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> To: Bernhard Bruscha
> Subject: SAMBA digest 2259
>
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> 1) Tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
> by "Jens Rieck" <rieck@pixelconcept.de>
> 2) RE: Automatically locating domain controller
> by Bjart Kvarme <bjart.kvarme@usit.uio.no>
> 3) slowness with smbclient's TAR mode
> by vectro@pipeline.com
> 4) Re: Tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
> by Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se>
> 5) Re: PLEASE help with printing problem
> by <tridge@linuxcare.com>
> 6) Re: PLEASE help with printing problem
> by <tridge@linuxcare.com>
> 7) Samba/MS Dos Client/ Autocad R12
> by Ulrich Vornefeld <ulvo@comnets.rwth-aachen.de>
> 8) RE: Automatically locating domain controller
> by "Towers, Tim (London)" <ttowers@MLE.CO.UK>
> 9) Re: How to start smb server when reboot?
> by "Hieb, Michael" <Hieb@WESTPORT.MSMAIL.AIGFPC.COM>
> 10) Re: How to measure performance?
> by David Collier-Brown <davecb@canada.sun.com>
> 11) Re: SAMBA digest 2258
> by "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw@qsl.net>
> 12) Re: How to measure performance?
> by "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp@wsr.ac.at>
> 13) Re: SAMBA digest 2250 - Parameter is incorrect
> by Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu>
> 14) Compiling Under IRIX
> by Eric Songer <esonger@lads.is.lmco.com>
> 15) [Fwd: print queue problem]
> by wmmvdwee <wmmvdwee@hawedo.com>
> 16) password synchronization
> by Gerry maddock <gerrym@futuremetals.com>
> 17) Critital SMBMOUNT Error?
> by Aaron Gray <agray@vsi.com>
> 18) HELP ! ERROR FILES > 30 IN CLIENT DOS FOR SAMBA
> by Carmo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAdiney?= de Melo
> <carmo@fusoes.com.br>
> 19) smbclient tar restore problem (linkflag) from tape-drive
> by Peter Wood <peter@irba.co.nz>
>
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>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:16:24 +0200
> From: "Jens Rieck" <rieck@pixelconcept.de>
> To: <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: Tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
> Message-ID: <319C14BF8104D311B6CD008048C578F0013BD6@PICOSBS>
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> Can anyone help me?
>
> I have Samba 2.0.5a running on SuSE Linux 6.0 (2.0.36) and
> Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4 (PDC).
>
> When I try to do a "smbclient -L MYUNIX" (according to the
trouble
> shooting guide) I get the following message:
>
> Addes interface ip=195.90.254.xxx bcast=195.90.254.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0
> Password:
> Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.5a]
> tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -
> name/password pair in
> a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalied.)
>
> I added my Linux machine to the NT Domain, and even if I try
> to do "smbclient -L MYUNIX -U myuser" and enter the correct
> password, I get this error message. But if I do "smbclient
> -L MYWINNT -U myuser", I get the list of shares on the NT
> machine. "myuser" is a regular user in Linux.
>
> What can be the reason of this? Any idea?
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> das pixelconcept Team
>
> i.A. Jens Rieck
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>
> Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = MYDOMAIN
> netbios name = MYLINUX
> interfaces = 195.90.254.xxx/255.255.255.0
> security = DOMAIN
> password server = MYWINNT
> wins support = no
> wins server = 195.90.254.xxx
> guest account = nobody
>
> [sicherung]
> comment = Sicherung
> path = /var/log
> read only = No
> writeable = Yes
> browseable = Yes
> public = Yes
> guest ok = Yes
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:03:20 +0200
> From: Bjart Kvarme <bjart.kvarme@usit.uio.no>
> To: jallison <jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>,
> Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: RE: Automatically locating domain controller
> Message-ID: <NBBBLPHIOJJBLAHGIMCHAEBGFCAA.bjart.kvarme@usit.uio.no>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba@samba.org [mailto:samba@samba.org]On Behalf Of Jeremy
> > Allison
> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 9:42 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> > Subject: Re: Automatically locating domain controller
>
> ...
