I went to the site to subscribe again and ended up watching some of
Jeremy's Google interviews. I particularly enjoyed the interview with
James and the bow tie lesson at the end. :)
So anyway, I recently upgraded my home network to end-to-end GbE. My
clients are Windows XP SP3 w/hot fixes, and
On 9/5/2012 9:23 AM, Sam Bulka wrote:
Stan Hoeppner stan at hardwarefreak.com
Samba is not MS Windows. Just because a feature exists in MS Windows
does not make it basic translated expected in other platforms. If
you were a long time Samba/*nix user and switched to MS Windows you'd
have
On 9/1/2012 2:52 PM, Sam Bulka wrote:
When a partition mounted to a shared by Samba folder is dismounted,
Mount/unmount is performed on filesystems, not partitions.
Samba keeps sharing that empty folder. It creates a security hazard,
since files can still be saved to that empty folder, and
On 4/10/2012 8:17 PM, Harry Jede wrote:
On 03:06:34 wrote Stan Hoeppner:
On 4/10/2012 9:36 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:55:14AM -0500, Chris Weiss wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Volker Lendecke
volker.lende...@sernet.de wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:26
On 4/8/2012 8:08 PM, Azerty Ytreza wrote:
Hello,
I have a little problem which I can't solve with Samba used under Debian
Squeeze. (version of Samba : 3.5.6)
I made a transfer speed between Samba server and a samba mount on the same
PC copy to RAM and the same file directly to RAM.
1.
On 11/21/2011 1:51 PM, François Legal wrote:
In my company, we have 2
distant facilities, with people at each facility working on the same
files.
The 2 facilities are connected through MPLS with about
10MBytes/s BW.
Saving the work files to servers located at one or the
other
On 8/23/2011 11:27 AM, starli...@binnacle.cx wrote:
Hello Samba Team,
Have a W2K8 not-R2 (NT6.0) server that compiles code
served from a CentOS 5.6 server running Samba 3.5.5
over an Infiniband link.
Works nice but an 'imake' step that grinds through
every source file several times takes
On 8/9/2011 1:53 AM, Edward Hari Purwonugroho wrote:
Dear all,
I have problem when trying to connect samba file sharing from win 98
but it successfull using win xp and linux.
Samba server is member domain of windows 2003 active directory.
Samba server using Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS 64 bit,
On 8/7/2011 1:26 PM, Al Schapira wrote:
What is the result when you map a Samba share from the Windows command line?
1) The result of trying to add a share on XP is as follows:
Add a network place --
Select a service provider --
Choose another network location -- next
On 8/6/2011 9:15 AM, Al Schapira wrote:
Stan,
Please reply-all as your message didn't go to the list. There are folks
far more knowledgeable than me who are watching this thread, waiting to
hop in after all the grunt work is out of the way.
Thank you for your reply. Searching for computers
On 8/5/2011 7:59 PM, Al Schapira wrote:
I would really appreciate suggestions. Thanks.
Where do I start to solve this?
Here's a novel idea: check your logs, on both Linux and XP hosts.
In addition, what is the result of?
1. Right click on My Network Places
2. Select Search for Computers
On 8/4/2011 1:11 PM, vg_ us wrote:
cifsfs mounts are really slow, so what happens when linux, windows and
mac clients map/mount the share? Are they gonna be this slow? Any way to
speed it up?
Unfortunately I don't have an answer to the slow mounts issue. However,
you're showing a peak
On 8/1/2011 7:50 PM, Gilles wrote:
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:22:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner
s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
After you change ownership to www-data:www-data, use chmod to allow
desired users to write the directory. Without this step only the
www-data user can write.
Thanks
On 8/2/2011 8:41 AM, Gilles wrote:
On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:11:49 -0500, Stan Hoeppner
s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
As I stated, I am running lighttpd with a non-root user owning the
docroot, have been for years
Thanks for the info. Turns out there already was a UID www-data in
/ec/passwd
On 8/1/2011 7:41 AM, Gilles wrote:
Hello
On a Ubuntu host, I'd like to be able to read/write files in
Lighttpd's /var/www from XP.
