RE: I can not print with my network printer

2021-06-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
> So I guess the mailing list "General questions regarding Samba" would be > the right one? correct PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

RE: I can not print with my network printer

2021-06-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
Serando, You seem to have misread (or missed entirely) the purpose of this mailing list, which is: General discussion between people interested in using or developing Samba on hp's VMS operating system. You seem to have a problem involving Samba and VMs, not VMS (aka OpenVMS; see

Non-SMB packet of length 0. Terminating server

2007-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
I am using a Linux smbfs client (version 3.0.25a) with a VMS Samba 2.2.8 server (20050817 + misc patches from JYC). I am periodically getting these errors in my smbd log for this client, and when that happens, the file that the application had open remains open indefinitely (or at least until

Re: ODS-5 issues: broken utime

2006-05-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
John E. Malmberg wrote: For HP Samba V3 evaluation release, it should be currently using the CRTL utime(). That's what I figured. DECC$EFS_FILE_TIMESTAMPS causes different fields in on an ODS-5 volume to be exposed by the CRTL. These fields more closely track what UNIX expects. There are

Error: failed to change delete on close flag in 2.2.8 (JYC 17-Aug-05)

2005-08-26 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
Hi, Is anyone else seeing these in SAMBA_LOG logs? [2005/08/26 08:53:12, 0] DISK$SWAP:[JYC.SAMBA.SAMBA-2_2_8-SRC.SOURCE.SMBD]TRANS2.C;9:(2229) set_delete_on_close_internal: failed to change delete on close flag for file Dymax/020005/VIM2E.tmp [2005/08/26 08:53:21, 0]

Re: Error: failed to change delete on close flag in 2.2.8 (JYC 17-Aug-05)

2005-08-26 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:44 -0300, BG - Ben Armstrong wrote: If a different user tries to edit the same file, the error is not thrown. When I try to get the first user to edit the same file again, the error persists, and more error messages are logged in their log file. Just to clarify

RE: Error: failed to change delete on close flag in 2.2.8 (JYC17-Aug-05)

2005-08-26 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:01 -0400, Robert F. Thomas wrote: Without knowing the various user's rights and the various protections and ACL's no reasonable response is possible. For example one user can have RWED access and another only RW access, i.e. they can create files but not delete

Re: RE : Vim detects a file on a VMS Samba share has changed when it has not

2005-04-04 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:02 +0200, COLLOT Jean-Yves wrote: I think that differences 1 and 2 are caused by the fact we don't have the exact same version of vim, and/or we do not have the exact same cream configuration. I suggest to Ben to try with vim alone (i.e. without the cream layer) to see

Re: SAMBA problem report - file deletion failure

2004-12-14 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 15:21 -0400, RR - Rod Regier wrote: Sample files created using both DOS window and GUI, and deleted using both DOS window and GUI. Confirming message and file display removal occurred normally with the GUI. Subsequent DIR or GUI view refresh showed the file had in fact

Re: SAMBA share access problem report (Dymaxion 17=17275)

2004-11-01 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:05 +0200, COLLOT Jean-Yves wrote: Now that I know that the problem appears only when the McAfee antivirus is there, I could fix it. I am sending a corrected version of the OBJ files directly to Rod, a DIFF of the sources directly to John, and I'll include the fix in

Re: Plenty to do for volunteers, On the job self training available.

2004-09-29 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:19 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Help is needed at all levels of expertise. I'd like to point out to would-be contributors that before I started working on our issues with deploying OpenVMS Samba here at Dymaxion, I knew absolutely nothing about the topic. I have not

Re: Our more serious issue: two kinds of Samba read corruption

2004-09-28 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 23:25 -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: BG - Ben Armstrong wrote: - show process/acc on the user's smbd process show proc/acc/quota may provide mroe information. I'll keep that in mind. Accounting information: Buffered I/O count:193317 Peak working set size

Re: Our more serious issue: two kinds of Samba read corruption

2004-09-27 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:17 -0300, BG - Ben Armstrong wrote: We have been noticing that using MS Wordpad, COPY, or other means to read the contents of a file, most of the time the file is successfully retrieved, but sometimes it returns empty. This happens on a fairly regular basis, so

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

2004-09-24 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 23:38 -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: Please take a look at the resulting file with a dir/full. There needn't be a resulting (i.e. output) file for this bug to manifest. The corruption is seen in the Perl program as the files are being *read*, not written. Likewise with

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

2004-09-24 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:40 -0300, BG - Ben Armstrong wrote: I am still trying to get familiar with this code, but I am finding references to special handling if SAMBA detects that it is a VMS text file. Any VMS file that is not a stream or a fixed record size file may get corrupted

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

2004-09-24 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:22 -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: The reason that I said on a write() is that I have only observed the segmented out of order transfer on a write. On a read, I would look for other causes. It still could be a seek() issue. It also could be that because SAMBA

