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Date: 1996-08-13 16:34:59
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SAMBA Digest 1024
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Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Membership of this mailing list?!?
by Lars Lyshaug <lyshaugl@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
2) samba : Unix printers
by CBADET@aol.com
3) Re: Release Cycle
by Andrew Tridgell <tridge@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
4) Faxing/Dial IN software for Linux/Samba/WFW's
by Tim Boughen <timb@mincom.com>
5) Several problems in nmbd and smbd...
by Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>
6) forcing an election
by "Luke K.C. Leighton" <lkcl@pires.co.uk>
7) Re: "real" DHCP server for Unix?
by "J. Patrick Narkinsky" <patrick@cnu.edu>
8) Network path not found
by Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.on.ca>
9) Re: Does Samba provide 'home' directories?
by "Charles O. Shefflette" <shefflet@paragon-systems.com>
10) Fix: File renaming bug
by Jim Barry <Jim.Barry@ilp.com>
11) NT cannot see Solaris 2.5
by Feng Loh <fengl@mocomnz47.mocom.co.nz>
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 09:23:07 -0700
From: Lars Lyshaug <lyshaugl@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
To: samba@anu.edu.au
Subject: Membership of this mailing list?!?
Message-ID: <320F5A6B.436C@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
I know that I should know.....
- how to join this mailing list, and more about
how it works.
- but some of you out there have found out, so
will anyone drop me a line?!
Regards, Lars
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 03:31:53 -0400
From: CBADET@aol.com
To: samba@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au
Subject: samba : Unix printers
Message-ID: <960812033147_382497957@emout15.mail.aol.com>
Hi !!
I'm using samba on SCO Unix Open Server 5.
I try to use Unix Printers from Windows 95 programs with samba, but i lost
some editions in the spooler. I don't know if it's a Samba problem or if my
smb.conf is wrong.
Does anybody have any experience about that ?
My smb.conf :
[printers]
path = /tmp
printcommand = lp -d %p %s ; rm %s
comment = all printers
browsable = no
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
create more = 0700
Thanx.
Christophe BADET
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 18:10:10 +1000
From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
To: samba@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: Release Cycle
Message-ID: <96Aug12.181114+1000est.65052-187+7877@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
I can understand your concerns about alpha code and that fact that it
has been so long since the last major release.
Samba is going through a fairly major reorganisation, particularly for
the nmbd code, and I don't want to do a new major release until I
think it is stable enough for general use. Luckily 1.9.15p8 is working
very well for 99% of people so the long wait isn't as painful as it
might have been.
The slow progress is largely due to the fact that I have been working
hard on other projects (in particular AP/Linux).
I can assure you that progress is being made. I really hope to get the
backlog of patches and bug reports sent to samba-bugs dealt with
(mostly) by the time I leave for the SMB workshop on the 25th of this
month. Luckily there are several other people to help me :-)
Cheers, Andrew
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 09:41:04 GMT
From: Tim Boughen <timb@mincom.com>
To: samba@anu.edu.au
Subject: Faxing/Dial IN software for Linux/Samba/WFW's
Message-ID: <199608120941.JAA00146@achieve.mincom.co.za>
Can anyone assist/recommend software for Linux running Samba in a WFW's network
for
a) dial-in access to a Linux box running Samba for access to files / email
and other operating systems on the network
b) faxing software for a Linux box running samba for PC's to access the
modem
The network has no Windows's NT servers.
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:27:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>
To: samba-bugs@anu.edu.au (Samba Bug Reports)
Cc: samba@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au
Subject: Several problems in nmbd and smbd...
Message-ID: <199608121027.AA02135@deejai.mch.sni.de>
Hi again,
I append a log because of a problem I have with one of the machines on
my network: this machine apparently runs Windows NT 3.51 and it fills
my log.nmb with repeated error messages of the kind
No 0x1d name type in interpret_node_status()
plus a block showing the 10 received names that are sent by this
machine.
a) is this an error in nmbd or in WinNT?
b) can it be switched off?