I have Debian+Lighty+XP.
By default, /var/www is owned by root.root, while Samba tutorials I
read usually prefer to use nobody.nogroup.
You sure about
On 8/1/2011 8:31 AM, Erwan Leroux wrote:
2011/8/1 Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr:
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:03:11 -0500, Stan Hoeppner
s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
By default, /var/www is owned by root.root, while Samba tutorials I
read usually prefer to use nobody.nogroup.
You sure about
On 6/27/2011 12:42 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote:
just requires some special consideration. I still install through
apt-get install, and it works flawlessly. it's much like a lot of
driver packages where you still have to compile them to make them work,
it just does it auto-magically.
If these
On 6/26/2011 3:09 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote:
ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy
it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now,
but all the essential features are in place, and the bugs are only
trickling in and nothing major's come up
On 6/26/2011 5:13 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:09:38AM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote:
ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to
deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing
for now, but all the essential features are in
On 6/24/2011 5:31 PM, John Drescher wrote:
I would use 'xfs'. I believe samba was originally developed
over xfs, so it's likely the ea-suppot and acl support has had the most
testing there. Especially if your file server is setup with a UPS, then I'd
strongly recommend it. If not,
On 5/25/2011 10:02 PM, Juan Pablo wrote:
OS access:
Simultaneous read (4 processes): 118 MByte/s average
Samba local access:
Simultaneous read (4 processes): 102 MByte/s average
Samba server from Windows 7:
Simultaneous read (4 terminals): 70 MByte/s average
The first two
On 6/2/2011 2:24 PM, Juan Pablo wrote:
Hi Stan,
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions!
You're welcome. Let's hope they're beneficial.
The disk subsystem is composed by:
- 8 WD2002FAEX SATA 2TB hard drives (7200 RPM, 64MB cache, 4.2 ms avg latency)
- 1 Intel RAID controller RS2BL080
Jim McDonough put forth on 11/15/2010 5:13 PM:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Volker Lendecke
volker.lende...@sernet.de wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:54:48PM +0100, martin.h...@helvetia.ch wrote:
is there any samba version available for download,
which runs on IBM MVS, i.e. IBM z/OS
JP CR put forth on 11/10/2010 11:42 PM:
Hello,
Iam providing access to many images on a share to windows users from my linux
samba over the internet. The problem is that I need thumbnail viewing because
of the nature of this library and thumbnails take to much time to load it
seems as
Volker Lendecke put forth on 9/18/2010 12:44 AM:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:22:53AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Pol Hallen put forth on 9/15/2010 9:36 AM:
debian stable (samba version 2:3.2.5-4lenny9)
from clients by ftp the transfer of huge file is about 10/11Mb/s (with an
ethernet 10/100
Pol Hallen put forth on 9/15/2010 9:36 AM:
debian stable (samba version 2:3.2.5-4lenny9)
from clients by ftp the transfer of huge file is about 10/11Mb/s (with an
ethernet 10/100)
by samba came 5/6Mb/s
is it correct?
Good luck. It appears that tuning smbd and clients, both Windows
Luke Hamilton put forth on 7/9/2010 3:05 PM:
I think you're right in that quotas aren't enabled on the NAS itself and
there
doesn't appear to be any way of doing so. If I'm to do this, I may have to
invent some way of enforcing quotas for the remote machine at the client.
But before I
Luke Hamilton put forth on 7/8/2010 7:31 PM:
I have a setup of Ubuntu 8.04 running Samba 3.0.28a. Connected to our
network I
have a buffalo linkstation acting as Network Attached Storage (NAS), which I
have successfully mounted on the local file system.
Using smbcquotas I believe I can
Michael Sullivan put forth on 7/8/2010 2:41 PM:
[homes]
path=/samba/michael
valid users=michael
writable=yes
path=/samba/amy
valid users=amy
writeable=yes
I'd suggest you set the UNIX HOME variable to match these non standard home
paths. For instance, the default UNIX home dir is set
To be clear, all of my references to UNIX user account pertain to the user
accounts on the Samba server host, not Gentoo accounts on the client PCs.
