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diff --git a/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html b/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html index 351e88acfa..3193311d1f 100644 --- a/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html +++ b/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 3. Specific client application problems</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-Install.html" title="Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 4. 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Specific client application problems</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2816576">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2815108">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2816253">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816576"></a>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 3. Specific client application problems</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-Install.html" title="Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 4. Common errors"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 3. 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Specific client application problems</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2868727">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2815168">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2874026">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2868727"></a>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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. @@ -9,9 +8,9 @@ permissions The problem is that MS Office Setup checks that a file is rdonly by trying to open it for writing. </p><p> 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" +You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R" to fix the owner. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815108"></a>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815168"></a>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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 @@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ set the following parameters on the share containing it: [MSOP95] path = /where_you_put_it comment = Your comment - volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label" + volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label" read only = yes available = yes share modes = no @@ -45,8 +44,8 @@ set the following parameters on the share containing it: browseable = yes public = yes </pre></li><li><p>Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows -workstation as follows: <b class="command">\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</b> -</p></li></ul></div></div><div xmlns:ns3="" class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816253"></a>Microsoft Access database opening errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +workstation as follows: <b class="command">\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</b> +</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874026"></a>Microsoft Access database opening errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Here are some notes on running MS-Access on a Samba drive from <a href="stefank@esi.com.au" target="_top">Stefan Kjellberg</a> -</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Opening a database in 'exclusive' mode does NOT work. Samba ignores r/w/share modes on file open.</td></tr><tr><td>Make sure that you open the database as 'shared' and to 'lock modified records'</td></tr><tr><td>Of course locking must be enabled for the particular share (smb.conf)</td></tr></table><ns3:p> -</ns3:p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Install.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 4. Common errors</td></tr></table></div></body></html> +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Opening a database in 'exclusive' mode does NOT work. Samba ignores r/w/share modes on file open.</td></tr><tr><td>Make sure that you open the database as 'shared' and to 'lock modified records'</td></tr><tr><td>Of course locking must be enabled for the particular share (smb.conf)</td></tr></table><p> +</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Install.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 2. 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Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2816194">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2816881">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816194"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter 1. General Information"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 3. Specific client application problems"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. 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Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2868750">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2818341">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2868750"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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. @@ -8,7 +7,7 @@ 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: -</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div xmlns:ns2="" class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816881"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2818341"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com. </p><p> Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings. @@ -16,12 +15,12 @@ Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings. 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. -</p><ns2:p> +</p><p> 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. -</ns2:p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time. Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.</td></tr><tr><td>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'.</td></tr></table><ns2:p> -</ns2:p><p>TZ must have the correct value.</p><p> +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time. Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.</td></tr><tr><td>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'.</td></tr></table><p> +</p><p>TZ must have the correct value.</p><p> If possible, use geographical time zone settings (e.g. TZ='America/Los_Angeles' or perhaps TZ=':US/Pacific'). These are supported by most @@ -30,16 +29,16 @@ 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 <a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/" target="_top">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</a>. -</p><ns2:p>If your system does not support geographical timezone +</p><p>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): -</ns2:p><pre class="programlisting"> +</p><pre class="programlisting"> StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time] -</pre><ns2:p> +</pre><p> where: -</ns2:p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>`Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').</td></tr><tr><td>`Offset' is the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. `8'). +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>`Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').</td></tr><tr><td>`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 @@ -53,8 +52,8 @@ time starts and ends. The format for a date is 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. -</td></tr></table><ns2:p> -</ns2:p><p> +</td></tr></table><p> +</p><p> Other Posix string formats are allowed but you don't want to know about them.</p><p> On the client side, you must make sure that your client's clock and diff --git a/docs/faq/FAQ-errors.html b/docs/faq/FAQ-errors.html index 5f9a5f54b4..ed896b9805 100644 --- a/docs/faq/FAQ-errors.html +++ b/docs/faq/FAQ-errors.html @@ -1,35 +1,34 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 4. Common errors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 3. 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Common errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2815002">Not listening for calling name</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2816347">System Error 1240</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2816385">smbclient ignores -N !