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...s a small local fileserver and it doesn't need strong security. Can anyone help me? Another problem: now I use 2.2.8a with software-raid on IDE disks. I can read normally, but write is too small, and Samba sometimes says disk is full. May it incompatible between Samba and software-raid? -- attiko

I am using a Gentoo Linux machine and trying to mount a remote file system via samba. The following DOES WORK: mount -t smbfs -o username="SMB-SRV\stonyy",password=abc123 //smbsrv/proj /mnt/proj However, I don't really want my username and password visible to the world (yes, I changed the password and everything but the backslash in the username for this posting). So I tried

Hello, samba-users, I am using Amanda to backup WinNT-shares. Amanda uses smbclient to generate smbtar-archives which it then writes to tape. As you all know there are various files on Windows-system-partitions that don?t need to be on backup. For example stuff like pagefile.sys System Volume Information hiberfil.sys and the registry files. So there is a need to exclude files from getting

We want to copy files with the group in the admin list of the [homes] share. The problem is that the copied files then are owned by root. I know this is normal unix behavior. However we want the copied files to be owned by the user of the homeshare. I read the samba howto section "Users Cannot Write to a Public Share". Although I want to set the owner on the home shares and not on a

Hi. I'm running Kernel 2.4.19 and Samba 2.2.5. I'm in need to do a backup out of big SAPDB database (60 GB) onto a share on a Win2K-box (all my databases have to backup onto this w2K-box where they get saved on tape). This works fine as long as it comes to 2 GB. Than it stops with the message "file size exceeded". Obviously there is a file size limit somewhere in Samba. How