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 7/8/2010 9:07 PM:
Michael Sullivan put forth on 7/8/2010 2:41 PM:
[homes]
path=/samba/michael
valid users=michael
Moray Henderson (ICT) put forth on 6/29/2010 3:54 AM:
Chris Smith wrote:
Is there a preferred file system (ext4, xfs, reiserfs, etc.) for
hosting Samba shares used by Windows clients? What do the devs use?
I don't know about Samba preferences, but in the current Fedora/RedHat world,
Andy Liebman put forth on 6/10/2010 9:21 AM:
Presumably, with this setting, Samba will only
write out in 256K blocks (which happens to be the stripe size on our RAIDS)
Jeremy Allison put forth on 6/10/2010 12:09 PM:
almost never hit the disk is on a per-client basis :-).
If a client were
Carl G. Riches put forth on 5/14/2010 7:14 PM:
We are having a problem getting a NetApp filer to re-join a samba
domain after a move to a new network. The filer worked fine with
samba before the move. Apologies in advance for the long missive.
I don't know about others here, but it sure
Mike put forth on 5/5/2010 1:38 PM:
Hi
This has keeping me up for days now and I can't seem to find a solution
in the various wikis, howtos and whatsoevers, so here's the plot:
I have a W2K3 R2 x64 Domaincontroller (VM on vSphere4) and a CentOS 5.4
x64 fileserver (also a VM on vSphere4,
Mike put forth on 5/5/2010 4:20 PM:
Hi Stan
Knew that... I have all of them pulling the same ntp source. Clock skew
is 3 secs! :)
That's great to hear. For sooo long, too long, this guest clock issue
seemed to be swept under the rug by VMWare. It's good to know that word
if finally out
maul...@email.com put forth on 4/29/2010 5:38 AM:
Hello all,
I use samba 2.0.5 in one of my machine and in other machine i use windows xp.
This combination works perfectly when come into file sharing. But when i use
windows vista with samba 2.0.5 i cannot use samba share. I did lots things
I've received a bunch of these blackberry backscatter messages over the past
week and have been unable to determine which list user is the cause of this.
Whoever is forwarding your email to the blackberry address below, please
fix the situation. It's becoming really annoying receiving these
Lucy Little put forth on 4/16/2010 7:54 AM:
My husband has installed Samba - swat and wants to link all the computers in
the house, so he can back them up daily.
I read the About info on your website, but still have a few questions:
1. I work online, can Samba capture any information
Daniel Müller put forth on 4/14/2010 9:27 AM:
EXT oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037
Apr 8 09:22:20 tuepdc slapd[7693]: do_extended: unsupported operation
1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037
Apr 8 09:22:20 tuepdc slapd[7693]: conn=441 op=0 RESULT tag=120 err=2
text=unsupported extended operation
This is an
Miller, Amber put forth on 4/9/2010 9:22 AM:
I have a Solaris system with Samba on it, along with two PC's a windows
2000 and XP. Shares were setup via SWAT. A user can access the shares
on the 2000 machine after putting in login credentials when browsing
through windows explorer. However,
Robert LeBlanc put forth on 4/11/2010 8:19 PM:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, ravi channavajhala
ravi.channavajh...@dciera.com wrote:
WAFS (Wide Area File System) appliances can be very well deployed for this
sort of thing precisely. Unfortunately, I don't know of any opensource
project
Daniel Müller put forth on 4/10/2010 2:11 AM:
Dear all, I have samba 3.2.15 PDC running with an openldap backend and
smbd4wins on the same host. There is also a BDC the same as my PDC. After I
did an update to 3.3.12 on my BDC this worked on the fly without problems.
Then I went on doing
Hi Bill,
Jump on #debian at irc.debian.org or join the debian-user mailing list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
There are tons of Debian folks willing and able to help you get Debian Samba
working properly, and many more aptitude/dpkg experts.
--
Stan
Bill Purcell put forth on
Linda W put forth on 4/6/2010 6:44 PM:
As it stands -- with any autodate, or any update, I load from my vendor,
I will find my whole setup failing -- as these links are key to my setup
working.
