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[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

we got a volunteer for the rpctorture update.

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Matthew M Lavy wrote:

> 
> Well, I am, but I'm not really a C programmer; the only language I would
> claim competence with is Java - which doesn't really help here. However,
> if it's just a question of minor code modifications that require
> syntactical knowledge and common sense (parameter tweaks for testing etc)
> I'm more than happy to torture a few machines - I've got a server that
> I can use for the job.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > matthew,
> > 
> > if you are a programmer, i need some "heavy-weight" testing done by
> > getting rpctorture up and running again.
> > 
> > i need to simulate several hundred simultaneous logins and-such.
> > 
> > if you are not a programmer, please wait until someone (probably me) posts
> > some test results to the lists.
> > 
> > rpctorture with 100 processes repeating 100,000 user logins _each_ tends
> > to hammer networks and boxes into the ground for a couple of hours, it's
> > quite fun to watch, especially nt.
> > 
> > luke
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matthew M Lavy wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry to clutter this list with a boring newbie type question, but I have
> > > been using Samba 2.0.5 happily on Debian/slink for some time for a 30
> > > workstation, 400 user system, but now I want to expunge NT entirely and
> > > use Samba as PDC. I'm aware the code isn't finished and am prepared to
> > > have only partial functionality (although I need stability) and would
> > > ultimately be interesting in starting to help bug-spotting, learning how
> > > some of the code works etc.
> > > 
> > > However, it seems very hard to get info about which version is what, and
> > > which docs go with what. I downloaded the head branch from the cvs server
> > > (previously I've used a .deb packaged version) and it doesn't seem to do
> > > group or user mapping as expected. Can anyone tell me what I should be
> > > using / trying?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Matthew M Lavy BA MPhil ARCM LTCL
> > > Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL
> > > Tel: +44 1223 511338
> > > email: mml1000 at jesus.cam.ac.uk
> > > 
> > 
> > <a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
> > <a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development   </a>
> > <a href="http://samba.org"        > Samba Web site                  </a>
> > <a href="http://www.iss.net"      > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
> > <a href="http://mcp.com"          > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>
> > 
> >  ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> Matthew M Lavy BA MPhil ARCM LTCL
> Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL
> Tel: +44 1223 511338
> email: mml1000 at jesus.cam.ac.uk
> 

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
<a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development   </a>
<a href="http://samba.org"        > Samba Web site                  </a>
<a href="http://www.iss.net"      > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
<a href="http://mcp.com"          > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>

 ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals