similar to: Urgent Discussion abt the performance

Typhoon wrote: > > We have a problem with our linux embedded-system and samba units. > We mount remote windows shared drives, and transfer a lot of file to/from > them. > If Windows crash :) or unpluggin RJ, our program hang on read/write calls ( > and all other access to remote file ) for undefined time... > WE NEED to set a SHORT timeout for connection lost !!!!!! > The

[Moved to samba@lists.samba.org] "quinzin.maxime@libertysurf.fr" wrote: > I have Samba between Windows and AIX, we've got a > synchronization prob : > - An update file on AIX is not immediatly visible in his > latest version on Windows (98 or NT) > - The upgrade can reach several minutes > Is there a solution to force the synchronization > immediatly (or faster)

Geoff Silver wrote: > I ran across an "interesting" situation today, and haven't been able to > find anything on the web to help. Samba supports NetBIOS aliases, but is > it possible to tie the aliased NetBIOS name to a specific smb.conf file > (or seperate directories?), similar to Apache's VirtualHost directive? Sure: see the example in

> ?????? wrote: > > Hello Sir/Madam! > > my name is dae su kim! > i have a problem diffcult! > The problem is samba process smbd and nmbd no responsing! > This log is my problem! > help me! please help me! > > problem : SAMBA_2.0.7 > > 7 03:13:48 cad1 inetd[179]: netbios-ns/udp server > failing > 7 03:27:03 cad1

> Sistemas Comau do Brasil wrote: > I installed the version SAMBA_2.0.7 in a workstation SUN > SOLARIS_2.6. > Seemingly, everything works well, but it frequently happens > travamentos in the communication between Windows and Unix. > Somebody can help myself. It is very urgent!!! Mar 7 03:13:48 cad1 inetd[179]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping), service terminated Mar 7

Kim Malafant wrote: > We are not sure if this is the correct place to send this but we are also > unsure whether it is a bug or some other strange behaviour. Our apologies > in advance if this should be sent elsewhere. It does sound like a networking problem, as you suggested: let's continue the discussion at samba@lists.samba.org... A 100 Mbit/S link should peak out at about

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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I really appreciate all your responses on this. I might not have fixed it by looking at samba logs but i noticed there was directory in user unix directory with wildcard * as folder name once i removed it, samba showed up all the files and directory. am not sure what would * as folder name caused this behaviour may be samba was trying to interpret * as something else not sure...... or it was

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

Steven Vaughan-Nichols at Ziff-Davis said: | Unlike all other previous Microsoft operating systems, XP | Home will simply not work in an office network environment | with NetWare, NT, Samba, or Windows 2000 servers. Period. | You simply can't connect to the servers' domains or their | file/print services. Which sounds like they took the SMB client out... | XP Home also has a built-in

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"

Hello All, Thanks to David Collier-Brown who pointed me to the oplocks setting, what was needed was the following:- oplocks = off Regards, Leo -----Original Message----- From: David Collier-Brown [mailto:David.Collier-Brown@canada.sun.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 22:54 To: Leo Kliger Subject: re: Strange Samba/NT compatibility issue You just got caught by cleint-side caching. If you

> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:25:44 -0400 > From: David Collier-Brown <David.Collier-Brown@canada.sun.com> > To: Luc Lalonde <llalonde@gre.ulaval.ca>, samba@samba.org > Subject: Re: conditional logon scripts > Message-ID: <39802A48.CD84F4C6@canada.sun.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding:

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:

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

You wrote: > I am writing a news article about the rulings in the cphack and DVD cases > and how they could impact reverse engineering in the United States. > It appears that new interpretations of fair use provisions in copyright law > could force reverse engineering offshore. [We can discuss this in detail in private email, which you may quote freely, but here's an overview

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

While discussing unexpected timeouts on a slow (auto-restored from tape) filesystem, or on a slow network, a colleague referred me to the attached snippit of an MS manual: Has anyone tried this, and if so, was it usefull? --dave --------------- Error 3013, "The redirector has timed out to SERVERNAME" usually means that the Server that you are attempting to connect to is: Either

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