Re: Samba improvements needed (was: WinXP-Linux samba server test)

2004-09-23 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:32 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Tcpdump, which is available for TCPIP 5.4, can read it. For example: $ tcpdump==$sys$system:tcpip$tcpdump $ tcpdump -vr test.cap I do not have a LINUX system running at this time. Three years in my new house, and I have not

Re: Samba improvements needed

2004-09-23 Thread John E. Malmberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], BG - Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:32 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: And it is not preallocation that SAMBA is doing as noted below. Oh? It sure looked like it ... If you look at it from stepping through the file create

MIME properties and Windows

2004-09-23 Thread Robert F. Thomas
We have found that the way files are transferred differ based on the mime characteristics associated with the file's extension. It seems that many of the Windows programs look at this to determine how to handle the file I/O. We have found that this impacts Windows to Windows transfers as well as

Re: Samba improvements needed

2004-09-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, John E. Malmberg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], BG - Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:32 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: And it is not preallocation that SAMBA is doing as noted below. Oh? It sure looked like it ... If you

Re: Samba improvements needed

2004-09-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, John E. Malmberg wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, John E. Malmberg wrote: By delaying the open until there is actual data to write or the client has specified the resulting size, then Method A can be used. [Deleted all the rest of the context

Re: Samba improvements needed

2004-09-23 Thread John E. Malmberg
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, John E. Malmberg wrote: However, at the time of the open request, the vfs module can take out a VMS lock on the filespec, and that will provide a cluster wide protection. ... as long as you only run Samba on one node in the cluster ... As a VMS lock is

Re: Bug report (12=17020 TC029) SAMBA 2.2.8 release 20040908 - intermittent content loss

2004-09-23 Thread John E. Malmberg
RR - Rod Regier wrote: (n.b. a shorter version of this was reported to JYC in August, but he was unable to reproduce the failures). Summary: Some intermittent file corruption is occuring. We would like to provide a good test case, but such eludes us. Since corruption is

Re: Samba 2.2.8 Print job number handling? Bug 1816

2004-09-23 Thread John E. Malmberg
As there was no response, I have entered this into Bugzilla for tracking. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1816 -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html