Re: [Samba] Samba on A SGI Indy Cyclone IRIX system???
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:29, Tony Parker wrote: We have recently inherited a circa 1996 SGI Indy Colorbus Cyclone running on Irix. Cool! I also see to have a bunch of IRIX stuff around me. Our intention is to use this unit to drive our Canon CLC900 Scanner Copier and make it accessible to our Windows Network. How does this scanner attach? I ask because SGI is famous for using connectors that look like, and only sort of act like standards you are familiar with. One case-in-point in particular is their use of USB - yes, it's a USB connector, and yes the USB protocol used is a correct implementation of the bulk-transfer mode / HID class, but that's where it stops. Ditto for some firewire stuff I've used... Perhaps the *only* interface you could solidly count on would be serial :-) But, have a go at it. IRIX is fun, and you'll find that the leap from Linux isn't huge. At the moment, our Windows Network does not see the Cyclone vice versa. 1.) Does the Indy Cyclone Irix package already contain Samba or SMB capability? How would one determine whether or not SMB or Samba may have been previously installed on the Indy IRIX system? I strongly doubt it. If you were local, I'd bet a case of beer that Samba isn't on your Cyclone. 2.) Can anyone on this mailing list please suggest exactly what Samba software should be installed on the Indy cyclone, and what kind of Windows Samba client software should be installed on the Windows workstations? The great thing about Samba is that Windows *is* the client. There is nothing to do to your Windows machines (generally; sometimes some little settings, depending on which particular flavour of Windows you're talking about). Here's a site you're going to become familiar with: http://freeware.sgi.com/index.html Look under Alphabetical, and go from there. It's an extended learning curve to use the IRIX 'inst' package to install new software - well, learning 'inst' itself only takes a few minutes, really, but figuring out how to deal with unsatisfied dependencies may drive you crazy. Do not put a system into production until you have mastered some way of efficiently resolving dependencies. One (blunt-instrument) way of satisfying dependencies is to download *everything* from the SGI freeware site, then beginning an install. Chances are, though, you're going to need the Base Install CD's (probably 2), and the overlay CD's (for the latest IRIX 6.5.20, that is another 4 CD's). One outcome is that you will soon see the benefits of many other package-managers :-) 3.) I'd also be most grateful for any information where this software can be downloaded, as well as any tips hints in installing and configuring the Samba software on both the Indy cyclone and the windows workstations.. Well, generally speaking, on an SGI if you follow the package instructions for compiling you'll be OK. This will mean you'll need to become root on your new machine (you do have the root password, don't you?). Further, you will need a compiler, and autoconf / automake... all these are available from the freeware site mentioned above. I also tend to immediately install 'bash', and 'emacs' (can you believe it - IRIX ships without emacs in the default installation - heresy!!!). I think this is a great summer project. You will learn a lot, especially about IRIX, and samba. If you simply want to be quickly productive with your scanner, hook it up to a Windows machine and share it off to the other Windows clients. This is by far the faster/simpler way. -Gord (who has built an Onyx Graphics Supercomputer off eBay, with 4x 64-bit CPUs, for under $3,000!!! OpenGL in hardware - which pulls 5A at 220V - simply *ROCKS*). -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba3.0beta1 as PDC with LDAP
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:28, Chee Wai Yeung wrote: I still could not get a uid=root entry in LDAP to allow client workstation to join the domain. Has anyone got a full LDAP based Samba PDC working without the need to have a fallback smbpasswd for the root account? My experience is the same as yours, Chee. I had to have a user 'root' in smbpasswd, despite having a root-user (UID=GID=0) in LDAP (this was using 3.0alpha24, not beta1). -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Cable Modem
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 07:03, phil brogan wrote: I read many postings in this listserv about cable modem under RHL 7.3 in Sept 2002 I have replied directly, because this didn't seem Samba-related (but obviously someone is having difficulty). -Gord -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] POSIX ACL to NT ACL bugs in get_nt_acl()
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 14:18, Sergey Zhitomirsky wrote: Hello , the described bellow happens both in samba 2.2.7a and 3.0-alfa22. In the next e-mail I will send patches fixing all 3 bugs in samba 2.2.7a 3.0 alfa 22 I am a humble samba-user, and I am indebted and grateful for your presentation and substantiation of the problems. The fact that you have also produced patches to address the problem is OUTSTANDING! Thank-you very much, Sergey. -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] SAMBA with LDAP
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 07:42, Renato Diniz wrote: Can I use an LDAP autentication with SAMBA? Yes! What I need to do? I found the following *very* helpful: http://samba.idealx.org/dist/samba-ldap-howto.pdf Somewhere, on IBM's website, I also went through a tutorial they have there. It wasn't as hands-on practical as Idealx, but it was good background and reference. -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] import_smbpasswd.pl for samba + LDAP
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 23:21, Long-Sheng Kuo wrote: In addition, is there more information/tutorial of LDAP available on line? Sorry, I can't offer any Perl help. I found this Idealx document helpful as a tutorial for implementing samba as a PDC, using LDAP: http://samba.idealx.org/dist/samba-ldap-howto.pdf hmmm... right now, a DNS lookup is failing for them, so here's another pointer to the document I found useful: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~davea/Library/samba-ldap-howto.pdf -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] auto start
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:41, Roland Thompson wrote: I'm running RH8 with Samba 2.2.7a. how I can get samba to start when linux boots up? Here are three ways: 1) if using Gnome as your desktop, click on the 'foot' - Programs - System - Service Configuration. You will be prompted for the root password, if you are not already root. Go down through the list, put a check next to 'smb'. For me, nmbd starts automatically as a consquence of smb starting. 2) from a console, you can type 'serviceconf'. This basically does exactly the same as option 1). 3) from a console (or, in case you have no GUI), you type 'ntsysv'. Again, this gives you a list of services and checkboxes; tick off 'smb'. HTH, -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] auto start
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:52, Roland Thompson wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but smb isn't one of the options.
