samba digest, Vol 1 #66 - 14 msgs
Rene Di Marco
rdimarco at monoexpress.com
Mon Sep 25 19:14:14 GMT 2000
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I will be back to the office on September 29/2000.
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Today's Topics:
1. Passwords and win3.x (Chris Ison)
2. Samba and default router (Loic Mahe')
3. Re:Samba Dropping Mounts - "Broken Pipe" msgs (Bruce LaZerte)
4. Samba as wins server (Loic Mahe')
5. Samba and Microsoft Excel (Paul Espinosa)
6. URGENT HELP ON SAMBA (Sepehrrad, Ramesh)
7. Out of file structures (Eduard Kumer)
8. Re: Printing problem - I have the same problem... (Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnsel?=)
9. Re: smbfs as root fs (Urban Widmark)
10. Re: Samba Dropping Mounts - "Broken Pipe" msgs (Urban Widmark)
11. SAMBA (Mike Westkamper)
12. Win 2000 shares? (markmc at tisgrafx.com)
13. Re: SAMBA (JONATHAN W MINER)
14. errors from ./configure (Peter Bouton)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:47:04 +1100
From: Chris Ison <ceison at dingoblue.net.au>
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: Passwords and win3.x
I have a network with a mixture of o/s's
I would like to know if it is possable to have encrypted passwords for
the win9x machines and non-encrypted passwords for the rest.
If so how would this look in the config.
Chris Ison
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:28:10 +0200
From: "Loic Mahe'" <mahe at twam.com>
Organization: TWAM Informatique
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: Samba and default router
Hello,
I submit this problem :
I have a local network connected to the ISP through
a Nexland Internet Sharing Box. On each machine, I have
to set the default route (=> IP adress of the sharing box) and
also provide the DNS adresses.
Next, consider a Win95 (machine A) having a permanent
connection to a printer located on another Win95 (machine B).
If machine A starts while machine B is not alive, machine A
makes a DNS lookup to find machine B. I watched this with
tcpdump :
13:18:50.402972 machineA.netbios-ns > ISPprimaryDNS.domain : 48+ A? machineB (34)
This triggers the modem located on the sharing box. Bad thing ! :-(
My question is : can a Samba server help avoiding this problem
(wins server, /etc/hosts including machine A and machine B, ...) ?
Thanks in advance
Loic, Toulouse/France
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:50:53 -0400
From: Bruce LaZerte <mail at fwr.on.ca>
Reply-To: Bruce LaZerte <mail at fwr.on.ca>
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: Re:Samba Dropping Mounts - "Broken Pipe" msgs
>>The "smb_retry: caught signal" problem should no longer occur in
>>2.2.18pre3 or so. You will probably not find a RedHat rpm for kernel
>>pre
>>versions so you may have to compile your own.
>
>Yikes, I've never compiled a kernel before and in this case (from what I
>could see) it requires compiling pre-patch-2.2.17-20 (required for) then
>pre-patch-2.2.18-10 (was the latest I could see) by someone named alan.
>I've been a tech for over 6yrs and I've only just begun to learn linux.
>(slap me silly). :)
>Can those kernels be trusted? And any pointers towards information for how
>I would go about compiling a new kernel without messing up my existing one?
Having just got into this with Mandrake-lInux... I'll jump in here.
First - downloading the latest kernel source 2.2.17, patching it to the latest
2.2.18-pre10 (or whatever) and recompiling is easy. I wouldn't do it on a
production machine the first time, and I would have a good book to walk me
through it (or the kernel how-to - see Linux Documentation Project at
www.kernel.org). But I didn't have any problems, and I've only been using Linux
for a couple of weeks. The hardest part is figuring out which options/drivers
to compile in or leave as modules. Your best guide is probably the
configuration file from your original installation.
Second - Getting Lilo to boot your new kernel is also simple, as is cp to a
newly formatted floppy and booting from there.
Third - But running the new kernel within your existing installation can cause
problems. I believe the RedHat install has around 40 different patches to it's
vanilla kernel. Some of these (e.g. the Alan Cox or AC patches) may be included
in the newer version of the kernel and subsequent patch that you applied. Many
may not. As a result, your installation may not work properly, although you can
probably use it to test the new kernel funtionality and bug fixes.
Fourth - Unfortunately, running the new kernel may screw up your original
installation when you revert to the original kernel. It did in my case. I had a
Mandrake 7.1 installation which has upwards of 170 patches on the 2.2.15
kernel, bringing it to 2.2.15-4mdk. When I rebooted to the new patched kernel,
I was missing supermount and some other functionality, but I could test how
smbfs was working. When I switched back to the original kernel, supermount
still wasn't working properly. I may end up re-installing (not a big deal as
this is not a production machine).
Fifth - it's a great learning experience <g>
Bruce
__________________________________________
Bruce LaZerte
Grandview Lake in Muskoka
Ontario, Canada
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:43:03 +0200
From: "Loic Mahe'" <mahe at twam.com>
Organization: TWAM Informatique
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: Samba as wins server
Hello,
I try to use Samba as a wins server (wins support = yes and dns proxy = no).
