[Samba] Time take to copy file from Samba to Windows XP

2006-09-15 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, How much time should it take to copy 1Gb to 5Gb from from Samba server to Windows Xp in gigabit network? Default Samba configs, a single copy of a 1GB file takes about 70 seconds to complete, about 14MBps, 117Mbps, about 11% network utilization. A Windows 2003 server, similar hardwar

[Samba] CIFS file permission

2006-09-15 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, I am facing a weired problem with CIFS.I am mounting Windows Share using CIFS.Mount works properly.Permission of files and folders are -rwxrwxrwx Now the problem is if I change the read only attribute from Windows machine of the share permission of Linux is r-xr-xr-x, which is expect

Re: [Samba] Samba and Printing

2006-08-29 Thread Komal Shah
Yes unless the Windows driver requires a hard direct connection to the printer. Lexmark is the actual manufacturer of your printer. (Sorry to be the one to tell you that.) However, if you setup up Windows to look at the port as if its a direct connection you may be able to cheat a bit. I had

Re: [Samba] Samba and Printing

2006-08-29 Thread Komal Shah
Shaun Marolf wrote: It is much easier to have Windows print to a Samba server than it is to print to Windows from any Unix. I have successfully setup shared printers on a Samba Server that I had no Linux driver for. Though the server could not print to the attached printer all my Windows clien

[Samba] Samba and Printing

2006-08-29 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, I have quick question about Printing with Samba.I want to print to printer connected to Windows machine.I do not have drive for Linux of the printer.Should I create raw queue in Linux to print to Windows printer? If i do not have suitable driver for Linux for printer is it still possi

[Samba] Attributes changes in copying files

2006-08-24 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, I shared one folder using Samba.From Windows system I take a file that has no attributes set and copy in the folder.It seems that this procedure changes the attributes of file to archive.How to change the defaulter attribute of file placed in Samba share.Why Samba changes the attribute?

[Samba] Better way to mange user account

2006-08-17 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, I have a NT4 domain. I am trying to synchronize all the users from the NT4 PDC, back down to the samba server. User accounts on the NT4 machine do not change that often, but when they do I would like a way to sync the accounts on both machines. If there is a better solution I am open t

[Samba] winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found

2006-08-11 Thread Komal Shah
What is the status of https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3204 ? I am using latest available version of Samba from samba.org and it seems that this issue is not solved. Thanks Regards, Komal -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://l

Re: [Samba] Heavy Samba usage crashed server

2006-08-07 Thread Komal Shah
Richard Collyer wrote: On Mon, August 7, 2006 11:48 am, Komal Shah wrote: Is there a way to check whether heavy Samba usage can crash server? Get lots of clients to connect and look at random files. Get all the machines you can to search and some to virus scan the network drive as this will

[Samba] Heavy Samba usage crashed server

2006-08-07 Thread Komal Shah
Is there a way to check whether heavy Samba usage can crash server? Thanks Regards, Komal -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Windows XP-2000 clients open a samba shared folder, sorting is wrong

2006-07-21 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, In all windows clients, when opening a samba shared folder, file sorting is wrong. Normally I should have folders before of files, and then I should have files sorted by names (alphabetically). But it is not. In web forums I found that could be a "touch" problem. I tried "touch *" in a

[Samba] pdbedia and password policy

2006-07-20 Thread Komal Shah
Hello, I need to be able to change this: Password must change: Sat, 20 Dec 02:15:51 GMT Apparently the pbdedit utility should be able to change it but I'm not sure of the syntax to use. Thanks Regards, Komal -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instruction

[Samba] Samba and roaming profile

2006-07-10 Thread Komal Shah
Hello I am using Samba as a PDC with Roaming profile.Every time i login to domain a notepad windows pops up with information [.ShellClassInfo] [EMAIL PROTECTED],-21787 The name of the file is desktop.How to stop this? Thanks Regards, Komal -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the follow

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba hangs over nfs

2006-07-07 Thread Komal Shah
Volker Lendecke wrote: As long as you only access the files from Windows, no. Samba does the locking itself. But as your locking on NFS looks broken anyway, there can't be any posix processes accessing the files and doing locking. Volker Hello Why is NFS file locking non functional? Is this a

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba hangs over nfs

2006-07-06 Thread Komal Shah
Volker Lendecke wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:59:02PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Likely your NFS server/client combo doesn't have functioning file locking. Retry with 'posix locking = no'. Volker What consequences does this parameter have? Any negative? Correct me if i'm wrong but this ca

[Samba] Samba hangs over nfs

2006-07-05 Thread Komal Shah
Hello 1. NFS export: /srv/nfsexp 127.0.0.1(rw) 2. mount it: 127.0.0.1:/srv/nfsexp /srv/samba/nfs nfs rw,sync 0 0 3. make a samba share and mount it via Windows: smb.conf: ... [nfstest] path = /srv/samba writable = yes valid users = tr Actual results: As soon as I start

Re: [Samba] Unable to cancel print-jobs with Samba+CUPS via WinXP

2006-06-27 Thread Komal Shah
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 d.arun321 wrote: Thanks Jerry -- for your assistance. The solution was precise but i am facing an authentication issue. When I use the "use security = user" in the smb.conf then its promoting for a username and passwo

[Samba] Samba permission issue

2006-06-20 Thread Komal Shah
Hello I use Windows XP Pro on almost all of the desktops I need to access the linux server. I also have one Apple Mac G5 that uses OS 10.4. I have various applications I use to access the server. One of the biggest ones I use is OpenOffice. If I create a new document on one of our windows X