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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

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

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,

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

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

Hi, I've install Samba on AIX 3.2.5 and I'd like to know if there are large companies using Samba ? What's the size of your company ? How many users ? Do you know a limit of Samba ? (performances) Thanks Vincent Ceriani

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.

Hello, Our university has a study in progress looking at using SAMBA to provide file/print sharing as an enterprise-wide solution. Does anyone know of an entity that uses SAMBA to support up to or more than 10 site locations, over 125 buildings, and supporting over 5000 workstations? -- Regards, /~\ The ASCII Richard Jackson \ / Ribbon Campaign Computer Systems Engineer,

I just thought I'd throw this out there because it doesn't seem normal to me. We have 2.0.5a on AIX 4.3.2. We initially tried to increase the shared mem size to 4MB. This would not happen until we rebooted AIX. Then smbstatus reported a 4MB shared mem size. Now we are trying to decrease it because we will only need about 2MB and it won't reduce. I suspect it will when we reboot

Greetings Having fun with Samba 2.0beta1 and security = server Is there something missing in my config? # Global parameters workgroup = COMCARE server string = Samba %v interfaces = <IP_subnet_a.x>/24 <IP>/24 security = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes password server = pdc.comcare.gov.au username map =

Hi, I've been asked to research the possibility of changing our site from Novell to Samba. We've got 10,000+ client machines with about 30,000 users and currently use about 200-300 novell servers. I'm reasonably familiar with Samba but not on this scale. If anyone can point me towards a similar site then I'd be grateful. Currently we have a accouting system for each user for

When the students arrive in a few weeks, we will have several thousand registered samba users and (we anticipate) several hundred simultaneous Samba connections. (This will be our first period of significant Samba use.) Our management folks are asking about collecting periodic Samba usage figures. This is a bit vague, but something like a rolling count of simultaneous connections, per-user

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

In problem-fixing, the "nicest" problems are those reproducible on demand. Alas, this one is not nice. System: Samba 2.0.6 on Solaris 2.7 (also see similar on Solaris 2.6). Symptom (user perspective): PC suddenly, spontaneously freezes and eventually the connection times out. Symptom (log file): [2000/02/15 09:27:30, 0] ../lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(474)

Hi all, Can someone explain exactly how Windows does naming resolution ? Here's my setup and my problem ... Windows 95 / Solaris 7 network with Samba 1.9.18 Windows PC with local IP and DNS servers defined and WINS turned off. I have NetBIOS using DNS for name resolution. I have a samba server X which about 50 PC's in our dept use. I want to move the services to machine Y so that I

I can't answer any of this, but the following was taken from a thread on the "Novell Technology Transfer Partners List <NOVTTP@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>" and passed over to me by my boss... Any comments/refutations/etc most definitely accepted... Please note that *I'm* the Senior Unix Systems Administrator at the University I work at, and have been moving us towards Samba since I

I have searched the archives and the internet and found nothing on this topic but I know it's a known issue. Second I would like to say this has nothing to do with NTDOM. I am running a samba server 2.0.0 on a freebsd box. I am connecting to the server using windows 9x and NT clients. I have hacked the windows registries to enable clear text passwords across the lan. The problem is when

R 2.10.1 is used in the Sage maths project. Several recommended packages (Matrix, class, mgcv, nnet, rpart, spatial, and survival) are failing to build on Solaris 10 (SPARC). We would like to be able to get a list of the recommended packages for R 2.10.1, but ideally via a call to R, so it is not necessary to update that list every time a new version of R is released. We do not want to access

I have a samba 2.2.4 PDC which acts as the repository of roaming profiles. Just recently some of our users have experienced failure to load roaming profiles. The clients are on a pair of Windows 2000 terminal servers. The failure does not seem to be confined to one server and only affects some people. The error given takes place during the loading profile stage: Windows can not copy: \\Samba

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to stop R looking outside the scope of a function, if it can't find the variable inside the function. I seem to waste hours debugging functions only to find I've used a wrong variable name somewhere, but the function still works because the variable exists higher up the hierachy. It seems it would be easier to debug if the function just went