Re: [Samba] Linux Compression
I think he is referring to a compressed filesystem and not jsut using tar to compress a directory. AKA, every time a file is read from that directory, it is uncompressed and handed out. If it is saved tot he directory, it is compressed and asaved, btu the end user doesn't know it. He sees the normal file. Adam LangSystems EngineerRutgers Casualty Insurance Companyhttp://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: Rodger Haynes To: Jennifer Crusade ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Linux Compression Not really a Samba question, but do a google on tar+linux and gzip+linuxJennifer Crusade wrote: Hello, I know there are utilities that allow you to use compression for Linux file systems to zip upfiles. I was wondering if there is anything that allows you to specify a share and have everything under that share be compressed. In Windows you can specify any file, folder or entire tree to be compressed andany newdata that is added will be compressed on the fly.Is any version of Linux capable of this? If so which ones and where is the information regarding this. Thanks in advance! Jennifer Crusade GTESS Corp. CCNA, MCSE W2k\NT 4.0, MCP +I
Re: [Samba] How Samba let us down
That was uncalled for. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: tim smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:23 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] How Samba let us down err are you asking for help, or just wasting our time? sounds like you have a big job ahead of you tonight setting up that NT machine better get that out of the way before telling us your life story like that - Original Message - From: Chris de Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: [Samba] How Samba let us down Before you read this, I want to state (for reasons listed below) that I don't expect an answer (advice is welcomed, but please read this email carefully before answering). I'm sharing this with the community with the hope that better software results from our sad experience... BACKGROUND I've been using NT for 4 years, Netware and Linux for 3 years, and Samba for almost 2. I work in the IT department of a medium-sized unit of a global advertising company. We have a Netware and NT environment with a bit of Linux. We installed a 280GB IDE Samba archive server (rare usage) and a 15GB SCSI Mac/Samba file server (medium usage). We also use Samba for more menial tasks like smbmounts and file transfers. We thought we were comfortable with Samba. We knew we were comfortable with other types of file servers. OUR SETUP Going from my tired memory: Athlon MP 1.8GHz (mem=nopentium) 2GB ECC SDRAM Tyan S2460(I think?) Antec 450W PS Lots of cooling 5 IBM DeskStar 120GB drives with 8MB caches in RAID 5 3ware 7580(I think?) 8-port hardware RAID 3ware hot-swappable drive cages Intel e1000 Gigabit NIC, full duplex, 1000MBit, autonegotiation off 3com Gigabit switch, autonegotiation off RedHat 7.3 Kernel 2.4.19 with ACL support ext3 with ACL support Samba 2.2.5 with ACL support installed from a recompiled SRPM from the samba.org FTP site. Winbind NO nfs daemon (I hear it's buggy w/ ACLs) We have a variety of clients, from DOS and OS/2 to Windows (9x-2000) and Linux. The server acts as a print spooling area (the actual queues are on an NT server) and scratch area for database programmers to manipulate their flat database files. As far as I know, these files are not commonly accessed by more than one user at a time. THE PROBLEM For the past year, our heaviest-used Netware server has been under more and more stress.. filling up, running out of licenses, slowing down, etc. Preliminary tests using Samba on a fast Linux box showed anywhere from 70% to 1000% speed improvements, depending on the task. The decision was made to switch it to Linux; the whole company is migrating away from Netware and we (as a unit, not speaking for the company) don't want to be completely trapped into Windows if we can help it. The new hardware arrived and more preliminary tests indicated all looked good. We were set to switch last Saturday night. We turned off logins to the Netware box, backed it up, restored it to the new Linux box, set permissions, then made sure the various computers in the building could log in. Yesterday, our first day, was rough. For most of the day we fought random slow browsing with no explanation. Clients would appear to lock up for several seconds. We found some misconfigurations in smb.conf but the problems reappeared. No errors were seen in any machines' logs on debug level 2. I trimmed the smb.conf to a minimal number of options and that seemed to help with the slowness. Today, however, the problem reappeared a few times with no errors in the logs that we could see. The printers were missing some of the records sent to them to print, something that had never happened with Netware. Every time the missing records were different. Occasionally, it would work right. Oplocks (kernel, level I and II) were left to defaults (turned on). THE OUTCOME Sadly, tonight we are installing a Windows NT server. Installing a brand new server is actually cheaper for us than the 8 or so hours of downtime to back up the server, install NT on it, and restore the data to it. We don't want to revert to Netware because so many clients have been reconfigured to log on only to the domain (DOS, OS/2, etc.) and that would require many more hours reversing those changes. Also, some files have been added since leaving Netware. We also decided to proceed to use NT because is more proven in this capacity. CONCLUSION To be fair, the problems could be related to some misconfiguration. I have pasted the smb.conf below. I fear it might just be an oplock problem, but it is not clear what would result if more than one user
[Samba] Roaming Profiles, My Documents and XP
Hello, I successfully joined an XP machine to my Samba PDC. When looking at the profile folder on the samba server for the user (which I had to create manually. Is there a way this can be done automatically?) I saw the My Documents folder was copied up. I was thinking this was cool because people would have their stuff stored on the server and wouldn't have to teach them anything different. One problem I thought though was if they have like a gigabyte of documents. Would this mean it would have to download all of that before it would finish booting? Also, I created a folder in the My Documents folder and copied some files into it to see if it copied up, it did. I went to delete it and it cleared out. I logged off and back on and files inside the deleted folder were gone, but the folders returned. Is this a problem or do I need to fix something? I have no problem going back to a login script to set a home directory for a mapped drive, but apparently the login scripts for win98 machines aren't same for winxp (location ways), but I will look into that. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles, My Documents and XP
