[Samba] oplocks and Excel
I have a small business client with a new samba file server. It's CentOS 4.2 and Samba samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2. When they save open Excel files from Windows, they are prompted to overwrite the existing file. I mean, when they click the little disk icon or use Ctrl-S or File--Save. Excel would normally just write over the file, not check with an are you sure? prompt. But that's what they get. So I looked into this a little, and although I can't find anyone with this specific issue, I do see that newer versions of Excel create a bit of file-locking trouble for samba. Now, I don't know enough to know whether my problem has anything to do with file-locking, but it seems likely enough. So I have two questions: 1) I find very conflicting opinions on this list, and across the net, about whether to leave oplocks and level2 oplocks on. I have never had to touch them in the past, but most of the places where I've used samba have old versions of Excel and/or OOo. If this place does not use much MS-Access, can I turn off oplocks? Might I expect doing so to help with this prompt-to-overwrite problem? 2) More generally, has anyone else seen this problem before and been able to do anything about it? Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba w/o local users on Samba server?
On 6/6/05, Robert Schuettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, is it possible to have a Samba server without creating local accounts for users on that server? Share level security doesn't count though. ;-) The idea is not to need to create and update users on the Samba server itself (i.e. no local users, no entries in /etc/passwd, etc). The documentation says something about Domain and ADS level security being basically just forms of user level security, so - for the moment- it looks to me as if there's no way around creating those local users. Is that correct? Not quite, but you can save a few steps if you have some easy dynamic way to create maintain the local users. We do linux auth against ADS with a combination of winbind, kerberos, pam_mkhomedir (to auto make the home dir), and pam_mount (to mount/unmount the shares automatically without the user needing root access, and no prior modifications to fstab). With that we have what you want, but it was pretty hard to set up. (I didn't do it--it was our genius network admin doing a ton of reading and a lot of trial and error. But we're not the only ones who've done it.) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba w/o local users on Samba server?
On 6/6/05, Matt Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/6/05, Robert Schuettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, is it possible to have a Samba server without creating local accounts for users on that server? Share level security doesn't count though. ;-) The idea is not to need to create and update users on the Samba server itself (i.e. no local users, no entries in /etc/passwd, etc). The documentation says something about Domain and ADS level security being basically just forms of user level security, so - for the moment- it looks to me as if there's no way around creating those local users. Is that correct? Not quite, but you can save a few steps if you have some easy dynamic way to create maintain the local users. We do linux auth against ADS with a combination of winbind, kerberos, pam_mkhomedir (to auto make the home dir), and pam_mount (to mount/unmount the shares automatically without the user needing root access, and no prior modifications to fstab). With that we have what you want, but it was pretty hard to set up. (I didn't do it--it was our genius network admin doing a ton of reading and a lot of trial and error. But we're not the only ones who've done it.) Oh, I just read John Terpstra's response and realize that the OP was asking about servers. I, of course, described how we do it for clients (linux desktops on an ADS network). So, don't take my advice in this case! (but pam_mkhomedir and pam_mount are really, really cool). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] very slow writes from samba client to samba server
I'm running Fedora Core 3 on two machines; a server and a client. On the server, I have the package samba-3.0.10-1.fc3 installed; I assume this means I have samba version 3.0.10. On the client, I have samba-client-3.0.10-1.fc3, i.e., the same version. On the same network, I have a Windows XP home machine that connects to the same shares as the FC3 client machine. Reading and writing files on the WinXP machine to and from the server works perfectly. Reading files stored on the server from the FC3 client machine also works fine. But when I try to write files from FC3 client to FC3 server, it takes a very long time. Extremely long, like 1mbit/s, and this is a 100mbit/s network. Actually, it takes so long that for a file of any real size (1Mb+) the copy/save errors out before the writing is done. I have googled this issue, and written to fedora-list, but nothing is helping so far. All the advice suggests that this is a master-browser collision problem. So I edited my smb.conf files accordingly (setting the os_level, etc. lower in the client), but that didn't help. Here are my smb.conf files anyway, just in case I've done something wrong. On the server (I've removed all commented lines for brevity): - [global] workgroup = CONCRETE netbios name = ONE server string = Samba Server hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes cups options = raw log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = yes os level = 33 domain master = yes preferred master = yes wins support = yes dns proxy = no idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /bin/false winbind use default domain = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes [Music] comment = Music path = /home/music public = yes read only = no valid users = amy matt writable = yes create mask = 666 directory mask = 777 guest ok = no -- And on the client: --- [global] workgroup = CONCRETE netbios name = MATT server string = Samba Server printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes cups options = raw log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = no os level = 3 domain master = no preferred master = no name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins server = 192.168.1.1 dns proxy = no idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /bin/false winbind use default domain = no - Any advice? Thanks a lot, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
