ClearCase/SAMBA- help required

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi S.Ravikiran,

I have no direct experience with ClearCase, but have heard of it.  I
suspect that the folks at Motorola Australia may have some experience with
Samba and ClearCase, but you would have to ask them yourself.

Also, someone else with ClearCase experience on this list might respond as
well.

At 01:46 PM 7/27/98 +1000, you wrote:
>
>
>I am S.Ravikiran, working as Configuration Manager for Siemens Information
Systems, Bangalore, India.
>
>We are facing problem with ClearCase/SAMBA/Solaris/NT combination with
checkin/checkout of delta files. Problem was reported to Rational. The
response I got was that probelm might be due to SAMBA which is not
supported by Rational.
>We increased the MAX_OPN_FILES of SAMBA to 1024, and still the problem is
not  resolved.

Hmmm, 1024 is kind of large, since that number is per-user, and an
individual PC is not likely to ask for more than about 255, I think.

>Since I did not get much help from CCIUG and FAQs I am posting this
message to SAMBA-TECHNICAL news group.
>
>Please let me know, if anyone of you have come across this problem and any
one of you could fix this problem? Are there any workaround?
>
>PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM NOT THE MEMBER OF SAMBA-TECHNICAL NEWS GROUP AND YOU
ARE REQUESTED TO SEND YOUR REPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING MAIL ADDRESS -
s.ravikiran at blr.sni.de
>
>We are using ClearCase 3.2 with SUN SOLARIS 2.6 as VOB server and WIN NT
4.0 (SP3) as View clients and
>SAMBA 1.9.18p8 is being used as NFS package running on server.
>
>An element can be created , checked-in and checked out for first time. If
i modify it and try to checkin again, I get MVFS error.
>
>I get the following error messages for binary and text files respectively:
>
>view_server.exe(133): Error: Unable to construct cleartext for object
"0x4C" in VOB "fzbsun1:/home2/trial/vobstore/text.vbs": error detected by
ClearCase subsystem 
>
>	followed by
>
>view_server.exe(133): Error: Type manager "z_whole_copy" failed
construct_version operation. 
>
>For text files I get the following error message
>
>view_server.exe(133): Error: Unable to construct cleartext for object
"0x3E" in VOB "fzbsun1:/home2/trial/vobstore/text.vbs": error detected by
ClearCase subsystem 
>
>	followed by
>
>view_server.exe(133): Error: Type manager "text_file_delta" failed
construct_version operation. 

To help us diagnose this problem, we will need some debugging information
from Samba that correlates with the problem.

You can obtain this by adding the following to your smb.conf somewhere in
the global section:

	debug level = 5

This is not the cleanest way to handle this, but it will do for now.  You
must then issue a 'kill -1 <pid>' for each smbd running on your Slowaris
machine.

Then, find where the log files are written, probably
/usr/local/samba/var/log.<pcname>, and find the one for the pc that you are
having the problem with.  Clear this file out, with:

	cp /dev/null /usr/local/samba/var/log.<pcname>

Then issue your ClearCase commands that cause the problem.  When you have
the log files, please repost your question, along with the log files.

>Thanks in Advance for your time and help
>Best Regards
>S.Ravikiran
>Siemens, India
>E-Mail ; s.ravikiran at blr.sni.de
>
>
>
>

Regards
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