Looking for a solution to this problem. I have Googled all over the
place but haven't found a definitive answer.
I have a Samba Server that ONCE was on a network where there was SECOND
Samba Server with IP Address 192.168.20.3. Today, the FIRST server is
on a network with an address range 10.0
I have a strange problem and I'm hoping that somebody on the list
recognizes what it is.
I am running Samba 3.0.23d on a Linux box with 2.6.20.15 kernel.
I am connecting from 5 or 6 Windows XP SP 2 boxes.
There is a share on the Linux box called "Music" (Note the UPPER CASE
"M"). The share is
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:14:19PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
On Thursday 21 June 2007, Carlos Knowlton wrote:
I have a client with a windows utility that relies on "touch"ing (changing
the mod time) on zero-length files in a folder for the purpose of judging
whe
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We run Samba 3.0.24 on a FC5 and RHEL4-AS systems. Works great with
windows clients, and OSX clients work great with it too except for one
problem:
Whenever I restart samba (with /etc/init.d/smb restart) any OSX client
that has a samba share open will lose that connec
ort stops at 4 GBs with a similar error.
Andrew
----- Original Message - From: "AndyLiebman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 12:21 PM
Subject: [Samba] Writing files > 2GB from Windows
Can anybody explain why SOME Windows XP applicati
Can anybody explain why SOME Windows XP applications have trouble
writing files larger than 2 GB (or sometimes larger than 4 GB) to Linux
Samba shares, when OTHER Windows applications on the same machine do not
have difficulty writing large files to the same Samba share? And when
the underlyin
Oops, sorry. I had a typo in my posting. I wrote:
Until this new version of the Windows application came out, I never had
any issues. ANY folder or file created by the application always had
the same permissions: 2750 or 570 (respectively)
I should have written:
Until this new version of the
Sorry in advance for the long post. But this is a bit of a detective story.
We are having an authentication issue with a small number of Windows XP
(SP2) machines. The Windows machines are set up to have only a single user --
let's say the user is called "Writer". There is no password set up
I haven't had a chance to look at the list very carefully for the past few
weeks, so I apologize in advance if I'm asking a question that has recently
been discussed. I seem to recall there has been some discussion about a
similar
situation to the one I am in.
My situation is that I am hav
Hi all on list,
Just thought some of you would like to know how Samba interacts with
Apple's latest Tiger OS X 10.4.3 update. With this new OS version, the
native, built in SMB/CIFS client seems to connect perfectly to Samba
3.0.13 and 3.0.20b. It DOES NOT connect at all to Samba 3.0.14a.
If
Does anyone know if Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2) will have difficulty
using a Samba share that is larger than 2 TB?
Windows seems to be able to read and write from a share that is larger than
2 TB -- for instance, Windows will tell me that a share is 4 TBs in size, and
if I have 1.5 TBs
Hi Jerry,
I sent you some information about AdmitMac a few days ago -- about where to
download it. I don't remember what you were specifically going to check out
about AdmitMac, but I'm having a problem with it and Samba 3.0.20b that I
never had with previous versions (a least up until 3.0
Does anyone know why, when transferring data via Gigabit Ethernet from OS X
to Linux (or vice versa), you get about 50-60 MB/sec with Samba 3.0.X (all
versions I've tried, the rate depending on whether you use Jumbo Frames) but
you get about 105-110 MB/sec with Apple File Sharing Protocol an
I'm trying to optimize some servers for "low latency" and "low jitter". Do
you have a reasonable ideas about specific Samba options that might affect
those attributes?
In specific, I'm wondering about the "socket options". I would think
"TCP_NODELAY" would be helpful in reducing latency.
In a message dated 10/14/2005 11:20:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| There IS a trial version. You can use it for 30 days, I believe.
Download URL ?
_http://www.thursby.com/evaluations/admitmac.html_
(http://www.thursby.com/evaluations/admitmac.html)
Andy
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In a message dated 10/14/2005 9:23:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I'm not able to browse the network let alone join
| the OSX machines to the domain. Samba is v3.0.20
| running on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. Macs are running
| OSX v10.3.9 and are fully patched. I've t
Hi,
I am using a mix of Samba 3.0.13 and 3.0.20 on Linux (basically, Mandrake 10
and 10.2). I haven't tested this yet on the 3.0.20 machines, but on the
3.0.13 machines I'm seeing something very disturbing.
