Ken, What tweaks do you use? Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Dibble Sent: 30 January 2014 15:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Multi-user DBF files on Samba share. >I think there are a few people out there doing this. > >Any recommended settings, known problems or minimum versions of Samba >to use? I've been doing this for 7-8 years without any problems at all. Currently using version 3.x on CentOS. Users on workstation connect to the share via mapped drives. The directory structure has an outer folder that contains all the dbf and related files, and two folders: /backup and /semaphore. Any user with a domain login can read/write to the outer folder but cannot create/delete files there. The inner folders allow full permissions to any domain user so the software can create/read/delete files in those folders. This way I don't have to explicitly grant access to specific users, and disgruntled employees can't wipe out the data. This also works fine for people running my software remotely via a Windows RDP server--no loss of speed whatsoever except for printing. When I first started I used to set oplocks off on the SAMBA server, because lots of people said I should do that. But when I went to a new machine/SAMBA version I didn't bother with that, and I haven't had any problems as a result. Also, at least in version 3, I don't run into the problem with Windows 7 mapped drives being disconnected due to inactivity that people using that OS to connect to Windows servers have reported. (We also use SAMBA to emulate a Win-NT domain. It's not as full-featured as actual Windows NT was, but it does everything I need it to do, and Win 7/Server 2008 and Win 8/Server 2012 boxes just require a couple of registry tweaks to enable them to join the domain.) I love SAMBA! Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
