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Today's Topics:
1. Samba upgrade (Gerry Maddock)
2. two newbie questions (Pupeno)
3. disregard Samba Upgrade (Gerry Maddock)
4. suscribe (Marino Chimal)
5. samba 2.05a on debian (Alex King)
6. NT logon failure (bruce.milani at amd.com)
7. netattach, CIFS (Adam Sleight)
8. Samba Woes (darry goodridge)
9. Re: samba 2.05a on debian (Ries van Twisk)
10. OSX server please Help (Helpdesk Support)
11. a couple questions relating to windows 9x machines connecting to
linux (Michael Chan)
12. passwd program not executed (Gottfried Scheckenbach)
13. Q: shutting down W98 remotely (Harald Milz)
14. request for papers aboput Samba->ClearCase (NorbertM)
15. Multiple nmbd for one computer (Michel Marcon)
16. Windows 95 Problem (The Prototype IS the product!)
17. Problems mounting smbfs-filesystem (Herzog AG)
18. semiphore timeout expired error (TPsmith at ixl.com)
19. VMS to UNIX Samba ? (bhm at daimlerchrysler.com)
20. Printing from NT to SAMBA: are 10 seconds ok? (rwagner at zeunastaerker.de)
21. Samba speed question (YJ Hong)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:18:28 -0400
From: Gerry Maddock <gerrym at futuremetals.com>
To: "samba at samba.org" <samba at samba.org>
Subject: Samba upgrade
Hey quick question: I just upgraded Samba 2.05a to 2.06-9, from the Red
Hat RPM. The upgrade created /etc/smb.conf.rpmnew and
/etc/smb.conf.rpmsave and erased /etc/smb.conf. Do I still need a
smb.conf file? I havent checked out your latest updates, so I figured
I'd ask. Either way I still copied the rpmsave to /etc/smb.conf b/c I
figured it still needs to be there.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:40:27 -0300
From: Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com>
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: two newbie questions
-I would like Windows 98 clients to read user.dat (user.man?) from the
profiles directory on the server... in the texts I´ve read it appear to
be done automaticaly, but I copy my user.dat and user.man to the server
and my W98 doesn´t read it.
Do I have to configure something on Samba ? or on my Windows 98 ?
-I would like to know if there is any way to specify which user can log
in in which computer, is it posibly ?
Thank you.
Pupeno
PS: Thank you to the developers of Samba, you´re doing a great job!!!
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:39:33 -0400
From: Gerry Maddock <gerrym at futuremetals.com>
To: "samba at samba.org" <samba at samba.org>
Subject: disregard Samba Upgrade
Disreguard my last......
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Message: 4
From: "Marino Chimal" <machius at hotmail.com>
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: suscribe
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:46:50 CDT
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:10:14 +1200
From: Alex King <alex at milton.king.net.nz>
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: samba 2.05a on debian
Yes, the potato (latest stable) debian package of samba will not run with
2.0 kernels. I assume you are running the slink (previous stable)
distribution. There are three options I would consider, all invlolve using
the potato samba package (which handles W2K).
1. Upgrade your entire system to potato, then install a 2.2 kernel. This
is probably the easiest, because the packaging system will tell you what
configs you need to look at and update.
2. Upgrade only the packages that are affected by the kernel change, then
install a 2.2 kernel. This is a more conservative option.
You will need to research what packages need to be updated to handle the
2.2 kernel (there used to be a list on the debian web site somewhere)
3. Stay with the 2.0 kernel and all your current packages, but download the
potato samba source package and recompile it for your machine. (I have the
idea that the package will cleanly compile on a slink system, but I don't
really know - you are on your own with this.) You will need to work out
the debian compiling and packaging system (quite complex but very nice once
you understand it) and work out what development packages are needed to
compile it. This option requires the most work, but is the most
conservative option.
I would reccommend the first option though, if you try to maintain an older
system you will run into other compatablity and security problems....
> From: Juha Pesonen <jp at grenwill.com>
> Organization: Grenwill Oy
> To: samba at us4.samba.org
> Subject: samba 2.0.5a and win2000
>
> Hello,
>
> I have tried to get samba 2.0.5a on Debian Linux (kernel 2.0.36) working
> with window$ 2000 Professional clients, but browsing in win exploder
> doesn't work. win98 works perfectly so the problem must be in some
> security issue that's different in w2k. The win2k client sees the Linux
> box ok in the network nh, but that's it.
