Re: [Samba] What makes excel file opening so slow??

2007-06-05 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 01/06/2007, at 03:56 , Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Speed doesn't matter so much as latency. Check out some documents on windowing, etc... maybe you can improve the efficiency of your link. http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/tcp-wan-perf.pdf Note you can also set some socket options for Samba,

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-28 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 23/02/2007, at 14:51 , Daniel O'Connor wrote: We have an old Win98 box at work that is used for programming GALs and EEPROMs, however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box doesn't notice. This is rather annoying when you are iterating a design as you can

Re: [Samba] How to I change server=[Samba 3.04.14a-2] to somethin g else?

2005-06-23 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 23 Jun 2005, at 16:12, Geoff Scott wrote: So do I completely restart all smbd processes, or do I have to restart every windows box before the server string (windows title bar) changes? Yes and yes. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] How to I change server=[Samba 3.04.14a-2] to something else?

2005-06-23 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 24 Jun 2005, at 03:59, AWC Lists wrote: BUT, the machine that has already connected to the samba server continues to say Samba 3.0.14-2 even after shutting down the entire network (including samba server). So for some reason the new server string is not being picked up by the first

Re: [Samba] How to I change server=[Samba 3.04.14a-2] to something else?

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 23 Jun 2005, at 10:42, AWC Lists wrote: Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: I want to change the Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-2] being announced to something else. I would like Server=[DataServer] as I do not want the server annoucing to the world it is running samba. How would I do this? I've

Re: [Samba] How to I change server=[Samba 3.04.14a-2] to something else?

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 23 Jun 2005, at 13:13, Geoff Scott wrote: # smbd -V I see this: Version 3.0.14a-Debian but my window titles are showing the old 3.0.7 version. Humph Weird Did you restart the Windows machine in the meantime? I've had continuing problems with Windows (post Windows 98) machines

Re: [Samba] Slow Ms Access in one share

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 17 Jun 2005, at 23:29, Max . wrote: [global] level2 oplocks = No [archivi] path = /home/ei #valid users = +mydomain #write list = @mydomain read only = No guest ok = No #oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = No Why do you have oplocks turned off? You'll

Re: [Samba] Slow Ms Access in one share

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 20 Jun 2005, at 12:20, Jack Malone wrote: I have wondering why you say it would be faster with oplocks on. at our office we have have to let more than one person be able to read the access files, not write but read them ... I must live in a different universe... I can't get decent

Re: [Samba] PGina Samba

2005-03-09 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 10 Mar 2005, at 13:37, Paul Barnick wrote: Does it allow you to use the Linux portion of your computer to act as a DHCP server and assign different IP addresses to the different windows workstations, all on the same computer? Yes. Believe it. The slightly longer answer: VMWare can use virtual

Re: [Samba] ldap smbpasswd

2005-01-31 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 1 Feb 2005, at 03:12, synrat wrote: ... when trying smpasswd -a to add samba attributes to ldap account. it seems like smbpasswd is trying to add an entry ... That is what the '-a' option does - tells smbpasswd to add the account, as documented in the man page. In my setup, if I add a user

Re: [Samba] Re: SAMBA + OPENLDAP - Getent - Please help :)

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 28 Jan 2005, at 01:40, Choudary Mumtaz wrote: Fellows: I am still stuck with getent part. pdbedit -Lv lists all the users. slapcat does list all the accounts and groups. I can query the ldap database using ldapsearch, but getent doesn't give me any output at all.

