Re: [Samba] Strange lock problem + sporadic massive slowdown

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Rignaz
Jeremy Allison schrieb: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 03:27:16PM +0100, Michael Rignaz wrote: Hi, thanks for reading, would be great if you could help me out with two strange reoccuring problems. Problem 1: Currently we are running an IBM 206m with Debian Etch and Samba 3.0.24. We have about

[Samba] Strange lock problem + sporadic massive slowdown

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Rignaz
Hi, thanks for reading, would be great if you could help me out with two strange reoccuring problems. Problem 1: Currently we are running an IBM 206m with Debian Etch and Samba 3.0.24. We have about 25 Clients which are running Windows XP SP2 or 2000 SP4. 3 of those Clients (XP) open and close

[Samba] File locking: is there some kind of timeout I can alter?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Rignaz
Hi, I have a problem, that occurs once a week: when my boss opens some files with read/write access via vpn over a crappy internet connection and his connection gets terminated, some files are still locked read-only after several hours/half a day or more. Only restarting the appropriate smbd

[Samba] Locked read/only files problem

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Rignaz
Hi, would be great if someone could help me out with this. Strange, it happens from time to time, that some files- in this case *xls- are locked read-only, although they shouldn't be locked and are not currently being accessed by any other user. smbstatus also doesn't list the file at all.. Res

[Samba] Re: Office: File currently in use by user xyz problem!

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Rignaz
> In your case setting 'reset on zero vc = yes' might help. > Please read the manpage for smb.conf for possible caveats > with this parameter. > > Volker > Thnx Volker, *sigh* this option sounded too good.. Sad enough there are users in another network connected via one vpn tunnel so masquera

[Samba] Re: Office: File currently in use by user xyz problem!

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Rignaz
Sorry for the extrapost, too retarded when I'm lacking sleep... forgot to attack the smb.conf and to tell that the problem was resolved when restarting the samba daemons! running samba 3.0.23c-1 workgroup = xyz passwd chat = *New*Password* %n\n*Re-enter*new*password* %n\n *Password*change

[Samba] Office: File currently in use by user xyz problem!

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Rignaz
Hi, today we got some mysterious errors.. a machine was hard reset and after the boot this user tried to re-open a file previously opened with full read/write access. This failed, many previously opened files were locked due to "currently n use by user xyz" problems, which were different user

[Samba] Re: How to handle domain logons if users using same accountname are logged on the same time?

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Rignaz
Big thanks to Steve Glasser and M. Mueller, got it running, thnx, but I got another anoying little problem.. On 3 machines so far it happened once or twice in the last two days that the desktop, startmenu and quick launch icons suddenly disappeared.. pressing F5 resolved it, though it's still ann

[Samba] Re: How to handle domain logons if users using same accountname are logged on the same time?

2006-09-30 Thread Michael Rignaz
I'd especially like to know how to force users to store their files on the home share rather than on "Desktop", without mounting the desktop path on the home network share.. How could I deny write access to the Desktop globally? Thnx a lot Regards, Michael Rignaz -- To unsubs

[Samba] Re: Accesserror when using smbpasswd

2006-09-30 Thread Michael Rignaz
Michael Rignaz schrieb: BTW: This is samba.latest 23c-1 Sorry for bothering this group, I just reinstalled debian (was a fresh install before too) and everything's fine now.. still don't know what the problem was though.. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following UR

[Samba] How to handle domain logons if users using same accountname are logged on the same time?

2006-09-30 Thread Michael Rignaz
;t know how I should/could handle this. Could someone plz point me to the right direction? Would be very appreciated and very very nice. Thnx, Regards, Michael Rignaz -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Re: Accesserror when using smbpasswd

2006-09-30 Thread Michael Rignaz
BTW: This is samba.latest 23c-1 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

[Samba] Accesserror when using smbpasswd

2006-09-30 Thread Michael Rignaz
Hi there.. after removing,installing, compiling samba, removing and again installing it using apt-get, smbd and nmbd wouldn't start anymore.. I then deleted all tdb's in /var/lib/samba, and reinstalled samba again. Smbd/nmbd then started, but now when I try to add a user using smbpass -a it it

[Samba] Re: Possible to have two SAMBA srvs act as one?

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Rignaz
Andrew Morgan wrote: Have you looked into WAN Accelerators? These are typically hardware devices placed at each end of the WAN link which do some sort of fancy mojo to reduce the perceived latency of the link. (Can you tell I have no clue how they really work?) Short of replicating all t

[Samba] Re: Possible to have two SAMBA srvs act as one?

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Rignaz
Andreas Moroder wrote: Hello Michael, whynot change to openoffice. I made a test with a 1580 KB xls. In openoffice format the file is 275 KB. Bye Andreas Hello Andreas, Wow, that's a difference! Didn't know that, maybe M$ Office 2007 will catch-up in terms of filesize with its xml-based f

[Samba] Re: Possible to have two SAMBA srvs act as one?

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Rignaz
Andreas Moroder schrieb: Hello, what type of files do you have to share ? Doc type files or database files ? Bye Andreas Hi Andreas, We just share doc type files, but some are up to 1MB Excel files. Thnx for your answers! I've instaled debian @ home now and will experiement a bit. Rega

[Samba] Re: Possible to have two SAMBA srvs act as one?

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Rignaz
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2006 10:11 AM, Michael Rignaz escreveu: Hi, is it possible to share write locks amongst two samba servers? We are experiencing performance issues all the time, because one location (location A) is

[Samba] Possible to have two SAMBA srvs act as one?

2006-09-10 Thread Michael Rignaz
Hi, is it possible to share write locks amongst two samba servers? We are experiencing performance issues all the time, because one location (location A) is connected via VPN to the main location (location B) and needs to access files hosted there on some samba shares. Now loc A gets its own s