2.2.8pre2 Compiler Warnings On Digital Unix 4.0D

2003-03-11 Thread Boyce, Nick
Following up my post on 4.March.2003 reporting ./configure failure on DU 4.0D for Samba 2.2.8pre2 --with-pam, I have now configured & compiled 2.2.8pre2 --with-winbind (but no PAM), and want to report the selection of scary warnings that the Compaq C compiler throws up by default. The following is

2.2.8pre2 Won't Configure On Digital Unix 4.0D

2003-03-04 Thread Boyce, Nick
I decided to have a look at 2.2.8pre2 on a Digital Unix box we run here - and "configure" runs fine like this : ./configure --with-winbind ... checking whether or not getgroups returns EGID too many times... no checking whether struct passwd has pw_comment... yes checking wheth

RE: Need help !!

2003-02-21 Thread Boyce, Nick
Dirk, > Several times I like to connect my WinXP client to the Fileserver and I can > see him but I cannot the directories how does it comes ?? [...] > Samba 2.0.4 fileserver 1) the "samba-technical" list is for discussion of Samba *development* issues, primarily by the Samba developers themsel

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-19 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 19 Feb 2003, Andrew Esh wrote: > It's probably a line count thing. The head of the patch contains a certain > range of lines that the patch should apply to. If you truncated the patch at > the bottom, the header could be telling patch it needs to add, for example, > 30 lines, while the patch te

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-18 Thread Boyce, Nick
ision 1.16.4.37 diff -u -u -p -r1.16.4.36 -r1.16.4.37 rediff: Not supported: -{ OK - I give up for now ... hlp :( [sorry .. for all this trouble over such a minor thing] Nick Boyce EDS Southwest Solution Centre, Bristol, UK -----Original Message- From: 'Martin Pool' [mailto:[

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-17 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 7 Feb 2003, Martin Poole wrote: > On 7 Feb 2003, "Boyce, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks - that was it. I now have a script /usr/local/bin/winbind, which >> does >> umask 000 >> /etc/init.d/winbind $1 > > You would be bet

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-07 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 7 Feb 2003, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 7 Feb 2003, "Boyce, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks - that was it. I now have a script /usr/local/bin/winbind, which >> does >>umask 000 >>/etc/init.d/winbind $1 >>uma

RE: Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-07 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 7 Feb 2003, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2003, "Boyce, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I find what seems to be an >> obvious, simple and annoying buggette - if I stop and restart winbind (the >> sort of thing you do a lot at this

Annoying Minor Bug In Winbind 2.2.x

2003-02-06 Thread Boyce, Nick
As per my message an hour or so ago, I'm trying to get the winbind that comes with Debian 3.0 Samba 2.2.3a-12 configured to allow me to telnet into the box with authentication handed off to a real NT domain. Anyway, even before I really get started, I find what seems to be an obvious, simple and a

RE: Trusted domains' users and Samba

2003-02-06 Thread Boyce, Nick
On 6th.Feb.2003 Szilva wrote : >> 2. What version of samba are you running? > The version is "2.2.3a-6 for Debian" that was shipped with > distribution (Woody). On behalf of yourself, your users, and Net users everywhere in general :), can I plead with you to install the later security-fixed ver

RE: tracking user logins

2002-11-28 Thread Boyce, Nick
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 19:55 PM, Jim Morris wrote: > I must say that I know of no NT/2000 option to allow only login from > one client PC, although I recall Netware having such an option. Agreed again. (I think you meant something different from the facility John Terpestra referre

Correction To DOMAIN_MEMBER.html

2002-11-14 Thread Boyce, Nick
[this is almost too trivial to bother with, but in the interests of accuracy ..] I just converted a Samba 2.2.3a-for-Debian server from being a stand-alone workgroup member using plain-text passwords into a full NT-administered domain member using encrypted passwords and security=domain. This bei

RE: Running smb without nmb? (Linux Suse 8.1 feature)

2002-10-28 Thread Boyce, Nick
[sorry - bit of a belated reply - I have a bit of a backlog to read] On 23rd.Oct.2002, Linda Walsh asked : > I recently upgraded my Linux distro to SuSE 8.1 which > came w/samba 2.2.5. > > A feature of the upgrade was that it 'split' the startup > script for samba from 1 script for _smb_ & _nmb_

RE: [Samba] Re: How Samba let us down

2002-10-25 Thread Boyce, Nick
Reading through Jeremy's eagerly awaited discourse on oplocks/share modes/locking, I read this bit : > ... if you need simultaneous > file access from a Windows and UNIX client you *must* have an > application that is written to lock records correctly on both > sides. Few applications are written

RE: Slow transfers from Win2K to Linux, but fast from Linux to Win2K

2002-09-18 Thread Boyce, Nick
Jordan Mack asked : > over 6MB/s from the Linux server to my Win2K machine, but when > sending a file from Win2K to Linux I'll be very lucky to get 2MB/s. > FTP transfers work great both ways at about 8MB/s. > > I've seen a few list entries about this, but I couldn't find one that > found a s

FW: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target-samba-3.0-alpha18

2002-07-24 Thread Boyce, Nick
em data (he still hasn't said what hardware architecture he's working on though). Nick Boyce EDS, Bristol, UK -Original Message- From: san [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 July 2002 17:27 To: Boyce, Nick Subject: Re: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target-samba-3.0-al

RE: Very bad performance when copying large files from windows to samba-share

2002-04-12 Thread Boyce, Nick
Lars, If you're talking about : * poor performance with PC -> Samba transfers * good performance with Samba to PC transfers then you may also want to review your setting for the "write raw" smb.conf parameter. For some bizarre reason several people have reported that this needs to be set