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-<chapter id="ClientApp">
-<title>Specific client application problems</title>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\MSOFFICE\SETUP.INI'"</title>
-<para>
-When installing MS Office on a Samba drive for which you have admin
-user permissions, ie. admin users = username, you will find the
-setup program unable to complete the installation.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To get around this problem, do the installation without admin user
-permissions The problem is that MS Office Setup checks that a file is
-rdonly by trying to open it for writing.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Admin users can always open a file for writing, as they run as root.
-You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R"
-to fix the owner.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</title>
-
-<para>
-Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation
-from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed
-product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be
-installed onto workstation clients.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves
-running <command>X:\setup /A</command>, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but
-rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target
-shared folder. For this process you need write privilidge to the share and it
-is desirable to enable file locking and share mode operation during this
-process.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Subsequent installation of MS Office from this share will FAIL unless certain
-precautions are taken. This failure will be caused by share mode operation
-which will prevent the MS Office installation process from re-opening various
-dynamic link library files and will cause sporadic file not found problems.
-</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>
-As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed
-set the following parameters on the share containing it:
-</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
- [MSOP95]
- path = /where_you_put_it
- comment = Your comment
- volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label"
- read only = yes
- available = yes
- share modes = no
- locking = no
- browseable = yes
- public = yes
-</programlisting></para>
-
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows
-workstation as follows: <command>\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</command>
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Microsoft Access database opening errors</title>
-
-<para>
-Here are some notes on running MS-Access on a Samba drive from <ulink url="stefank@esi.com.au">Stefan Kjellberg</ulink>
-</para>
-
-<para><simplelist>
-<member>Opening a database in 'exclusive' mode does NOT work. Samba ignores r/w/share modes on file open.</member>
-<member>Make sure that you open the database as 'shared' and to 'lock modified records'</member>
-<member>Of course locking must be enabled for the particular share (smb.conf)</member>
-</simplelist>
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-</chapter>
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-<chapter id="Config">
-<title>Configuration problems</title>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>I have set 'force user' and samba still makes 'root' the owner of all the files I touch!</title>
-<para>
-When you have a user in 'admin users', samba will always do file operations for
-this user as 'root', even if 'force user' has been set.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-</chapter>
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-<chapter id="errors">
-
-<title>Common errors</title>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Not listening for calling name</title>
-
-<para>
-<programlisting>
-Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN
-Not listening for calling name
-</programlisting>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you get this when talking to a Samba box then it means that your
-global "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba
-server to refuse the connection.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the
-global section of smb.conf.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning
-correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to
-be confirmed, but that is less likely.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>System Error 1240</title>
-
-<para>
-System error 1240 means that the client is refusing to talk
-to a non-encrypting server. Microsoft changed WinNT in service
-pack 3 to refuse to connect to servers that do not support
-SMB password encryption.
-</para>
-
-<para>There are two main solutions:
-<simplelist>
-<member>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of
-the samba HOWTO Collection</member>
-
-<member>disable this new behaviour in NT. See the section about
-Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection
-</member>
-</simplelist>
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>smbclient ignores -N !</title>
-
-<para>
-<quote>When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command
-<command>smbclient -N -L</command>
-the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server.
-It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our
-NT servers.
-</quote>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-No, it does not ignore -N, it is just that your server rejected the
-null password in the connection, so smbclient prompts for a password
-to try again.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To get the behaviour that you probably want use <command>smbclient -L host -U%</command>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This will set both the username and password to null, which is
-an anonymous login for SMB. Using -N would only set the password
-to null, and this is not accepted as an anonymous login for most
-SMB servers.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</title>
-
-<para>
-Some OSes (notably Linux) default to auto detection of file type on
-cdroms and do cr/lf translation. This is a very bad idea when use with
-Samba. It causes all sorts of stuff ups.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To overcome this problem use conv=binary when mounting the cdrom
-before exporting it with Samba.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Why can users access home directories of other users?</title>
-
-<para>
-<quote>
-We are unable to keep individual users from mapping to any other user's
-home directory once they have supplied a valid password! They only need
-to enter their own password. I have not found *any* method that I can
-use to configure samba to enforce that only a user may map their own
-home directory.
