Windows executables

[Stephen L Arnold]

When the world was young, "Carey F. Cox" <carey at tabasco.lamar.edu> 
carved some runes like this:  

> Are there any special access permissions or parameters that I need 
> to set to enable users to run windows applications that are stored 
> on the samba server? 
> 
> I tried a test yesterday of a program that has a graphical interface. The
> DOS program was executed on a Win95 box, but was stored on the samba
> server under /tmp. It opened up the dos interface and printed out the
> copyright info and then just hung. 

Sorry Dude, there must be something subtle in your config that's 
not quite right.  Dragging simple DOS or windoze apps to a samba 
share and executing them should work fine.  Other people on the 
list even run M$ Orifice from samba shares (or so I'm told; I've 
never tried it myself).

When something like that *didn't* work for me was back when I first 
started running samba, and was caused by a windoze TCP/IP parameter 
mismatch.  I ran across the hint in the Speed.txt files.  It had to 
do with the RWIN setting on the windoze client being on the wrong 
side of a "threshold" value.  Doubling RWIN cured it.  YMMV.

Hope this helps, Steve


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Stephen L Arnold                      http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
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