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The shared mem size option is set to 102400 by default and change is discouraged: The man page (1.9.18p10) says: This parameter is only useful when Samba has been compiled with FAST_SHARE_MODES. It specifies the size of the shared memory (in bytes) to use between smbd processes. You should never change this parameter unless you have studied the source and know what you are doing.

On our most heavilly loaded Samba server (running 1.9.18p10 under Solaris 2.5.1) we have got occaisional meltdowns with load average rocketing to 100+. The evidence indicates lots of smbd processes running. Syslogs indicate lots of: Nov 12 12:48:35 zeus.brunel.ac.uk smbd[21572]: Failed to set socket option SO_KE EPALIVE Nov 12 12:48:35 zeus.brunel.ac.uk smbd[21572]: Failed to set socket

Environment: Solaris 2.5.1 Samba 1.9.18p3 We run samba from inetd (no special reason - just how its been done in the past). Then on one server we got masses of Samba daemons running (up to 40 as a time trying to run - load average 40+!), giving following complaints: Sep 28 14:39:06 zeus.brunel.ac.uk smbd[10728]: standard input is not a socket, a ssuming -D option Sep 28 14:39:06

We are moving from a PCNFS client to SMB client environment and hence moving from NFS for our Sun fileservers to Samba. I have seen figures indicating Samba is as good NT for SMB service. However what we are concerned with is: a) relative performance of Samba vs Sun's NFS b) loading on servers with lots of active connections (and hence lots of smbds). Do you need more memory than with

I realise that Samba is a voluntary effort and keeping Web Sites upto date may not be everyone's favourite occupation, but there appear to be a number of things missing or wrong: a) There is no contact info for the WebSite I could discern - hence posting here. b) There is still reference to samba-bugs@samba.org address - which I have been informed by it, is now dead. So may be this could be

I have just been upgrading my Samba servers from 1.9.18p10 to 2.0.6 So far as I can tell users have been happy (or at least not noticed!). Our clients are almost exclusively NT 4.0 (most at SP5). Our servers are Suns running Solaris 2.5.1 and 7. On upgrading 2 of our busier servers (for admin - home directories and NT binaries), I observed a considerable increase in server load. Home server

Our usage of Samba is being questioned with regards to being "non-standard" as against Windows NT servers. As the Samba Survey has been defunct for a while, I wonder if: a) there is any suitable advocacy document listing large and famous users of Samba? b) If not I would be happy to summarise responses from those prepared to go public. I am especially interested in Universities and

Nguyen Cao Dat asked about this: ERROR! Out of file structures - perhaps increase MAX_OPEN_FILES? As it happens I have started getting them too - on a PC Application server - the cause seems to be lots of files needed to be open to run applications - Lotus apps seems to be a particular culprit, but experiments indicate that even opening help on Microsoft Word opens 13 files! MAX_OPEN_FILES

[Apologies to sending to both samba & samba-technical lists - but I feel this is an issue to be aware of and an issue that may need fixing] This is what I have discovered with Samba 1.9.18p10 on Solaris 2.5.1: In contrast to smbd which checks its configuration files every minute or so, nmbd only does so on startup and on receipt of a HUP signal. This is not documented in the nmbd manual

Current situation: a) lots of Windows NT 4.0 workstation clients b) quite a few Samba 1.9.18p10 servers running on Suns c) 1 Samba server running as WINS server d) NO Windows Servers e) 1:1 correspondance between Netbios names and DNS names f) DHCP currently tells the Windows machines the WINS server. Problem: If WINS server goes down, every Windows NT workstation can not mount anything

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We run a Network of Suns (running Samba) and PC-NT (version 4, sp3) machines, at work, and find it very annoying to be unable to change the file permissions of files from NT on the Suns. Is there any way to change the permissions from NT file explorer or otherwise ? Dave Kirkby

Hello, I'm running samba 2.2 on FreeBSD 4.4. I was wondering if there was a way to sync up the samba and FreeBSD user passwords so that when either via the unix passwd or samba's smbpasswd program a user changes a password it is changed through both systems? If anyone is dong this successfully please let me know. Thanks. Dave.

Does anyone have any log analysis tools? I'm currently configured with "log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m", which makes identifying issues with any one client easy, but doesn't provide me with an overall picture of what has been happening. What I'd like to be able to produce is a report showing, for a given unit time, the total number of clients that have connected,

Hi all, Can you use Samba to store an XP Pro profile? I'm running Samba 3.0.2a (compiled from source) on Solaris 9. Compiled it against OpenLDAP 2.1.30 and MIT Kerberos 1.3.3 (both compiled from source from fresh downloads today). Am now trying to get Windows XP Pro to store profiles on to this box. The smbd and nmbd seem to run fine. Every time XP Pro goes to create a user's

Hi all, Looking for a solution to the following:- # smbpasswd -x jh--- build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! username jh--- with uid 1774 is not in unix passwd database! Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user jh---. Does this user exist in the UNIX password database ? Failed to modify password entry for user jh--- # Ths user has already been deleted from the /etc/passwd (in

Hi All, We appear to have a CUPS problem that is breaking our (LPRng) based printing. We now have loads of errors of the form:_ [2007/03/08 12:21:36, 0, pid=23877] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused filling up the log.smbd file We using printing=lprng in smb.conf, and there isn't (nor has there ever been) any

I have set up a web page describing my Unix to SMB password synchronisiation which also has the source code to the C front end and expect script used. http://www.btinternet.com/~p.polkinghorne/samba/u2s/ Note this is a Solaris specific solution - but should be adaptable to other Unices. Hope this helps someone ... -- Peter Polkinghorne, IT Manager Kingsford Stacey Blackwell

Has anyone had any success in getting Samba to correctly restart logging to the log files with the default logrotate setup (or even a modified one) from RedHat? The default setup is to move the files to another location, create a new file for Samba to fill, then send the daemons a HUP signal. I've tried some of the options that can be used in the logrotate.d/samba file (nocreate and

Hi, I have a few questions. My goal is to run NIS and samba so I have a central point of passwd control and just one place to change passwords. I will eventually have 5 samba servers so this is quite important to me as I don't want to have to change passwords and setup passwords on 5 servers when changing or adding new users. Can this be done? So that if a user changes his password for