Hi sambafolks, I see a number of topics cropping up here repeatedly over the last few weeks: * Files > 4GB not supported This is confirmed and solved in 2.2.7a, but not in the current incarnation of smbfs (which is not part of samba, I know, but will get discussed here as a related topic) * desktop.ini weirdness in profiles I've seen this mentioned a few times with no sign of a real solution. * problems with Win2KSP3 clients Again, several mentions, no solutions offered My question is, is there a canonical place to go where I can find a list of /all/ bugs/issues currently under investigation by the samba team? I see from the development page that you use IRC to coordinate development, but I presume at some point this falls out into "Tridge is looking at the Win2KSP3 issue while Jerry is working on desktop.ini" My main reason for asking is that I'm in the middle of a rather complicated migration to Samba and I'd prefer to know up front what's going to bite me, rather than having to fend off angry users afterwards. Cheers, Waider. -- waider@waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. There's a difference between "not shy" and "stalking".
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 22:28, Ronan Waide wrote:> Hi sambafolks, > > I see a number of topics cropping up here repeatedly over the last few > weeks: > > * Files > 4GB not supported > This is confirmed and solved in 2.2.7a, but not in the current > incarnation of smbfs (which is not part of samba, I know, but will > get discussed here as a related topic) > > * desktop.ini weirdness in profiles > I've seen this mentioned a few times with no sign of a real > solution.I'm not sure what you mean by this - given that what gets uploaded into a profile is controlled by the windows client, not Samba - Windows clients add a desktop.ini, and use it for it's own purposes. Or was there some other problem you referred to? If you really don't want that to be there, I would suggest some VFS module or possibly some of Samba's 'veto' options.> * problems with Win2KSP3 clients > Again, several mentions, no solutions offeredPlease include details sufficient to identify the problem you specifically refer to.> My question is, is there a canonical place to go where I can find a > list of /all/ bugs/issues currently under investigation by the samba > team? I see from the development page that you use IRC to coordinate > development, but I presume at some point this falls out into "Tridge > is looking at the Win2KSP3 issue while Jerry is working on > desktop.ini"Not particularly. Most issues get addressed on the samba-technical list, so reading the archives is often a good idea. Certainly I don't know of any particular efforts on the two (rather vauge) bugs you have mentioned. Read the CVS history at build.samba.org if you are wanting to follow development closer.> My main reason for asking is that I'm in the middle of a rather > complicated migration to Samba and I'd prefer to know up front what's > going to bite me, rather than having to fend off angry users > afterwards.If you detail your expected setup to the list, you might find people who can give you advise as to the more 'generic' or 'problem space' gotchas - these are more likely to cause you trouble than specific issues in the latest Samba. (Simply because the main problems Samba has are problems we can't deal with - like the fact we run on Unix, not NT :-). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030103/bd269540/attachment.bin
Hi Ronan,>I see a number of topics cropping up here >repeatedly over the last few weeks:..........................>* desktop.ini weirdness in profiles > I've seen this mentioned a few times > with no sign of a real solution.It worked for me after I changed the own-dir-read-only prohibition line in "source/smbd/dosmode.c": http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2002-December/086002.html http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2002-December/086010.html but it's still an emotionally charged issue allowing a user to remove write privilege on his own dirs. My more general proposal was to also ignore the lack of write privilege on one's own directories at creation of new files. It's probably pending deliberations by IETF or some ad-hoc POSIX group :-) I support your conclusion that there should be more systematic ways of googleing currently known samba- related problems and solutions. This maillist should also be just a tad more moderated to screen out repeats of the same message, html-excesses, transmission artifacts (e.g. "=20" instead of " " and "=3D" instead of "="), spam mail etc. and generally beautify the postings for text-only viewers in my opinion. The question is, would you or I voluntarily put some work where our mouths are. Someone has to do it! It is work. It would certainly benefit the samba community and probably reduce the traffic in this mail list. Still, we can't demand such a facility unless we're ready to roll up our own sleeves. I guess you really only wanted to know if there are other (possibly digested) resources besides this mail list. Assuming there are, your posting sounded just a little overirritated, as if it's someone else's fault that they were unknown to you. Cheers Dragan Yes, it's very personal of me. There's a difference between "kibitzing" and "playing". _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dragan Krnic wrote:> I support your conclusion that there should be more > systematic ways of googleing currently known samba- > related problems and solutions. This maillist should > also be just a tad more moderated to screen out repeats > of the same message, html-excesses, transmission > artifacts (e.g. "=20" instead of " " and "=3D" instead > of "="), spam mail etc. and generally beautify the > postings for text-only viewers in my opinion.The best place for searching the Samba mailinlist archives is MARC (marc.theaimsgroup.com). They store a lot of mailinglists (including all the samba onces) in a large MySQL database. They also have a fulltext searchfuntion to search in each mailinglist. It worked great for me. Kind regards, Tim Verhoeven -- ==========================================================================Tim Verhoeven Linux & Open Source Specialist GSM : 0496 / 693 453 + e-business solutions Email : dj@4ict.com + consulting URL : www.sin.khk.be/~dj/ + Server consolidation ===========================================================================