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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
-<chapter id="Portability">
-<chapterinfo>
- &author.jelmer;
- &author.jht;
- <!-- Some other people as well, but there were no author names in the text files this file is based on-->
-</chapterinfo>
-
-<title>Portability</title>
-
-<para>
-<indexterm><primary>platforms</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>compatible</primary></indexterm>
-Samba works on a wide range of platforms, but the interface all the
-platforms provide is not always compatible. This chapter contains
-platform-specific information about compiling and using Samba.</para>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>HPUX</title>
-
-<para>
-<indexterm><primary>/etc/logingroup</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>/etc/group</primary></indexterm>
-Hewlett-Packard's implementation of supplementary groups is nonstandard (for
-historical reasons). There are two group files, <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
-<filename>/etc/logingroup</filename>; the system maps UIDs to numbers using the former, but
-initgroups() reads the latter. Most system admins who know the ropes
-symlink <filename>/etc/group</filename> to <filename>/etc/logingroup</filename>
-(hard-link does not work for reasons too obtuse to go into here). initgroups() will complain if one of the
-groups you're in, in <filename>/etc/logingroup</filename>, has what it considers to be an invalid
-ID, which means outside the range <constant>[0..UID_MAX]</constant>, where <constant>UID_MAX</constant> is
-60000 currently on HP-UX. This precludes -2 and 65534, the usual <constant>nobody</constant>
-GIDs.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you encounter this problem, make sure the programs that are failing
-to initgroups() are run as users, not in any groups with GIDs outside the
-allowed range.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is documented in the HP manual pages under setgroups(2) and passwd(4).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-<indexterm><primary>gcc</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>ANSI compiler</primary></indexterm>
-On HP-UX you must use gcc or the HP ANSI compiler. The free compiler
-that comes with HP-UX is not ANSI compliant and cannot compile Samba.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>SCO UNIX</title>
-
-<para>
-If you run an old version of SCO UNIX, you may need to get important
-TCP/IP patches for Samba to work correctly. Without the patch, you may
-encounter corrupt data transfers using Samba.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The patch you need is UOD385 Connection Drivers SLS. It is available from
-SCO <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.sco.com/">ftp.sco.com</ulink>, directory SLS,
-files uod385a.Z and uod385a.ltr.Z).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The information provided here refers to an old version of SCO UNIX. If you require
-binaries for more recent SCO UNIX products, please contact SCO to obtain packages that are
-ready to install. You should also verify with SCO that your platform is up to date for the
-binary packages you will install. This is important if you wish to avoid data corruption
-problems with your installation. To build Samba for SCO UNIX products may
-require significant patching of Samba source code. It is much easier to obtain binary
-packages directly from SCO.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>DNIX</title>
-
-<para>
-DNIX has a problem with seteuid() and setegid(). These routines are
-needed for Samba to work correctly, but they were left out of the DNIX
-C library for some reason.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-For this reason Samba by default defines the macro NO_EID in the DNIX
-section of includes.h. This works around the problem in a limited way,
-but it is far from ideal, and some things still will not work right.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To fix the problem properly, you need to assemble the following two
-functions and then either add them to your C library or link them into
-Samba. Put the following in the file <filename>setegid.s</filename>:
-</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
- .globl _setegid
-_setegid:
- moveq #47,d0
- movl #100,a0
- moveq #1,d1
- movl 4(sp),a1
- trap #9
- bccs 1$
- jmp cerror
-1$:
- clrl d0
- rts
-</programlisting></para>
-
-<para>
-Put this in the file <filename>seteuid.s</filename>:
-</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
- .globl _seteuid
-_seteuid:
- moveq #47,d0
- movl #100,a0
- moveq #0,d1
- movl 4(sp),a1
- trap #9
- bccs 1$
- jmp cerror
-1$:
- clrl d0
- rts
-</programlisting></para>
-
-<para>
-After creating the files, you then assemble them using
-</para>
-
-<screen>
-&prompt;<userinput>as seteuid.s</userinput>
-&prompt;<userinput>as setegid.s</userinput>
-</screen>
-
-<para>
-which should produce the files <filename>seteuid.o</filename> and
-<filename>setegid.o</filename>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Next you need to add these to the LIBSM line in the DNIX section of
-the Samba Makefile. Your LIBSM line will look something like this:
-</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
-LIBSM = setegid.o seteuid.o -ln
-</programlisting></para>
-
-<para>
-You should then remove the line:
-</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
-#define NO_EID
-</programlisting></para>
-
-<para>from the DNIX section of <filename>includes.h</filename>.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Red Hat Linux</title>
-
-<para>
-By default during installation, some versions of Red Hat Linux add an
-entry to <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> as follows:
-<programlisting>
-127.0.0.1 loopback "hostname"."domainname"
-</programlisting>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-<indexterm><primary>loopback interface</primary></indexterm>
-This causes Samba to loop back onto the loopback interface.