Re: [Samba] Using an LDAP Directory for Samba Authentication

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 28 Jan 2005, at 16:00, john blair wrote: I want to use an LDAP directory for samba auth. Check the Samba + LDAP howto document on the IDEALX site: http://samba.IDEALX.org/smbldap-howto.fr.html Even if create a posix+sambaAccount, I have to explicitly create a samba user via smbpasswd -a

Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 9 Dec 2004, at 12:07, Michael Lueck wrote: Let's think Linux/Unix here a second. Preference files are stored in the user's home dir. A user can log in (text or X) multiple times, they will always get the same home dir. Thus each login instance will share those config files. The same just

Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 9 Dec 2004, at 16:47, Eric Lester wrote: Furthermore, I set the browser cache limit to 20MB. This is also lockable with the Group Policy editor. The biggest problem for me - by far - is Mozilla storing its cache in the Documents and Settings folder. Rather than fiddle with cache size, I'd

Re: [Samba] Re: A little help with nss_ldap - User xxx in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

2004-11-26 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 27 Nov 2004, at 06:05, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I got lots of gray hair when I compared how hard it is to establish Samba + OpenLDAP, and then MS solutions, even with official documentation. FWIW, I've just given a presentation to the local Linux Users' Group on this subject, based on notes

Re: [Samba] vampire fails because of Debian smbldap-tools problem

2004-11-24 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 25 Nov 2004, at 10:09, John H Terpstra wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 15:30, tom burkart wrote: The other really useful thing I found while looking for the above reference is in the Samba-Guide/happy.html#id2536161 where in the note it says that having separate containers for users and

Re: [Samba] Administrator

2004-10-31 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 29 Oct 2004, at 21:14, darryl penny wrote: I would like to logon to some of the XP Pro boxes as a normal network user, but at the same time be 'Administrator' on the machine. Adding myself to the Administrator's group on the pc has no effect when logging on via the network. Try the Domain

Re: [Samba] Copy from Samba to XP Very Slow

2004-09-20 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 19 Sep 2004, at 05:19, Elijah Savage wrote: When copying or moving files from the Samba shares to any machine on the network it is terribly slow, but copying files from the XP clients to the samba shares are blazing fast and the test has been run with no other network traffic going on. We've

Re: [Samba] Re: Win XP Logoff confusion

2004-09-20 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 19 Sep 2004, at 07:09, Michael Lueck wrote: If domain, then you are authenticated with Samba until you log out. And sometimes, just to be extra cheezy, Windows XP will remember all the shares that were mounted by previous users. So on a shared computer, by the end of the day you will see

Re: [Samba] Etiquette question

2004-09-20 Thread Alex Satrapa
evils, assuming you already knew the definition. Regards Alex Satrapa [1] CAUTION! The jargon file is addictive reading, partly because it's so informative and partly because it's so funny. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http

Re: [Samba] Samba printers print$

2004-07-15 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 15 Jul 2004, at 21:10, samba wrote: From the samba manual I am using SAMBA Essentials it explains to upload the drivers by doing the following: -In the printers folder on the samba server, select server properties -Now Click the drivers tab and click the add button. The way I do it is as

Re: [Samba] My Ldap database keeps on corrupting..please help

2004-07-14 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 14 Jul 2004, at 17:31, Eugene T. Sibala wrote: ... But for sometime now, my ldap database keeps on corrupting for an unknown reason when a lot of my users log in to my PDC... Was this always the case, or did it only start happening at some point in time? What is the nature of the corruption?

[Samba] Logon Path Weirdness?

2004-07-14 Thread Alex Satrapa
or machine name in the profiles share. Am I not reading the documentation correctly, and this is actually the expected behaviour, or is this - as I suspect - anomalous? Hope someone can set me straight! :) Alex Satrapa -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

Re: [Samba] time server.

2004-07-13 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 14 Jul 2004, at 08:44, henrique paiva wrote: I made something that i realy don't know if it's a good idea. I just put ~ a bat file in the startmenu/startup. wich the content is : net time \\server /set /yes it's working fine. but, is it a good idea ? or is better use the [netlogon] way? The

Re: [Samba] LDAP and Domain

2004-07-13 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 14 Jul 2004, at 03:39, Daniel Guerrero wrote: dn: uid=smbportia,ou=People,dc=deimos,dc=danguer,dc=com sambaSID: S-1-0-0-3004 That doesn't seem right to me - for the Windows Administrator, the sambaSID and sambaPrimaryGroupSID should look something like sambaSID:

Re: [Samba] time server.