-</quote>
-</para>
-
-<para><quote>
-User xyzzy can map his home directory. Once mapped user xyzzy can also map
-*anyone* elses home directory!
-</quote></para>
-
-<para>
-This is not a security flaw, it is by design. Samba allows
-users to have *exactly* the same access to the UNIX filesystem
-as they would if they were logged onto the UNIX box, except
-that it only allows such views onto the file system as are
-allowed by the defined shares.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This means that if your UNIX home directories are set up
-such that one user can happily cd into another users
-directory and do an ls, the UNIX security solution is to
-change the UNIX file permissions on the users home directories
-such that the cd and ls would be denied.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Samba tries very hard not to second guess the UNIX administrators
-security policies, and trusts the UNIX admin to set
-the policies and permissions he or she desires.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Samba does allow the setup you require when you have set the
-"only user = yes" option on the share, is that you have not set the
-valid users list for the share.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Note that only user works in conjunction with the users= list,
-so to get the behavior you require, add the line :
-<programlisting>
-users = %S
-</programlisting>
-this is equivalent to:
-<programlisting>
-valid users = %S
-</programlisting>
-to the definition of the [homes] share, as recommended in
-the smb.conf man page.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Until a few minutes after samba has started, clients get the error "Domain Controller Unavailable"</title>
-<para>
-A domain controller has to announce on the network who it is. This usually takes a while.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>I'm getting "open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Cannot assign requested" in the logs</title>
-<para>Your loopback device isn't working correctly. Make sure it's running.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
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-<chapter id="features">
-
-<title>Features</title>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How can I prevent my samba server from being used to distribute the Nimda worm?</title>
-
-<para>Author: HASEGAWA Yosuke (translated by <ulink url="monyo@samba.gr.jp">TAKAHASHI Motonobu</ulink>)</para>
-
-<para>
-Nimba Worm is infected through shared disks on a network, as well as through
-Microsoft IIS, Internet Explorer and mailer of Outlook series.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-At this time, the worm copies itself by the name *.nws and *.eml on
-the shared disk, moreover, by the name of Riched20.dll in the folder
-where *.doc file is included.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To prevent infection through the shared disk offered by Samba, set
-up as follows:
-</para>
-
-<para>
-<programlisting>
-[global]
- ...
- # This can break Administration installations of Office2k.
- # in that case, don't veto the riched20.dll
- veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/
-</programlisting>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-By setting the "veto files" parameter, matched files on the Samba
-server are completely hidden from the clients and making it impossible
-to access them at all.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-In addition to it, the following setting is also pointed out by the
-samba-jp:09448 thread: when the
-"readme.txt.{3050F4D8-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B}" file exists on
-a Samba server, it is visible only as "readme.txt" and dangerous
-code may be executed if this file is double-clicked.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Setting the following,
-<programlisting>
- veto files = /*.{*}/
-</programlisting>
-any files having CLSID in its file extension will be inaccessible from any
-clients.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This technical article is created based on the discussion of
-samba-jp:09448 and samba-jp:10900 threads.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How can I use samba as a fax server?</title>
-
-<para>Contributor: <ulink url="mailto:zuber@berlin.snafu.de">Gerhard Zuber</ulink></para>
-
-<para>Requirements:
-<simplelist>
-<member>UNIX box (Linux preferred) with SAMBA and a faxmodem</member>
-<member>ghostscript package</member>
-<member>mgetty+sendfax package</member>
-<member>pbm package (portable bitmap tools)</member>
-</simplelist>
-</para>
-
-<para>First, install and configure the required packages. Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax
-manual carefully.</para>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Tools for printing faxes</title>
-
-<para>Your incomed faxes are in:
-<filename>/var/spool/fax/incoming</filename></para>
-
-<para>print it with:</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
-for i in *
-do
-g3cat $i | g3tolj | lpr -P hp
-done
-</programlisting>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-g3cat is in the tools-section, g3tolj is in the contrib-section
-for printing to HP lasers.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you want to produce files for displaying and printing with Windows, use
-some tools from the pbm-package like the following command: <command>g3cat $i | g3topbm - | ppmtopcx - >$i.pcx</command>
-and view it with your favourite Windows tool (maybe paintbrush)
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Making the fax-server</title>
-
-<para>fetch the file <filename>mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter</filename> and place it in <filename>/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/</filename>(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)</para>
-
-<para>prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file
-edit fax/faxspool.in and reinstall or change the final
-/usr/local/bin/faxspool too.
