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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

[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

[The following is my understanding from doco and experiments - hosts Solaris 2.5.1 and Samba 1.9.18p3, client NT 4.0 - please re-use if wanted] Samba presents a DOS file permissions view to users. That is they can set the following attributes for files: Archive, Hidden and Readonly. As an ordinary user on NT 4.0 System attribute is not accessible. These attributes map as follows onto the

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Dear all, I have made patch for samba-2.0.7/source/smbd/conn.c This will, instead of using by-directional link, use array for managing connections. # The patch does seems to work on my RHL6.1Ja(fixed) version of # Linux machine. I don't know about other OS/Architecture. This should work better then original because: 1) The original code used bitmap.c for looking empty area. But using

It appears that openssh has inherited the dos attack that ssh is susceptible to. This has been discussed on Bugtraq (see http://securityportal.com/list-archive/bugtraq/1999/Sep/0124.html for the thread). There does not appear to be an official for ssh. Attached below is a simple, proof of concept, patch that adds a MaxConnections to sshd_config that sets the maximum number of simultaneous

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,

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'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

Hello. I'm in need of some help to shed some light on a strange problem. The box is running Samba 4.1.7 on FreeBSD 9.2/amd64 and I suspect (though I'm not sure) all troubles started after the upgrade from 4.1.6. The setup is quite simple: no AD, no LDAP, only one server. A command as simple as "smbclient -U user //SERVER/SHARE", if fired up several times in a row on the

Hi Jeremy, thanks for the tip but ...(there's always a but) if I do this (increase MAX_OPEN_FILES to 1024), I get an error in log.smb: Can't create or use IPC area. Error was File exists I'm using FAST_SHARE_MODES to compile samba. Does this take up too much space or is there something else wrong? Bye, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > franky.vanliedekerke@mcd.alcatel.be wrote:

Dear R-user, I am trying to use the R "nlme" function to fit a non linear mixed effects model. The model I wand to fit is an individual somatic growth model with 4 parameters. For all parameters both fixed and random effects have to be estimated, as well as their covariance matrix (see the formula bellow). The data are simulated with the same growth model as in the nlme, with know