I have set up a number of shares which are accessible only to members of the
grou
Are there any tried and true strategies for tuning so_sndbuf and so_rcvbuf
settings?
In my particular application -- using a Samba server for video editing -- we
have seen significant differences in performance when we changes these
values. For instance, we need to set so_rcvbuf higher than
Hi Samba List,
I believe I need to create a "Junction Point" on a Windows XP Pro machine
that will seamlessly link up to a Samba Share on a Linux Server.
>From my understanding, the creation of a "Junction Point" will hide from an
application the fact that the "space referenced by that ju
In a message dated 7/18/2005 9:44:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please post a copy of your smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = PUBLISHERS_GROUP
netbios name = Aristotle
server string = Aristotle
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
Sorry if this is a duplicate message. The first one went out as an html
mail. This is plain text only.
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Can somebody tell me what this error means? It seems I get tons of them
every day in
my Linux /var/log/messages.
Jul 14 20:49:
Can somebody tell me what this error means? I get tons of them every day in
my Linux /var/log/messages, it seems.
Jul 14 20:49:38 localhost nmbd[3584]: Unable to sync browse lists in this
workgroup.
Jul 14 20:49:38 localhost nmbd[3584]: [2005/07/14 20:49:38, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:
Apparently there's a new "Inherit Owner" option for smb.conf that allows you
to configure Samba to set the owner of a new file or directory based on
owner of the parent directory. That seems like a very useful feature!
My question is, does "Inherit Owner" also work when you MOVE a file from
Sorry if this is slightly off topic for the Samba list, but if anybody knows
the answer to this
question, it's probably a Samba person...
Does anybody know if there a way to make Windows XP think a "mapped network
drive" is a "local drive", or at least get Windows to report to all
applica
Do anyone have any experience using 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections with
Samba? Specifically, if you have had such an experience, can you share what
sorts of optimizations you made to get the maximum data transfer between
server
and workstation?
I am just experimenting with this kind of s
Glad I could help :)
In a message dated 3/24/2005 2:50:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried the quota option, that did the trick!
thank you!
Carlos
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Your problem is the following...
OS X 10.3.x can't cope with seeing Samba shares that are larger than 2 TB.
If the Mac sees anything larger, in the "info" listing on the share, it will
tell you the true size (i.e., 2.8 TB), but then it will tell you there is 0
space left.
Don't get me
Does anybody here have any experience with Thursby's DAVE and symlinks on a
Samba Server?
When I connect to my Linux Samba Server via DAVE (running on Mac OS X
10.3.8), I can see all the links that I have made to files that reside in
other
directories on the Linux Server. However, Mac OS
I recently upgraded from Samba 3.0.2a to Samba 3.0.11. I didn't change
anything in my smb.conf file.
But Now, when a user logs on to my Linux server and access a Samba share, in
the log file for that machine there is always a message repeated twice:
[2005/03/16 05:40:23, 0] printing/print
In a message dated 3/15/2005 1:00:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:31:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A question about capturing videos to a Samba share...
>
> When Apple's Final Cut Pro captures video files, it pre-allocates fil
A question about capturing videos to a Samba share...
When Apple's Final Cut Pro captures video files, it pre-allocates file space
on the destination volume.
If you capture to a local volume that's physically attached to a Macintosh,
or if you capture to a network volume via AFP (Apple Fi
Hi John (and others on the list)
Can I suggest that you add some information to the new Samba docs explaining
how to make Linux (or I suppose other Unix) group quotas be reflected in My
Computer and/or Explorer when a Windows user accesses a share that is
supposed to controlled by a quota?
Question:
Does Samba (3.0.11 and above) support the use of group quotas?
I have set up quotas on my Linux box based on "Linux groups". A given "Linux
group" gets "X GBs" of space on a given volume "V".
Now, I want Windows XP users who map a share that a) belongs to their
"Linux group"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
All:
Not sure if this is an XP Pro issue or a samba issue.
I am running v3.0.3 of the samba server acting as a Domain
controller and file server. The problem that I run into is that every once
in a while, while connected to the network
Hi,
We don't know the following is forbidden material on this list. We hope not.
