[Samba] Samba Variables and TCP/IP Throughput

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

[Samba] Samba Variables and TCP/IP Throughput

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

Re: [Samba] Samba Variables and TCP/IP Throughput

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

Re: [Samba] Samba Variables and TCP/IP Throughput

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

[Samba] Can some files be invisible to some users?

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

[Samba] Problem Restarting Samba3

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

[Samba] Another Samba and Mac OS 10.3 Question

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

[Samba] Networking from Mac-to-Linux Linux-to-Linux

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

[Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP

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

Re: [Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP

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

[Samba] Weird thing with Samba and Final Cut Pro

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

Re: [Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP

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\datafiles

Re: [Samba] Puzzle -- More Logon/Login from Windows XP

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 connections

Re: [Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP

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\datafiles

[Samba] Throughput to a single client

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

[Samba] MAC OS X and Samba Shares 2 TB

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

[Samba] Problem with include=smb.%U.conf

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

[Samba] Why some WinXP machines won't reconnect on reboot

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 Global

Re: [Samba] Why some WinXP machines won't reconnect on reboot

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

[Samba] Stop users from connecting from two machines

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 -- To unsubscribe from this

[Samba] Samba PDC and Windows XP not executing logon.bat

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

[Samba] Roaming Profiles -- Problem Rapidly Switching Users

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

Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles -- Problem Rapidly Switching Users

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

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and Windows XP not executing logon.bat

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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

[Samba] Any danger in having two shares with same name?

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

[Samba] A possible big security issue

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

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.20 and ADmitMac

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

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.20 and ADmitMac

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 --

[Samba] Low Latency and Samba

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.

[Samba] Samba Speed versus Netatalk from OS X

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

[Samba] Admit Mac and Samba

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

[Samba] 2 TB Limit and Windows XP Pro?

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

[Samba] Samba Versions and Latest OS X 10.4.3 Tiger Update

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.

[Samba] Strange Behavior with Read Only files 3.0.20b

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

[Samba] Windows sometimes authenticates with wrong user

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

[Samba] Capturing Quicktime Files into a Samba Share

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

[Samba] Why do windows users see (Samba 3.0) MyNetBiosName?

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 see it?

[Samba] Interaction between wins support = yes and os level = 65

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

[Samba] Why this error? Unable to find Domain Master Browser

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

[Samba] Basic Setup Question

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

[Samba] File Permissions

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

[Samba] Read Write Access to Linux Share

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

[Samba] Oplocks -- Simultaneously writing to same file

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

[Samba] Optimizations for Speed on Gigabit Network

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

[Samba] Is there a buffer or cache setting in samba?

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

[Samba] Second Windows Computer Disconnects First

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

[Samba] Inherited Permissions vs Force/Create Mask

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 actions

Re: [Samba] [OT] Good Gigabit Ethernet Card ...

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

[Samba] Shares of Logged Out Users Still Visible By Next User

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

Re: [Samba] Shares of Logged Out Users Still Visible By Next User

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

Re: [Samba] desktop.ini file appearing in folders.

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.

[Samba] Samba Shares Disconnecting

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

[Samba] Roaming Profiles and Mapped Drives

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

[Samba] Boston Job for Samba Person

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

Re: [Samba] XP Pro and offline files

[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

[Samba] Samba and Group Quotas

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 and b)

[Samba] Documentation on Displaying Quotas

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?

[Samba] Samba and Preallocated Files

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

Re: [Samba] Samba and Preallocated Files

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 file

[Samba] Thursby's DAVE and Symlinks

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

Re: [Samba] Mac/Samba capacity detection problem

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

Re: [Samba] Mac/Samba capacity detection problem

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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

[Samba] 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Samba

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

[Samba] Access Suddenly Cut Off to Samba Shares

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

[Samba] Samba and Multiple NICs

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 if

Re: [Samba] Samba and Multiple NICs

In 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 VLANs

[Samba] Making shares invisible to unauthorized users

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

[Samba] Reconnect to Shares not working

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

[Samba] Samba on Mac doesn't see include shares

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

[Samba] Slightly OT: Making Windows Aps Think Mapped Drives are Local

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

[Samba] Question about new Inherit Owner option

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

[Samba] find_domain_master_name_query_fail

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]

[Samba] find_domain_master_name_query_fail

Sorry if this is a duplicate message. The first one went out as an html mail. This is plain text only. -- 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

Re: [Samba] Re: find_domain_master_name_query_fail

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

[Samba] Samba, DFS and Junction Points

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

[Samba] Strategy for tuning so_sndbuf and so_rcvbuf

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

[Samba] Windows bombarding Samba looking for share that does not exist

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

[Samba] nmbd keeps trying to contact IP Address on wrong network

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

[Samba] Writing files 2GB from Windows

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

Re: [Samba] Writing files 2GB from Windows

. Andrew - Original Message - From: AndyLiebman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: samba samba@lists.samba.org Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: [Samba] Writing files 2GB from Windows Can anybody explain why SOME Windows XP applications have trouble writing files larger than 2 GB

Re: [Samba] OSX losses link when samba is restarted

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] modification time inconsistency

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 touching (changing the mod time) on zero-length files in a folder for the purpose of judging when

[Samba] Re: Windows Application Overriding Samba Settings

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