Then there's more problems:
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
18993 root -25 10 98132K 10552K run 416:34 51.0% 19.92% nmbd
21081 root 14 0 2724K 948K sleep 28:28 0.0% 0.00% named
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMD
root 21081 1 0 07.Aug ? 28:29 named
root 18993 1 54 09.Aug ? 416:56 /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd
c) nmbd keeps eating huge amounts of processor time plus memory. Look at
the process lists above: named has been running two days longer than
nmbd, has been doing many more tasks in this time (like repeatedly
looking up the hosts that nmbd didn't cache but should) and has been
using much less processor time. Then look at the memory: nmbd is
using around 100 MB now! Incredible; I wish I had that much memory in
my machine at home! The latter is certainly a memory leak. The former
is due to the fact that in our network, there is a significant amount
of broadcast traffic between the hundreds of Win/Win95/WinNT/Samba
machines. And Samba receives and processes all of them, apparently,
even those which are utterly useless for the Samba host (who has to
deal with a single workgroup only). Can this overhead be reduced by
providing a shortcut in the nmbd main loop for all those received
packets which are uninteresting? (Or did I just not understand the
concept here... In this case, I am seriously frightened about the
forthcoming CIFS standard... We have only several hundred PCs here,
but what happens if thousands or millions of PCs bring the internet
to a grinding halt!)
d) In the output of a "smbclient -L" query, people use national
characters (for their names). These characters usually are coded in
the ibmpc code set because netbios was invented before unicode... In
the example from the log file below, this is for instance:
% smbclient -L RM400_AF_DY -U%
CTGQ0788 Willi K„hler, AF DY 2
But in order to display the browse lists on a unix machine, this
means that the equivalent of
% smbclient -L RM400_AF_DY -U% | recode ibmpc:latin1
...
CTGQ0788 Willi Kähler, AF DY 2
should be executed, resulting in the correct ISO8859.1 display of the
names.
e) The same holds in the opposite direction. If I write in smb.conf:
[Willi]
comment = Willi Kähler, AF DY 2
path = /home/willi/.WinRoot
allow hosts = CTGQ0788
then I expect the name "Kähler" to appear in the WfWg browse lists
with the Umlauts.
Hope I didn't bother you with these problems, but especially the
performance problem is a serious problem for us.
Cheers,
Martin
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
_____log_follows_____
deejai>...samba/log 25> tail -14 log.nmb
No 0x1d name type in interpret_node_status()
received 10 names
RM400_AF_DY(0x0) M <ACTIVE>
AF_DY(0x0) <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
RM400_AF_DY(0x20) M <ACTIVE>
AF_DY(0x1c) <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
AF_DY(0x1b) M <ACTIVE>
RM400_AF_DY(0x3) M <ACTIVE>
AF_DY(0x1e) <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
AF_DY(0x1d) M <ACTIVE>
__MSBROWSE__(0x1) <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
RM400_AF_DY(0x1) M <ACTIVE>
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0
No 0x1d name type in interpret_node_status()
deejai>...samba/log 26> nmblookup -M AF_DY
Added interface ip=139.25.113.10 bcast=139.25.119.255 nmask=255.255.248.0
Sending queries to 139.25.119.255
139.25.113.100 AF_DY
deejai>...samba/log 27> nmblookup RM400_AF_DY
Added interface ip=139.25.113.10 bcast=139.25.119.255 nmask=255.255.248.0
Sending queries to 139.25.119.255
139.25.113.100 RM400_AF_DY
deejai>...samba/log 28> nmblookup -S RM400_AF_DY
Added interface ip=139.25.113.10 bcast=139.25.119.255 nmask=255.255.248.0
Sending queries to 139.25.119.255
139.25.113.100 RM400_AF_DY
Looking up status of 139.25.113.100