-</para>
-
-<para><programlisting>
-if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \
- "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" -o "$user" = "bin" ]
-</programlisting></para>
-
-<para>find the first line and change it to the second.</para>
-
-<para>
-make sure you have pbmtext (from the pbm-package). This is
-needed for creating the small header line on each page.
-</para>
-
-<para>Prepare your faxheader <filename>/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader</filename></para>
-
-<para>
-Edit your /etc/printcap file:
-<programlisting>
-# FAX
-lp3|fax:\
- :lp=/dev/null:\
- :sd=/usr/spool/lp3:\
- :if=/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxfilter:sh:sf:mx#0:\
- :lf=/usr/spool/lp3/fax-log:
-</programlisting></para>
-
-<para>Now, edit your <filename>smb.conf</filename> so you have a smb based printer named "fax"</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Installing the client drivers</title>
-
-<para>
-Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via
-TCP/IP-printing (lpd-system) or via SAMBA (windows printing).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-On every system you are able to produce postscript-files you
-are ready to fax.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-On Windows 3.1 95 and NT:
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Install a printer wich produces postscript output,
- e.g. apple laserwriter
-</para>
-
-<para>Connect the "fax" to your printer.</para>
-
-<para>
-Now write your first fax. Use your favourite wordprocessor,
-write, winword, notepad or whatever you want, and start
-with the headerpage.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Usually each fax has a header page. It carries your name,
-your address, your phone/fax-number.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-It carries also the recipient, his address and his *** fax
-number ***. Now here is the trick:
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Use the text:
-<programlisting>
-Fax-Nr: 123456789
-</programlisting>
-as the recipients fax-number. Make sure this text does not
-occur in regular text ! Make sure this text is not broken
-by formatting information, e.g. format it as a single entity.
-(Windows Write and Win95 Wordpad are functional, maybe newer
- versions of Winword are breaking formatting information).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The trick is that postscript output is human readable and
-the faxfilter program scans the text for this pattern and
-uses the found number as the fax-destination-number.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Now print your fax through the fax-printer and it will be
-queued for later transmission. Use faxrunq for sending the
-queue out.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Example smb.conf</title>
-
-<para><programlisting>
-[global]
- printcap name = /etc/printcap
- print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P %p %s
- lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P %p
- lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P %p %j
-
-[fax]
- comment = FAX (mgetty+sendfax)
- path = /tmp
- printable = yes
- public = yes
- writable = no
- create mode = 0700
- browseable = yes
- guest ok = no
-</programlisting></para>
-
-</sect2>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</title>
-
-<para>
-We wish to help those folks who wish to use the ISC DHCP Server and provide
-sample configuration settings. Most operating systems today come ship with
-the ISC DHCP Server. ISC DHCP is available from:
-<ulink url="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp">ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp</ulink>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Incorrect configuration of MS Windows clients (Windows9X, Windows ME, Windows
-NT/2000) will lead to problems with browsing and with general network
-operation. Windows 9X/ME users often report problems where the TCP/IP and related
-network settings will inadvertantly become reset at machine start-up resulting
-in loss of configuration settings. This results in increased maintenance
-overheads as well as serious user frustration.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-In recent times users on one mailing list incorrectly attributed the cause of
-network operating problems to incorrect configuration of Samba.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-One user insisted that the only way to provent Windows95 from periodically
-performing a full system reset and hardware detection process on start-up was
-to install the NetBEUI protocol in addition to TCP/IP. This assertion is not
-correct.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-In the first place, there is NO need for NetBEUI. All Microsoft Windows clients
-natively run NetBIOS over TCP/IP, and that is the only protocol that is
-recognised by Samba. Installation of NetBEUI and/or NetBIOS over IPX will
-cause problems with browse list operation on most networks. Even Windows NT
-networks experience these problems when incorrectly configured Windows95
-systems share the same name space. It is important that only those protocols
-that are strictly needed for site specific reasons should EVER be installed.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Secondly, and totally against common opinion, DHCP is NOT an evil design but is
-an extension of the BOOTP protocol that has been in use in Unix environments
-for many years without any of the melt-down problems that some sensationalists
-would have us believe can be experienced with DHCP. In fact, DHCP in covered by
