user3 user4
force user = loguser
read only = No
/usr/lib/security/methods.cfg :
--------------------------------
LDAP:
program = /usr/lib/security/LDAP
program_64 =/usr/lib/security/LDAP64
NIS:
program = /usr/lib/security/NIS
DCE:
program = /usr/lib/security/DCE
Have you an idea of what is happening ?
If you need further information, please ask
Regards,
PS : - Please cc me as I'm not on the list
- Please excuse my poor english, I'm a french guy
--
Jean-Yves LENHOF
http://www.lenhof.eu.org
jean-yves@lenhof.eu.org