No status response (this is not unusual)
deejai>...samba/log 29> smbclient -L RM400_AF_DY -U%
Added interface ip=139.25.113.10 bcast=139.25.119.255 nmask=255.255.248.0
Got a positive name query response from 139.25.113.100 (139.25.113.100)
Server time is Mon Aug 12 10:54:47 1996
Timezone is UTC+2.0
Domain=[AF_DY] OS=[Windows NT 3.51] Server=[NT LAN Manager 3.51]
This machine has a browse list:
Server Comment
--------- -------
PCD_AF_DY PCD von MR SP, Standort Mch-P 66-525
CTGQ0788 Willi K„hler, AF DY 2
CTGQ0802 CRGRE FGHEZ
CTGQ0971 Envare Onlre
CBGQ2732 Naqern Fgrepxra ZE FC 5
RM400_AF_DY RM400 unter Windows/NT von OEC CM SP
This machine has a workgroup list:
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
PBZSB Q012R063
QEVIR CTGQ0069
TVF TVF1
TVFTQOK TVFTQOK0
VOVF Z61635CC
XNF13 FPUAVPXFPUANPX
AF_DY RM400_AF_DY
ZJ243 CTGQ1631
ZJ252 CTGQ1046
ZJ263 CTGJ0016
BRP OF2 BF CZ CTGQ0916
BRP ZJ 27 CTGQ1390
BF3 CTGQ0709
BFCC1 CTGQ0304
BFCC2 CTGQ0300
CQ414 CTGQ0566
CQ432 CTGQ0446
DR61 CTGQ0830
DR62 CTGQ1466
FN DP CTGQ0364
FQ CTGQ0362
FQ CC CTGQ0376
FJ43 XRYIVA
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:51:08 BST
From: "Luke K.C. Leighton" <lkcl@pires.co.uk>
To: samba@anu.edu.au
Subject: forcing an election
Message-ID: <9608120951.AA20626@bugatti.pires.co.uk>
P.S. Does anyone know if there is any way I can force a Browse Master
election? I am having problems with one Win95 machine insisting on being one
when it shouldn't be and this would be nice for debugging.
----
hi there,
you need to do an ANN_Election (nmbd \\MAILSLOT\BROWSE packet of type 8)
with zero parameters - see nameelect.c for details. if you broadcast
this packet on the subnet the Win95 machine is in then it will force
an election.
however, i think what you really want to do is to go into the windows95
config options and switch preferred master to no (this option can be
no, yes or auto).
luke
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:29:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. Patrick Narkinsky" <patrick@cnu.edu>
To: samba@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: "real" DHCP server for Unix?
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.960812082902.7249I-100000@morgan.cnu.edu>
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Torsten Eichstaedt wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> is there a "real" DHCP server available for Unix systems? I tried to use
> the patched bootpd (v4.3.1), but my WfW client didn't come up with it.
>
Try the ISC dhcpd. ftp://ftp.fugue.com/pub
This is a pretty good DHCP server, however it's still BETA.
Patrick
> Perhaps it is just a problem with configuring the bootpd -- does anyone
> have the bootpd running with WfW and/or Win95 &/| WinNT clients?
>
> I don't want to start a bootimage from a Unix server -- I want the clients
> to configure their network via DHCP.
>
> Thanx a lot,
>
> =|o)
>
> --
> Torsten Eichstaedt eMail: torsten@metaworks.de
> Internet-Support support@metaworks.de
> MetaWorks GmbH, Florinsmarkt 5, D 56068 Koblenz, phone: +49 261 37773
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
J. Patrick Narkinsky |
<patrick@cc.cnu.edu> | Over the router, through the bridge,
Comp. Systems Sr. Engineer | past the T1, bounce off MAE-East,
CNU Computer Center | nothing but net.
(804)594-7180 |
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:54:24 -0400
From: Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.on.ca>
To: samba@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au
Subject: Network path not found
Message-ID: <9608121454.AA01341@computerActive.on.ca>
I get "The network path was not found" on all attempts to connect to my
Samba server from WindowsNT (both NTAS and NTWS), using the browser and by
giving exact service names.
