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diff --git a/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/TOSHARG-Portability.xml b/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/TOSHARG-Portability.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a5455a6c67 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/TOSHARG-Portability.xml @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ +<?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>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> +HP's implementation of supplementary groups is non-standard (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 (I think) +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> +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 above files, you then assemble them using +</para> + +<screen> +&prompt;<userinput>as seteuid.s</userinput> +&prompt;<userinput>as setegid.s</userinput> +</screen> + +<para> +that should produce the files <filename>seteuid.o</filename> and +<filename>setegid.o</filename> +</para> + +<para> +Then you need to add these to the LIBSM line in the DNIX section of +the Samba Makefile. Your LIBSM line will then 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> +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</title> +<sect2> +<title>Sequential Read Ahead</title> +<!-- From an email by William Jojo <jojowil@hvcc.edu> --> +<para> +Disabling Sequential Read Ahead using <userinput>vmtune -r 0</userinput> improves +Samba performance significantly. +</para> +</sect2> +</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. So the visible manifestation of this would be a handful of +processes stealing all of the CPU, and when they were truss-ed they would +be stuck if F_SETLKW64 loops. +</para> + +<para> +Sun released patches for Solaris 2.6, 8, and 9. The patch for Solaris 7 +has not been released yet. +</para> + +<para> +The patch revision for 2.6 is 105181-34, for 8 is 108528-19 and for 9 is 112233-04. +</para> + +<para> +After the install 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/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112960;rev=14">112960-14</ulink>. +</para> +</sect2> +</sect1> + +</chapter> |