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-<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Common client questions</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="client_questions"></A>
-</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Are there any Macintosh clients for Samba?</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="mac_clients"></A>
-
-Yes! Thursby now have a CIFS Client / Server called DAVE - see
-<A HREF="http://www.thursby.com/">http://www.thursby.com/</A>.
-They test it against Windows 95, Windows NT and samba for compatibility issues.
-At the time of writing, DAVE was at version 1.0.1. The 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 update is available
-as a free download from the Thursby web site (the speed of finder copies has
-been greatly enhanced, and there are bug-fixes included).</P>
-<P>Alternatives - There are two free implementations of AppleTalk for
-several kinds of UNIX machnes, and several more commercial ones.
-These products allow you to run file services and print services
-natively to Macintosh users, with no additional support required on
-the Macintosh. The two free omplementations are Netatalk,
-<A HREF="http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/">http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/</A>, and CAP,
-<A HREF="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html">http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html</A>. What Samba offers
-MS Windows users, these packages offer to Macs. For more info on
-these packages, Samba, and Linux (and other UNIX-based systems)
-see
-<A HREF="http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html">http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html</A></P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 "Session request failed (131,130)" error</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="sess_req_fail"></A>
-
-The following answer is provided by John E. Miller:</P>
-<P>I'll assume that you're able to ping back and forth between the
-machines by IP address and name, and that you're using some security
-model where you're confident that you've got user IDs and passwords
-right. The logging options (-d3 or greater) can help a lot with that.
-DNS and WINS configuration can also impact connectivity as well.</P>
-<P>Now, on to 'scope id's. Somewhere in your Win95 TCP/IP network
-configuration (I'm too much of an NT bigot to know where it's located
-in the Win95 setup, but I'll have to learn someday since I teach for a
-Microsoft Solution Provider Authorized Tech Education Center - what an
-acronym...) <F>Note: It's under Control Panel | Network | TCP/IP | WINS
-Configuration</F> there's a little text entry field called something like
-'Scope ID'.</P>
-<P>This field essentially creates 'invisible' sub-workgroups on the same
-wire. Boxes can only see other boxes whose Scope IDs are set to the
-exact same value - it's sometimes used by OEMs to configure their
-boxes to browse only other boxes from the same vendor and, in most
-environments, this field should be left blank. If you, in fact, have
-something in this box that EXACT value (case-sensitive!) needs to be
-provided to smbclient and nmbd as the -i (lowercase) parameter. So, if
-your Scope ID is configured as the string 'SomeStr' in Win95 then
-you'd have to use smbclient -iSomeStr <F>otherparms</F> in connecting to
-it.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 How do I synchronise my PC's clock with my Samba server? </A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="synchronise_clock"></A>
-
-To syncronize your PC's clock with your Samba server:
-<UL>
-<LI> Copy timesync.pif to your windows directory</LI>
-<LI> timesync.pif can be found at:
-<A HREF="http://samba.org/samba/binaries/miscellaneous/timesync.pif">http://samba.org/samba/binaries/miscellaneous/timesync.pif</A></LI>
-<LI> Add timesync.pif to your 'Start Up' group/folder</LI>
-<LI> Open the properties dialog box for the program/icon</LI>
-<LI> Make sure the 'Run Minimized' option is set in program 'Properties'</LI>
-<LI> Change the command line section that reads <F>\\sambahost</F> to reflect the name of your server.</LI>
-<LI> Close the properties dialog box by choosing 'OK'</LI>
-</UL>
-
-Each time you start your computer (or login for Win95) your PC will
-synchronize its clock with your Samba server.</P>
-<P>Alternativley, if you clients support Domain Logons, you can setup Domain Logons with Samba
-- see:
-<A HREF="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/BROWSING.txt">BROWSING.txt</A> *** for more information.</P>
-<P>Then add
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-NET TIME \\%L /SET /YES
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-
-as one of the lines in the logon script.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.4">3.4 Problems with WinDD, NTrigue, WinCenterPro etc</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="multiple_session_clients"></A>
-</P>
-<P>All of the above programs are applications that sit on an NT box and
-allow multiple users to access the NT GUI applications from remote
-workstations (often over X).</P>
-<P>What has this got to do with Samba? The problem comes when these users
-use filemanager to mount shares from a Samba server. The most common
-symptom is that the first user to connect get correct file permissions
-and has a nice day, but subsequent connections get logged in as the
-same user as the first person to login. They find that they cannot
-access files in their own home directory, but that they can access
-files in the first users home directory (maybe not such a nice day
-after all?)</P>
-<P>Why does this happen? The above products all share a common heritage
-(and code base I believe). They all open just a single TCP based SMB
-connection to the Samba server, and requests from all users are piped
-over this connection. This is unfortunate, but not fatal.</P>
-<P>It means that if you run your Samba server in share level security
-(the default) then things will definately break as described
-above. The share level SMB security model has no provision for
-multiple user IDs on the one SMB connection. See
-<A HREF="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/security_level.txt">security_level.txt</A> in
-the docs for more info on share/user/server level security.</P>
-<P>If you run in user or server level security then you have a chance,
-but only if you have a recent version of Samba (at least 1.9.15p6). In
-older versions bugs in Samba meant you still would have had problems.</P>
-<P>If you have a trapdoor uid system in your OS then it will never work
-properly. Samba needs to be able to switch uids on the connection and
-it can't if your OS has a trapdoor uid system. You'll know this
-because Samba will note it in your logs.</P>
-<P>Also note that you should not use the magic "homes" share name with
-products like these, as otherwise all users will end up with the same
-home directory. Use <F>\\server\username</F> instead.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.5">3.5 Problem with printers under NT</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="nt_printers"></A>
-
-This info from Stefan Hergeth
-hergeth@f7axp1.informatik.fh-muenchen.de may be useful:</P>
-<P>A network-printer (with ethernetcard) is connected to the NT-Clients
-via our UNIX-Fileserver (SAMBA-Server), like the configuration told by
-Matthew Harrell harrell@leech.nrl.navy.mil (see WinNT.txt)
-<OL>
-<LI>If a user has choosen this printer as the default printer in his
-NT-Session and this printer is not connected to the network
-(e.g. switched off) than this user has a problem with the SAMBA-
-connection of his filesystems. It's very slow.
