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Hi all, I am attempting to get Sage to support their software if the files are on Samba (Linux). They (like a lot of people I've heard) say "We don't support Linux, Goodbye." even when the client is on Win98/NT. We have been having trouble on a particular site, and they refuse to support Sage Line 50 if the files are on Linux which is absurd, because Linux is much more

Odd. I installed that hotfix on my workstation and it seems fine. Wonder what's different about your configuration? I noticed there were a fair number of issues with various packages listed in the release notes... -----Original Message----- From: Martyn Ranyard [mailto:mranyard@inter.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:09 PM To: Samba List Subject: [Samba] Re: NT4 SP7 Don't do

Hello, I have problem witch SWAT authorization for all users with the following error "username or password incorrect". With -a options SWAT works well. I've compiled samba-2.2.4 from sources on my RedHat Linux 6.1 with kernel 2.2.21. I've compiled it with the following options: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --localstatedir=/var \

Hi all, I am having some strange problems on a customer site : I am pretty sure I disabled oplocks entirely - I don't like the idea of them, and would rather have stable data. The customer (5-10 users) runs Sage Line 50, and until recently was getting numerous errors within sage. We have temporarily replaced their switch and this has reduced the fatality rate and a few

OK! I'm sorry about this. As I wrote earlier I'm totally lost... but I will try to explain the problem in steps bellow, ok. 1. I installed the rpm's for samba, Version 2.0.2a-ssl I think this is the version distributed with redhat linux 7.0 2. Then I changed the parameters in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and in this file I added the folowing parameters. [global] netbios name

Guess what, after I posted I came across the list of hotfixes for after SP6 for NT4. It's basically SP7 under any other name - but requires SP6a installed. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q299444& It's a whopping 13.99 Mb to download (or if you believe IE's figures more than their website, 14.1 )

Hi all, Thought I'd post this to the list as I found a better way of doing it. Nice to have for posterity. Please include it in the source of samba if you wish - I hereby license it under GPL 1. install ghostscript (most distributions include it anyway) 2. put the following in the file /usr/sbin/pdfprint and make it executable by whatever your guest user for samba is : #!/bin/bash

I have executed ./configure --with-lockdir=/var/lock/samba and get a proper Makefile with LOCKDIR = /var/lock/samba The trouble is strings ./usr/sbin/smbd | grep /var/lock reports /var/lock not the expected /var/lock/samba! There are no entries for "lock dir" or "lock directory" in smb.conf, and true to fashion testparm -s | grep "lock dir"

Good day folks, I'm using Samba 2.2.8a [1] on Slackware 9.1 with 2000/XP clients. I'm attempting to have a process by which a user drags a file using Windows Explorer into a share. On the server side, I have a unix process that polls the directory for new files and then reads them and deletes them. I'm having a problem where I can gain the lock but the process is still writing to

Hi all, I was investigating the SMB signing problems between Win2k clients and Windows XP servers and thought I'd take a look to see if there were any hotfix patches for Win2k that were post service pack 2. I discovered this list.... : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com/support/ServicePacks/Windows/2000/Win2000_Post-SP2_Hotfixes.asp of *amazing*

First of all, don't shoot me if I got some things wrong. I personally recommend (without much success :-)) to buy from www.cheeplinux.com (Definite Software), because I believe this is of some help to the CentOS project. At least, to some people involved in it (please correct me if I'm wrong). ?1. Anyway, as PayPal is _not_ an option for some countries, donations to CentOS.org can't

Hi, I recently installed a new samba server to replace an older Novell machine. Now, we are having performance issues. I have installed many samba servers, and have not run into this problem before. Some background info: The server is an Athlon 1800+ w/ 512MB DDR RAM. We are using software raid on 80GB IDE ATA 100 drives with the VIA 82C3XX chipset. When mirroring the drives, we usually get

I am having the same trouble with automatically mounted home shares with samba 2.2.1a (PDC, domain logins, roaming profiles) and NT4WS sp6a. If I login as one user, logout, then login as another, I can view the previous users home share as well as my newly logged in users home share (lather, rinse, repeat...). The NT box has a machine account, domain logins work, profiles work, login scripts

Hello everyone, I would like to send a big tar file (eg: >2Gbytes) from my Linux samba server to a win2K client without patching the kernel. Samba server: I'm using Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk) with samba 2.2.5-2. I'm using tar (GNU tar) 1.13.22 to make the tar file and the command "cp" to copy this tar file to my win2k client. I've never

I've got a situation where my webdesigners (win2k) are located on a different subnet (and location) than the samba server. I need a way of using a local (to the webdesigners) machine (linux) to use SSH and port forward to the remote samba server. How does one go about doing such a thing?

Hi. I have this problem when trying to compile Samba with MySQL passdb backend: Linking bin/smbcquotas Linking bin/smbmount Linking bin/wbinfo Compiling dynconfig.c with -fPIC Linking nsswitch/libnss_wins.so Linking libsmbclient non-shared library bin/libsmbclient.a Linking libsmbclient shared library bin/libsmbclient.so Compiling passdb/pdb_mysql.c with -fPIC passdb/pdb_mysql.c:21:25:

Did someone of you find a solution for our problerm ??? I send you the documented as you asked it but I always got the same problems. I tried some possibilites for optimizing my system but I always stay with my problem for writing files. Reading files from my shares is not a problem but writing causes "buffers" problems with windows and windows says he could not write all the blocks.

I am trying to share a CD-RW from the samba server (SuSE Linux 7.3, kernel 2.4.10) using Samba that came with the distribution. I am using user level sharing and have successfully shared out disk shares with both r and rw access. I can also access the CD-ROM and CD-RW in read mode and even do an installation from the CD-ROM to a client. When I try to create a CD using CD-RW, I get the following

I use samba every day, and it works perfectly except : I work for a reseller of a contact manager which runs on windows, doesn't support UNC pathnames, but does support mapped drives, to all real windows servers, and with an option, to a novell server. The trouble is, this program uses directory structure intensively and doesn't seem to be able to create directories properly on a

Hi, The LFS page hosted on suse's servers states that smbfs has probs with large files and it seems to be a bit out-of-date. http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html I can't correct him with authority, but maybe one of the team should. -------------- Martyn Ranyard I am not a member of the samba team, and anything that I say may not be as accurate as a response from one of the