Any idea on how I can get it there?
If you installed RedHat's samba rpm, everything should be set to
go...???
If you downloaded and compiled stuff, then I can see this happening.
What you need is a file - /etc/initd.d/samba I'm including mine as a
reference for you (also RH 8; short, and ASCII).
Begin included samba init
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 35
# description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \
# used to provide SMB network services.
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = no ] exit 0
CONFIG=/etc/samba/smb.conf
# Check that smb.conf exists.
[ -f $CONFIG ] || exit 0
# See how we were called.
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Starting SMB services:
daemon smbd -D
daemon nmbd -D
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/smb
;;
stop)
echo -n Shutting down SMB services:
## we have to get all the smbd process here instead of just the
## main parent (i.e. killproc) because it can take a long time
## for an individual process to process a TERM signal
smbdpids=`ps guax | grep smbd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
for pid in $smbdpids; do
kill -TERM $pid
done
## nmbd is ok to kill using killproc()
killproc nmbd -TERM
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb
echo
;;
status)
status smbd
status nmbd
;;
restart)
echo -n Restarting SMB services:
$0 stop
$0 start
echo done.
;;
*)
echo Usage: smb {start|stop|restart|status}
exit 1
esac
End Included Text
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Re: [Samba] The use of Samba
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 04:45, Ted Gervais wrote: Now that I have Samba all set up and working well Right now I can sit at any machine and access any others. What more can I look forward to?? Or is this it?? Here are some thoughts, Ted. Mostly if you're bored :-) 1) Move Samba/PDC over to using LDAP. Check that this works. 2) Then, move your Linux box(es?) over to using the same LDAP for authentication. One trick I found useful is to open two consoles to your target machine, leaving one firmly SSH'd in (so you can recover when the other terminal gets locked out :-O ). Now, you will be enjoying one single point of maintenance (LDAP) for all your Win/Lin users. Sooner or later, though, a Win user will try to log into a Linux box, and you'll see an error about lack of a home-directory, or no shell, or no .profile, or some such... 3) Assuming that your Samba setup gives each Windows user a home-dir upon login, it's now time to duplicate that in Linux. Server uses exports file, client will use Automount (auto.home). Now, the same home-dir is available on both Win and Linux logins. (seeing as you're also a ham - I'm VA7GP, and VA7SFU for Simon Fraser University) - you could hook your HF radio to your Linux box. Run twpsk to experience PSK-31 data-over-radio, or gmfsk for either RTTY or MFSK-16. While this has next-to-nothing to to with Samba :-) it's a great way to pass some indoor winter months :-) ). -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Best samba filesystem
So - Out of all of this slow performance with lots of files discussion, what would be the recommended filesystem? I'm about to implement a RAID-3 Samba-server for rich-media (multimedia), and I'd like (robust) journalling, along with speed. I have used (and am using) XFS, ReiserFS, ext2 and ext3, but not on any sort of server. AFAICT, they all seem to work. But I've only verified that ext3 survives dog pulling out power-cord in the middle of disk-writes :-O :-) The server will basically be RedHat 8.0, and I will be compiling custom kernels (so I can add whatever file-system-support is available for Linux...). Again, I'm after robustness and speed. Ease of implementation is low on the scale... (I don't mind pain :-) ) TIA, -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Best samba filesystem
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:56, Chris Palmer wrote: Gordon Pritchard writes: Out of all of this slow performance with lots of files discussion, what would be the recommended filesystem? I'm about to implement a RAID-3 Samba-server for rich-media (multimedia), and I'd like (robust) journalling, along with speed. It depends on how big your multimedia files are. If you mean MP3s, any such filesystem will be fine (including ext3). If you have big huge files (several GB or more), you might be happier with one of the filesystems made for large file support (Reiser, JFS, XFS). Sorry, I should have mentioned that :-( Filesizes will range up to 100GB, for now. The array is 1 Terabyte (there will be two such setups, on separate servers, each doing the Samba thing). -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Windows notification
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 08:50, Darin Bawden wrote: Does anyone know of a way ... to send a notification to Windows users, as they log in, that there password has or is expiring in a certain number of days? This would also be of interest to me... -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Error Saving Certain Files in Profile from Win XP PRO
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 12:51, John H Terpstra wrote: about 2 out of 3 stations will experience a problem. That problem could be anything from: 1. Pop-up of notepad with the contents of what looks like a .ini file I get this, and it's just plain weird. Notepad pops up, with every one of my three XP Pro users (using Samba 3.0alpha21-1 as PDC, and LDAP authentication). Here's the Notepad text I get: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787 I don't want to have to re-install XP *again* though :-( So, for now, I just close Notepad. Good to know I'm not alone with seeing this behaviour, though. -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
