search for: david3d

Hi All, I have a customer that I need to give access to one of our servers over a WAN. Their box is running some windows server version and they use terminal services to let their employees access their applications. We use Samba in or local office environment where it works quite well. I need to know the following: 1) Will Samba work over the internet? 2) Can Samba connections be encrypted or

I'm looking into trying out AIO on one of our file servers in the office but I can't find any info on what the values for "aio read size" and "aio write size" correspond to. Is it a buffer size of some sort or a tuning type parameter were it allows the socket to read/write x blocks? Thanks, David Miller

I have a Samba server (3.0.23a) running WINS for our network. The other day we had some extended power outages and a number of computers and network segments came up before DHCP/DNS servers causing a lot of confusion on our network until everything settled. DNS/DHCP an name resolution via DNS is not restored to proper working order however the WINS database has some bad data in it that I