similar to: why is samba so slow with many files in one directory?

Hubert Gr?nheidt wrote: > Maybe it'll help to be more precise: > We have currently 14 Mio files separated into 140 Directories, each > containing 100000 files. The naming-scheme is simple: <id>.<extension>; so > directory 00000001 contains files 0.<someext> to 99999.<someext>, directory > 00000002 contains files 100000.<someext> to

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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

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

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

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.

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 >

"Marc Remijn" <marrem@IAEhv.nl> write > 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

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

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:

Ian Leonard wrote: > >> If I use smbmount and copy a 180k file, it transfers in about 0 seconds > >> (including unmounting). > >> > >> If I use smbclient and 'put' the file, it takes 14 seconds. I have heard > >> of an MTU problem but can't see any configuration options. Ian then experimented with the buffer-size option of smbclient, and

Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > Current aside, the February2000 was last modified on February, 2nd. Last > message there is http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba/February2000/0042.html > The same is true for samba-technical, samba-cvs (did not check others) > Or is it a problem of my proxy? I don't think so, I see the same thing. Samba web-folks, could you check this out, please?

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)

Craig Weatherhead wrote: | I'm just curious if there is a way to have samba be able to restart | a transfer of a file from the point that it left off? It's doable "below" Samba using the Samba VFS, by passing the start-point as part of a filename and having the VFS (which you'd have to write!) return the rest of the file. Say you were transferring

A moderately-frequently asked question is "why do automounted directories in shares disappear?" The old answers were: 1) they timed out and auto-un-mounted, and 2) you shouldn't re-export NFS-imported stuff anyway. A new answer (0) was just suggested by a Sun techie: add a "browse" option to the automounter map entry, to make them appear even when they're not

David Collier-Brown wrote: > I wonder if Daniel S. Riley hit the nail on the head... > > For high-rate TCP transfers, back to back packets with interface cards > > that are close to the minimum interpacket gap, you actually expect 50% > > collisions from the TCP acks colliding with data packets. This limits > > the transfer rate to about 700 - 800 KB/sec; with

Andrew Wilson wrote: | For us the Solaris ACL is being honoured by Samba but can result in less | permissions granted on destination files and directories than the ACL | stipulates, eg. | ACL on a parent directory "test" is as follows:- | mask:rwx | However a file or a sub-directory created beneath "test" will be granted | less permissions for user tuser than desired, eg.