you the man thanks What I ended up doing was adding those two configs to smb.conf liek recommended. Then I went into gpedit.msc and turned off roaming profiles. Works good. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: Bradley W. Langhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles, My Documents and XP On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:14, Adam Lang wrote: Hello, I successfully joined an XP machine to my Samba PDC. When looking at the profile folder on the samba server for the user (which I had to create manually. Is there a way this can be done automatically?) I saw the My Documents folder was copied up. I was thinking this was cool because people would have their stuff stored on the server and wouldn't have to teach them anything different. One problem I thought though was if they have like a gigabyte of documents. Would this mean it would have to download all of that before it would finish booting? that's true only if you keep my documents in the profile... instead you should redirect my documents to their home directory that way all their docs stay on the server. Also, I created a folder in the My Documents folder and copied some files into it to see if it copied up, it did. I went to delete it and it cleared out. I logged off and back on and files inside the deleted folder were gone, but the folders returned. Is this a problem or do I need to fix something? this won't be a problem if you redirect my documents I have no problem going back to a login script to set a home directory for a mapped drive, but apparently the login scripts for win98 machines aren't same for winxp (location ways), but I will look into that. you don't need a logon script to do this... just configure samba to do it. with logon drive = H: logon home = \\yourserver\%U brad -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Fw: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members)
Had to modify because the list rejected it because out -- of -- office was detected in the message,. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: Adam Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members) Well there is a further catch. The first reply toa post, if you do a reply to all, it will grab the sender and the list address. Then the next reply can do a reply all and they will get the list address. The problem arises when someone just does a reply and it goes directly to the sender. A reply all won't help. You have to manually type the list address back in. The reasons lists are set up this way is to prevent loops. Say person A goes on vacation and sets an autorespond message to anyone that sends him email. He gets sent an email from the mailing list. He autoresponds back to the list saying he is out --- of --- the office. The list forwards that message to everyone in the list, including person A. Person A hen autoforwards, again, his out --- of office message, which gets distributed to the list and back to him, etc. Several mailing lists have means to deal with that so you can have the list address as the default reply to. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: Yura Pismerov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members) Eric wrote: On 10/18 10:24, Yura Pismerov wrote: should consider setting up reply-to-list option. I'd like to know what people think about it... When I hit reply it goes to Yura. There should be a reply-to-list but I'm not sure how to set that up in mailing lists. So probably (my theory), people need to know their MUA and a list-reply (L in mutt). Well, hitting reply-to-all in any MUA will do the trick, but this is not something regular users usually care about. -- Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Yuri Pismerov, Sr. System Administrator, TUCOWS.COM INC. (416) 535-0123 ext. 1352 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members)
You all are overlooking his point. The point he was raising is that he believes a lot of people are NOT hitting reply all and just doing a reply back to the message sender, so a lot of answers are not going to the list. He is not saying he can't reply to the list. he is saying since the default of just reply is to the message sender and not the list, a lot of messages are not making it back. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: Rashkae [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] something wrong with the list (or its members) Reply to all usually works rather well with any and all MUA's Of course, people who are direct recipients have to suffer receiving two copies of the message... (And how I feel for their horrible pain and inconvenience.) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Samba as a NT PDC
Hello, I have had Samba running for a long time now as a domain controller to win98 computers with no issues. I have started to modify to allow for the new XP machines we are having. I added CARTER$ (machine name) to the unix account. I added it with smbpasswd. I go to add itself to the domain (smbpasswd -j CHERRY_HILL) and I get this error: No password server list given in smb.conf - unable to join domain. Now it says password server should not point to itself in TFM. I tried lookign through the archives and didn't find anything. I am not sure what direction to go from here. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Fw: [Samba] Samba as a NT PDC
Ok. To let you know, my source was Samba Unleashed (copyright 2000). Page 343 and 344 is what told me that I needed to add itself to the entries and to its own domain it is running. I'll remove the entries and see how things work. Thanks for the help. Apparently it is because the book I am using is wrong. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com - Original Message - From: John Benedetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba as a NT PDC --On Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:51 AM -0400 Adam Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CARTER is the name of the linux Samba server that is the PDC. According to my documentation, I am suppsoed to do the following. 1) Create the Unix account: /usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Samba PDC for CHERRY_HILL' -M -s /dev/null CARTER$ 2) Add a machine account smbpasswd -a -m CARTER 3) Add it to the domain (which it is the PDC of) smbpasswd -j CHERRY_HILL I am NOT adding an XP machine in at this time. I am setting up the PDC. So yes, I DO know what the -j option is for. Well, I don't think you DO know what that -J is for... Look, if the Samba machine is the PDC for your domain, you DON'T USE the -J option; that is only if the Samba machine is going to be a MEMBER SERVER into an existing WINDOWS-RUN domain (a domain with a 'real' Windows PDC). You say that Samba is the PDC, right? And, if the Samba machine is the PDC of it's own domain, it doesn't appear in it's own smbpasswd file (at least mine doesn't). Perhaps it might help us to help you if you posted your smb.conf file (because we are definitely missing some vital piece somewhere of what you are trying to do). - john -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