-</LI>
-<LI>If the printer is connected to the network everything works fine.
-</LI>
-<LI>When the smbd ist started with debug level 3, you can see that the
-NT spooling system try to connect to the printer many times. If the
-printer ist not connected to the network this request fails and the
-NT spooler is wasting a lot of time to connect to the printer service.
-This seems to be the reason for the slow network connection.
-</LI>
-<LI>Maybe it's possible to change this behaviour by setting different
-printer properties in the Print-Manager-Menu of NT, but i didn't try it yet.</LI>
-</OL>
-</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.6">3.6 Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="dst_bugs"></A>
-
-This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.</P>
-<P>Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.</P>
-<P>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>
-<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.
-<OL>
-<LI>The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time.
-Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.
-</LI>
-<LI>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'.
-</LI>
-<LI>TZ must have the correct value.
-<OL>
-<LI>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
-<A HREF="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</A>.
-</LI>
-<LI>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):
-<PRE>
- StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]
-</PRE>
-
-where:
-<UL>
-<LI> `Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').
-</LI>
-<LI> `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.
-</LI>
-<LI> `Dst' is the daylight-saving time designation
-(e.g. `PDT').
-
-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.
-</LI>
-<LI> `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 <F>h</F>h<F>:mm[:ss</F>], using a 24-hour clock.</LI>
-</UL>
-
-Other Posix string formats are allowed but you don't want
-to know about them.</LI>
-</OL>
-</LI>
-</OL>
-
-On the client side, you must make sure that your client's clock and
-time zone is also set appropriately. <F>[I don't know how to do this.</F>]
-Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due
-to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time
-zones. A common symptom is for file timestamps to be off by an hour.
-To work around the problem, try disconnecting from your Samba server
-and then reconnecting to it; or upgrade your Samba server to
-1.9.16alpha10 or later.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.7">3.7 How do I set the printer driver name correctly? </A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="printer_driver_name"></A>
-
-Question:
-On NT, I opened "Printer Manager" and "Connect to Printer".
-Enter <F>"\\ptdi270\ps1"</F> in the box of printer. I got the
-following error message:
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
- You do not have sufficient access to your machine
- to connect to the selected printer, since a driver
- needs to be installed locally.
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-
-Answer:</P>
-<P>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:
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
- printer driver = HP LaserJet 4L
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-
-with this, NT knows to use the right driver. You have to get this string
-exactly right.</P>
-<P>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.</P>
-<P>You could also try setting the driver to NULL like this:
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
- printer driver = NULL
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-
-this is effectively what older versions of Samba did, so if that
-worked for you then give it a go. If this does work then let us know via
-<A HREF="mailto:samba@samba.org">samba@samba.org</A>,
-and we'll make it the default. Currently the default is a 0 length
-string.</P>
-
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss3.8">3.8 I've applied NT 4.0 SP3, and now I can't access Samba shares, Why?</A></H2>
-
-<P>
-<A NAME="NT_SP3_FIX"></A>
-
-As of SP3, Microsoft has decided that they will no longer default to
-passing clear text passwords over the network. To enable access to
-Samba shares from NT 4.0 SP3, you must do <B>ONE</B> of two things:
-<OL>
-<LI> Set the Samba configuration option 'security = user' and implement all of the stuff detailed in
-<A HREF="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/docs/ENCRYPTION.txt">ENCRYPTION.txt</A>.</LI>
-<LI> Follow Microsoft's directions for setting your NT box to allow plain text passwords. see
-<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q166/7/30.htm">Knowledge Base Article Q166730</A></LI>
-</OL>
-</P>
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