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...orer is happy to report that a share has 4.8 or 8 or 10 TB of space available, but Windows seems to cease writing into the share once there are 2 TB in it. Is this a known limitation of a) Windows or b) Samba or c) both? It certainly isn't a limitation of the filesystem I'm using. Andy Liebman

...of the share is equal to the size of the PHYSICAL VOLUME (in this case, 4.4 TB). What can I do to help you track down the source of this problem? Is there a workaround? It doesn't seem as though this is the same problem that was reported earlier about LVM and XFS and Quotas. Regards, Andy Liebman

...is going on, I would be happy to collect the information. But, it has to be in the next couple of hours. It is 8:30 am Friday in Boston, MA USA. I have to reboot the machine to use it in about 3 hours. Note that rpc.statd also seems to be out of control. Don't know if it is related. Andy Liebman Here's what TOP looks like: Tasks: 170 total, 2 running, 168 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.6% us, 34.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 20.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 33.1% si Mem: 2075844k total, 2019784k used, 56060k free, 7668k buffers Swap: 1012052k total, 2556k used, 100949...

...lower case "p". No I find that if I change the logon path so that "profiles" has a lowercase p, logons from all XP workstations fail. If I change it back to an uppercase P, all is well. Seems strange to me -- but Samba is often a black box. Help would be appreciated. Andy Liebman

...as the same drive letter with each subsequent logon. Any ideas what could be causing this? It was no big deal to tell my users to NOT use the letter "Z" -- that's an easy workaround. But now things are getting messy if there's another letter that can't be used. Andy Liebman

...quotas are NOT getting reflected on Windows XP workstations when you look at the "Properties" of a Samba share. With 3.0.13 and below, the group quotas come through fine. In both cases, we are using 2.6.14 kernels. Any ideas? Any tests we can run to help sort this out? Regards, Andy Liebman

.... smbd seems to be running fine. Restarting Samba, and reconnecting to the shares brings the files back. The problem I am describing has been very reproducible. It's just a matter of waiting a few hours and occurs. Reverting back to Samba 3.0.23d makes the problem go away. Any ideas? Andy Liebman

...file, will the values from the "include" file be the ones that get applied? When I run "testparm", indeed I see the values from the include file and NOT from smb.conf. I just want to make sure there isn't some hidden trap in what I am doing. Good advice welcome. Andy Liebman

...blem looking at the same share, or in creates files on the share. I don't think it's a permission thing because: a) I have made the share Read/Write for all users b) I am logging on with the same username and password from both the Windows and Mac machines Any ideas? Regards, Andy Liebman

...speeds I get when Samba is in the middle. I just have a gut feeling that Samba buffers are not optimized for the quantity of data of speed of transfer. Perhaps a knowledgeable individual could suggest some Samba variables that might be tuned -- in which direction, and why? Regards, Andy Liebman

...ere a setting in smb.conf that can communicate better to Windows applications that large file sizes are supported? Likewise, is there a Windows XP registry setting that can make sure that applications know they can write large files to a Samba share? Help and insight would be appreciated. Andy Liebman

...g that I never see when the Linux machine is shut down. It's as if the Linux machine is taking control of keeping track of who is and who isn't on the network -- and it doesn't do as good a job of updating compared to the way windows stays current. Help would be appreciated. Andy Liebman

...dance would be appreciated. I have purchased "The Official Samba 3 HOW-TO and Reference Guide" but it really isn't very helpful when it comes to understanding how to tune these options and how various socket options settings interact with other network settings and hardware. Andy Liebman Resolute Films 119 Braintree Street, Suite 410 Boston, MA 02134 Tel: 617-782-0479 Cell: 617-308-0488 Fax: 617-782-1071

...hing I can do about it? FYI... In this case I am running Samba 3.0.13. The Windows version is XP SP2. Please don't suggest that I upgrade to Samba 3.0.2x (unless you know that it specifically solves this problem). That is not an option at the moment. Thanks in advance for the help. Andy Liebman

...click produces an error that the share is unavailable or you may not have permission to use it. Then the next click allows access to the share. Is there away to make this reconnecting of mapped (but private) shares less cumbersome? Your advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Andy Liebman

...uot; (or something like that). Then, on the next click, we are logged on and we can access the share. Does anybody understand why we see this difference in behavior between the two Windows machines? Is there something I can configure on the Windows machines so this doesn't happen? Andy Liebman

.... During the transition period, User B can actually copy or delete anything he wants from User A. Anybody have any clue what's going on and how to prevent it? Is the problem on the Samba side or on the Windows side. In my particular application, this is a very dangerous situation. Andy Liebman

Hi, I am responsible for 1000+ Samba servers. One particular server keeps crashing every few days. The server freezes up hard. I have swapped 100 percent of the hardware (in other words, I replaced Server A with a completely new Server B) but the crashing is still occurring. The server is running Samba 3.4.2 on 64-bit Linux with a custom 2.6.32.11 kernel and 6 GB RAM. I am fairly convinced

...t are the key settings to achieve this kind of "visibility and access control"? I have figured out most of my Samba issues on my own, but I have a deadline today to get this issue resolved and I would appreciate hearing from someone who knows the solution. Thanks in advance. Andy Liebman

...have an account on the Samba server, I just get a message saying "the resource can't be found or I don't have permission to use it. Contact my administrator." Or something like that. How do I have to configure smb.conf to get the username:password dialog box? Regards, Andy Liebman