>
> If I give absolute path (net use x: \\linuxbox\sharename) to net use
> command I can mount samba shares. net view \\linuxbox gives 'System
> error 1727' and 'remote procedure call failed and did not execute'.
>
> First time after reboot w2k client asks for password but after entering
> one the same error message comes up.
>
> I've also tried the newest samba release, but then nothing works, not
> even with win98 (due to kernel version ??). Putting the registry update
> into win2k (enable plain password) and changing the encrypt password =
> no in smb.conf doesn't help.
>
> The linux box running samba is also WINS server for our network, isn't
> nmbd the one who's responsible of browsing functions in samba?
>
> I think the problem is not with name resolution because wins works fine
> with all our windows machines. Only protocol we use is TCP/IP.
>
> Thanks, Juha
>
>
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Message: 6
From: bruce.milani at amd.com
To: debian-user-request at lists.debian.org
Cc: samba at samba.org, rask-samba at kampsax.dtu.dk
Subject: NT logon failure
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:22:50 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"
All,
I am having a bit of a problem. Our samba works perfect, but on the NT side
I am getting the following error and was wondering if anyone had any
experience with this situation that could help me to fix it. The error is
being picked up by NT and I have a policy that after 10 retry it locks up
the account. Does anyone have any idea. Any help will be appreciated.
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: BMILANI
Domain: ZIBRA
Logon Type: 3
Logon Process: KSecDD
Authentication Package: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Workstation Name: \\LABRADOR
Thanks,
Bruce
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:05:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Sleight <mrbass at japan.com>
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: netattach, CIFS
http://sourceforge.net/foundry/storage
There is a link to nettach rpm which I installed on Red Hat pinstripe. I
downloaded VA Linux 6.2.3 iso and attempted to install it but it bombed
right away during install. I wanted to try installing EXT3 for journaling,
oh well. Perhaps it was cuz I was using a SCSI cdrom..who knows. This is
the software they use for their new NAS 9205 SE $30,000 unit.
So what the heck does this have to do with SAMBA? For people who only wish
to use their server as a file server appliance (CIFS, NFS, AppleTalk) with
user and group quotas it's makes it easy to use and administer.
http://<ipofserver>:8080
username: netarray pw: netattach1
My problem is everything seems to work in configuring it except one MAJOR
problem. It won't let me configure the Gateway device which should be eth0.
ifconfig shows only lo is up...so put in the ip info again and then ifup
eth0 and ifconfig and it shows everything. I can control it remotely on
port 8080.
I have a 3COM 905b network adapter and it says it works with:
Intel 10/100
NetGear/Alteon Gigbit Ethernet
(Any Linux-supported NIC should work)
but perhaps it's only those three network adapters above.
Anyone else want to try this out. It's really simple just install the
netattach rpm about 250K, netatalk, sudo and samba 2.0.7. I already had
nfs-utils installed. Then reboot.
open netscape http://127.0.0.1:8080
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Message: 8
From: "darry goodridge" <darrgood at mindspring.com>
To: <samba at us4.samba.org>
Subject: Samba Woes
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:35:03 -0400
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I am a novice,attempting to use samba for the first time.
My aim is to get my linux machine to join an NT Domain consisting of a =
PDC, an NT workstation,and a windows 98 machine.Ultimately, I want to =
share files and a single printer with this machine and to access the =
internmet via the NT SERVER,whch incidentally already acts as a proxy =
for my other machines.
So far I have assigned an IP address to the Linux machine and can =
successfully ping all the other machines.
My questions I guess are numerous,but are all borne from this:
Should I begin by installing Samba on the NT server(this machine =
serves as a PDC,AND GATEWAY TO THE INTERNET)? Or,is samba to be =
installed on the Linux machine?And,precisely,what is my next step toward =
attaining my goal?
And,my gateway runs Acer's SYGATE Server software.
Can some one help?
Darryl
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I am a novice,attempting to use samba = for the first=20 time.
My aim is to get my linux machine to = join an NT=20 Domain consisting of a
PDC, an NT workstation,and a windows 98=20 machine.Ultimately, I want to
share files and a single printer with this = machine=20 and to access the
internmet via the NT SERVER,whch incidentally already = acts as=20 a proxy
for my other machines.
So far I have assigned an IP address to = the Linux=20 machine and
can successfully ping all the other = machines.