I see this error in log.nmb :
process_name_registration_request: unicast name registration request
received for name CRM<1e> from IP 192.168.0.8 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
Error - should be sent to WINS server
CRM is the name of the workgroup.
Any idea about that ?
Thanks in advance,
Loic, Toulouse/France
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Message: 5
From: "Paul Espinosa" <ptech at sunflower.com>
To: <samba at us4.samba.org>
Subject: Samba and Microsoft Excel
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:31:08 -0700
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I'm running Samba 2.0.5a on a RedHat 6.1 on a peer to peer windows network.
I have noticed that trying to open an excel file resident on the server from
a Windows NT client it takes a very long time to open the file (10 minutes
for a 4.9MB spreadsheet). From a Win98 client it does not take this long at
all. I've tried changing the oplocks= setting and the ole locking
compatibility= setting. Neither seems to have any effect. Does anyone have
any advice?
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Message: 6
From: "Sepehrrad, Ramesh" <Ramesh.Sepehrrad at Nextel.com>
To: "'samba at samba.org'" <samba at samba.org>
Subject: URGENT HELP ON SAMBA
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:40:45 -0400
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Can samba work with windows 95 environment or is it just NT?
My server side is solaris 2.7 and my client side is all laptops running
win'95, how do I configure samba in this scenario?
Please write back as soon as possible.
Ramesh
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:47:58 +0200
From: Eduard Kumer <eduard.kumer at rbg42.siemens.de>
Organization: Siemens AG
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: Out of file structures
Hi all,
does anybody knows about the following Error ?!??!
[2000/09/25 17:40:55, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85)
ERROR! Out of file structures
seems to be the max open files problem, am I right ?
We did a research in some news and usergroups and in some answers
it was mentioned, to compile samba with the sfio package to avoid using
the select(3).
Is that right ? Does anybody has any experiences with this ? Has anybody
compiled samba with
sfio? If yes, how ?
We are running Samba 2.0.7 on a Solaris Cluster with Solaris 2.6 and
Clearcase v4.0
any ideas ?
awaiting the community answers ;)
best regards ....
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-(')____, Siemens AG AT BE DI SW3 (W6912/4/G8) N
(` =~~/ Wernerwerkstr.2 Phone/Fax: +49 941 202 5268/5192 I
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:06:29 +0000
From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnsel?= <guensel at zentraldata.de>
Organization: Zentraldata GmbH Leipzig
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Printing problem - I have the same problem...
>... I examined the spool directory for the printer and
> noticed that some of the spool filenames are considerably more descript=
ive than
> I remember them being under the old verion of samba. Jobs from Microso=
ft Word
> (which are the ones I seem to be having problems with) actually include=
the
> filename of the document that was printed. However, these descriptive =
spool
> file names appear to have no way of insuring uniqueness, such that if t=
he same
> document were to be printed again before the spool file was deleted, th=
e spool
> file would be overwritten.
> =
Hi,
I posted a similar problem description some weeks ago (considering the
missing
uniqueness of names of spooled files).
I don't know, it seems that nobody cares about it, but of course it is a
serious
problem. Filenames like 'MicrosoftWord-Dokument1' are far from being
unique...
Even if you move the file away immediately in the printing command
script, it is
still possible to mix up files by overwriting.
Surely, there is a mechanism of insuring uniqueness, I sometimes got
filenames
like ADMINISTRA.2ygSF3, which seems to be created by mkstemp(). That was
from
a win98 box...
I cannot believe that this is a configuration issue, because uniqueness
of
spooling file names should be guaranteed in *any* configuration,
shouldn't it?
Maybe there is another bug-report-mail-address for posting that problem
again?
Thank you very much for any hints...
Christian Guensel
--
Christian G=FCnsel, Zentraldata-GmbH Leipzig
guensel at zentraldata.de
Tel.: 0341/1285041
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:58:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest.se>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de>
Cc: samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: smbfs as root fs
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently trying to write a test installer that is capable of
> extracting the linux distribution (one .tar.gz) to a client computer.
> However, I want this .tar.gz (and libc as well as tar and gzip etc.)
> to be exported from a samba _or_ NT server...
Do you really need to mount a smbfs root for that? A "rescue" disk thing
with smbfs support (or smbclient) would be able to download the tar.gz and
unpack it to a newly formatted partition.
> So has anybody hacked the kernel to accept a smbfs-root filesystem?
Not that I know of.
> Otherwiese I'd have to hack it in myself;)
If your goal is to have a kernel image capable of mounting smbfs as a root
fs then you probably need to look at fs/nfs/nfsroot.c. Putting smbmount
into the kernel is possible, 2.0.x does that, so there should be code to
borrow from there.
You could also boot using initrd, making it possible to have the normal
smbmount/smbmnt program do the mounting.
Then there is the problem with smbfs not actually implementing everything
a normal unix fs does (symlinks, device files (possibly avoidable using
devfs), does swap over smbfs work?, and probably a bunch of other things).