>
> > Also, this does mean that Samba will treat as a password
> > server any machine that can successfully register a 1C
> > name. I haven't done this yet as it bugs me that there is
> > no security in name registration. I know this is what NT
> > does, but what worries me is the following scenario.
> >
> > 1). Evil Hacker (tm) crashes the real NT PDC (quite easy I'm
> > afraid if it has a TCP port 139 open).
> >
> > 2). Evil Hacker (tm) sets their own laptop up as a logon
> > server and registers the 1C name for the domain (which they
> > can now do as the PDC is down).
>
> This is actually doable without bringing the PDC down. When I found a
> machine called black registered as a BDC (1C name) in our NT
> wins servers I
> was pretty sure Evil Hacker had visited us, but no... One of
> our support
> people had installed samba 2.0x on a computer running Linux
> and configured
> the server with wins server = our.wins.server and domain
> logons=yes. The
> Linux box then registered 1c with the WINS server and the wins server
> returned our 6 logon servers + black to every computer asking
> for the 1c
> name. If black was operated by Evil Hacker, then he/she could
> expect to se
> some useful login attempts to black.
>
> The only way I know of to make this secure is to make the 1C
> (and probably
> 1B) names statically registered.
>
> This does not prevent Evil Hacker from doing bad this if
> he/she has access
> to your broadcast domain. Win9x and WinNT does an initial
> broadcast to find
> login servers, and an Evil Host or a badly configured samba
> server could
> cause a lot of trouble in this scenario. We have not seen any
> Evil Hosts
> yet, but there has been a lot of private Linux boxes running a badly
> configured samba server. The moral of this is, do not use
> broadcast to find
> 1C names...
>
> > 3). Evil Hacker (tm) uses smbclient to connect as user
"root"
> > to a Samba server, and sets his own laptop to allow any password
> > authentication for the user "root"......
> >
> > 4). Trouble follows........
>
> Yes, we have seen some of it :)
>
> > This is why I haven't added this feature yet. The current
> > password server code could be hacked this way if the name
> > resolution is set to use a NetBIOS name resolution (wins,
> > bcast) but cannot if it is set to use dns. This new feature
> > would *always* be hackable in this way.
> >
> > Any comments, thoughts ?
>
> I think the feature would be nice to have, but the documentation could
> recommend using a static wins entry for the 1C name to stop
> Evil Hacker.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 01:42:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: vectro@pipeline.com
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: slowness with smbclient's TAR mode
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910040140350.27490-100000@crafter.house>
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>
> I noticed this mentionned in the archives but the issue was never
> resolved.
>
> Evidently performing smbclient tar restores is excruciatingly slow. I
> noticed this while trying to restore my amanda backups to a
> w95 machine
> over samba - well over 24 hours for 850 MB.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Is there
> anything I can
> tweak or change to fix this?
> Restores at this speed make my backups seem useless. :\
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian Turner
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:08:53 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se>
> To: Jens Rieck <rieck@pixelconcept.de>
> Subject: Re: Tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910041059030.6733-100000@cola.svenskatest.se>
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>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jens Rieck wrote:
>
> > I have Samba 2.0.5a running on SuSE Linux 6.0 (2.0.36) and
> > Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4 (PDC).
> >
> > When I try to do a "smbclient -L MYUNIX" (according to the
trouble
> > shooting guide) I get the following message:
> >
> > Addes interface ip=195.90.254.xxx bcast=195.90.254.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Password:
> > Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.5a]
> > tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -
> name/password pair in
> > a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalied.)
> >
> > I added my Linux machine to the NT Domain, and even if I try
> > to do "smbclient -L MYUNIX -U myuser" and enter the correct
> > password, I get this error message. But if I do "smbclient
> > -L MYWINNT -U myuser", I get the list of shares on the NT
> > machine. "myuser" is a regular user in Linux.
> >
> > What can be the reason of this? Any idea?