We're looking for a Samba/Linux Networking Consultant in the Boston area who
can help us with a number of issues, among them:
-- migration to Samba 3.11
-- cross subnet browsing
-- adding router capabilities
Hi,
I have a weird problem with a Linux Server acting as a PDC with Samba 3.02.
If I map a particular Samba share as the "Z" drive -- and I use roaming
profiles with a logon.bat script -- the share will NEVER automatically
reconnect
when logging on again. This happens 100 percent of the
Hi Samba list
We have about 40 Linux Servers in use at various locations. All are running
Samba 3.02. On some of the servers, we seem to be experiencing periodic
disconnection of Windows XP client machines to their Samba shares (BTW, some
are
Windows SP1 and some SP2).
In a couple of case
In your smb.conf file, in the [profiles] share, add the line:
"hide files = /desktop.ini/
Regards,
Andy Liebman
In a message dated 2/15/2005 2:41:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi, i have the lastest stable samba running as a PDC in a home network
environment.
In a message dated 2/4/2005 12:14:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
writes:
Andy,
Please show us how you have configured the [homes] stanza. Are you using
"valid users = %S" in the stanza?
- John T.
Hi John,
Actually I don't use HOMES directories. And I am not using the "valid u
Hi.
I'm running Samba 3.0.2 (a?) on Linux. For the most part, it's working
great. I have set up Samba as a PDC and also just as a workgroup server.
However, under both scenarios I'm seeing a troublesome behavior with Windows
XP machines that have many users who frequently log on and log off.
Hi,
Don't ask why I'm posing this question -- actually, I WILL explain below --
but is there any danger in having two shares in Samba with the same name?
Here's our situation. We have a bunch of production machines out in the
field. On those machines, we are constantly setting up "special pro
The "guest ok = Yes" line proved to be the secret to getting Windows XP to
execute the logon.bat file. Thanks for the suggestion!
Nowhere in any Samba documentation have I found that mentioned. It should be
in the book.
Thanks again,
Andy Liebman
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Here is the log from /var/log/samba/[machine name].log. It seems to imply that
it takes Samba about a minute to finish closing all the connections for the
user who just logged out on a machine -- and therefore a new user can't log on
and access his/her roaming profiles until the logging out/clos
Does anybody have any insight into what could be causing this strange
problem? I have Samba 3.02 (sorry, can't upgrade right now). My Linux box is
running
Mandrake 10 Official. I have Samba configured as a PDC.
I can successfully add machines to my Domain -- and log on as ANY user from
ANY ma
I have spent most of the past 24 hours reading various samba docs and
searching google for help -- but can't find a solution. Suggestions and
solutions
would be appreciated.
I have set up a Linux Box (Samba 3.02) as a PDC with roaming profiles. (I
haven't upgraded, because this box is a model
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if there is a relativelysimple way to prevent users from
connecting to a Samba server from more than one machine? Do you have to use a
preexec script? If so, could someone give me a complete example? I would
appreciate it.
Andy Liebman
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The machines are pretty much identical. Most have XP SP1. One has SP2 (but it
HAS the reconnecting problem like many of the SP1 machines, so it's not
specific to either Service Pack).
I get the same red X over the network drives on many of my Windows XP
machines, and when I click I too get acc
Hi Samba list.
Here is my scenario. I have 10 Windows XP machines that use a Linux box as a
file server. Running Mandrake 10 (more or less), 2.6, Samba 3.03. We have
hundreds of individual shares defined -- but users only see their own shares
(we
use the "include=smb.%U.conf" setting in Globa
Hi,
Does anybody know why Windows clients can see shares that are defined by the
"include=/etc/samba/smb.%U.conf" option in but Mac OS X and Linux Samba
clients cannot see those shares?
In other words, I have a bunch of users. Each user has a set of his/her own
unique shares on my Linux ser
Does somebody know if the Samba Client in MAC OS X (10.3.4 and 10.3.5) has
problems looking at Linux-based Samba shares that are larger than 2 TB?