My questions I guess are numerous,but = are all borne=20 from this:
Should I begin by = installing=20 Samba on the NT server(this machine
serves as a PDC,AND GATEWAY TO THE=20 INTERNET)? Or,is samba to be
installed on the Linux = machine?And,precisely,what=20 is my next step
toward attaining my goal?
And,my gateway runs Acer's SYGATE = Server=20 software.
Can some one help?
Darryl
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Message: 9
From: "Ries van Twisk" <ries at franksintl.nl>
To: Alex King <alex at milton.king.net.nz>, samba at us4.samba.org
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:31:44 +0200
Subject: Re: samba 2.05a on debian
Reply-To: riest at franksintl.nl
The easyest way for me was just install the potato version of Debian.
But I have compiled my own version of samba (2.0.7) just to make
cups working which is not enabled by default in samba 2.0.7 Debian.
Ries
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Message: 10
From: Helpdesk Support <helpdesk at chromasonic.co.uk>
To: "'samba at lists.samba.org'" <samba at us4.samba.org>
Subject: OSX server please Help
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:08:19 +0100
I am a Mac support engineer who is learning unix the hard way (on his own)
if there is anyone with experiance that can help I would be gratefull. My
email address is
william at chromasonic.co.uk
I promise not to bombard you with too many requests.
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:27:03 -0700
From: Michael Chan <mikeyboy at uclink.berkeley.edu>
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: a couple questions relating to windows 9x machines connecting to linux
Hi, I've set up samba on my linux machine, and managed to get it shown
on our campus network.
However, I've run into a few problems:
1) I don't know what password it's asking for when I try to connect from
a windows machine. I suppose it relates to that computer's user name,
but how is this username determined?
2) (relating to #1) I'd like to set a single password for all
connections as Windows does with shared folders. Is there a way to do
this?
3) When _I_ try to connect to other computers using smbclient, I have to
type in the ip address of the computer in order to connect. Typing in
just the \\\\computername\\share doesn't work, i have to add -I a.b.c.d
to work...
If you can help me out, please do, thanks.
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Michael Chan
email: mikeyboy at uclink.berkeley.edu
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:10:59 +0200
From: Gottfried Scheckenbach <gottfried.scheckenbach at xtelligent.de>
Reply-To: gottfried.scheckenbach at xtelligent.de
Organization: Xtelligent IT Consulting GmbH
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: passwd program not executed
Hello, I'm totally new to the list - please excuse if the topic has been
discussed in the past. We use Samba 2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.2.0. Samba is
configured as PDC and all is working well, only the syncronisation of
the unix password doesn't work. The trace of the by smbd executed
external programms showed, that the passwd program is not executed.
Using passwd chat debug shows that the chat hangs after "calling" passwd
and waits for input which never comes. A test with an other shell script
doesn't worked too. Has anyone some ideas? Help is very welcome! Thanks.
Gottfried
http://www.xtelligent.de/team/t_gosc.htm
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Message: 13
From: Harald Milz <milz at seneca.muc.de>
Subject: Q: shutting down W98 remotely
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Organization:
Reply-To: h.milz at seneca.muc.de
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:10:01 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,
I've set up a W98SE box which I would like to back up from a Linux cron job
without running the box all the time.
- waking up via WOL works fine.
- shares to be backed up are accessible
- smbtar works fine
- but how do I tell the crappy box to shut down afterwards?
TIA!
--
"I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday
life."
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:26:01 +0200
From: NorbertM <NorbertM at axioma.co.at>
Organization: Axioma Information Systems GmbH.
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: request for papers aboput Samba->ClearCase
Hi,
I'm an (Rational) ClearCase "newbie" and in our company
we are workin on a Linux Server. We will set up Samba,
an Rational tells me that i can found papers for this
purpose on Samba.org, but I can find it?
Can you help me??
thx
Norbert
------------------------------------------------
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Axioma
Solutions for Success
Tel. 0732 / 66 00 71 - 557
e-mail: norbertm at axioma.co.at
home : http://www.axioma.co.at
ICQ: 62858364
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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:39:14 +0000 ( )
From: Michel Marcon <cmic at cetu.equipement.gouv.fr>
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: Multiple nmbd for one computer
Hi
On a Linux Workstation Apache is configured as 2 virtual servers. The
machine has 2 NICs : 172.21.36.52 and 172.21.36.86
/etc/hosts with these 2 entries; Samba V 1.9.16p11
The ps command shows this :
....