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: RE : Packet analysis: WinXP vs. Linux-VMS shows dramatic differ ences

2004-09-22 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:59 +0200, COLLOT Jean-Yves wrote: Another way to say is: according to me, the WinXP vs. Linux-VMS shows dramatic differences topic is true only when using ruby. Could someone tell me if I am right or wrong here? We ported the ruby script to C++. I'm in the process

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

2004-09-22 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:13 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], RR - Rod Regier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - TC029 Where are these tracking numbers coming from? They do not look like SAMBA Bugzilla numbers. Internal only. Rolling out Samba at Dymaxion has

WinXP - OpenVMS tests reproduced using C++ test program

2004-09-22 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
I have reproduced the same test results as for the ruby test program, only this time using a C++ port of it. I saw the same samba protocol pattern of a 1024-byte write followed by one 1-byte write after the first 64K observed in the packet capture log, and similar performance numbers. Please

Re: WinXP-Linux samba server test results

2004-09-21 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 18:32 -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: What version of SAMBA is running on the LINUX system? Samba 3.0.7 + smbfs 3.0.7. Other than that, I am not set up to take advantage of your data at the moment. I do not have any way of reading the etherreal data. If it is because

RE: WinXP-Linux samba server test results

2004-09-21 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
Hi, I received this private reply, but there is nothing particularly private about these recommendations. I think it is useful information to be discussing on the list, so I have stricken the respondent's name in the interests of privacy, and quoted it in its entirety. On Mon, 2004-09-20 at

Packet analysis: WinXP vs. Linux-VMS shows dramatic differences

2004-09-20 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
Hi, I'm trying to figure out why the bench.rb test program I included in my previous note takes several times longer to run using a WinXP client than a Linux client, both talking to our OpenVMS samba server. The big picture question is, How do we tune our clients and/or server to improve overall

WinXP-Linux samba server test results

2004-09-20 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
Hi, Here is an analysis of my next test, supplemental to my earlier observations about WinXP - OpenVMS samba write performance. If you want to skip the details and cut to the chase, it seems that both when WinXP talks to a Linux samba server and when Linux talks to a OpenVMS server, efficiencies

Re: Windows-VMS Samba performance issue

2004-09-17 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 14:04 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Or were you looking for Windows client tuning tips? Well, since the Linux client performance against the VMS Samba shares is considered within an acceptable range of responsiveness relative to performance against our Windows XP shares,

Re: Windows-VMS Samba performance issue

2004-09-17 Thread BG - Ben Armstrong
OK, now for the server end of things: A weekend upgrade is scheduled, so here are current and after-upgrade versions: On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 14:04 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: VMS version? OpenVMS 7.3-1 (upgrade will bring this up to 7.3-1 on Monday). TCPIP platform and version? TCPIP V5.3

VFC File truncated when copied from VMS to Linux via smbfs

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
the truncation when I copy the file from the VMS system to a Win2K system. Nor can I reproduce the truncation when I use GNOME nautilus to copy the file. Any idea what might be going wrong, here? Ben -- Ben Armstrong-. Medianet Development Group, [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Linux smbfs and smbclient 3.0.0 and 2.2.3a timeout on contact

2003-10-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
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Re: Linux smbfs and smbclient 3.0.0 and 2.2.3a timeout on contact

2003-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:14, Ben Armstrong wrote: After upgrading the Alpha/VMS server to 2.2.8 (29-Sep-03 version) my Linux smbfs mount (and even passwordless smbclient -L //servername) now no longer works. Both commands always time out on the connection attempt It seems less and less

Linux smbfs and smbclient 3.0.0 and 2.2.3a timeout on contact

2003-10-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
what I should be looking for to troubleshoot this problem? So far as I know, none of the Windows clients are having trouble connecting after the upgrade. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- Ben Armstrong-. Medianet Development Group, [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-.Dymaxion

Re: smbfs reads Variable files incorrectly from VMS Samba 2.2.8

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
outside of my comfort zone. Is there any evidence this would make a difference for Samba/VMS? Also, given that an adequate explanation has already been given for why this is expected behaviour with smbfs + Samba/VMS 2.2.8, I have my doubts that it would help. Ben -- Ben Armstrong

Re: Re[2]: smbfs reads Variable files incorrectly from VMS Samba

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
would not be worth bothering my sys admin to try unless it seemed likely that it would help. But I'll keep it in mind if more promising alternatives don't turn up. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Armstrong-. Medianet Development Group, [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-.Dymaxion

Re: Mounting samba 2.2.7a from Linux read-write hazardous

2003-03-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 11:17, Ben Armstrong wrote: I will be first downgrading smbfs to see if this is only a bug in my bleeding-edge version on not. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I have downgraded my smbfs to a much earlier, stable release: 2.2.3a and can still reproduce