similar to: Subject: copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle

When copying files from the Samba server to a Windows95 client or vv, the speed varies dramatically. When I try to copy the same (20MB) file 10 times some times it copies in less than 10 seconds. The next time it takes allmost a minute. And most worrying of all quite often the copying just stops halfway in the middle. The progress bar in Windows just stops. The traffic on the NIC also stops (the

Clary Harridge asked... > we are interested in booting Win95 diskless from a SAMBA server. Peter Debus <pdebus@turing.une.edu.au> cautioned | Unfortunately there is no other option I am aware of, other than booting | from an NT server - which I have been told, but have not experienced | myself, is painfully slow if booting a whole computer lab at once, with | clients timing out and

John Wilkes wrote: > I can't get samba to work reliably. Win98 machines can map a network > drive via Samba, but writing large files to the Linux box fails. I get > error messages that all are some variation on this ... > [2000/02/20 22:38:31, 6] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(560) > write_socket(6,39) wrote 39 > [2000/02/20 22:38:31, 10] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(468)

Mass Sivilotti wrote: > Granted, the Explorer > window is EMPTY (i.e., regardless of the actual contents of > the directory, Explorer shows no files, consistent with > the UNIX permisssion of not allowing searching), but the very fact > that the window opens and the directory APPEARS empty is confusing > some folks. Wouldn't it be better if you got a permission denied >

Bill Eldridge <bill@rfa.org> wrote: > I'm currently testing out some SCSI->IDE RAID 5 systems > (not banging on them too rigorously at the moment, but > no obvious flaws so far). > > Basically, you get a SCSI interface that the computer sees, > but the enclosure holds 3 IDE drives, and the whole thing > snugs into a tower chassis. RAID 5 at about $2200 for >

A colleague just wrote and said he's had a problem with Samba using a Cascade ("SLS") PDC. This is odd, as Jeremy tested that rather recently! The symptom reported was, with security = domain and password server = <the SLS server>: > . When I try to validate > a login on the samba box against the SLS SAM, I receive the

robert m hazbun wrote: > We now want to implement printer sharing and > accounting using samba as well. You actually wrote to the implementor's list: I've cc'd this to the regular list... > We are looking for a solution similar to the Windows 95 Printer$ share that is > documented on the samba.org site. I'm almost surprised the existing one didn't work.

[This is fairly far from the topic of the mailing-list: we may want to take further discussion to email or the tech list] Jeremy writes: > it violates the principle of > least suprises for the nfs user. ie. They may get access > denied when the UNIX perms say they should be granted access. Paul replies: > But wouldn't it also be a "surprise" when an NFS user finds

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

I've been suggested to get some logs and give a brief description of the problem I'm encountering with Cadds5 / Samba 2.0.6 and offer them to you , via http or ftp , to try to find a solution I 've collected the logs , can I send them with a description of the problem Thanks Stefano Colombo ( scolombo@cdmtc.it ) System / Network Engineer CDM Tecnoconsulting SPA v. M.L.King 38/2

Chris Hines wrote: > I would like to use samba as an NT domain controller for NT 4 & Windows 9X > and posibly windows 2000. I have configured samba 2.0.7 and samba NTG as > domain controllers and they seem to work. > > We wish our users to use a single password accross UNIX & windows which > are copied from a central NIS map managed by the University. Some time in >

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Richard Whiffen <whiffen@ici.org> wrote: > We're having some odd issues with samba and MS Word (And presumable the > rest of the office suite, but I haven't checked) running on NT 4.0 sp3. > > MS Word doesn't seem to obey the umask settings: > create mask = 0775 > directory mask = 0775 We've had that prblem here: many pc apps rename the file to be

Ken Hamer (B83 131) <K.Hamer@axion.bt.co.uk> wrote > BUT...... After printing a document, Samba appears to hang up the connection, > although another seems to start pretty quickly. ... > server.netbios- client.1065 8557 0 8760 0 CLOSE_WAIT > > The connection will stay in this state until the user tries to access > something on the network drive

You wrote: | The problem that I'm having is that once a file has been opened from the | share, changes made to that file via the WWW interface are not seen by | the Win95 client, they still get the old file's contents. This is an artefact of the so-called ``opportunistic lock'' algorithm, which allows client-side caching unless another pc client attempts to edit the file. You

You asked: | Can the "tar" function in SMBCLIENT be used to successfully backup and | restore a remote WNT 4 sp3 system disk? I'm guessing no, because: [snip] | This is for machines with SCSI adapters, so even if we have to replace the | system disk after a failure, we can plug in an external disk, boot that, | and restore the internal disk while running on the external.

Julien Boppert <boppert@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > we have an Enterprise 450 with Solaris 2.6 and mounted NFS-shares from > an Sparc 20 (Solaris 2.6 too). On the Enterprise we run Samba 2.0.5a as > PDC and export the mounted Shares with Samba to our WIN NT 4.0 > Servicepack 3 Clients. Erk! It's generally a bad idea to import data via NFS and re-export it via Samba:

On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:40:28 +1100, someone wrote: > >I was wondering if anyone else has seen the problem that I'm seeing with > >the latest version of Samba (1.9.18p3) under Solaris 2.6. I'm using it in > >part to backup about 15 PC clients (all but two are running NT 4) with > >the Amanda backup program. Anyway, the problem is that on occasion > >when

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.

Dear Dave, Doesn't this only work if you're using samba as a domain controller and the client says "net use h: /home" I've not got it to redirect "//server1/username" to "//server2/username" when the NIS map says "user server2:/path/&" Though if it could be done I'd be VERY keen. Tim "David Collier-Brown"