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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 James, One of the things that NT does different from WIN9x is that it attempts to 'browse' using a null session. This typically means that SAMBA is going to try to make the attachement for the 'null' username as SAMBA's guest account (by default 'nobody'). On a lot of HP systems the 'nobody' /etc/passwd entry is set as uid -2 and gid -2. These uid/gid

I try to compile samba-2.07 in a separate directory and it fails with : Linking bin/smbd ld: 0711-934 SEVERE ERROR: Cannot create the output file: bin/smbd ld:open() A file or directory in the path name does not exist. collect2: ld returned 12 exit status gnumake: *** [bin/smbd] Error 1 because the directory `bin' does not exist in my build directory; the

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

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

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

Hi, I'm trying to set up samba 2.0.7 on our Solaris 2.7 box to do some utmp logging. Alls fine except is screws up finger: [35] ucacast@lambda: finger @bruce [bruce.cs.ucl.ac.uk] finger: Can't stat /dev/smb/1 [36] ucacast@lambda: Any work arounds? can I just logg to wtmp, so that finger works and I can do a last? I've tried playing around, but can't seem to come up with a

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.

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

Under Solaris 7/sparc, I get: Compiling smbd/connection.c smbd/connection.c:381: conflicting types for `utmp_yield' smbd/connection.c:30: previous declaration of `utmp_yield' 381 has 'int pid', while 30 has 'pid_t pid' ... I changed 381 to reflect 30 and she continues on its way ... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems

Hallo! I found a quite usefull hint about email-notification using samba by simply writing a Mailslot-message-command into the users .forward-file. That is quite nice, but there is a small problem: While the username is still the same, so does not the computername. People can log on every computer in a network, so the computername varies. I am looking for a method to run a script - on the server

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

I am running RH6.1 on an x86 with 2.0.6 installed with an RPM. I am confused as to getting smb to start at bootup. It works fine if I start it manually (/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start). I swear, the 5.2 installation had smb start at bootup, but I can't find the difference between the two. Is the answer 1 - edit the /etc/inetd.conf file (swat needed a line uncommented) 2 - edit the

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

samba-2.0.7pre2 (out of the box) compiles and works well on my test file server; however after ./configure --with-utmp the compilation fails... Andrew ... smbd/connection.c: In function `utmp_fill': smbd/connection.c:328: structure has no member named `ut_user' smbd/connection.c:329: structure has no member named `ut_id' smbd/connection.c:332: structure has no member named

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

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

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