>
> Try: smbclient -L MYUNIX -N
> For me that always works when asking a samba server, and
> almost never to a
> NT machine. I have no idea why (but when it becomes important
> to me maybe
> I'll go find out why :)
>
>
> Samba uses the PDC to check valid usernames (& passwords)
> when security is
> set to domain. At least that is what my little test shows:
>
> cola:~/tmp>smbclient -L server -Ulocal_server_user
> Password: <local_password>
> session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
> cola:~/tmp>smbclient -L server -Uadministrator
> Password: <domain password>
>
> Sharename Type Comment
> ..
>
> /Urban
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:47:13 +1000
> From: <tridge@linuxcare.com>
> To: mev0003@unt.edu
> Subject: Re: PLEASE help with printing problem
> Message-ID: <19991004094718Z12811704-16204+8771@samba.anu.edu.au>
>
> > > Try printing to that printer via samba from linux and see
> what happens.
> > > smbclient ''\\server\printer' -P
> > > print filename
> > >
> >
> > That works. no problem. Works on any of the printer definitions.
>
> ok, good.
>
> > There's got to be a reason why "The parameter is
> incorrect". Is there a
> > way to find this out?
>
> that error message is a rather general one, and it does help to take
> it literally.
>
> Probably the printer driver is trying to perform an unsupported option
> on the server and doesn't like the result. The most likely operation
> is an ioctl or a new IPC that we don't support yet. To fix it you
> would need to get a tcpdump sniff then look at what operations happen
> just before the error message. Looking at those may give a clue.
>
> Cheers, Tridge
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:57:23 +1000
> From: <tridge@linuxcare.com>
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: Re: PLEASE help with printing problem
> Message-ID: <19991004095726Z12863873-24228+8849@samba.anu.edu.au>
>
> > > There's got to be a reason why "The parameter is
> incorrect". Is there a
> > > way to find this out?
> >
> > that error message is a rather general one, and it does help to take
> > it literally.
>
> sorry I meant "it doesn't help to take it literally". That
error is
> gievn for a huge range of errors, it generally indicates any form of
> unexpected reply from the server.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:24:38 +0200
> From: Ulrich Vornefeld <ulvo@comnets.rwth-aachen.de>
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: Samba/MS Dos Client/ Autocad R12
> Message-ID: <199910041024.MAA02994@bundy.comnets.rwth-aachen.de>
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>
>
> Dear all,
>
> we've a Linux/SAMBA server up and running. Everything works fine,
> except the connection to 2 old DOS machines running MS DOS 6.22,
> MS Client and Autocad R12.
>
> Autocad R12 is not able to create and write files to the server,
> reading files works fine. The message of autocad is "Unsufficient
> disk space".
>
> The DOS DIR-Command shows 0 bytes free, nevertheless there is
> plenty of space on the server and it is possible to create files
> manually.
>
> In a Windows NT DOS Box on another machine the free space available
> on the server is displayed correctly.
>
> Any hints on that?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ulrich
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Vornefeld | Aachen University of Technology
> Research Assistant | Communication Networks (COMNETS)
> ulvo@comnets.RWTH-Aachen.DE | Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Walke
> phone: ++49 (241) 80-7928 | Kopernikusstr. 16
> Fax: ++49 (241) 8888-242 | 52074 Aachen, Germany
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:53:29 +0100
> From: "Towers, Tim (London)" <ttowers@MLE.CO.UK>
> To: "'Jeremy Allison'"
<jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>,
> "Towers, Tim (London)" <ttowers@MLE.CO.UK>
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba@samba.org>,
> samba-technical@samba.org
> Subject: RE: Automatically locating domain controller
> Message-ID: <199910041156.AA01414@LONSF24318.MLE.CO.UK>
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>
> Dear Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for your swift response, here's our
> (selfish) reply... :-)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com]
> > Subject: Re: Automatically locating domain controller
> >
> > Towers, Tim (London) wrote:
> >
> > Ok - this is doable by querying for a DOMAIN<1c> (group)
> > name and then attempting to use the list of IP addresses
> > returned in order as a password server.