I have Samba 3.0.2 running on my Linux box. I have never had any difficulty
with the Mac seeing a 2 TB RAID array on the Linux box, but when the Mac
I have a Linux Server (3.06 Xeon) with a very fast RAID array -- reads at
around 500 MB/sec as clocked by Bonnie++. I have 6 GigE nics on my machine -- on
two 133Mhz PCI-x bus segments (not on the same bus as the RAID drives)
I have noticed two puzzling things and I'm wondering if anybody has a
>In a message dated 9/30/2004 1:55:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Long answer: a limitation of Windows is that when you connect via SMB to
>
> a remote server, all connections to that server must use the same
> credentials. If you are connected to \\sambaserver\data
In a message dated 9/30/2004 9:41:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, AndyLiebman
writes:
>In a message dated 9/30/2004 1:55:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Long answer: a limitation of Windows is that when you connect via SMB to
>
> a remote server, all conn
>In a message dated 9/30/2004 1:55:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Long answer: a limitation of Windows is that when you connect via SMB to
>
> a remote server, all connections to that server must use the same
> credentials. If you are connected to \\sambaserver\dataf
Does anybody have a clue why, when I access my Linux Samba server from a Mac
G5 (OS X 10.3.x) and try to capture digital video files, the Apple Final Cut
application -- in allocating disk space for the file it's about to capture --
actually writes to the hard drive for a long time (presumably wr
> In a message dated 9/29/2004 6:20:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
Thanks for the reply
>> So my question is, how can those 100 users logon to the Samba server from
ANY
>> workstation without having an account on the Windows XP workstation that
>> matches their user
I hope somebody can help me with this. I posed this question a week ago and
got several well-meaning answers that were not very helpful.
I have 10 Windows XP workstations and 100 users. Each of the 100 users has an
account on my Samba server (running Samba 3.03 on Mandrake Linux 10).
Each us
Hi.
Can someone tell me why I'm getting this error (see below) in my daemon error log
every hour? In my smb.conf section, I have my Linux box set to:
wins support = yes
os level = 65
This message occurs even when all Windows workstations are shut off, so it must be
something with my samba co
I'm a little unclear about something. I want my Linux box to be the Local
Browse Master -- so that the machine that's "on" all the time is the one that
other computers look to.
Is it correct that I want in my Global Settings:
wins support = yes
os level = 65 (or some higher number)
And shou
Can anybody tell me why most, but not ALL, Windows XP users on my network see
my Linux server listed in the network browser as:
"(Samba 3.0) MyNetBiosName"
instead of just
"MyNetBiosName"?
And why, over the course of the day, the computers that see the extra "(Samba
3.0)" sometimes don't se
I'm hoping somebody can explain why I'm having this peculiar problem
capturing quicktime video files with Final Cut Pro (running on OS X 10.3.4) and
storing them on my Linux server.
The Linux server has both Samba 3 and Netatalk 1.6.4. I have the server set
up so that I can connect from the Ma
I'm having an annoying problem.
On my Linux Server (with Samba 3.0.3) I am using the samba option of
'include = /etc/samba/smb.%U.conf'
so that users mostly only see shares that specifically belong to them.
This approach works perfectly on Windows XP workstations. After a user logs
onto the
I've just reconfigured my Samba 3 setup so that Windows users basically only
see shares they are supposed to see when they browse the Samba server through
Explorer.
At the suggestion of others on this list, I used the "include =
/etc/samba/smb.%U.conf" feature and create a "smb.username.conf"
Hi,
Is there a simple way to set up Samba so that users ONLY see the shares that
belong to them?
I'm not talking about the user's HOME directory. But lets say I have 60
shares in my smb.conf file. To make it less confusing for users when they access
the Samba server from Windows, I want the
I>n a message dated 4/4/2004 11:13:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >writes:
>Andy,
>I'd have to say you've got yourself a bit of a conundrum. Basically at
>this point, if you want to double the capacity your server can output, I
>would recommend segmenting your network into two VL
Hi,
I'm a happy Samba user. I've been working sucessfully in Linux for the past 6
months. I've built a Linux Server with very fast storage and I'm connecting
it to many Windows XP "video editing workstations" via Gigabit Ethernet (all
NICs using Jumbo Frames, by the way).
Now I want to see i
Hi.
I'm hoping some samba genius has a clue about what's happening on my system.
I am using Mandrake 10 "Community Release". It comes with Samba 3.0.2. I have
been using it without problems for two weeks, and before that I had Mandrake
10 betas and Release Candidates running on the same machi
I have 10 machines in my office. A Linux server. Mostly Windows clients. And
a couple of Mac G5s. Can anyone give me an informed opinion about the best way
to access a Linux file server from the G5 Macs? They're running the latests
OS X 10.3 (Panther).