-rfc1541 and is a very safe method of keeping an MS Windows desktop environment
-under control and for ensuring stable network operation.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Please note that MS Windows systems as of MS Windows NT 3.1 and MS Windows 95
-store all network configuration settings a registry. There are a few reports
-from MS Windows network administrators that warrant mention here. It would appear
-that when one sets certain MS TCP/IP protocol settings (either directly or via
-DHCP) that these do get written to the registry. Even though a subsequent
-change of setting may occur the old value may persist in the registry. This
-has been known to create serious networking problems.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-An example of this occurs when a manual TCP/IP environment is configured to
-include a NetBIOS Scope. In this event, when the administrator then changes the
-configuration of the MS TCP/IP protocol stack, without first deleting the
-current settings, by simply checking the box to configure the MS TCP/IP stack
-via DHCP then the NetBIOS Scope that is still persistent in the registry WILL be
-applied to the resulting DHCP offered settings UNLESS the DHCP server also sets
-a NetBIOS Scope. It may therefore be prudent to forcibly apply a NULL NetBIOS
-Scope from your DHCP server. The can be done in the dhcpd.conf file with the
-parameter:
-<command>option netbios-scope "";</command>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-While it is true that the Microsoft DHCP server that comes with Windows NT
-Server provides only a sub-set of rfc1533 functionality this is hardly an issue
-in those sites that already have a large investment and commitment to Unix
-systems and technologies. The current state of the art of the DHCP Server
-specification in covered in rfc2132.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</title>
-
-<para>
-SMB network clients need to be configured so that all standard TCP/IP name to
-address resolution works correctly. Once this has been achieved the SMB
-environment provides additional tools and services that act as helper agents in
-the translation of SMB (NetBIOS) names to their appropriate IP Addresses. One
-such helper agent is the NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS) or as Microsoft called it
-in their Windows NT Server implementation WINS (Windows Internet Name Server).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-A client needs to be configured so that it has a unique Machine (Computer)
-Name.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This can be done, but needs a few NT registry hacks and you need to be able to
-speak UNICODE, which is of course no problem for a True Wizzard(tm) :)
-Instructions on how to do this (including a small util for less capable
-Wizzards) can be found at
-</para>
-
-<para><ulink url="http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html">http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html</ulink></para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</title>
-
-<para>
-Jim barry has written an <ulink url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/contributed/fixcrlf.zip">
-excellent drag-and-drop cr/lf converter for
-windows</ulink>. Just drag your file onto the icon and it converts the file.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The utilities unix2dos and dos2unix(in the mtools package) should do
-the job under unix.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Does samba have wins replication support?</title>
-
-<para>
-At the time of writing there is currently being worked on a wins replication implementation(wrepld).
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
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-<chapter id="general">
-<title>General Information</title>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Where can I get it?</title>
-<para>
-The Samba suite is available at the <ulink url="http://samba.org/">samba website</ulink>.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>What do the version numbers mean?</title>
-<para>
-It is not recommended that you run a version of Samba with the word
-"alpha" in its name unless you know what you are doing and are willing
-to do some debugging. Many, many people just get the latest
-recommended stable release version and are happy. If you are brave, by
-all means take the plunge and help with the testing and development -
-but don't install it on your departmental server. Samba is typically
-very stable and safe, and this is mostly due to the policy of many
-public releases.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-How the scheme works:
-<simplelist>
-<member>When major changes are made the version number is increased. For
-example, the transition from 1.9.15 to 1.9.16. However, this version
-number will not appear immediately and people should continue to use
-1.9.15 for production systems (see next point.)</member>
-
-<member>Just after major changes are made the software is considered
-unstable, and a series of alpha releases are distributed, for example
-1.9.16alpha1. These are for testing by those who know what they are
-doing. The "alpha" in the filename will hopefully scare off those who
-are just looking for the latest version to install.</member>
-
-<member>When Andrew thinks that the alphas have stabilised to the point
-where he would recommend new users install it, he renames it to the
-same version number without the alpha, for example 1.9.16.</member>
-
-<member>Inevitably bugs are found in the "stable" releases and minor patch