>
> I have tried locating our domain controllers using nmblookup
> but have failed. I can get a list of some of the machines in
> the domain by searching for the domain name, but suspect I'm
> running into a WINS problem (the list is FAR shorter than
> I would expect, 30 machines instead of maybe 1000). But I'll
> have a go at sorting that out as a seperate issue...
>
> If I can get that working then I can build the process into
> the "samba.pkg" package file which we use under solaris.
>
> > Hmmmmm. The question is, do we do this on smbd startup,
> > or should we do this on first client connect (better as
> > it allows flexlibility w.r.t smb.conf include files, but
> > potentially may cause timeouts on connect if the WINS server
> > is slow to respond) ?
>
> As far as I can tell...
> 1) You can't go too wrong doing it when NT does it, on startup.
> 2) if one of the servers is down, how quickly can you notice and
> how long will it take to change the authentication to a
> backup server. This is a requirement for "enterprise"
> software.
> 3) Can it use any clever tricks to connect to a server which
> is "closer" in a network topological sense.
>
> > Also, this does mean that Samba will treat as a password
> > server any machine that can successfully register a 1C
> > name. I haven't done this yet as it bugs me that there is
> > no security in name registration. I know this is what NT
> > does, but what worries me is the following scenario.
>
> If the security hole is documented then the implementer
> can choose whether the risk is acceptible.
>
> We're still using NIS, which has the same security hole,
> and as noted above, you can't go too wrong implementing
> something in the same way as the system you're emulating.
>
> > Any comments, thoughts ?
>
> Making the domain available to the smb.conf remapping would
> allow tricks to be played with DNS. That's the only way I
> can think of varying the "password server=" line with
> different domains. You can then handle the failover and
> security by putting "<ntdomain>.ntdc.company.com" in the
> file, and patching DNS to match. I wouldn't like to do it
> that way because there's an extra level of administration and
> DNS and NT may become out of syncronisation.
>
> I prefer the simpler, NT way of doing things in spite of
> the security risk.
>
> I've seen "password server = %m" put forward as a solution
> to this, regard it as a desperate security hole but need a
> viable alternative (the one machine you can guarentee is
> available is the client that is asking for authentication).
>
> Tim
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:08:26 -0400
> From: "Hieb, Michael" <Hieb@WESTPORT.MSMAIL.AIGFPC.COM>
> To: "'zhousenq@comp.nus.edu.sg'"
<zhousenq@comp.nus.edu.sg>
> Cc: "'samba@samba.org'" <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: Re: How to start smb server when reboot?
> Message-ID:
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>
> The file smb is for use in the sysvinit scheme. I would imagaine you
> start in either init mode 3 (console mode) or initi mode 5
> (xdm). So cd
> in /etc/init/rc3.d and /etc/init/rc5.d and make the following links...
>
> [hieb@lnxwp1 scripts]$ ls -la /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*smb*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 1 13:51
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99smb -> ../init.d/smb
>
> [hieb@lnxwp1 scripts]$ ls -la /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/*smb*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 1 13:51
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99smb -> ../init.d/smb
>
> Note the 'S' means start, the 99 means the order the service will
be
> started relative to the other servies in this init mode. I
> typically add
> new services at a higher number than existing services so as to not
> introduce missing dependencies at boot time.
>
> You can also put the service shutdown in init mode 6 (shutdown)
>
> [hieb@lnxwp1 scripts]$ ls -la /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/*smb*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 1 13:52
> /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K001smb -> ../init.d/smb
>
> Here the 'K' is for kill, the number 001 again specifies the order
the
> servise will be shutdown relative to other services. Again I typically
> shutdown new services before I shutdown existing services so as to not
> introduce missing dependencies at shutdown.
>
> HTH, Michael
>
>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:46:59 +0800
> From: Zhou Senqiang <zhousenq@comp.nus.edu.sg
> <mailto:zhousenq@comp.nus.edu.sg> >
> To: samba@samba.org <mailto:samba@samba.org>
> Subject: How to start smb server when reboot?