I'm using Mandrake 10 (based on the 2.6.3
I have a different Samba and Mac OS 10.3 question. I have a small network in
my office with a Linux box acting as a file server, mostly Windows XP clients,
and a couple of Macs. When I create Samba shares on the Linux box, I have no
problem getting my Windows XP users to be able to read and writ
I have Samba 3.0.0 installed on Mandrake 9.2. I also have Samba 2.8.8a
installed per instructions from Mandrake -- but I do NOT start Samba 2.8.8a
automatically. In fact, I don't use it at all. Maybe I should uninstall the Samba
2.8.8a rpm??? I will update to 3.0.1 as soon as an rpm is available
This may or may not be relevant to Samba -- hiding files, permissions, etc.
I have half a dozen Windows XP video editing workstations all accessing the
same data on my Linux Box. Each video editing worstation ideally would like to
create it's own index of the video files in the shared directory
So, here's the answer to the puzzle... I did as "Per" suggested -- set the
so_sndbuf and so_rcvbuf to 65535 each, as well as read size and max xmit to the
same. And low and behold, the throughput between my Windows XP box and my
Linux Box's Firewire RAID 5 arrays went from around 20 MB/sec to a
Thanks for the reply. Do you know (and if so, caan you tell me) what the
relationship is between these Samba settings and Linux settings such as
net.core.rmem_default (or _max), net.core.wmem_default (or _max), net.ipv4.tcp_rmem
and
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem. Do the Samba options override the Linux so
Hi,
Sorry if this is a duplicate message. I forgot whether or not this list
accepts html posts so I am sending it again as a plain text message.
I am trying to optimize my gigabit network. I have two Intel 1000 MT Gigabit
Server Adapters, which support Jumbo Frames -- as well as a Switch that
Hi,
I am trying to optimize my gigabit network. I have two Intel 1000 MT Gigabit
Server Adapters, which support Jumbo Frames -- as well as a Switch that
supports Jumbo Frames. However, I am observing some strange behavior in my file
transfers from Windows XP to Linux and I am wondering if it h
I'm doing well with the Linksys 32-bit "instant gigabit" card. .It's cheap --
like $ 70 US -- and based on a National Semiconductor Chip for which drivers
are included in at least RedHat 9 and Mandrake 9.2. My only complaint is that
the Linux drivers don't seem to support Jumbo Frames (although
I have written to this list several times. I purchased the Officia SAMBA 3
How-To and Reference Guide (and read much of it). But I can't get a good answer
to my question.
I'm trying to figure out the difference between "inherited permissions" and
"force/create mask/directory", and other action
Hi,
I'm setting up a Linux machine to use as a file server for a small group of
windows machines.
Like many of the folks who write to this list, I'm having all kinds of
difficults getting the Windows machines to be able to access the Linux shares.
In my case, the most frustrating thing is t
Hi.
Can anyone tell me if samba has any settings that determine how much data
gets cached or buffered in RAM before being written to the computer's hard
drives?
I'm having a strange problem and I suspect that the explanation has to do
with that kind of setting.
I am using a Linux system (P
Can anyone tell me if the default installation of samba 2.2.8a (on Mandrake
9.2) will give me the optimum throughput over my Gigabit Network?
I realize that there are many things that affect throughput on a network
(like the TCP/IP Receive Window, for instance -- or using a standard MTU of 1500
On my small network, I allow users on 6 Windows machines to read and write
the same Linux Share. Can anyone tell me whether the smb.conf file listed below
will get me into trouble with users opening -- and possibly writing -- the
SAME FILE simultaneously?
I have read the documentation on oploc
Hi,
I need to allow all users on my small network (6 users) to be able to read
and write on my Linux Share "raid_A". So far, I have been partially successful.
By forcing samba to use the same username regardless of who is actually
logged on (see smb.conf file below), I can make the owner of a
I have set up Samba so that all users on my small network can read from my
one of my Linux shares as well as write to that share.
However, when user A saves a file to that share, user B can't open it -- and
vice versa. How can I set up samba so that all files written to that share can
be read,
I have been struggling with SAMBA for about a month now. Wow, as a Windows
user it's really infuriating trying to use SAMBA to put a Linux machine in my
system. This is clearly the most frustrating aspect of Linux, in my opinion.
All I want to do is make my Linux machine behave like any other W
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