A couple Samba questions. I've got Samba v2.2.1a running on a RedHat v7.1 box. The server is being accessed by Linux, Win98, Win2K and OS/2 clients. 1. User xxxxx is logged into 2 machines, a Win2K box and a Linux box. When user yyyyy on a Win98 machine sends a message from WinPopup to user xxxxx, the message is received on only the Win2K machine. (The Linux box is running LinPopup, which sends/receives messages just fine.) Is this behavior expected, or should both machines with xxxxx logged in receive the message? 2. The "level2 oplocks" param is documented as improving the performance of Samba with WinNT/Win2K clients. Does its use have a detrimental effect on Win98, Linux or OS/2 client performance? Thanks.
Steve Snyder wrote:>A couple Samba questions. I've got Samba v2.2.1a running on a RedHat v7.1 >box. The server is being accessed by Linux, Win98, Win2K and OS/2 clients. > >1. User xxxxx is logged into 2 machines, a Win2K box and a Linux box. When >user yyyyy on a Win98 machine sends a message from WinPopup to user xxxxx, >the message is received on only the Win2K machine. (The Linux box is >running LinPopup, which sends/receives messages just fine.) Is this >behavior expected, or should both machines with xxxxx logged in receive the >message? >I use to have an NT4 only environment. The same thing happend in it. The messages are only sent to the first machine to register the UID with wins. I am not sure what would happen if you are not using wins but I would suspect the same.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Steve Snyder wrote:> 1. User xxxxx is logged into 2 machines, a Win2K box and a Linux box. > When user yyyyy on a Win98 machine sends a message from WinPopup to > user xxxxx, the message is received on only the Win2K machine. (The > Linux box is running LinPopup, which sends/receives messages just > fine.) Is this behavior expected, or should both machines with xxxxx > logged in receive the message?IIRC the username<0x03> netbios name is aunique name which means it can only be registered to the user on one client at a time. Use nmbdlookup to verify.> 2. The "level2 oplocks" param is documented as improving the > performance of Samba with WinNT/Win2K clients. Does its use have a > detrimental effect on Win98, Linux or OS/2 client performance?No. None of these latter clients support level2 oplocks. OS/2 might. I'm not sure. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- www.samba.org SAMBA Team jerry_at_samba.org www.plainjoe.org jerry_at_plainjoe.org --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
It's not really a Samba bug. This behavior occurs under NT, too. If I log into two NT workstations, then print something to an NT print server, the print notification will only pop up on the first machine I logged in on. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Snyder [mailto:swsnyder@home.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:11 AM To: Gerald (Jerry) Carter Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Misc. Samba questions User "xxxxx" may be logged to multiple machines simultaneously, with each machine having a unique identity. Apparently Samba directs the messages to the first user named "xxxxx" it finds in its shares.