I'll have to recompile every update the instant it hits -- and if autoupdate
is
turned on
Mahmud Siddiqi put forth on 3/29/2010 5:40 PM:
Hello everyone,
Quoting from Samba Team Blog #2 (25 Sept 2009):
Volker showed how to get more than 700MB/sec from Samba using
smbclient and a modern Samba server, which shows what you can
really do when you understand the protocol thoroughly
John Drescher put forth on 3/29/2010 9:42 PM:
-- Forwarded message --
From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba SMB throughput
To: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Stan
PTaco put forth on 3/26/2010 11:01 AM:
DRDB is a whole file system correct?
http://www.drbd.org/
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Volker Lendecke put forth on 3/26/2010 7:39 AM:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:38:19AM -0400, simo wrote:
There's something I would really like to know! But somehow it seems to
be a secret of the gods that us mere mortals are not allowed to
penetrate...
Please say if there is any size
Lars Bensmann put forth on 3/5/2010 7:12 PM:
Thanks for the hint. I should have thought about this earlier. I did copy
everything to one of the Windows 7 clients, set up a share and everything
works fine. I really don't like this as a permanent solution but at least
it's a (temporary?)
Rune Tønnesen put forth on 3/5/2010 3:11 PM:
Den 05-03-2010 20:42, Lars Bensmann skrev:
Hello,
after having no problem with four Windows 2000 workstations and one Samba
2.something server for several years in a medical practice the practice
software (DocComfort) dropped support for Windows
Johan Meiring put forth on 2/16/2010 10:16 AM:
Because Samba cannot be a DC in an AD domain yet.
My bad Johan. I had assumed that Samba could do it with LDAP and AD
integration. I've not done it myself, I just assumed the capability was there
already.
My other option would be to create a
Gungne Gungneson put forth on 2/16/2010 5:53 PM:
Do I have to open ports in my firewall?
Tell us more about the scenario when you're outside the firewall. Are you
wanting to access SMB/CIFS over the internet from your laptop? Or is this
firewall between two segments of a corporate network,
Johan Meiring put forth on 2/16/2010 9:11 AM:
Hi,
I have the following setup.
Office A - Windows 2003 DC
Office B - Samba 3.4.5 domain member
I want users in Office B to still be able to access files on the Samba
domain member when the link between Office A and Office B does down.
I
Paul Furness put forth on 2/12/2010 12:34 PM:
It *may* be possible to re-join the domain with the workstation, but I'm
fed up with doing that every time I upgrade...
Hi Paul. Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but you didn't *upgrade* in this
scenario. You *downgraded* in a big way. Look
Bostjan Skufca put forth on 2/8/2010 4:07 PM:
Thanks!
We have a bidder at 7,5 MB/s, do I hear more? Do we have 8 MB/s? :)
8.5MB/s here from both (an old) smbclient and Winders 2K/XP. But, of course,
you already knew that from my previous posts. Just getting it into this thread
for your
Jeremy Allison put forth on 2/6/2010 11:07 PM:
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 09:26:32PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Bostjan Skufca put forth on 2/6/2010 6:14 PM:
Hello everybody!
This is probably going to be a classic question but I cannot find a
decent answer on net.
I have samba server set up
Bostjan Skufca put forth on 2/6/2010 6:14 PM:
Hello everybody!
This is probably going to be a classic question but I cannot find a
decent answer on net.
I have samba server set up and the following things work flawlessly:
- iperf shows 92% link utilization
- FTP/SCP/HTTP transfers work
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/27/2010 4:37 PM:
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/25/2010 5:30 PM:
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/25/2010 1:28 AM:
The dual-stream one is kindof limited help. The interesting
piece is how Win-Win does its thing faster, so we need to
see that one.
I've been busting
James Hurlburt put forth on 2/2/2010 4:56 PM:
NET805: NETWORK DEVICE NO LONGER EXISTS READING DRIVE U
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Hi James,
You didn't happen to put the new Samba server on a different IP subnet or VLAN
than the old server did you? You didn't show the IP's and subnet masks of each
Braxton Neate put forth on 2/1/2010 9:37 PM:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on a problem I am having with
the DOS DIR command on a SMB share.