> Message-ID: <99100220523102.00237@cf-dblab4
> <mailto:99100220523102.00237@cf-dblab4> >
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> Hi,
> I installed Samba 2.0.3 on Linux 2.2.5. Every time I reboot system I
> found the smb has not been started. But in the directory
> /etc/rc.d, the
> file "smb" exists. When I run "smb restart",after a
while, the samba
> server is ok. I wonder why the samba server is not up when system
> reboot. Thanks a lot.
> Followed is the content of the file "smb":
> [deleted...]
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 08:39:05 -0400
> From: David Collier-Brown <davecb@canada.sun.com>
> To: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp@wsr.ac.at>,
> Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba@samba.org>,
> Danila Vologdin <thbsamara@mail.radiant.ru>
> Subject: Re: How to measure performance?
> Message-ID: <37F89FE9.82B232D7@canada.sun.com>
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> Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> | This is not enough. Many applications do not read and write files
> | sequentially.
>
> Yes, but that's probably too much to ask Ms. Vologdin
> to do on the first go-round...
>
> | his is evident for MS-Access (which reads and writes
> | single records),
>
> I'm on the record as recommending one never try to run
> a multi-user database against a remote filesystem: search
> for "free sample of crack cocaine" in the archives (;-))
>
> | and also for MS-Word (which only ever loads the part
> | you are currently editing), but also for MS-Excel which does load
> and
> | save a whole spread-sheet at once, but reads and writes the file in
> some
> | seemingly random order (which is much slower).
>
> | There are test suites like the BapCo suite which run the actual
> | applications (but we couldn't find much difference between a local
> disc
> | and one shared over 10 Mbit ethernet, so at least Bapco is probably
> more
> | CPU-bound).
>
> Actually, oplocks cause local caching of the files,
> so the non-sequential accesses are mostly to local disk.
> That's possibly what fools bapco.
>
> [Andrew has a newish load-generation suite, specifically for
> SMB: I expect folks will eventually start using and reporting
> based on it...]
>
> Simple models and simple benchmarks aren't good for comparison,
> but in the presence of oplocks, can do a good job solving simple
> customer problems.
>
> --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) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:24:57 -0500
> From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw@qsl.net>
> To: <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: Re: SAMBA digest 2258
> Message-ID: <9d7801bf0e74$3d7adac0$020a0a0a@wizard.xile.realm>
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> "Venkatesh, Muthukrishnan M2 (CONTRACTOR)"
> > <VENKATM2#sesrcx1.src.se.bp.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Can Samba ( OpenVMS) map to a WinNT Shared service so that it will
> > appear as a VMS logical ( we know "smbclient" able to
connect to a
> > WinNT shared as "interactive" session , which work like
FTP) .
> > I want to work with the VMS logical, for example
> >
> > $COPY abc.doc SRC$NTSHARE:*.*
> >
> > which will copy the VMS document to the logical (through
> samba onto NT
> > share disk).
> >
>
>
> There are no known versions of SMBMOUNT or equivalent that
> have been ported
> to OpenVMS. This would be a significant project.
>
>
> The information for the OpenVMS port can be found at
>
> http://ifn03.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html
>
> There is also a mailing list specifically for that port.
>
> A more recent, but experimental and entirely unsupported
> version can be
> found at
>
> ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/wb8tyw/
>
> -John
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:19:18 +0200
> From: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp@wsr.ac.at>
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: Re: How to measure performance?
> Message-ID: <19991004171918.Q18692@wsr.ac.at>
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> On 1999-10-04 08:39:05 -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > | This is not enough. Many applications do not read and write files
> > | sequentially.
> >
> > Yes, but that's probably too much to ask Ms. Vologdin
> > to do on the first go-round...
>
> Ok, maybe not for a first go-round, but one should be prepared to see
> significantly lower performance in real life than in simplistic
> benchmarks. The recipy given sounds like it could build good
> traces for
> a benchmark, but I seriously doubt it does.