423 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
424 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
473 ? S 0:56 /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -I 172.21.36.86 -n i7u -D
475 ? S 1:01 /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -I 172.21.36.52 -n jazz -D
477 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
480 tty1 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
485 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
...
However, thru Windows (without any hosts file), when I ping i7u,
172.213.6.86 replies OK, but if I ping jazz the same IP 172.21.36.86 shows
up ??
Any hint ? cmic
==================================
Michel Marcon Sysadmin UNIX & WNT
===================================
Ministere de l'Equipement CETU (Centre d'Etudes des Tunnels)
Web site http://www.equipement.gouv.fr/cetu/
Tel +33 (0)4 7214-3408 Fax +33 (0)4 7214-3430
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:04:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Prototype IS the product! <warren at sniff.shr.dec.com>
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: Windows 95 Problem
Cc: warren at sniff.shr.dec.com
Folks;
I'm sure someone has seen this.....
It seems that when using Windows 95 to connect to our Samba UNIX machine
the only thing that can be viewed is the top level. All files at the top
level and all folders, when clicked on, come back with an error message.
Example:
Find Computer sniff
Click on sniff icon
Displays public (read only) folders and private folders
Click on a public folder (name = subsys)
Displays folders and files available in subsys
Click on folder:
"The folder "\\SNIFF\subsys\firmware" does not exist
Click on text file:
Cannot find the file "\\SNIFF\...........
I'm running samba-2.0.7
This only seems to happen on Win95 systems NT and 2000 seems to work
fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Warren
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Message: 17
From: "Herzog AG" <herzog at herzog-ag.de>
To: <samba at us4.samba.org>
Subject: Problems mounting smbfs-filesystem
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:52:21 +0200
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I got a problem mounting a smbfs-Shares from a windows 95b machine to my =
LINUX-machine.
The kernel seems ok (Version 2.2.14, SMBFS-Support is included as =
modul).=20
Using the ftp-like program smbclient is working with the shares on the =
Window-machine.
The mount-command seems to work, but after that X-Window-System and =
LINUX are "Freezing": Nor mouse or keyboard are working, Restart is only =
possible by pressing RESET-Button. KDE-logon-Window shows some =
Kernel-errors I don=B4t understand. Freezing occurs after changing =
directories with cd-command or a filemanager. Problem occurs also, when =
working without X-Window-System.
Maybe someone can help me? If further informations are needed, just tell =
me...
A. Schmitz
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I got a problem = mounting a=20 smbfs-Shares from a windows 95b machine to
my = LINUX-machine.
The kernel seems ok = (Version 2.2.14,=20 SMBFS-Support is included as =
modul).
Using the ftp-like = program smbclient=20 is working with the shares on the
Window-machine.
The=20 mount-command seems to work, but after that X-Window-System and
LINUX = are=20 "Freezing": Nor mouse or keyboard are working, Restart is
only = possible by pressing RESET-Button. KDE-logon-Window shows some=20
Kernel-errors I don´t understand. Freezing occurs after changing=20
directories with cd-command or a filemanager. Problem occurs also, when =
working=20 without X-Window-System.
Maybe someone can help me? If further = informations=20 are needed, just
tell me...
A. Schmitz
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Message: 18
From: TPsmith at ixl.com
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: semiphore timeout expired error
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:22:47 -0400
charset="iso-8859-1"
I have a Samba 2.7 running on a Solaris, and things work fine, and then all
of a sudden, it's not working and when I try to connect to the samba share I
get a, "semiphore timeout..." error. Any ideas?
T. Paul Smith
Sr. Systems Engineer
iXL, Inc.(Atlanta)
404-267-7873
tpsmith at ixl.com <mailto:tpsmith at ixl.com>
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Message: 19
From: bhm at daimlerchrysler.com
Subject: VMS to UNIX Samba ?
To: samba at samba.org
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:30:07 -0400
Andrew
G'day, I am the Systems Manager/Analyst for VAX operations here at
DaimlerChrysler Corporation, and have some
questions concerning Samba. Hopefully you can enlighten me.
We have a rather larger customer group (our impact/crash analyze
group) that wants to migrate data from our VAX
archive to a SGI server.
Our configuration on the VAX's (2 clustered) is as follows:
OS: VMS 6.2
Hardware: 2x VAX 7820's (2 CPU each)
Network software is: Process_software's TCPware 5.3
Data is stored on a Storagewerks SW500 drive towers, and tape
(maintained by MTI's Autostor Archive).