</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2816438">The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</a></dt></dl></div><div xmlns:ns4="" class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815002"></a>Not listening for calling name</h2></div></div><div></div></div><ns4:p> -</ns4:p><pre class="programlisting"> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 4. Common errors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 3. Specific client application problems"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-features.html" title="Chapter 5. Features"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. Common errors</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-features.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-errors"></a>Chapter 4. Common errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2815122">Not listening for calling name</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2874876">System Error 1240</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2874916">smbclient ignores -N !</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2874971">The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815122"></a>Not listening for calling name</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p><pre class="programlisting"> Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN Not listening for calling name -</pre><ns4:p> -</ns4:p><p> +</pre><p> +</p><p> 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 +global "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba server to refuse the connection. </p><p> -Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the +Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the global section of smb.conf. </p><p> 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. -</p></div><div xmlns:ns5="" class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816347"></a>System Error 1240</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874876"></a>System Error 1240</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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. -</p><ns5:p>There are two main solutions: -</ns5:p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of +</p><p>There are two main solutions: +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of the samba HOWTO Collection</td></tr><tr><td>disable this behaviour in NT. See the section about -Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection -</td></tr></table><ns5:p> -</ns5:p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816385"></a>smbclient ignores -N !</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection +</td></tr></table><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874916"></a>smbclient ignores -N !</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> “<span class="quote">When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command <b class="command">smbclient -N -L</b> 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 +It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our NT servers. </span>” </p><p> @@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ 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. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816438"></a>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874971"></a>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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. 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Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax -manual carefully.</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2814278"></a>Tools for printing faxes</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Your incomed faxes are in: +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 5. Features</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 4. Common errors"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 5. 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Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax +manual carefully.</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874300"></a>Tools for printing faxes</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Your incomed faxes are in: <tt class="filename">/var/spool/fax/incoming</tt>. Print it with:</p><pre class="programlisting"> for i in * do g3cat $i | g3tolj | lpr -P hp done -</pre><ns6:p> -</ns6:p><p> +</pre><p> +</p><p> g3cat is in the tools-section, g3tolj is in the contrib-section for printing to HP lasers. </p><p> If you want to produce files for displaying and printing with Windows, use some tools from the pbm-package like the following command: <b class="command">g3cat $i | g3topbm - | ppmtopcx - >$i.pcx</b> and view it with your favourite Windows tool (maybe paintbrush) -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2814327"></a>Making the fax-server</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>fetch the file <tt class="filename">mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter</tt> and place it in <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/</tt>(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)</p><p>prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874353"></a>Making the fax-server</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>fetch the file <tt class="filename">mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter</tt> and place it in <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/</tt>(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)</p><p>prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file edit fax/faxspool.in and reinstall or change the final /usr/local/bin/faxspool too. </p><pre class="programlisting"> -if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \ - "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" -o "$user" = "bin" ] +if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \ + "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" -o "$user" = "bin" ] </pre><p>find the first line and change it to the second.</p><p> make sure you have pbmtext (from the pbm-package). This is needed for creating the small header line on each page. -</p><p>Prepare your faxheader <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader</tt></p><ns6:p> +</p><p>Prepare your faxheader <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader</tt></p><p> Edit your /etc/printcap file: -</ns6:p><pre class="programlisting"> +</p><pre class="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: -</pre><p>Now, edit your <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> so you have a smb based printer named "fax"</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2814420"></a>Installing the client drivers</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> -Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via +</pre><p>Now, edit your <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> so you have a smb based printer named "fax"</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874445"></a>Installing the client drivers</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via TCP/IP-printing (lpd-system) or via SAMBA (windows printing). </p><p> On every system you are able to produce postscript-files you @@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ On Windows 3.1 95 and NT: </p><p> Install a printer wich produces postscript output, e.g. apple laserwriter -</p><p>Connect the "fax" to your printer.</p><p> +</p><p>Connect the "fax" to your printer.</p><p> Now write your first fax. Use your favourite wordprocessor, write, winword, notepad or whatever you want, and start with the headerpage. @@ -55,17 +54,17 @@ your address, your phone/fax-number. </p><p> It carries also the recipient, his address and his *** fax number ***. Now here is the trick: -</p><ns6:p> +</p><p> Use the text: -</ns6:p><pre class="programlisting"> +</p><pre class="programlisting"> Fax-Nr: 123456789 -</pre><ns6:p> +</pre><p> 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). -</ns6:p><p> +</p><p> 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. @@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ uses the found number as the fax-destination-number. Now print your fax through the fax-printer and it will be queued for later transmission. Use faxrunq for sending the queue out. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2814505"></a>Example smb.conf</h3></div></div><div></div></div><pre class="programlisting"> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2874838"></a>Example smb.conf</h3></div></div><div></div></div><pre class="programlisting"> [global] printcap name = /etc/printcap print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P %p %s @@ -89,7 +88,7 @@ queue out. create mode = 0700 browseable = yes guest ok = no -</pre></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2814704"></a>Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</pre></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2814744"></a>Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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: @@ -142,14 +141,14 @@ 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: -<b class="command">option netbios-scope "";</b> +<b class="command">option netbios-scope "";</b> </p><p> 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. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2814830"></a>How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2814866"></a>How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 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 @@ -164,13 +163,13 @@ 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 -</p><p><a href="http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html" target="_top">http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html</a></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2814877"></a>How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p><p><a href="http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html" target="_top">http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html</a></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883464"></a>How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Jim barry has written an <a href="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/contributed/fixcrlf.zip" target="_top"> excellent drag-and-drop cr/lf converter for windows</a>. 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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. -</p><ns1:p> +</p><p> How the scheme works: -</ns1:p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>When major changes are made the version number is increased. For +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>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.)</td></tr><tr><td>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 +doing. The "alpha" in the filename will hopefully scare off those who are just looking for the latest version to install.</td></tr><tr><td>When the release manager, currently Jerry, 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.</td></tr><tr><td>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.</td></tr></table><ns1:p> -</ns1:p><ns1:p> +same version number without the alpha, for example 1.9.16.</td></tr><tr><td>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.</td></tr></table><p> +</p><p> So the progression goes: -</ns1:p><pre class="programlisting"> +</p><pre class="programlisting"> 1.9.15p7 (production) 1.9.15p8 (production) 1.9.16alpha1 (test sites only) @@ -32,17 +31,17 @@ So the progression goes: 1.9.16alpha20 (test sites only) 1.9.16 (production) 1.9.16p1 (production) -</pre><ns1:p> -</ns1:p><p> +</pre><p> +</p><p> 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. -</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2815894"></a>What platforms are supported?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883252"></a>What platforms are supported?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Many different platforms have run Samba successfully. The platforms most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.</p><p> At time of writing, there is support (or has been support for in earlier versions): -</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>A/UX 3.0</td></tr><tr><td>AIX</td></tr><tr><td>Altos Series 386/1000</td></tr><tr><td>Amiga</td></tr><tr><td>Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</td></tr><tr><td>BSDI </td></tr><tr><td>B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</td></tr><tr><td>Cray, Unicos 8.0</td></tr><tr><td>Convex</td></tr><tr><td>DGUX. </td></tr><tr><td>DNIX.</td></tr><tr><td>FreeBSD</td></tr><tr><td>HP-UX</td></tr><tr><td>Intergraph. </td></tr><tr><td>Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</td></tr><tr><td>LYNX 2.3.0</td></tr><tr><td>MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</td></tr><tr><td>Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</td></tr><tr><td>NetBSD</td></tr><tr><td>NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</td></tr><tr><td>OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</td></tr><tr><td>OSF1</td></tr><tr><td>QNX 4.22</td></tr><tr><td>RiscIX. </td></tr><tr><td>RISCOs 5.0B</td></tr><tr><td>SEQUENT. </td></tr><tr><td>SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</td></tr><tr><td>SGI.</td></tr><tr><td>SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</td></tr><tr><td>SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 4</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</td></tr><tr><td>Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</td></tr><tr><td>SVR4</td></tr><tr><td>System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</td></tr><tr><td>ULTRIX.</td></tr><tr><td>UNIXWARE</td></tr><tr><td>UXP/DS</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816167"></a>How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>A/UX 3.0</td></tr><tr><td>AIX</td></tr><tr><td>Altos Series 386/1000</td></tr><tr><td>Amiga</td></tr><tr><td>Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3</td></tr><tr><td>BSDI </td></tr><tr><td>B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)</td></tr><tr><td>Cray, Unicos 8.0</td></tr><tr><td>Convex</td></tr><tr><td>DGUX. </td></tr><tr><td>DNIX.</td></tr><tr><td>FreeBSD</td></tr><tr><td>HP-UX</td></tr><tr><td>Intergraph. </td></tr><tr><td>Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota</td></tr><tr><td>LYNX 2.3.0</td></tr><tr><td>MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)</td></tr><tr><td>Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines</td></tr><tr><td>NetBSD</td></tr><tr><td>NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).</td></tr><tr><td>OS/2 using EMX 0.9b</td></tr><tr><td>OSF1</td></tr><tr><td>QNX 4.22</td></tr><tr><td>RiscIX. </td></tr><tr><td>RISCOs 5.0B</td></tr><tr><td>SEQUENT. </td></tr><tr><td>SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)</td></tr><tr><td>SGI.</td></tr><tr><td>SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series</td></tr><tr><td>SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 4</td></tr><tr><td>SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')</td></tr><tr><td>Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4</td></tr><tr><td>SVR4</td></tr><tr><td>System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).</td></tr><tr><td>ULTRIX.</td></tr><tr><td>UNIXWARE</td></tr><tr><td>UXP/DS</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2868767"></a>How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> Look at <a href="http://samba.org/samba/archives.html" target="_top">the samba mailing list page</a> </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="samba-faq.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-Install.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Samba FAQ </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 2. 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An SMB server allows file and printer connections from clients such as Windows, @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ corrections to the samba documentation mailinglist at <a href="mailto:samba-doc@samba.org" target="_top">samba-doc@samba.org</a>. 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