>
> > | his is evident for MS-Access (which reads and writes
> > | single records),
> >
> > I'm on the record as recommending one never try to run
> > a multi-user database against a remote filesystem: search
> > for "free sample of crack cocaine" in the archives (;-))
>
> I agree completely, but our users don't :-(
>
> > | There are test suites like the BapCo suite which run the actual
> > | applications (but we couldn't find much difference between a
local
> > | disc and one shared over 10 Mbit ethernet, so at least Bapco is
> > | probably more CPU-bound).
> >
> > Actually, oplocks cause local caching of the files,
> > so the non-sequential accesses are mostly to local disk.
> > That's possibly what fools bapco.
>
> Actually, the tests we did were against 1.9.16, which didn't support
> oplocks (Don't ask why we haven't upgraded to a newer version
> yet - it's
> complicated).
>
> > [Andrew has a newish load-generation suite, specifically for
> > SMB: I expect folks will eventually start using and reporting
> > based on it...]
>
> Sounds interesting. Is it on the samba web site? I couldn't find it.
>
> hp
>
> --
> _ | Peter J. Holzer | Nobody should ever have to be
> |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR / Obmann LUGA | ashamed if they have a
> secret love
> | | | hjp@wsr.ac.at | for writing computer
> programs that
> __/ | http://wsrx.wsr.ac.at/~hjp/ | actually work. --
> Donald E. Knuth
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 10:31:19 -0500
> From: Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu>
> To: Andrew.Patterson@infotech.monash.edu.au
> Subject: Re: SAMBA digest 2250 - Parameter is incorrect
> Message-ID: <37F8C847.7F3ADA16@unt.edu>
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>
> Andrew Patterson wrote:
> >
> > > Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> > >
> > > >NT lets me install the printers via samba, but not print
> to them. It
> > > >always returns a message that "The parameter is
> incorrect". Is there
> > > >any way to find out what parameter it's barfing on, and
> how to fix it?
> >
> > I think I started encountering the same problem recently.. I'm
sure
> > I used to be able to print but somewhere along the line
> something broke it
> > (the change to 2.0 maybe).. anyhow, somewhere I saw a post about
> > a knowledgebase article regarding printing from NT to windows 95
> > machines with a password. Basically it turns out that NT
> gets confused if
> > it needs to prompt for a password when printing which causes the
> > "parameter is incorrect" message. The KB article says to try
the
> > following
> >
>
> If that's the case, is there a way to set it up where NT
> doesn't need to
> prompt for a password?
>
> > net use lpt1 \\sambaserver\printer password /persistent:yes
> >
> > I tried this and then set up a printer to print on lpt1 and
> everything
> > works fine now.. not an ideal solution but one that might fix your
> > problem.
> >
>
> Definitely not an ideal solution, but it works a little. Are you
> supposed to be able to attach more than one printer to lpt1?
> Right now
> I've got the 720dpi printer attached to it, but many times I
> just want a
> quick printout at 360dpi, and occasionally one at 1440dpi.
>
> --
> 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: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 08:51:04 -0700
> From: Eric Songer <esonger@lads.is.lmco.com>
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: Compiling Under IRIX
> Message-ID: <4.1.19991004084540.00a10ba0@strat>
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to compile 2.0.5a on IRIX 6.4. I received
> the following error
> repeatedly in the config.log:
>
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 1884 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but could someone shed some light on this error?
>
> Eric
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 19:50:16 +0200
> From: wmmvdwee <wmmvdwee@hawedo.com>
> To: William Knox <wknox@mitre.org>, Samba Mailinglist
> <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: [Fwd: print queue problem]
> Message-ID: <37F8E8D8.74CDBF2E@hawedo.com>
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>
> William,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I'am running SuSe Linux 6.0 with samba
> version 1.9.18p10. I have installed my HP cdeskjet printer with
> YAST (SuSe) as a samba printer. SuSe use the apsfilter as print
> filter. I have a file /etc/apsfilterrc.cdeskjet. In this file
> there is a line:
>
> REMOTE_PRINTER="/usr/bin/samba_print //kinderen/hp -U
> kinderen -N -P"
>
> where kinderen= win98 client on which the HP printer is connected.