-The result is that Samba fails to communicate correctly with
-the world and therefore may fail to correctly negotiate who
-is the master browse list holder and who is the master browser.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Corrective action: Delete the entry after the word "loopback"
-in the line starting 127.0.0.1.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>AIX: Sequential Read Ahead</title>
-<!-- From an email by William Jojo <jojowil@hvcc.edu> -->
-<para>
-Disabling sequential read ahead can improve Samba performance significantly
-when there is a relatively high level of multiprogramming (many smbd processes
-or mixed with another workload), not an abundance of physical memory or slower
-disk technology. These can cause AIX to have a higher WAIT values. Disabling
-sequential read-ahead can also have an adverse affect on other workloads in the
-system so you will need to evaluate other applications for impact.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-It is recommended to use the defaults provided by IBM, but if you experience a
-high amount of wait time, try disabling read-ahead with the following commands:
-</para>
-
-<para>
-For AIX 5.1 and earlier: <userinput>vmtune -r 0</userinput>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-For AIX 5.2 and later jfs filesystems: <userinput>ioo -o minpgahead=0</userinput>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-For AIX 5.2 and later jfs2 filesystems: <userinput>ioo -o j2_minPageReadAhead=0</userinput>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you have a mix of jfs and jfs2 filesystems on the same host, simply use both
-ioo commands.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Solaris</title>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Locking Improvements</title>
-
-<para>Some people have been experiencing problems with F_SETLKW64/fcntl
-when running Samba on Solaris. The built-in file-locking mechanism was
-not scalable. Performance would degrade to the point where processes would
-get into loops of trying to lock a file. It would try a lock, then fail,
-then try again. The lock attempt was failing before the grant was
-occurring. The visible manifestation of this was a handful of
-processes stealing all of the CPU, and when they were trussed, they would
-be stuck in F_SETLKW64 loops.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Please check with Sun support for current patches needed to fix this bug.
-The patch revision for 2.6 is 105181-34, for 8 is 108528-19, and for 9 is 112233-04.
-After the installation of these patches, it is recommended to reconfigure
-and rebuild Samba.
-</para>
-
-<para>Thanks to Joe Meslovich for reporting this.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="winbind-solaris9">
-<title>Winbind on Solaris 9</title>
-<para>
-Nsswitch on Solaris 9 refuses to use the Winbind NSS module. This behavior
-is fixed by Sun in patch <ulink
-url="http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&amp;type=collections&amp;max=50&amp;language=en&amp;queryKey5=112960;rev=14&amp;toDocument=yes">112960-14</ulink>.
-</para>
-</sect2>
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
diff --git a/docs-xml/Samba3-HOWTO/index.xml b/docs-xml/Samba3-HOWTO/index.xml
index ef463d41a1..fcf53db4f4 100644
--- a/docs-xml/Samba3-HOWTO/index.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/Samba3-HOWTO/index.xml
@@ -202,8 +202,6 @@ The chapters in this part each cover specific Samba features.
<?latex \cleardoublepage ?>
<xi:include href="TOSHARG-Compiling.xml"/>
<?latex \cleardoublepage ?>
- <xi:include href="TOSHARG-Portability.xml"/>
- <?latex \cleardoublepage ?>
<xi:include href="TOSHARG-Other-Clients.xml"/>
<?latex \cleardoublepage ?>
<xi:include href="TOSHARG-Speed.xml"/>