/Urban
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:02:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest.se>
To: auto852 at hushmail.com
Cc: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: Re: Samba Dropping Mounts - "Broken Pipe" msgs
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 auto852 at hushmail.com wrote:
> Yikes, I've never compiled a kernel before and in this case (from what I
> could see) it requires compiling pre-patch-2.2.17-20 (required for) then
> pre-patch-2.2.18-10 (was the latest I could see) by someone named alan.
The "someone named alan" is Alan Cox and he is the maintainer for the 2.2
kernel series and gets to decide what goes in and not.
You don't have to compile 2.2.17pre20 (which is the same as 2.2.17), you
only have to patch it with pre-patch-2.2.18-10 and compile that.
> Can those kernels be trusted? And any pointers towards information for how
> I would go about compiling a new kernel without messing up my existing one?
You should of course not experiment on your production machines. One
problem may be if the kernel you normally run has extra patches not
included in the standard kernels and you depend on those changes.
The pre versions are "steps" from one kernel version to another and
the reason for doing them is to get testing before calling it 2.2.18, so
they may be seen as less safe than a 2.2.x version.
More info:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
You probably want to copy the bzImage to a floppy (cp bzImage /dev/fd0)
and boot from that floppy.
/Urban
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:15:02 -0400
From: Mike Westkamper <mjwestkamper at weiinc.com>
To: samba-ntdom at us4.samba.org, samba at samba.org
Subject: SAMBA
To the SAMBA Team
You have done a remarkable job. With limited support you have done what
very large organizations have only attempted. Like so few others the
rewards you receive are in the use of the product and the faire praise
of just a few.
SAMBA works and we have it on a number of networks. It would appear that
a lot of folks are using SAMBA and have networks working quite well.
There are a number of things it must do to provide full networkability.
One is NT domain controlling.
It would appear that, in some respects, there is a loss of direction. I
certainly hope it is professional disagreements rather than issues of
personality that are causing the visible problems in this effort. I will
assume that the underlying issues are that there is a lot of ways SAMBA
can go and limited resources to get there. If that assumption is valid,
are you interested in a discussion with the "user" community? That
discussion may well include setting priorities as well as meaningful
support from the user community.
You have a real opportunity to make a difference. A product that will
not just replace the current commercial products, but improve on them. A
product that help prevent the subjugation of all networking to just one
vendor.
I for one hope SAMBA will continue to grow and provide all the services
necessary to successfully implement a network albeit small or large.
Mike Westkamper
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:22:42 -0700
To: samba at samba.org
From: markmc at tisgrafx.com
Subject: Win 2000 shares?
Cc: markmc at tisgrafx.com
I've been having problems of slowness and hung processes when working over a
samba connection to a Windows 2000 share. Since there has been no
difficulty with NT 4 or Windows 98 samba shares, it appears possibly due to
a bug.
Do you have confirmation of this, or should I look more closely at other
issues to account for the problem?
Mark McConnell
Technical Imaging Services
Portland, OR USA
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:42:03 -0400
From: JONATHAN W MINER <Jonathan.W.Miner at lmco.com>
Subject: Re: SAMBA
To: Mike Westkamper <mjwestkamper at weiinc.com>
Cc: samba-ntdom at us4.samba.org, samba at samba.org
Organization: Lockheed Martin EIS/SAI
Mike -
You couldn't have said it better.
Mike Westkamper wrote:
>
> To the SAMBA Team
--
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LM-Xpress: jonathan.w.miner at lmco.com
Phone: 603 885 UNIX - Fax: 603 885 3850
USmail: PO Box 868, NCA01-3719, Nashua, NH 03061-0868
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:57:40 -0700
From: Peter Bouton <pbouton at mediabolic.com>
Organization: mediabolic
To: samba at us4.samba.org
Subject: errors from ./configure
Hello-
I am getting the following errors from ./configure. Any ideas on how to
remedy this?
.
.
.
checking for fcntl locking... no
checking for broken (glibc2.1/x86) 64 bit fcntl locking... no
checking for 64 bit fcntl locking... no
checking for sysv ipc... yes
checking for IRIX sysv ipc semun problem using gcc... no
checking for a crypt that needs truncated salt... no
checking for broken nisplus include files... yes
checking whether to use smbwrapper... no
checking whether to use AFS... no
checking whether to use DFS auth... no
checking whether to use Kerberos IV... no
checking whether to use Kerberos 5... no
checking whether to use AUTOMOUNT... no
checking whether to use SMBMOUNT... no
checking whether to use PAM password database... no
checking whether to use LDAP password database... no
checking whether to use NISPLUS password database... no
checking whether to use NISPLUS_HOME... no
checking whether to use SSL... no
checking whether to use syslog logging... no
checking whether to use profiling... no
checking whether to support netatalk... no
checking whether to support disk-quotas... no
checking whether to support utmp accounting... no
checking whether to install Using Samba book...
${prefix}/swat/using_samba
checking how to get filesystem space usage
checking statvfs64 function (SVR4)... no
checking statvfs function (SVR4)... yes
checking if large file support can be enabled
no
checking configure summary
ERROR: No locking available. Running Samba would be unsafe
Thanks,
Peter Bouton
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