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Hi, I have a number of web servers that mount their /htdocs (and /log and /cgi-bin) directories from a large file server. I am currently using NFS for this. The web servers are Linux, the file server a Sun E450. NFS seems dreadfully slow, and I keep reading about how it doesn't do file locking. Is there a good reason not to simply use samba, and share the volumes with samba from the Sun, and

Can someone, more learned in the ways of dtrace point me at what to look at to help understand why the kernel on one machine is using tons of memory, while another machine doing the same task/same user load is not. swapinfo for the "afflicted" machine shows RAM _______Total 16384 Mb RAM Unusable 73 Mb RAM Kernel 9226 Mb RAM Locked 2 Mb RAM Used

Hi all, I've looked about and I can't find anything on Quotas and SAMBA with FreeBSD. The FreeBSD manual says that I can enable quotas and how to go about it, but I get the feeling this is just for shell accounts. Quotas would be useless in my situation if they did not work with SAMBA as well. All my SAMBA users have shell accounts as well and only save to their home directory - either

Can anyone here help me out with a client side Outlook issue? I know outlook is a horrible imap client :( We intermittently have a problem where mail gets "stuck" in Outlook users' outboxes. Might have anything to do with dovecot? Is there anyway I can troubleshoot this server side? Are there any settings I can tweak? We have a new and an old dovecot server (see below) and both

Gregory Hosler <greg@camelot.eno.ericsson.se> wrote: > Everything was running smoothly, and then I applied the solaris "y2k" patches. > Now, most accesses to samba will hang for a minute or 2, before completing. In > the event log I see messages like: > > The redirector has times out a request to <server name> > > This did not used to happen.

What does this mean for the SAMBA community? http://www.intergraph.com/press98/as050698.stm WINDOWS NT SERVICES FOR UNIX ADD-ON PACK NOW IN DEVELOPMENT http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1998/May98/ntunixpr.htm The Windows NT Services for UNIX Add-On Pack will make it easier to integrate Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0 into existing UNIX environments.

I'm new to Samba software. I just installed Samba on my Sun Sparcstation 20 running Solaris 2.5. I read the DIAGNOSIS.txt file, but in this case, it didn't helped me. When I tried to login in from the PC to the unix machine by typing "net use x: \\BIGSERVER\TMP", it prompted me for the password, so I typed in the unix password (I guess?), but an error message returned -

I posted a while back about getting very slow writes. People suggested modifying (increasing) SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF and this actually helps enormously. However, there is obviously something still not right. Writes are still about 1/2 the speed of reads. This only seems to affect Win95 clients (NT machines are fine). Doing a write of a 20mb file to the server generates the following message:

Hi all, stupid question time but when encryption is turned on. does that mean the entire connection is encrypted or just the passwords? -sv

I need a really quick response to this questoins. please send me the solution within 3 hours if you see this email. Now is 6:00pm in central time. Has smaba sucessfully responded to all UNIX semantics, specially for filename problems? if not, what is the exact problem?

Samba Gurus. We run W95 and NT4 clients in a mixed environment of Netware and Samba on SGs. Netware is the primary network login(over IPX/SPX). Am using clear text passwords for the Samba network. NT 4 is patched up to SR 3. Samba version 1.9.18p7. Problem. Samba performance from NT 4 machines is VERY slow. Many orders of magnitude slower than W95 which is very good. This performance

Here's an easy one for y'all. I am running samba V1.9.16p1 on an NT 4.0 vs. Solrais 2.51 peer to peer, and so far so good. !BUT! I am about to go to Solaris 2.6. Is there anything different that must be done for samba on this newer Solaris version? thanks- john "...you can't stop progress, but you can help redefine it." -anonymous "angels hang their socks on

Morning... I'm having a problem that I'm finding to be quite disconcerting, but fear it might just be a misunderstanding on my part. I have Samba 1.9.18p8 installed on one of my Solaris 2.6 machine, and, for some reason, if I change my password on the Solaris machine, I can still map my drive without it re-asking me for my passwd. For instance, I turn on my computer and connect to

Hi all, I've installed samba on a sun sparc-station with solaris 2.5. But when i'm doing something that's using the network really intense (like mp3-files playing over the network) the feed is not constant. With mp3 files you can that because you have pauses during the playing of the song. Is this a configuration mistake or something ? cu, Patrick

We have been looking for a way to notify our users when they are running low on disk quota, without sending them mail. WinPopup actually seemed like the best way, so my partner began looking at feeding quota output into smbclient -M when quota was getting tight. The only problem is that smbclient -M frequently fails to find the client's host name. The -I parameter will often fix it, but I am

We're using Samba 1.9.18p10 on a Linux 2.0.35 box as a fileserver chiefly for software development under VC++. Builds are done from the command line, not the IDE. I'm seeing rather slow build performance under NT4SP3. Build performance is fine under Win95. Build performance is also good when building from Samba 1.9.18p8 running on a Sun UltraSparc. To give some concrete figures, building

Fellow Samba-meisters, I'm wondering if anyone can share real-world experience running PC database apps (like M$ Access) with database files shared from a samba server. How well has the record locking proven to work? I will be setting up a small office network for a client w/ a Linux server running samba as a file/print server and 4 or 5 Win95 clients running Office97 apps. This is

Hello, Documentation states that one should set up only one Samba server as WINS server. While NT's TCP/IP setup has two entrys, one for a primary and one for a secondary WINS server I wonder why there should be only one Samba WINS server. Has anyone tried this with two Samba WINS servers? Did you suffer from any interferences. I did and the machines are running perfectly smooth. Did I

You wrote: I have been disappointed that I can't use Linux+Samba as an alternative to a Win9x or NT server for our GP medical practice. The software we need runs in win9x. We crave stability. But Linux+Samba is just much slower as a file server. It's normally quite fast: are you running over a dial-up network, requiring you to adust MTU's for speed??? If not, try ``socket

Hi. I have a samba install, samba-1.9.18p4, with security=server. Users are validated against the NT domain controller correctly, and user accounts do exist on the unix box (AIX 4.2.1) Problem is that while the uid of the files that users create is correct, the group id is always sys, even though the users have as primary gid STAFF. The definition of the share I am trying to create is: [cslan]