[Samba] Samba & Symantec Ghost

[George Farris]

We do this but we have Mars, the netware server daemon running and it
works great.

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:16, Brian Mays wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw this posting by Christopher Robert Woods.  I am having the identical
> problem with Samba on Suse Linux 7.2 (OS/390).  Is there any known
> workaround?
> 
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> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: Symantec Ghost and Samba
> From: Christopher Robert Woods <woodsch at forum-financial.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:29:43 +1000
> Reply-To: woodsch at forum-financial.com
> Sender: samba at samba.org
> 
> Hello all.  Trying to save the lone linux box in the organization.  Any
> help would be appreciated.
> 
> Our desktop support team makes extensive use of Symantec Ghost to make
> images of NT desktops for recovery purposes.  I managed to talk them into
> using our lone linux server as the Ghost repository.
> 
> The way the process works is that you boot the about to be imaged machine
> via a DOS boot disk, then run Ghost off of the network, and choose a drive
> mapped to a share on the linux server as the destination for the ghost
> image.
> 
> To any NT box, the average ghost time takes about 20 minutes.  But to the
> linux/samba machine doing the above takes an hour and a half!!
> 
> I am at a loss as to what to do.  Copying a large file to the linux server
> goes no slower than copying to an NT box.  However Ghost just seems to
> choke when writing to the Samba box.
> 
> Attached below is our smb.conf.  Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
> Please help me stop the EVIL desktop group from getting Linux
> excommunicated from our NT network.
> 
> FWIW, the share that they are trying to connect to is either [Images] or
> [Images1].  Both of which are on different physical drives.
> 
> THANKS!!
> 
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> [global]
> 
>    workgroup = FFG
>    server string = Linux Profile Server
>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>    load printers = yes
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    max log size = 50
>    security = share
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>    local master = no
>  name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>    wins server = 10.0.128.50
>    dns proxy = no
> 
> #============================ Share Definitions
> 
> [Profiles]
>         comment = Temporary space for Profiles
>         path = /ts/profiles
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
> 
> [Images]
>         comment = Image Repository
>         path = /ts/images
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
> 
> [Images1]
>         comment = 2nd Image Repository
>         path = /ts/images1
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
> 
> [Logs]
>         comment = Syslog Logs
>         path = /var/log
>         read only = no
>         public = yes
>         browseable = yes
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Mays - CCNP
> Director of Network Computing
> Boscov's Department Store, LLC
> 3135 Marion Ave.
> Laureldale, PA 19605
> 610-929-7312 (Phone)
> 610-929-7336 (Fax)
> bmays at boscovs.com
> 
> 
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George Farris		                 Computer Support Cowichan
farrisg at mala.bc.ca                    Malaspina University-College

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