Re: [Samba] excel files
Lyndon, I had a similar problem in a large m$ environment I worked within. This was a few years ago, but I seem to recall the fix was upgrading to the 2.2.7 or higher. I too at the time was using 7.3. The other application I found which will burn you when using earlier versions of samba is Frame Maker. It may be a locking issue too. The contents of your config would help determined what the issue is. for what it is worth I have to date upgraded several in production samba servers from 2.2.x to 3.0.1 without any show stoppers, these are servers serving out several gigabytes of data a day, others handling thousands of requests a day (excel sheets, db, static images etc..) take care. g Davies, Lyndon wrote: I've set up a red hat linux 7.3 server running samba 2.2.3a. Windows clients often freeze when opening excel files stores on the server. Any ideas? Thanks Lyndon Davies Information Systems Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 8871 6569 = IMPORTANT: Confidentiality: This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this e-mail and highlight the error. = -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- UNIX is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Very Large Offsite Backup
Have you taken a look at rsync? rsync.samba.org it can do lots of nifty things, such as bandwidth limits, diff backups, etc.. take care, g Joe Wojnas wrote: I put a Samba server in small office (6 users) that has 1.5 Terabytes of storage space. They are unique in that they need the space because they do a lot with video, but with the limited amount users I went with an IDE solution. I am a little worried about physical damage to the equipment and trying to come up with some way of doing an offsite backup. Their office is in a very industrial area. I was thinking about clustering, but I was wondering how effective that would be over the Internet. Thanks for you help! Joe Wojnas -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Traffic going to wrong interface?
assuming you are using linux: Have you tried the below GLOBAL setting? interfaces = 172.16.92.245 This asks samba to listen on that interface only, I don't know if it will also force samba to use this interface as the source for any outbound connections. Making the gigabit interface your primary interface may also work. You might be able to kludge this from within the /etc/modules.conf file if you are using modules to drive the cards. alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 e100 Then there is the route method. you can add static routes to the client. Host routes are honored over network routes. I'd use this as a last resort, it seems wrong. route add -host 172.16.92.245 eth0 I have a few more but I think one of these might work. good luck with it. peace. Andrew Athan wrote: If I connect via \\gige.ethernet.address\foo , and copying a large file, windows reports outbound traffic on the gige port and return traffic on the 100Meg port. Thus, it seems the samba server sees the client-server traffic via gige but is responding via the slower interface. Not what I want. -- UNIX is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] can not overwrite files but can delete.
What I should have mentioned but failed to, was this is an intermitting problem (a developers favorite kind I'm sure). What's worse, and this just sounds so so wrong; doing a 'copy paste' will produce the error more often than doing a 'drag and drop'. Perhaps it is just coincidence, but i get the feeling it is not. We discovered this when I had asked the user to demonstrate the problem to me as I had not been able to recreate it. He came over and did a copy/paste whereas I was dragging and dropping the same files from one window to another without issue prior to having the user demonstrate the procedure he uses. 3-6 times out of 10 copy/pasting will throw the error. (Cannont copy file3.bat: Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and filename.) 1-2 times out of 10 drag/drop will throw the error. For the above error here is the getfacl info is as such (note in this case the user is the same owner of both the target and source): source: # file: 381 backup scripts/file3.bat # owner: matc # group: users user::rwx group::rwx other::r-x destination: # file: ./file3.bat # owner: matc # group: users user::rwx group::rwx other::r-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If users cannot overwrite their OWN files, it is probably a default acl gone wrong or an overly-restrictive creation mask. If users cannot overwrite files other users write, then it's probably the opposite (you need a loose default acl, or a generous force create mask). These particular users all have the same GID on UNIX and are part of the same group on the windows end of things as well. There has been no modifications of the extended ACLs intentionally. Showing any lines in smb.conf that affect file/directory mask or acl's would be useful, along with the output of getfacl [filename] for one of the files in question. [global] workgroup = SANNET netbios aliases = ENTROPY server string = ENTROPY security = DOMAIN obey pam restrictions = Yes password server = loki pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* unix password sync = Yes log file = /opt/samba/log/%m.log max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 23 preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No [array] path = /export/array browseable = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes force create mode = 0775 force directory mode = 0775 oplocks = yes We never had a user complain about this while using versions of samba prior to 3 (for the last 4 or 5 years). Thanks! greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] can not overwrite files but can delete.
XFS file system, SAMBA 3.0.0 with acl enabled, kernel 2.4.21. Users can create files, can delete them but can not overwrite them. what should I check to see whats happening here? thanks! greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] veritas / samba
Hi- Does samba 3.0 and Veritas's VFS work well together in terms of ACL support? We currently use XFS but will be bringing a large Veritas file system online shortly, I'd like to know if I'm getting into a potentially painful situation or if I can expect an easy ACL migration. thanks people, greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] can delete files but not overwrite
Hello- I have users complaining since we deployed samba 3.0.0 that they can not overwrite existing files. I'm not sure if it was the change to 3.0 which is the problem as other chages also happened during this migration (security=DOMAIN from security=SHARE, XFS file system, new kernel). The clients can delete, rename, and move the file, but they can not update it. All users are in a common primary unix group and the file has its group bits set to this group. Any idea what I might want to look at to resolve this? linux system running rh9, samba3, kernel 2.4.21-xfs. Here is the smb.conf contents. thanks again folks! greg [global] workgroup = SPINCYCLE netbios aliases = AXIS server string = AXIS FS security = DOMAIN obey pam restrictions = Yes password server = ZEN pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* unix password sync = Yes log file = /opt/samba/log/%m.log max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 23 preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No [array] path = /export/array browseable = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes force create mode = 0775 force directory mode = 0775 oplocks = yes -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] tracking user actions
Eric, et al. We have been able to identify the user moving folders around, thanks to the help provided from the list. Thanks for the help folks, greg -- UNIX is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] tracking user actions
Hello, We have either a disgruntle user or one who is inadvertently moving/deleting files. This has been going on for some time now and I'd like to learn who it is so we may go speak with her/him. How might we go about logging file/folder moves/deletes? Increasing the log level in smb.conf does not seem to provide the information we are after. Changing file perms/ownership/groups is not an option in this case at this time. Thanks for your time, greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] tracking user actions
Adam Williams wrote: Thanks Adam, The module actually does not work as I had expected. Nov 18 16:20:00 mercury smbd_audit[15738]: opendir . Nov 18 16:20:00 mercury smbd_audit[15738]: rename ./New Folder - ./two Nov 18 16:20:00 mercury smbd_audit[15738]: opendir ./ Perhaps I need a flag to turn on host name logging? I don't see this covered in the PDF. I could tail the log and grep the PID from the output of smbstatus upon seeing a rename, but this seems a bit clunky. thanks again, greg Perhaps the Audit VFS modules as documented in the Samba HOWTO Collection PDF. -- UNIX is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