-levels are released which give us the pXX series, for example 1.9.16p2.</member>
-</simplelist>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-So the progression goes:
-
-<programlisting>
-1.9.15p7 (production)
-1.9.15p8 (production)
-1.9.16alpha1 (test sites only)
-:
-1.9.16alpha20 (test sites only)
-1.9.16 (production)
-1.9.16p1 (production)
-</programlisting>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The above system means that whenever someone looks at the samba ftp
-site they will be able to grab the highest numbered release without an
-alpha in the name and be sure of getting the current recommended
-version.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>What platforms are supported?</title>
-<para>
-Many different platforms have run Samba successfully. The platforms
-most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.</para>
-
-<para>
-At time of writing, there is support (or has been support for in earlier
-versions):
-</para>
-
-<simplelist>
-<member>A/UX 3.0</member>
-<member>AIX</member>
-<member>Altos Series 386/1000</member>
-<member>Amiga</member>
-<member>Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</member>
-<member>BSDI </member>
-<member>B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</member>
-<member>Cray, Unicos 8.0</member>
-<member>Convex</member>
-<member>DGUX. </member>
-<member>DNIX.</member>
-<member>FreeBSD</member>
-<member>HP-UX</member>
-<member>Intergraph. </member>
-<member>Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</member>
-<member>LYNX 2.3.0</member>
-<member>MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</member>
-<member>Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</member>
-<member>NetBSD</member>
-<member>NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</member>
-<member>OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</member>
-<member>OSF1</member>
-<member>QNX 4.22</member>
-<member>RiscIX. </member>
-<member>RISCOs 5.0B</member>
-<member>SEQUENT. </member>
-<member>SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</member>
-<member>SGI.</member>
-<member>SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</member>
-<member>SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</member>
-<member>SUNOS 4</member>
-<member>SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</member>
-<member>Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</member>
-<member>SVR4</member>
-<member>System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</member>
-<member>ULTRIX.</member>
-<member>UNIXWARE</member>
-<member>UXP/DS</member>
-</simplelist>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</title>
-<para>
-Look at <ulink url="http://samba.org/samba/archives.html">the samba mailing list page</ulink>
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Pizza supply details</title>
-<para>
-Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will
-already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask
-for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him
-pizza. This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is
-twenty thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
-and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
-which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
-one night, courtesy of someone in the US.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
-card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
-collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
-did this.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
-no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
-useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
-from Germany :-)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
-flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
-hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
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-<chapter id="Install">
-<title>Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>I can't see the Samba server in any browse lists!</title>
-<para>
-See Browsing.html in the docs directory of the samba source
-for more information on browsing.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If your GUI client does not permit you to select non-browsable
-servers, you may need to do so on the command line. For example, under
-Lan Manager you might connect to the above service as disk drive M:
-thusly:
-<programlisting>
- net use M: \\mary\fred
-</programlisting>
-The details of how to do this and the specific syntax varies from
-client to client - check your client's documentation.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Some files that I KNOW are on the server doesn't show up when I view the files from my client!</title>
-<para>See the next question.</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Some files on the server show up with really wierd filenames when I view the files from my client!</title>
-<para>
-If you check what files are not showing up, you will note that they
-are files which contain upper case letters or which are otherwise not
-DOS-compatible (ie, they are not legal DOS filenames for some reason).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The Samba server can be configured either to ignore such files
-completely, or to present them to the client in "mangled" form. If you
-are not seeing the files at all, the Samba server has most likely been
-configured to ignore them. Consult the man page smb.conf(5) for
-details of how to change this - the parameter you need to set is
-"mangled names = yes".