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Satrapa
] service. If the [netlogon] service specifies a path of /usr/local/samba/net- logon, and logon script = STARTUP.BAT, then the file that will be downloaded is: /usr/local/samba/netlogon/STARTUP.BAT HTH Alex Satrapa -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

Re: [Samba] Port 445 Port 139 banned

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Satrapa
consider compiling IPSec support into your Linux server, and run one of the L2TP servers. This link looks promising: http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html. HTH Alex Satrapa -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org

Re: [Samba] changing usernames

2004-07-11 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 12 Jul 2004, at 03:59, Collen Blijenberg MLHJ wrote: depens... is it her login name that need to be changed ? or some other feeld, ea. fullname, or description.. ? don't forget that home drives and profiles, might to be altert as well.. What problems can people see with this procedure: 1)

Re: [Samba] SaMBa - authenticate Linux machines

2004-07-11 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 11 Jul 2004, at 05:50, Keppler wrote: it is possible a server Samba authenticate Linux/FreeBSD machines? You may be better off using LDAP for both Samba and Unix account logins. This means you can also use an LDAP aware mail server (for example). Some people use winbind where the user

Re: [Samba] Profiles

2004-07-11 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 12 Jul 2004, at 13:31, B.Rumsey wrote: I am able to log into it but windows complains about not being able to find the profile. I have created the dir /var/lib/samba/profiles/ and the users folders. 1: Where can I find the windows default profile? 2: Can this be edited (default win

Re: [Samba] Point and Print

2004-07-07 Thread Alex Satrapa
for everything. To avoid the problem, I used the CUPS Windows drivers instead of the Kyocera ones. Printing still works, I just don't get the kyocera logo all over my screen. http://www.cups.org/windows.php: CUPS generic postscript printer driver for Windows HTH HAND Alex Satrapa PGP.sig Description

Re: [Samba] IE - FF

2004-07-07 Thread Alex Satrapa
and run it automatically (that, or people don't want to confess to their telco that they thought the cracked dialler they'd downloaded would let them call the 190 number for free). Alex Satrapa Australian Phenomics Facility PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Samba] Can't print properly through server, only direct client-printer

2004-07-05 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 5 Jul 2004, at 19:13, Simon Hobson wrote: At 10:32 am +1000 5/7/04, Alex Satrapa wrote: [printers] print command = grep -v '^[0-9]* *VM\?' %s %s-2 ; rm %s ; lpr -P%p -o raw %s-2 What's this supposed to achieve? Looks to me like you're tampering with the PostScript by removing any

[Samba] Possible Bug: Can't copy from Mac OS X to Samba Version 3.0.2a-Debian?

2004-07-05 Thread Alex Satrapa
this weird behaviour can be altered, and who is the most meaningful candidate for a bug report (me, Samba Team or Apple Computer). Regards Alex Satrapa PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions

Re: [Samba] Can't print properly through server, only direct client-printer

2004-07-04 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 3 Jul 2004, at 19:13, Simon Hobson wrote: [printers] print command = grep -v '^[0-9]* *VM\?' %s %s-2 ; rm %s ; lpr -P%p -o raw %s-2 What's this supposed to achieve? Looks to me like you're tampering with the PostScript by removing any line that starts with 'VM?' optionally preceeded

[Samba] XP Point and Print not working Kyocera FS-3830N

2004-07-01 Thread Alex Satrapa
traps I have likely fallen into from following the procedure at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/printing.html#id2551679 ? Hope someone can help :) Alex Satrapa -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

Re: [Samba] Problem on APW Drivers Install

2004-07-01 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 1 Jul 2004, at 19:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Click on New Driver to install a new printer driver (which will start up the APW). I navigate in the tabs and i can't see any options to select a driver from the pop-up list or a « New driver » ... Maybe is this a problem of rights of my

Re: [Samba] Kyocera 680 KX and driver uploads failing - anybody have success?

2004-07-01 Thread Alex Satrapa
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