Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Linda W
Linda W wrote: No, it was originally developed over SunOS ufs. I did the xfs work when I was @ SGI doing the 64-bit Samba port, so it's one of the older supported filesystems though. Jeremy. Sorry, I've been suitably disillusioned FWIW, I was at Sun for 6 years befor

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Linda W
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:16:00PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll prob

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:16:00PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > > >>On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: > >>>I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba > >>>likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb > >>>partition sometime today and I'll probably

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice? (app-dependant, but I prefer xfs for larger files)

2011-06-24 Thread Linda Walsh
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, ext4 might be safer (with

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread John Drescher
>        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, ext4 might be safer (with write > through

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Linda Walsh
On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. I would use 'xfs'

Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.9 Available for Download

2011-06-24 Thread Karolin Seeger
Please note that the Samba 3.5.9 release notes have been extended after the release. The following paragraph on the changed Kerberos behaviour has been added for clarification: -8<--snip--8<-- New Kerberos behaviour -- A new paramete

Re: [Samba] getent group fails - fixed

2011-06-24 Thread Dale Schroeder
On 06/24/2011 2:56 AM, Dermot wrote: On 24 June 2011 05:48, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Dermot (paik...@googlemail.com): Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly because that runs counter my experience. The settings in my /etc/ldap/ldap.conf were correct whereas the ones in /etc/libn

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Aaron E.
I vote for ext4 also, we have been running on that for a few years with no issues.. On 06/24/2011 10:22 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1

Re: [Samba] help - user password expiration in loop

2011-06-24 Thread Fabio Pardi
Dears, Unfortunately it happened again. Now i see the user has the flags UX, but the system keeps asking for a password change in loop. details about pdbedit -L -v --- Unix username:myuser NT username: myuser Account Flags:[UX ] User SID:

[Samba] trusted domain authentication not working

2011-06-24 Thread James Osbourn
I have a samba member server setup for AD domain X.Y.net, this domain only holds computer objects. Domain Y.net contains all of the user accounts. Domain X.Y.net trusts domain Y.net one way only. The server is working and if I connect as a domain X.Y.net user I can connect ok. If I try as a

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. We have a lot more linux us

[Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread John G. Heim
I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. We have a lot more linux users than Windows users but the Windows user

Re: [Samba] Samba and Ldap

2011-06-24 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
The user's unix LDAP password should be encrypted (technically I think it is actually hashed, since it is not reversible)- so no, you can't get their existing password. There are two options in smb.conf to have the password sync ldap passwd sync = yes or unix password sync = ye

Re: [Samba] Samba process throttled back?

2011-06-24 Thread Lang, Rich
Actually, I've performed a network trace, but I was looking for something different. I'm no expert in the SMB protocol, so I appreciate your comments. I'll look for these calls and see what I come up with. Rich -Original Message- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de

Re: [Samba] smb panic when adding printer with apw

2011-06-24 Thread Dermot
On 24 June 2011 10:38, Thorsten Leiser wrote: 10:08, schrieb Dermot: On 24 June 2011 07:13, Thorsten Leiser  wrote: > > Hi, > [2011/06/24 07:47:56,  0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(663) >  Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba/log.smbd: Permission denied > [2011

[Samba] Samba and Ldap

2011-06-24 Thread thom_schu
Hi, all the users here are stored in a LDAP-Server, means authentication on a workstation (linux) is over LDAP. Yesterday I configured a Samba-Server, it also uses the LDAP-Server as its backend. I found out, that with a call "smbpasswd -a user" an existing user gets all the attributes from the

Re: [Samba] Code? or Test Pattern?

2011-06-24 Thread Kenji Ichinoseki
Hi, Voller. The way to do this is to run smbtorture against Windows latest server edition to make sure that smbtorture succeeds. Then adapt the Samba server side to the behaviour smbtorture expects. Now, as a modification sample, it is corresponding by the method which got advice. Again, I w

Re: [Samba] smb panic when adding printer with apw

2011-06-24 Thread Thorsten Leiser
Am 24.06.2011 11:05, schrieb Dermot: On 24 June 2011 09:48, Thorsten Leiser wrote: Hi Dermot, here are the file permissions on /var/log/samba/log.smbd, -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 434340 24. Jun 10:41 log.smbd (all files in this directory have this permission) the parent directory ( /var/log/sa

Re: [Samba] Code? or Test Pattern?

2011-06-24 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:23:11PM +0900, Kenji Ichinoseki wrote: > >Again, I would highly recommend using a much later version > >of Samba than 3.0.37. Many, many fixes have been made, in > >particular for compatibility to more modern Windows > >releases. > > Since it is necessary to use surely o

Re: [Samba] smb panic when adding printer with apw

2011-06-24 Thread Dermot
On 24 June 2011 09:48, Thorsten Leiser wrote: > Hi Dermot, > > here are the file permissions on /var/log/samba/log.smbd, > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  434340 24. Jun 10:41 log.smbd > (all files in this directory have this permission) > > the parent directory ( /var/log/samba ) > drwxr-x--- 3 root    

Re: [Samba] Code? or Test Pattern?

2011-06-24 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:39:43PM +0900, Kenji Ichinoseki wrote: > Thank you for the response. > > I would like to investigate and correct various source codes. The way to do this is to run smbtorture against Windows latest server edition to make sure that smbtorture succeeds. Then adapt the Sam

Re: [Samba] smb panic when adding printer with apw

2011-06-24 Thread Thorsten Leiser
Hi Dermot, here are the file permissions on /var/log/samba/log.smbd, -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 434340 24. Jun 10:41 log.smbd (all files in this directory have this permission) the parent directory ( /var/log/samba ) drwxr-x--- 3 rootadm 4096 24. Jun 08:07 samba the smbd is running as

Re: [Samba] Code? or Test Pattern?

2011-06-24 Thread Kenji Ichinoseki
Hi Volker. Thank you for the response. I would like to investigate and correct various source codes. Thanks and best regards, Kenji. -- Kenji Ichinoseki (ichinos...@sei-networks.com) At 11/06/24 16:48, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:17:29A

Re: [Samba] smb panic when adding printer with apw

2011-06-24 Thread Dermot
On 24 June 2011 07:13, Thorsten Leiser wrote: > Hi, > [2011/06/24 07:47:56,  0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(663) >  Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba/log.smbd: Permission denied > [2011/06/24 07:47:56,  0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(663) >  Unable to open new log file /var/log/samba/log.smbd: P

Re: [Samba] Fwd: getent group fails - fixed

2011-06-24 Thread Dermot
On 24 June 2011 05:48, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Dermot (paik...@googlemail.com): > >> Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly because that runs counter >> my experience. The settings in my /etc/ldap/ldap.conf were correct >> whereas the ones in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf were not. It was

Re: [Samba] Code? or Test Pattern?

2011-06-24 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:17:29AM +0900, Kenji Ichinoseki wrote: > My name is Kenji Ichinoseki and I am in charge of > a project at Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc. > > Please give me cooperation by all means about the affair > in the account of a title. Now, I included "Samba 3.0.37" > in the

Re: [Samba] Fwd: getent group fails - fixed

2011-06-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Dermot (paik...@googlemail.com): > Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly because that runs counter > my experience. The settings in my /etc/ldap/ldap.conf were correct > whereas the ones in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf were not. It was the search > filters from libnss-ldap.conf that were b