>
> The samba_print file comes with the SuSe distributions.
> If you like I can send you this file as attachment.
>
> The printcommand I use are:
> "lpr text.file"
> or
> "lpr -Plp1 text.file"
>
> Is there a way to solve the problem, as mentioned in my
> earlier e-mail.
>
> I would be gratefull in case you could help me, thanks in
> advance.
>
> Rgds
>
> Wil
>
> William Knox wrote:
> >Wil,
> >What is the print command which you are using? smbclient, or some
> >homegrown script, or did you install the printer via the Linux
> >printtool (assuming you are using a Linux that has a smb printer
> >option and the printtool)?
>
>
>
> wmmvdwee wrote:
> >
> > I'am running Linux as server.My printer is conected to an
> win98 client.
> > It works fine, at least when the client and the printer are online.
> > When I print from my Linux machine and the win98 not connected,
> > the printcommand just disapear. "lpq" gives "no
entries".
> > Where does the printcommand go then?
> >
> > My problem is that in case I print from the Linux server and the
> > win98 client is not connected, or the printer is offline the print
> > command is not queued for later printing when the win98 client
> > and/or the printer is online again. The reason is that my Linux
> > server act as faxserver, and incoming faxes are automaticly
> > printed.
> >
> > Is this possible with Linux ans SMB, or do I have to configure a
> > remote printer?
> >
> > Any suggestion(s) are welcome.
> > In case somebody can help me, and need some more info about printcap
> > etc. please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Wil
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:44:16 -0400
> From: Gerry maddock <gerrym@futuremetals.com>
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: password synchronization
> Message-ID: <37F90390.E10ACECF@futuremetals.com>
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>
> I'm having a problem with encypted passwords. The only way I could
> finally get samba working was to enable plain text passwords
> in regedit,
> then in smb conifuration write the following:
> encrypt passwords = no
> update passwords = yes
>
> Once I was able to login to the Linux box from winblows network
> neighborhood I changed the smb.conf bacck to encrypt passwords = yes,
> etc... That works now. My question is is there an easier way
> to do this,
> so I dont have to go thru all of that when I add a new user? I also
> tried: [ cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh >
> /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd ] for adding new users and
> that would
> not work either. Is there anything else I can try?????? PLEASE HELP!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:17:19 -0700
> From: Aaron Gray <agray@vsi.com>
> To: "'samba@samba.org'" <samba@samba.org>
> Subject: Critital SMBMOUNT Error?
> Message-ID:
<807E1C18A44ED311B72500902746407F1906BC@epicenter.vsi.com>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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> charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> I receive this error when trying to use smbmount
> from samba 2.0.5a
>
> # smbmount //agro/shiz /shiz
> Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> mount error: No such device
> Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
> mount failed
>
> WHY do I get this error?
>
> When I run JUST smbmnt (this is ran by smbmount normally) I receive
> the message.
>
> # smbmnt
> Segmentation fault
>
> If I use the smbmnt that is from the Binary Package for
> Slackware, then I do
> not
> get the segfault error, but I still get the "mount error: No
> such device"
> error.
>
> This is a Slackware 4.0 box w/ the updated samba to 2.0.5a
> Are my libraries hosed? What IS causing this?
>
> Please Help!
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 21:00:59 -0300
> From: Carmo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAdiney?= de Melo
> <carmo@fusoes.com.br>
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: HELP ! ERROR FILES > 30 IN CLIENT DOS FOR SAMBA
> Message-ID: <37F93FBB.53F9@fusoes.com.br>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Please, Help me !
>
> I am using SAMBA for Linux with an image MSDOS 6.22 diskless
> for the drive CLIENT MICROSOFT, non i get to open more than 100 files
> in the same application, already try the max open files of
> the smb.conf
> and it didn't work, it will be that you he/she knows some
> command of the
> SAMBA to increase the files opened by CLIENT MICROSOFT.
