[Samba] printing is broken at reboot - HELP

Hello, I am relying on my samba PDC (3.0.1pre3 release) for some of the network printing jobs. There is this annoying problem : Following a normal -peaceful shutdown/reboot I ALWAYS have to delete my existing printer definitions ex. xxx.tdb in the /var/cache/samba/printing directory as they g

[Samba] smbd eating 99% CPU what to do?

Do you know what can cause the smbd process to steal out the cpu usage (99%) and keep running like that for days? I have a Samba PDC 3.0.1pre3 running on top of RH9 2.4.20 kernel. Below is the current top report. Strangely, the PDC still responds in reasonable good response times to heavy networ

[Samba] smbd eating 99% CPU usage

Do you know what can cause the smbd process to steal out the cpu usage (99%) and keep running like that for days? Is there a spawn problem? I have a Samba PDC 3.0.1pre3 running on top of RH9 2.4.20 kernel based. Below is the current top report. What can be done to explain and prevent such situat

[Samba] how to make umask changes permanent

I am running a Samba 3 - Atalk environment for a large number of MAC / PC clients. How can I make umask changes affecting all users ( 002 for instance) to stay permanent (not being reset to default values at server restart) ? Do I have to edit the /etc/profile file accordingly? How?

[Samba] What circumstances migth favour frequently locked files

Gentlemen, I am running a RH9 - Samba PDC ( 3.0.1pre3) in a mixed W9X/XP/NT production environment and encountered a problem related to locked files. By tracing down the event I suspect it might have happened when a certain user tried to copy a large number of files from an NT server on to the S

RE: [Samba] Login-problem samba 3.0.2.a Win XP Prof

I know an unorthodox way of solving that. You may run msconfig and edit the Startup section. Simply uncheck the desktop entry at the end of the list. At restart you have to confirm the change you just have made and you will get rid of the desktop problem. Please let me know if you find out

[Samba] samba 3.0 doesn't lock Word files!!

Dear All , I am re-posting after a couple of weeks the following issue related to MS Word and Samba 3.0 hoping that this time somebody could help me unlock the mystery. I have installed Samba 3.0 rpm on RH 9 and cannot get past an elementary file lock issue such as opening a file through MS WORD

[Samba] very odd behavior for concurrent file access in Samba3.0 with MS Word

Dear All , I am re-posting after a couple of weeks the following issue related to MS Word and Samba 3.0 hoping that this time somebody could help me unlock the mystery. I have installed Samba 3.0 rpm on RH 9 and cannot get past an elementary file lock issue such as opening a file through MS WORD

[Samba] MS Word unable to sense file opening by other users

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[Samba] very odd behavior for concurrent file access in Samba3.0.0 with MS Word

Hello, I just installed Samba 3.0.0 on RH9 and began testing the concurrent file access behavior. Leaving all locks/oplocks by default, there is no way of preventing a second MSWord user from opening an already open file with no warning message (in a MS network the message would normall