I have a batch script that copies files from one mapped network drive to
another. To check that the copy has been sucsessful
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 2/1/2010 10:48 PM:
Braxton Neate put forth on 2/1/2010 9:37 PM:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on a problem I am having
with the DOS DIR command on a SMB share.
I have a batch script that copies files from one mapped network drive
Learner Study put forth on 1/29/2010 4:49 PM:
Is it possible to force samba server to write data to the disk and not
cache it at-all? If yes, is there a config option for this? BAsically,
I would like to emulate iozone -o option on the server side itself
(without having iozone do -o)?
You may
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/25/2010 5:30 PM:
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/25/2010 1:28 AM:
The dual-stream one is kindof limited help. The interesting
piece is how Win-Win does its thing faster, so we need to
see that one.
I've been busting my but trying to get you something meaningful
Samba 3.2.5 on Debian Lenny
From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/server_security.html
Samba is able to limit the number of concurrent connections when smbd is
launched as a daemon (not from inetd). The 'max smbd processes' smb.conf option
allows Administrators to define the maximum number of
Jeremy Allison put forth on 1/27/2010 5:18 PM:
Is max smbd processes not an accurate description? Would it better
be described as max smbd concurrent clients or max smbd user processes?
Yes, that's a better description.
Understood.
There's also the printer background lpq updater process,
Jeremy Allison put forth on 1/27/2010 7:20 PM:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:21:36PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I noticed in the documentation I quoted earlier something about running Samba
from inetd. Is this (easily) doable? Would running from inetd be
advantageous
in my low resource
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/25/2010 1:28 AM:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:14:36AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/24/2010 6:51 AM:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:09:51PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
Except that he said I can copy files between the Win2K and WinXP
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/25/2010 12:07 PM:
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/25/2010 1:28 AM:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:14:36AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/24/2010 6:51 AM:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:09:51PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
Except that he said I can
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/25/2010 1:28 AM:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:14:36AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/24/2010 6:51 AM:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:09:51PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
Except that he said I can copy files between the Win2K and WinXP
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/24/2010 5:04 AM:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 02:11:04PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
The 11MB/s was a different test, which I clearly stated.
It consisted of two concurrent single stream file copies
_from_ the Samba server _to_ a Win2K workstation using
standard
Michael Wood put forth on 1/24/2010 6:09 AM:
2010/1/24 Volker Lendecke volker.lende...@sernet.de:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 02:11:04PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
The 11MB/s was a different test, which I clearly stated.
It consisted of two concurrent single stream file copies
_from_ the Samba
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/24/2010 6:51 AM:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:09:51PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
Except that he said I can copy files between the Win2K and WinXP
machines at just over 10MB/s in a single stream and max out the 11MB/s
with two streams. I am assuming he used the
Volker Lendecke put forth on 1/24/2010 6:51 AM:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:09:51PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
Except that he said I can copy files between the Win2K and WinXP
machines at just over 10MB/s in a single stream and max out the 11MB/s
with two streams. I am assuming he used the
Learner Study put forth on 1/23/2010 3:31 AM:
Hi Linda:
Looking at some internet resources, it appears that both encryption
and packet signing are off by default. Can u pls let me know how to
disable these on samba server side (on 3.0.x)
Pretty sure they are both off in my case. I did not
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/23/2010 2:11 PM:
Absolutely not. Both interfaces (Samba server and Win2K workstation) are
configured and confirmed to be operating in full duplex mode. I confirmed
this
by forcing the Win2k box to 100FDX. This broke the switch which wants full
autonegotiation
Hello fellow Samba users and devs. This is my first post. I've searched
documentation far and wide for Windows, Linux, and Samba, and have not been able
to shed any light on this issue.
I can't get more than 8MB/s during a single file copy stream out of my Samba
server over my 100FDX switched
Igor put forth on 1/21/2010 6:04 PM:
Hello Stan,
Hello Igor,
I don't find it strange at all. Your computer is acting as a traffic
proxy between two samba servers. If you have 100Mb network interface
your bandwidth should split exactly in two.
Which should be 5.5MB/s instead of 4MB/s for
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