>
> Attention: In Windows 98 it works very well but if I go for
> the DOS 6.22
> the system it doesn't consider the files = 200 of the config.sys.
>
> Thanks
> Carmo Crêdiney de Melo
> carmo@fusoes.com.br
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:33:44 +1300
> From: Peter Wood <peter@irba.co.nz>
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: smbclient tar restore problem (linkflag) from tape-drive
> Message-ID: <199910050033.NAA05113@pallando.irba.co.nz>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am currently having a problem using smbclient (Samba v2.05a)
> running on Solaris 2.5.1 to restore a tar file from a tape drive
> onto a Win NT share.
>
> smbclient works successfully when using a tar file on disk,
> but is skipping the tar file (created by a third party)
> on the tape drive.
>
> The command used is as follows:
>
> smbclient //celeborn/test -U peter -T x /dev/rmt/0
>
> The problem seems to be that the linkflag obtained from the
> tape drive is not handled and the file is skipped. The
> linkflag appears to be NULL - the code wonders whether it
> could be a "gnu tar archive?".
>
> >From reading the code in "clitar.c" the current linkflag
> values that are currently handled are: '0', '5', and
'L'.
> If the linkflag is any other value (eg NULL) the file is skipped.
>
> I have exprimented with substituting the code for linkflag case '0'
> for the default case and removing the "skip_file" - the restore
then
> works, but as I do not know the details of what the tar linkflag is,
> I am unsure how safe this is to do.
>
> Any hints or comments gratefully accepted.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The relevant debug messages, and code follow:
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> (1) DEBUG MESSAGES
>
> ..
> Reading the next header ...
> checksum totals chk=5786 fchk=5786 chksum= 13232
> firstb=805D9, secondb=A3E80, len=40
> Warning: NULL link flag (gnu tar archive ?) \a\508_c_rle.ps.gz
> Skip = 0, cliplist=<NULL>, file=\a\508_c_rle.ps.gz
> Skiping file. Size = 2231512
> Advancing to next block: a3e80
> ..
>
>
> (2) CODE SNIPPETS from "clitar.c"
>
>
> In clitar.c the problem appears to be due to the linkflag:
>
> /* can't handle some links at present */
> if ((hb->dbuf.linkflag != '0') && (hb ->
dbuf.linkflag != '5')) {
> if (hb->dbuf.linkflag == 0) {
> DEBUG(6, ("Warning: NULL link flag (gnu tar archive ?)
%s\n",
> finfo->name));
>
> ..
>
> In the following code, since linkflag is NULL, it switches to
> the "default" case,
> which is to skip the file.
>
> linkflag = ((union hblock *)buffer_p) -> dbuf.linkflag;
>
> switch (linkflag) {
>
> case '0': /* Should use symbolic names--FIXME */
>
> /*
> * Skip to the next block first, so we can get the
> file, FIXME, should
> * be in get_file ...
> * The 'finfo.size != 0' fix is from Bob Boehmer
> <boehmer@worldnet.att.net>
> * Fixes bug where file size in tarfile is zero.
> */
>
> if ((finfo.size != 0) && next_block(tarbuf, &buffer_p,
> tbufsiz) <=0) {
> DEBUG(0, ("Short file, bailing out...\n"));
> return;
> }
> if (!get_file(finfo)) {
> DEBUG(0, ("Abandoning restore\n"));
> return;
>
> }
> break;
>
> case '5':
> if (!get_dir(finfo)) {
> DEBUG(0, ("Abandoning restore \n"));
> return;
> }
> break;
>
> case 'L':
> longfilename = get_longfilename(finfo);
> if (!longfilename) {
> DEBUG(0, ("abandoning restore\n"));
> return;
>
> }
> DEBUG(5, ("Long file name: %s\n", longfilename));
> break;
>
> default:
>
> skip_file(finfo.size); /* Don't handle these yet */
> break;
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
>
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>
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