[Samba] samba replacing novell

[petre at kgb.ro]

hallo, please see answers below

> Does the application create temporary files?  Or does it try to create
> temporary files?  Can you configure the app to use the local client hard
> drive for temporary files.    I found that some MS Office Apps do funny
> things with file permissions that are more likely to show up on a Samba
> server (mapping NTFS to Unix permissions) than on a Windows file server
> (native NTFS.)

the shortcuts for the app use start in = network path and running
directory = c:\ (used for tmp files)

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> What version of Novell Netware?  Were you using IPX/SPX or TCP/IP?  Where
> you using the Netware client from Novell or the one from Microsoft?

the workstations had the novell netware client installed on (version 4 if
I am not mistaking) and the server was from around '96-'99

> Are you using a UNC path (e.g. \\myserver\share1) or drive mappings to the
> network share (e.g. P:  is mapped to \\myserver\share1.)

there is a script ran from startup which states something like

net use r: \\ip.add.re.ss\share /persistent:yes /USER:\user password

I have my reasons not to have a domain deployed there

I had a windows 2003 server installed as a virtual machine and will test
tomorrow if the behaviour is the same

I would like to keep the samba deployment, though ...

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> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:56 PM
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> Subject: [Samba] samba replacing novell
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> hallo
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> I have decomissioned an old novell netware serving as fileserver for a
> foxpro app with a samba virtual freebsd machine under vmware esxi
>
> all works ok (time of response when browsing folders, throughput at
> speed tests, etc), except the following foxpro related issues which I
> could not solve in the  last week:
>
> - - when ran from LAN, the app randomly freezes from time to time
>
> - - when ran from a remote location (connected via openvpn), the app takes
> a very long time to open, and when searching for records it takes more
> than 2-3 minutes to display the results of the query (even though other
> tests have shown the connectivity is ok and file transfer is as fast as
> the line allows) - this happens even if this workstation is the only one
> accesing the fileserver
>
> this behavior appeared only after switching from novell to samba
>
> the question which would summarize this situation would be "what exactly
> did the novell netware for the foxpro app which samba does/cannot do?"
>
> I have tried with
>
> level2 oplocks = no
> oplocks = no
>
> added IPTOS_THROUGHPUT to socket options
>
> and the same result
>
> testparm output is below
>
>
> thank you for your time,
>
> petre
>
> ##
>
> [global]
>         workgroup = SOME_WORKGROUP
>         server string = fileserver
>         security = SHARE
>         map to guest = Bad Password
>         guest account = conta
>         client lanman auth = Yes
>         log file = /var/log/samba34/log.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         socket options = SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 TCP_NODELAY
>         dns proxy = No
>         wins support = Yes
>
>
> - --
>
> Petre Bandac
>
> Network Scientist
>
> - -
> petre at kgb.ro
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