Our problem will be to move large amounts of data (2 million + files, 200
gig??) from tape (StorageTek - VAX Silo's) to the SGI
server. At present we have tried:
NFS.... SGI servering/VMS client --
problems: 1) having ownership and quota problems. ie:
MTI> archive restore [impact]*.* $3$nfs1:[impact]
2) slow - 2.6 million block file (1.2 gig) took
5.25 hours
Novell.. SGI client/VMS serving - TCPware FSS software,
emulates Novell 3.1 servers
problems: 1) disconnects (Corporation is Novell 5x, and we
old 3x bindery)
2) file names limited to 8.3 format... most files
in groups area are bigger then that
FTP... SGI serving/VMS client --
problems 1) requires a holding area on VAX to restore files
to, then FTP out to SGI.. means more
slow down in operation
2) files will have to have a header corruption
that has to be corrected with a
set file/attrib=(rfm:fix,lrl:32256) filename
occurrs moving a VMS file from
pc/unix to VMS
So in short, could Samba in some format give us the solution we need
(migrate straight to the SGI without staging)?
thank you
Bruce Miller
ps... we do have excellent Pizza places down the road from here, but they
don't deliver beyond 4 miles!
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Message: 20
From: rwagner at zeunastaerker.de
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:51:16 +0200
Subject: Printing from NT to SAMBA: are 10 seconds ok?
Hi all,
we try to print from NT to SAMBA 2.0.7 (AIX 4.3.3). But it takes 10 seconds to
complete.
I tried to debug the problem, and found the following
- I started to print on my NT workstation at 12:41:03
- the first debug records was at 12:41:10
What happens during the missing 7 seconds ??
TIA
Reinhold Wagner, Zeuna Staerker GmbH & Co. KG
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Message: 21
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: YJ Hong <yj_hong at yahoo.com>
Subject: Samba speed question
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Cc: yj_hong at yahoo.com
Hi All,
I'm currently working on a feasibility study of using
Samba as video server which
allows the MPEG videos on the Linux server to be
mapped out as network drives
on Window 98 clients, and then to select & play back
these video files by
multiple clients concurrently.
My experiment so far showed smooth playback when the
source MPEG is of about
450Kbits/s, beyond that I've tried MPEG of 1.2Mbits/s,
and experienced delays
during playback, i.e. a 5 minutes MPEG would take
nearly 10 minutes to finish play,
with jitters inbetween. The test of file copy from the
Samba mapped drive to the
Window's local disk showed about 1.2Mbits/s transfer
rate.
My samba installation is from the latest release, I've
also edited the "smb.conf" to
include most of the recommended tuning according the
"Speed.txt" document
included in the release. It looks like either some
network configuration on either
the Windows client side or the Linux side were not
optimized, or that I'm having
a crappy Linux box (it's a Compaq Presarrio 5522 with
64MB RAM, ...)
Specific questions that I have are:
1. Using the "ifconfig" showed that my eth0
interface's MTU has maximum upper
bound of 1500. When I changed the MTU down to 600, the
samba transfer
really slowed down terribly. So, I'd assume that
getting improvement on MTU
can help. Is it that I need to get a better Ethernet
card to have a better MTU?
Or that MTU 1500 is the limitation generic to Linux?
2. On the same clinet/server pair a ftp test showed
about 2.2Mbits/s transfer rate,
which is not too exciting either for the two only
machines on a 10BaseT
connection. Could it be that I'm having full/half
duplex setting problem on
either the Windows or the Linux side? How to check it
out?
3. Or, the Linux server is simply too weak for it. I'd
like to have the Linux Samba
server serving up to 8 (eight) Windows clients for
retrieving of MPEG-1 files
(1.2Mbps to 1.5Mbps bit rate MPEG-1) CONCURRENTLY and
hoping to have
all 8 MPEG-1 files played back smoothly. Certainly I'd
need to switch to 100BaseT
support on the Linux box side, what about the CPU, RAM
and disk configuration?
Specifically:
3.1 How good should the CPU be? Would multiple CPU
Linux help in this case?
3.2 What's the main memory minimal requirements?
Considering the Samba
supporting up to 8 concurrent clients?
3.3 RAID probably can help to improve the disk IO? Any
recommendation on
cost-effective RAID configuration for Linux for this
purpose (I'd assume that
RAID3 is good for large chunk mostly read-only)?
My sincere thanks in advance for any kind advice on
any of the above questions
from anybody.
Cheers, YJ Hong
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