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>My client reports "cannot locate specified computer" or similar</title>
-<para>
-This indicates one of three things: You supplied an incorrect server
-name, the underlying TCP/IP layer is not working correctly, or the
-name you specified cannot be resolved.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-After carefully checking that the name you typed is the name you
-should have typed, try doing things like pinging a host or telnetting
-to somewhere on your network to see if TCP/IP is functioning OK. If it
-is, the problem is most likely name resolution.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If your client has a facility to do so, hardcode a mapping between the
-hosts IP and the name you want to use. For example, with Lan Manager
-or Windows for Workgroups you would put a suitable entry in the file
-LMHOSTS. If this works, the problem is in the communication between
-your client and the netbios name server. If it does not work, then
-there is something fundamental wrong with your naming and the solution
-is beyond the scope of this document.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you do not have any server on your subnet supplying netbios name
-resolution, hardcoded mappings are your only option. If you DO have a
-netbios name server running (such as the Samba suite's nmbd program),
-the problem probably lies in the way it is set up. Refer to Section
-Two of this FAQ for more ideas.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-By the way, remember to REMOVE the hardcoded mapping before further
-tests :-)
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</title>
-<para>
-This message indicates that your client CAN locate the specified
-server, which is a good start, but that it cannot find a service of
-the name you gave.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The first step is to check the exact name of the service you are
-trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it
-exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's docs on how
-to specify a service name correctly), read on:
-</para>
-
-<simplelist>
-<member>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</member>
-<member>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</member>
-<member>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</member>
-<member>Some clients force service names into upper case.</member>
-</simplelist>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Printing doesn't work</title>
-<para>
-Make sure that the specified print command for the service you are
-connecting to is correct and that it has a fully-qualified path (eg.,
-use "/usr/bin/lpr" rather than just "lpr").
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Make sure that the spool directory specified for the service is
-writable by the user connected to the service. In particular the user
-"nobody" often has problems with printing, even if it worked with an
-earlier version of Samba. Try creating another guest user other than
-"nobody".
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Make sure that the user specified in the service is permitted to use
-the printer.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Check the debug log produced by smbd. Search for the printer name and
-see if the log turns up any clues. Note that error messages to do with
-a service ipc$ are meaningless - they relate to the way the client
-attempts to retrieve status information when using the LANMAN1
-protocol.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If using WfWg then you need to set the default protocol to TCP/IP, not
-Netbeui. This is a WfWg bug.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If using the Lanman1 protocol (the default) then try switching to
-coreplus. Also not that print status error messages don't mean
-printing won't work. The print status is received by a different
-mechanism.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>My client reports "This server is not configured to list shared resources"</title>
-<para>
-Your guest account is probably invalid for some reason. Samba uses the
-guest account for browsing in smbd. Check that your guest account is
-valid.
-</para>
-
-<para>See also 'guest account' in smb.conf man page.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Log message "you appear to have a trapdoor uid system" </title>
-<para>
-This can have several causes. It might be because you are using a uid
-or gid of 65535 or -1. This is a VERY bad idea, and is a big security
-hole. Check carefully in your /etc/passwd file and make sure that no
-user has uid 65535 or -1. Especially check the "nobody" user, as many
-broken systems are shipped with nobody setup with a uid of 65535.
-</para>
-
-<para>It might also mean that your OS has a trapdoor uid/gid system :-)</para>
-
-<para>
-This means that once a process changes effective uid from root to
-another user it can't go back to root. Unfortunately Samba relies on
-being able to change effective uid from root to non-root and back
-again to implement its security policy. If your OS has a trapdoor uid
-system this won't work, and several things in Samba may break. Less
-things will break if you use user or server level security instead of
-the default share level security, but you may still strike
-problems.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The problems don't give rise to any security holes, so don't panic,
-but it does mean some of Samba's capabilities will be unavailable.
-In particular you will not be able to connect to the Samba server as
-two different uids at once. This may happen if you try to print as a
-"guest" while accessing a share as a normal user. It may also affect
-your ability to list the available shares as this is normally done as
-the guest user.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Complain to your OS vendor and ask them to fix their system.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Note: the reason why 65535 is a VERY bad choice of uid and gid is that
-it casts to -1 as a uid, and the setreuid() system call ignores (with
-no error) uid changes to -1. This means any daemon attempting to run
-as uid 65535 will actually run as root. This is not good!
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</title>
-<para>
-This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Internally, Samba maintains time in traditional Unix format,
-namely, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Universal Time
-(or ``GMT''), not counting leap seconds.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-On the server side, Samba uses the Unix TZ variable to convert
-internal timestamps to and from local time. So on the server side, there are
-two things to get right.