The server shows up on the lists for mapping network drives and printers,
but I always get that error. From the command-line with "net view" I get
"System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found."
The server (a NeXTSTEP 3.3 machine) is visible via TCP/IP, I can telnet to
it, ping it, etc. and it is setup OK, as far as I can see. The server can
see the NT network just fine as a client, and other NeXT machines can
connect to it with smbclient.
I tried setting up for USER level security and even SERVER security. Both
worked from smbclient on many different NeXT machines, but no change from
NT.
Why can't the NT server browse or access the Samba services?
--Chris
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computerActive Inc. | Nepean, ON, Canada K2E 7X1
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Voice: (613)225-4824
Entrust and PGP keys on request | FAX: (613)225-1670
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:33:18 -0400
From: "Charles O. Shefflette" <shefflet@paragon-systems.com>
To: <samba@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Does Samba provide 'home' directories?
Message-ID: <9608121735.AA00324@paragon-systems.com>
> "Does Samba provide 'home' directories?"
>
> I ask this because I am wondering... if I use the syntax 'NET USE P:
/HOME'
> I should get drive P: connected to my home directory on the domain
server.
>
> This is according to the help I get by typing 'NET /?'.
>
> Are the directories offered by the [homes] share really home directories
or
> just directories local to one user?
Actually, if you set up a service as shown below:
[HOMEDIR]
comment = Home Directory
path = %H
read only = no
browseable = yes
you will get a network share (as shown by browsing) of "homedir" which can
be then connected to by 'NET USE P: \\SERVER\HOMEDIR'.
This should take care of the problem. BTW, it also makes roving desktops
work!
> If the latter, then I guess this is why things like roving desktops are
not
> working (since these connect to the user's home directory). I don't know
how
> the user's home directory is determined (the Win95 Resource Kit does not
say)
> but if there is a specific call such as GET_USER_HOME or something which
> identifies this and this call is not supported then... etc. etc.
> If Samba does not support this (and this is the case), could this be
added?
>
> Perhaps then roving desktops and other Win95 interface 'goodies' (I use
the
> term loosely) would work?
(see above)
> P.S. Does anyone know if there is any way I can force a Browse Master
> election? I am having problems with one Win95 machine insisting on being
one
> when it shouldn't be and this would be nice for debugging.
You might set your OS level to about 35 or so and "domain master = yes".
That
will make sure that samba is the master browser for the workgroup since an
election is forced whenever a browser is started.
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 20:02:00 BST
From: Jim Barry <Jim.Barry@ilp.com>
To: "'Samba Mailing List'" <samba@anu.edu.au>
Subject: Fix: File renaming bug
Message-ID: <320F831E@bukowsky>
Hi folks,
There is a bug in Samba which has been annoying me for a very long time
so I have fixed it. When using a LFN client such as Windows 95 (and
probably when not), Samba fails an attempt to rename a file if the new
filename differs from the old filename only by case, e.g. myfile.txt ->
MyFile.TXT. This is assuming you have a smb.conf with:
[global]
case sensitive = no
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
which is really the only sensible choice for Windows 95/NT clients.
I've sent a patch up to samba-bugs, so hopefully it will make it into the
next release. If anybody wants the patch right now, I can supply it for
1.9.15p8 or 1.9.16p13.
Cheers,
- Jim
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:00:09 +1200
From: Feng Loh <fengl@mocomnz47.mocom.co.nz>
To: Samba <samba@anu.edu.au>
Subject: NT cannot see Solaris 2.5
Message-ID: <320FFDC9.2BD4@mocom.co.nz>
I have set up Samba on my Solaris 2.5., and verified that all is well.
>From the Sun box, I can see all the clients on the NT boxes.
My problem is trying to connect using File Manager to the Samba server.
I only get empty folders!!!
The smb.conf looks like this:
[unixhome]
auto services = unixhome
create mask = 0775
mangled names = yes
path = /usr/share/macros
public = yes
writable = yes
Can anyone please help?
--
Feng Loh
fengl@mocom.co.nz
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