-<simplelist>
-<member>The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time. Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.</member>
-<member>The TZ environment variable must be set on the server before Samba is invoked. The details of this depend on the server OS, but typically you must edit a file whose name is /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/default/init, or run the command `zic -l'.</member>
-</simplelist>
-</para>
-
-<para>TZ must have the correct value.</para>
-
-<para>
-If possible, use geographical time zone settings
-(e.g. TZ='America/Los_Angeles' or perhaps
- TZ=':US/Pacific'). These are supported by most
-popular Unix OSes, are easier to get right, and are
-more accurate for historical timestamps. If your
-operating system has out-of-date tables, you should be
-able to update them from the public domain time zone
-tables at <ulink url="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</ulink>.
-</para>
-
-<para>If your system does not support geographical timezone
-settings, you must use a Posix-style TZ strings, e.g.
-TZ='PST8PDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' for US Pacific time.
-Posix TZ strings can take the following form (with optional
- items in brackets):
-<programlisting>
- StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]
-</programlisting>
- where:
-</para>
-
-<para><simplelist>
-<member>`Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').</member>
-<member>`Offset' is the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. `8').
-Prepend a `-' if you are ahead of UTC, and
-append `:30' if you are at a half-hour offset.
-Omit all the remaining items if you do not use
-daylight-saving time.</member>
-
-<member>`Dst' is the daylight-saving time designation
-(e.g. `PDT').</member>
-
-<member>The optional second `Offset' is the number of
-hours that daylight-saving time is behind UTC.
-The default is 1 hour ahead of standard time.
-</member>
-
-<member>`Date/Time,Date/Time' specify when daylight-saving
-time starts and ends. The format for a date is
-`Mm.n.d', which specifies the dth day (0 is Sunday)
-of the nth week of the mth month, where week 5 means
-the last such day in the month. The format for a
-time is [h]h[:mm[:ss]], using a 24-hour clock.
-</member>
-
-</simplelist>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Other Posix string formats are allowed but you don't want
-to know about them.</para>
-
-<para>
-On the client side, you must make sure that your client's clock and
-time zone is also set appropriately. [[I don't know how to do this.]]
-Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due
-to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time
-zones.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1>
-<title>How do I set the printer driver name correctly?</title>
-<para>Question:
-<quote> On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer".
- Enter ["\\ptdi270\ps1"] in the box of printer. I got the
- following error message
- </quote></para>
- <para>
- <programlisting>
- You do not have sufficient access to your machine
- to connect to the selected printer, since a driver
- needs to be installed locally.
- </programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>Answer:</para>
-
- <para>In the more recent versions of Samba you can now set the "printer
-driver" in smb.conf. This tells the client what driver to use. For
-example:</para>
-<para><programlisting>
- printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L
-</programlisting></para>
-<para>With this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
-exactly right.</para>
-
-<para>To find the exact string to use, you need to get to the dialog box in
-your client where you select which printer driver to install. The
-correct strings for all the different printers are shown in a listbox
-in that dialog box.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
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-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [
-<!ENTITY general SYSTEM "general.sgml">
-<!ENTITY install SYSTEM "install.sgml">
-<!ENTITY errors SYSTEM "errors.sgml">
-<!ENTITY clientapp SYSTEM "clientapp.sgml">
-<!ENTITY features SYSTEM "features.sgml">
-<!ENTITY config SYSTEM "config.sgml">
-]>
-
-<book id="Samba-FAQ">
-<title>Samba FAQ</title>
-
-<bookinfo>
- <author><surname>Samba Team</surname></author>
- <pubdate>October 2002</pubdate>
-</bookinfo>
-
-<dedication>
-<para>
-This is the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document for
-Samba, the free and very popular SMB server product. An SMB server
-allows file and printer connections from clients such as Windows,
-OS/2, Linux and others. Current to version 3.0. Please send any
-corrections to the samba documentation mailinglist at
-<ulink url="mailto:samba-doc@samba.org">samba-doc@samba.org</ulink>.
-This FAQ was based on the old Samba FAQ by Dan Shearer and Paul Blackman,
-and the old samba text documents which were mostly written by John Terpstra.
-</para>
-</dedication>
-
-&general;
-&install;
-&config;
-&clientapp;
-&errors;
-&features;
-</book>